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To of dumped new neighbors rubbish are their back gate?

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Homepride1 · 25/01/2015 21:21

So running along the side of my house is a small walkway that is a dead end as it's my back gate and garden, along this walk way 2 other houses on the main village road also have back gate access leading onto this walkway!

I have a large drive and keep my own bins/recycle boxes on my drive at the start of this walkway!

Yeasterday new people moving in and lots of activity up and down walkway! I was in kitchen and saw the new people put a sack of rubbish in my bin.... Little miffed as I have plenty of my own rubbish but thought hey oh not the end of the world!

Today I pop out in car for max 15 mind to drop dd at party and come home to find my bin so full that the lid is open and cardboard boxes (labeled lounge/kitchen etc) just thrown on top of my recycling, checked the boxes in the bin and it's for a patio set and gazebo, quick look out of upstairs window and guess what the new neighbors had in there garden Hmm

I removed the rubbish and put it all piled up at there back gate and have removed my bins into my back garden!

had it of only been the odd bag I wouldn't have cared but to fill the bin up when it's over a week until c

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Original poster
Homepride1 · 25/01/2015 21:22

Collection takes the piss!

Starting to wonder what these new neighbors are going to be like Confused

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itchybumagain · 25/01/2015 21:25

Bit harsh, could you not have welcomed them and explained whose bin is whose.

They'll think your just being awkward now!

Hassled · 25/01/2015 21:26

Presumably they thought it was their bin?

ilovesooty · 25/01/2015 21:27

They've bought a patio set and gazebo in this weather?

AHatAHatMyKingdomForAHat · 25/01/2015 21:27

Could they have been confused and thought your bins were theirs?

sebsmummy1 · 25/01/2015 21:27

If they did think it was their bin they don't now lol. Think I'd have done the same.

WellDidYa · 25/01/2015 21:27

why would they think its their bin if its on the OPs property??

FishWithABicycle · 25/01/2015 21:30

Is there any chance they could have thought it was their bin? If it wasn't clearly labeled and was at the boundary of the property it could have been a genuine mistake rather than anti social behaviour.

Chips1999 · 25/01/2015 21:30

I think I'd pop round and explain it's your bin and that you've put their rubbish by their gate for them to put in their own bin!

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Homepride1 · 25/01/2015 21:32

Their bin is in there front garden where it gets collected from, my bin is on my property with the house name clearly on the front so don't think it was a mistake

Like I said the odd bit of rubbish I would overlook like I did yesterday but we only get fortnightly collections and black bin was emptied on Friday so nearly 2 weeks and they had filled the bin so the lid wouldn't even close, where would my rubbish go for nearly the next 2 weeks?

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ilovesooty · 25/01/2015 21:33

Well Chips I agree that your suggestion seems a sensible option.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 25/01/2015 21:34

I had a cheeky neighbour who kept putting the rubbish from his car in my bin. My bins were standing against the wall of my house, neighbour parked on the pavement near where the bins where. Everytime I went out, there was new shit in my bin, I eventually moved them back in the garden.

I'd have done the same.

Anacoreta · 25/01/2015 21:34

I would probably have done the same, we only have litter collection once a forthnight, if some one puts rubbish in my very skinny wheelie bin (provided by the city), I would have to keep part of my rubbish for a full month.

I cannot buy a bigger wheelie bin because the bin truck won't take it. They also leave behind bags that are left on the floor by the side of the other wheelie bins.

Mydelilah · 25/01/2015 21:35

What Chips said - you are right to take the stuff out of your bin (esp if collectors won't collect if bin doesn't shut, and you have your own rubbish to worry about). But in the interest of not starting off on a bad footing, you should go round and explain nicely, and let them know you've saved them the job of clearing the bin out by doing it for them.

Where is their bin....? Maybe point this out to them as well to be helpful

Seriouslyffs · 25/01/2015 21:41

That's welcoming Hmm

SurlyCue · 25/01/2015 21:42

I'd have done the same OP but i'd have knocked and let them know their mistake in thinking they could take the piss out of you

SaucyJack · 25/01/2015 21:44

YANBU.

And you didn't get off on a bad footing- they did.

MagersfonteinLugg · 25/01/2015 21:48

YANBU as your bin is clearly marked.
They sound lovely. Good luck!

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Homepride1 · 25/01/2015 21:52

No they don't take the bins if they are overflowing!

There bin is in there front garden, they have little cubby hole thing my front door for it

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RandomNPC · 25/01/2015 22:03

Write a naice note explaining the situation about the bins, and welcoming them to your neighbourhood.
Then tie it round a brick and hoy it through their window. That'll learn them.

QuintlessShadows · 25/01/2015 22:07

What Random said.

But not the brick. The letter box will do.

Feartheescalator · 25/01/2015 22:12

have

RobbStarksBitch · 25/01/2015 22:14

I'm shamelessly place marking in case the neighbours turn out to be barking Grin

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Homepride1 · 25/01/2015 22:14

random good advice Grin

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ouryve · 25/01/2015 22:17

Not unreasonable. Start as you mean to go on.

I might have knocked and explained, though.