To think it's perfectly fine for passers by to use my outside bin?

[ElmerRocks]

My neighbour seems to think I should yell at everyone.
Occasionally people will walk past my house, and put their drink can or crisp packet or whatever into my outside wheelie bin. They do have to open a gate to get to it, but my front garden doesn't contain anything at the moment, other than my two bins, they walk maybe one step to my bin, rubbish in, and off they go again sometimes closing the gate
She says it's an invasion of privacy, and trespassing. I think she is being dramatic, they are only using my bin, not casing the place, and I'd far rather they used my bin than dropped rubbish on the floor.

we also have a difference of opinion on kids walking on my wall (it stretches from the just by the front door, in an L shape to the back of my house)
She thinks I shouldn't let them, again I don't see the harm.

Am I too soft on these people, or is she a worrier?

I once sat on the front step to the communal garden of a block of flat while pregnant and feeling unwell. A woman came out of her flat specifically to tell me to go away 'unless I lived at one of the flats'. I thought that was a bit uncharitable.

You sound like a nice person op.

Slightly off topic, but when I was 9 or 10, I was walking home from school with a friend, and she put a sweet wrapper in a wheelie bin that was on the street having been emptied that day. Presuming (from her action) that this was OK, I did the same. The bin's owner promptly marched out of the house, and very angrily told me that I had to take it out again. As the bin was empty, this meant that I had to actually climb in the bin to get it I was too compliant and obedient a child to argue, so I did it - utterly mortified and on the verge of tears. since I have grown up I have resolved never to be bothered by someone using my bin to dispose of litter!

I don't mind if someone puts the right sort of rubbish into my bins when they're out on the street on bin day. We have four different bins for refuse and recycling. The council won't empty any bin with the wrong type of stuff in it.

Someone threw up into my neighbours brown bin a few weeks ago and as they were away I had to deal with it - grim for this emeptophobe but grimmer for them to come home to it after being away for a few weeks.

I discourage children from walking along our side wall as they have to go through the front garden to get to it and I don't want to be responsible for them if they hurt themselves on our property.

guinness

that is horrible. poor you!
what a vile person to make you do that!

As long as it doesn't bother you, YANBU.

Zingninja, you just made me actually LOL with 'Wrapper Twat'