Some fucker's nicked my bin!

[WasabiPeace]

Went to get the wheelie bin back in (forgot to yesterday) and it's not there.

What's worse is it's a new house so we've paid for the bins within the last few months.

Would it ruin my relationship with my new ish neighbours if I went knocking on doors?

I'm fumming.

What would you think if a neighbour asked you if you'd seen their wheelie bin anywhere? Would you think 'cheeky fucker, accusing me!'

Knock on a few doors near to you just be mindful how you word it.

A while back a neighbour brought our bin into the driveway, being nice, and hadnt realised that dh had already brought ours into the back garden- we accidentally had a neighbour's. Could be the same scenario?

Hope u get sorted

If you don't get it back, try reporting it to the council.

Mine went missing immediately after collection and they had tipped it into the lorry by mistake. They replaced it for free!/

Ours went missing, turned out the bin lorry had 'eaten' it. They don't bother to tell you or anything, just wait for you to chase it up! Council brought a new one round ap a few days.

Ah that's a good point. I'll hold off on asking the neighbours and call the council on Monday.

Mine went missing a couple of weeks ago only one neighbour had taken there bin in so I went to ask if my bin had still been in the street when they got theirs in she stood at the door with this perplexed look on her face looking at her bins which where in front of the door, then slowly walked past me round the back and shame faced brought mine down to me, she had grabbed my bins thinking they where hers taking them round the back, and later her husband had grabbed their bins and abandoned them round the front

Bin lorry ate mine once as well. I phoned up the council in an absolute rage - convinced it had been stolen - to order a new one, and then woman said there had been a few swallowed up that day!

Is it chipped? Ours in our new build house cost a fortune - know it was well over £100 but they are apparently chipped to the property address.

I'd keep an eye out and also call the council.

Anyone remember the other 'fumming' thread

Hope you find your bin OP

I would ask the neighbours if they have seen any spare bin around as your bin has gone missing.

Mine went missing once too so I took a look around and spotted it in someone else's garden......when I knocked and told her she had my bin, she told me it was hers until I pointed out the bin was covered inside of white dog hairs, that's how I knew it was mine.

Now I am the only one on the street with the larger size bin so no-one can try nicking it

We lost ours once too. I rang the council and they told me that lorries eating bins was actually a common occurrence and I would have a replacement bin within a week.

goofy I vaguely remember a "fumming" thread, was it something about a school nativity play?

how does a bin cost £100?

I actually can't remember the subject of the OP Bloody, it was hilarious! I will see if i can find it...

The people working on the bin lorries are meant to make a note if one gets 'eaten', although around here it is hard to tell which property it belongs to if they aren't marked with a number. When mine went missing I rang the council, they checked to confirm one had gone in the lorry on the round that day and delivered a new one in a couple of days - which I have marked with my property number because most of the rest are really manky! However, if it hadn't gone in the lorry I would have had to pay for a new bin.

Not exactly the same thing, but we had a big green wheelie bin which someone took and left their small one after the collectors had been. We were gutted as we hadn't long moved in and were sorting out the hugely overgrown garden so needed the bigger one.
Bastards.

They tend to be imported from mainland Europe so they're quite expensive :)

Was 3 wheelie bins - garden, non recyclable and bottles/tins.

If you buy a new build you have to buy them from the council.

Charge wasn't on the website, I remember calling and was so shocked. Lady on phone was used to the reaction.

I Used to be that lady, I hated breaking the bad news! If you move into a new build you're entitled to take bin from old house though.

too late now, but non-drip gloss paint sticks well to plastic, including bins.

Put your number flamboyantly on the front and the lid, and on the back you can put your full address. About a half-inch brush. An artists-type brush with short stiff bristles is better for writing than a decorators brush.

Ours have a serial number in white engraved into them. Only found out when I rang the council to complain our bin had been missed. They'd got down our neighbours hadn't been collected. Obviously they had been swapped before we'd put numbers on. And we'd not worried about it because we had the right number of bins.

Your council may have a similar record so worth enquiring and then check nearby ones.

We live on a really nice street where everyone is friendly and lovely to one another.

We still have to paint the bloody house number on the fecking bin