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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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Misspickle1 · 26/01/2015 10:54

"Gobsmacked" even lol. I didn't think you had smacked her one Grin

HemlockStarglimmer · 26/01/2015 10:59

Over Christmas, for some reason, we seemed to generate more plastic and metal recycling than usual and there was more than would fit in our bin so I put the excess into my neighbours' bin. I didn't ask.

BUT. I always put their bins out for them as they are never there on bin day (second home). I offered the use of our bin when they were doing some DIY if their's got over full and the bins won't be emptied if they won't close.

And once someone vomited into their food/garden waste bin while it was out for collection and I cleaned it out for them before putting it away. HaloGrin

Our first contact with them when they were new, was going round at midnight and asking them to be quieter. And our second contact was a note through their door explaining the bin system here. Luckily we and they are reasonable people and we get on very well.

Homepride1 · 26/01/2015 12:08

Oh I have and happily would share bins if I can, neighbour asked few months ago if they could use my garden bin for garden waste as the were ripping out bushes etc, bin was empty I didn't require it before next collection and sent one of the girls down with the bin for them! But I do think filling someone's bin to the brim on the sneak when they are out is bloody rude

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JoffreyBaratheon · 26/01/2015 14:59

Trouble is, you can't just go round and speak with them til you have the measure of them. Our (not quite) 'new' neighbours introduced themselves by the man screaming abuse at us - from our own garden. You simply don't know what nutjobs are out there. For years we have had ace neighbours. I'd have thought nothing of popping round and saying hi if new folk moved in. Now... never again.

I'd dump the rubbish into their garden, must admit. I think you ahve to start from the assumption they are arseholes and let them earn respect.

Pagwatch · 27/01/2015 07:34

Aw boo locks, it's not 'mumsnetland' to just go and speak to someone instead of just matching cuntiness with sneaky cuntiness
And even if the neighbours denied it you have their attitude confirmed rather than maybe, just maybe, it being a misunderstanding.

When we moved I had to take DD to a&e and we were stuck there for three days. She came close to death. DH had to move a 10 year old and a 6 year old with severe asd stone. He gave our very nice removal men a bit extra to help just shoving stuff anywhere. If my neighbours had shoved rubbish on his doorstep I'd have thought they were shit heads" I'm on nodding terms only with most neighbours but we can take in a parcel or lend jump leads or check on each other's houses etc . It's just sensible.
The mindless drive to be the biggest cunt gets on my nerves.

Pagwatch · 27/01/2015 07:52

I'm keeping boo locks.

KatieKaye · 27/01/2015 09:00

those neighbours seemed to go out of their way to be arses.
Their bins are at the front of the house in a bin store, yours are at the back, on your drive and are labelled with your house name? that means they deliberately dumped their junk, for reasons unknown.

What an excellent way to introduce yourself to the neighbourhood.

People accept big removal lorries in the street, because there isn't much option (apart from our clearly deranged neighbours who instructed their moving men to park the lorry right across my drive and wondered why we were a tad peeved).

What possible reason could they have for leaving their house, going along the lane, into your drive and then dumping their rubbish in your bins? They could have just left the packaging in their back garden, after al.

if there was some pressing urgency they could have knocked on your door and asked if it was okay. As they didn't bother to do that, your actions were the best way of dealing with them.

Mintyy · 27/01/2015 09:07

Boo locks indeed!

Its not Mumsnetland to speak to your neighbours, of course not, it was the addition of the obligatory cake that made me Grin.

Renniehorta · 27/01/2015 09:08

Bins can be very contentious. When I moved from my last house I had one of these problems.

I did not sell the house because it was to be rented out. Renovating the house was a priority and I needed to use the bins despite not actually living there anymore. A couple of days after moving I returned to start the renovations only to find my bins were full of a neighbour's rubbish. It was easy to identify the source of the rubbish so I placed it on their bin and put a note through the door.

A couple of days later the rubbish was back in the bin and there was an A4 long justification as to why they were entitled to use my bins. I again removed the rubbish and placed it on their bin. I removed my bins from the public area which solved the problem. Although not before she decided to yell at me in the street.

There is no end to some people's cheek!

expatinscotland · 27/01/2015 09:09

The second I saw them putting a sack in my bin without asking is when I'd have been out there. 'Hi. Welcome to the neighbourhood. There are no communal bins here, sadly. Bin day is on X. The city dump is at Y. Cheerio!'

Pagwatch · 27/01/2015 10:42

I like cake Grin

Mintyy · 27/01/2015 11:25

For Pag:

Cake and Brew

Pagwatch · 27/01/2015 12:20

Mnnngfannnnkss

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