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Original poster

To think my neighbours shouldn't fill up my bin with their garbage?

38 replies

Marcher · 10/06/2014 02:17

So we have been cutting down branches etc and this morning I went to put them in our bin (which we had put out on the kerb awaiting collection) and the neighbours had filled it up with all their junk!

So I put all their junk back in their bin, and their bin is now overflowing. And my bin is nice and full with my rubbish.

They will be home soon and they won't be happy at all.

AIBU?

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CorusKate · 10/06/2014 02:20

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CillaBlacksOrangeBouffant · 10/06/2014 04:48

Wtf? Tell them to go and get fucked by a cactus. Sideways

thebodylovesspring · 10/06/2014 06:38

Oh round here you have a special bin for garden waste. You can't mix household rubbish and garden stuff.

Crime of the century.

Squeegle · 10/06/2014 06:43

YABVVU to use the word garbage. Surely we haven't turned into a nation that says garbage have we?

wowfudge · 10/06/2014 06:46

I don't think the OP is in the UK given the time of the post

greenfolder · 10/06/2014 06:52

Yanbu to put it back. However, if your bin is out for collection I don't think the neighbours are that unreasonable to put some extra bags in.

greenfolder · 10/06/2014 06:52

Yanbu to put it back. However, if your bin is out for collection I don't think the neighbours are that unreasonable to put some extra bags in.

mummytime · 10/06/2014 06:53

If you lived where I was - YWNBU because if our refuse collectors saw garden waste they wouldn't empty the bin!
But if you have the kind of neighbours who do that, then you probably have bigger problems.

lanbro · 10/06/2014 07:10

If I have extra rubbish and the neighbours bins are out for collection I would put mine in! I have asked before, and I do it early morning right before collection. I wouldn't do it if it made their bins overflow.

However, YANBU to move their rubbish if you need the space.

PenguinBear · 10/06/2014 07:18

YANBU, what did they say when they saw?

CocktailQueen · 10/06/2014 07:21

If you put your bin out for collection then YABU I think - your neighbours must have thought you had no more rubbish to put in it. But they could have asked you...

Also, agree with the others about separating garden waste and real rubbish!

YouTheCat · 10/06/2014 07:36

I have the sort of neighbours who sneak round and put rubble and black bags into my garden waste bin. Twats. So now it is padlocked. Had they asked they could have put garden waste in it but they didn't and filled it with things that aren't supposed to go in. We pay £20 a year for the garden bin.

But I have also been known to chuck the other neighbours black bag in our other bin (they would get fined £70 for it not being in a bin) because I'm a nice person.

MidniteScribbler · 10/06/2014 09:43

If you've got too much rubbish to fit in your bin, then politely ask your neigh our. If you're regularly needing to do this, then either take steps to reduce your rubbish, or pay for an extra bin.

diddl · 10/06/2014 09:47

Of course yabu-you should have chucked their rubbish on their garden/drive!!

Any chance it was a mistake?

Someone once took our bin in thinking it was their neighbours.

Good job it had snowed as we could track itGrin

BiddyPop · 10/06/2014 09:50

I'd have reacted the same. We haven't yet got our promised brown bins for composting. BUT we have to pay by weight and for each lift, so DH gets staming mad about the guy who sometimes drives around looking for bins to dump his black sacks in. Steaming. W've also had a couple of times where the sacks have been dumped on the green out the front, and plenty of local dogs having a run have torn into them (or local cats, and even local foxes). Only once have we found any evidence of address in it, and all the neighbours have looked when it's been their "turn" for a donation. The car does not belong to our estate, and no one has yet recognised where the guy lives or who he is. Hasn't happened in about 6 months though, so touching wood he's finally got his own bins now.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 10/06/2014 09:51

YANBU.

I wouldn't have even put it in their bin it would have been dumped next to it.

eurochick · 10/06/2014 09:55

The cheeky fuckers! I would have just dumped their crap in their front garden.

Joysmum · 10/06/2014 09:55

If ask if I wanted to pop a bag in a neighbours bin. I certainly would do so mid week as you don't know if they'll need the space.

Fourarmsv2 · 10/06/2014 09:59

I always put our extra rubbish in our neighbours bin - but they're happy for us to and we always wait until their bin is out before we do it so presume they won't put any more in.

They offered though which makes a difference I think :)

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 10/06/2014 10:03

A bag popped in moments before the binmen arrive, no problem. Loose stuff that makes your bin stink yes tiresome. Maybe they thought you weren't about to add extra stuff in it.

Latara · 10/06/2014 10:23

YANBU. That would really piss me off! You did the right thing.

Lobbing · 10/06/2014 10:36

I had this happen a few weeks ago with new neighbours. Went to put some recycables out in what should have been an empty bin, find it topped up with cardboard boxes...not a problem, I put them in MY cardboard bin, then saw several bags of rubbish at the bottom. Couldn't lift them out so tipped it out next to their gate. And then felt guilty till I found out they're a pair of arses.

Original poster
Marcher · 10/06/2014 11:13

I'm not in the UK. We say garbage here, it's okay.

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Original poster
Marcher · 10/06/2014 11:14

All household garbage and green waste go in the one bin. I would love a separate green waste bin, but alas, that is not the way things work around here!

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Damnautocorrect · 10/06/2014 11:21

Gives me the rage too.
it's irrational when you've nothing else to go in rational when you do.
Which is why they should ask

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