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Original poster

next door just put dirty nappy in my bin!!

105 replies

ghostspirit · 12/03/2015 16:23

next door keep their bin inside their gate. i keep mine just outside my gate. they had to pass their bin to get to mine. They then put a dirty nappy in my bin!! and ran back in their house.

do i... A) knock on their door tell them use their own bin.... B) ask them why they dont use their own bin for nappys... and wait for answer. C) do a poo in their bin.... D) do nothing and stop moaning... E) when i have my baby throw every nappy in their bin.... Grin

OP posts:
Nomama · 12/03/2015 18:34

I'd knock on the door too.... Why did you do that? Why?

Weird people. Just grab it and drop it into theirs...

TidyDancer · 12/03/2015 19:30

Yeah that's very odd. If their bin was overloaded I could maybe understand why they did it but otherwise that's just weird. Definitely take it out and either give it back if you're feeling brave or put it in their bin if you're not.

jendot2 · 12/03/2015 20:18

Was their bin full up? We use our neighbours bin (with their permission) as ours gets full up partway through week two...whereas they are an old couple who make no rubbish at all.

Nativity3 · 12/03/2015 20:28

Just take it out and put it in their bin! :)

CharityD · 12/03/2015 20:31

Put it in their bin.

Rightokthen · 12/03/2015 20:34

Just playing devils advocate. It's no excuse but maybe their bin is full.
Out bin is always full near to bin day.

2 under 2. I blame all the nappies

BrianButterfield · 12/03/2015 20:34

It's a bin.

I will never understand the attachment people on MN have for their bins. They're bins, they have rubbish in. Sometimes they smell or get dirty, because they're full of rubbish.

cardibach · 12/03/2015 20:37

I'm with Brian. Can't even begin to understand why you might care.

Micah · 12/03/2015 20:39

Me three. Bin, has rubbish. Emptied every week.

Unless someone is preventing me from disposing of my own rubbish, they can feel free. I don't even see it as mine, it's the council providing me with a handy receptacle.

Reenskar · 12/03/2015 20:40

Yes they do smell and get dirty. An cleaning them out is a pain. I'd rather clean up my own bin juice than some tainted with someone else's shit though, wouldn't you?!

Phoenixashes · 12/03/2015 20:41

Take out the nappy and leave it on their door step.

I would also leave a note: I am watching you....:-0

londonrach · 12/03/2015 20:42

Did they get the wrong bin due to lack of sleep ( tries the find reason )

BrianButterfield · 12/03/2015 20:45

You clean your bin? I give mine a sluice from the hosepipe once a year, whether it needs it or not. We're all still alive. And I pay as little attention to the process as possible - not that a nappy actually exudes anything much, seeing as how they're designed to keep stuff in.

BlueBananas · 12/03/2015 20:46

I don't get it?
It's a bin, it's outside, in a few days it will all be taken away and you'll never see it again - what does it matter if there is a nappy in there??

gunnsgirl · 12/03/2015 20:51

Maybe because it's damned disrespectful to use your neighbour's items without asking first?

Or do people seem to think it's okay? In which case where does that logic stop?

BlueBananas · 12/03/2015 20:51

Are wheelie bins our items? They're the councils aren't they??

Flossiechops · 12/03/2015 20:52

Because it's not their baby's shitty nappy?

Because it's damn rude?

Because they had to pass their own bin to put it in ops?

Why would you think it was ok for a neighbour to put their shit in your bin? Shock

BMW6 · 12/03/2015 20:54

Fuck that - I'd lob it into their garden.

gunnsgirl · 12/03/2015 20:55

Of course wheelie bins are your items. We had to sign for it, that makes it ours. And if it gets lost, we have to pay for a new one. That also makes it ours.

BlueBananas · 12/03/2015 20:57

Really? I've never signed for a wheelie bin in my life, also ours had a huge crack in it that the rubbish was falling out of, I rang the council and they replaced it, I wasn't even in when they did this so no signing and no paying? How strange!

MerryInthechelseahotel · 12/03/2015 20:59

I'm afraid I'm with Brian on this! I would neither notice nor care. How did you know it was a nappy? Did you go and open the nappy to see if it was a dirty one? Weird o

blendedfamilygrinch · 12/03/2015 21:00

Another who wouldn't care if my neighbour used my bin. It's a nappy. Not a turd. It's a bin. It gets full. It gets emptied.
I'm forever throwing apple cores etc in a green bin if there's one handy as I walk past. Never occurred to me this could cause offence!

Original poster
ghostspirit · 12/03/2015 21:02

ha i dont care enough to make a neighbour problem over it bin wont explode. but they are putting their shit in my bin because they dont want it in their own

OP posts:
Dontbugmemalone · 12/03/2015 21:02

I was afraid you were my neighbour for a minute but it happened a while ago.

On rubbish collection day, we forgot to bring the bins back in and DH didn't realise that the rubbish collectors mixed up our bin with next doors. It was dark. He put a dirty nappy in their bin, thinking it was ours and couldn't get it out, it was right at the bottom, so left it there. We felt really bad.

Two days later, a 'mysterious' poo was put exactly in the middle of our outdoor doormat, for us or the DC to stand in. I hardly think that was necessary.

If it was accidental, YABU.
If it was intentional, YANBU.

Phoenixashes · 12/03/2015 21:02

blue

It is just a bin.

However, it is polite to ask and not walk past your own bin to lob it into the OP's!.