to go steal my fucking bin back?

[OohMavis]

My neighbour's stolen my bloody bin! It went missing last bin collection, two weeks ago. I left it out for a day after it was collected, but don't go victim blaming

I just thought well, it's probably been taken by some bin-stealing hoodlums or something, and resolved to use bin bags until it was either returned (ha!) or I could order a new one from the council come New Year.

However, I saw the cheeky cow wheeling her bin and MY bin out this morning to the kerb! I know it's mine as it's a darker green than all the rest, and has mud at the bottom from sploshing it up my garden.

I went out to put my bin bags to the kerb and looked inside, and my bin is full of her garden crap, so I couldn't take it back there and then. And I had to leave to get to the shop for some last minute bits, so I decided to get it back once the bin men had been - nobody brings their bins back in straight away.

So I came back and went to get it, and she's taken it back! So obviously intends to keep the bloody thing.

I know where she lives. I want to go nick it back tonight, but DH thinks I'll probably get arrested. He's probably right. I could knock on the door and go 'Oi, you stole my bin!' but I'm a but of a petal and would end up going away after apologising for it being muddy or something.

Aren't a lot of wheelie bins chipped now? So you can prove it is yours?

Our glass bin has gone missing - been nicked by some little scrote from behind the other bins against the garage wall, so they've been ferreting about on the top of our drive to find it. Come next bin day I will be lurking about the street like a loon. It also has our house number painted on in foot high letters so it's not like they can claim it's not mine, the bastards.

I am in a b&b. The telly doesn't work. You, OP, are my Christmas Eve entertainment. Doooo it.

Am not sure the reason for your angst

There are 40 reasons for angst over bins in these parts, each one shiny and worth £1.
Why shouldn't OP be annoyed. Her neighbour has stolen from her.

My neighbour stole my bin and painted his number on it! I stole it back and painted right over the top....whilst stood in my front garden where I knew he could see me and his curtains were twitching. I made lots of loud comments about MY bin. He's not done it since.

Shame it's too late now but you should also give the council a call and ask if she is allowed two bins. In my area you can only if you have medical waste or three kids in nappies.

A neighbour nicked ours from our old house (very long terrace with alleyways connecting the gardens). I wasn't paying for a replacement so I snuck in at sunrise, spray painted our house number on it and drilled holes in the lid and front to put a padlocked chain through.

The only other time it went missing was when two housefuls of students were pranking each other and one lot stole every bin from the street, put one in the other lots doorway, 3 surrounding that, 3 on top of those and kept building until the students across the road from us were encased in a sort of bin fortress

place marking to find out if you nick it back!

I DID IT!!! Bin is now safely back in my garden.

She didn't put it in her garden, left both bins in the alley. The FOOL.

I hope she has too much rubbish from over Christmas and has to leave her bin bags in her garden, exposed to the roaming band of cats.

Get some paint and paint your house number all over your bin quicksmart!

Awesome ninja bin skills

A happy Christmas ending! Yay!

Quick, get your house number written all over it in permanent marker in huge writing and in places she wont think to look.
Just to be safe, perhaps booby trap it and attach it by a heavy chain to something immobile in garden,
set up webcam to watch over it, comment on her naked tattoo, sorry wrong thread!

Nothing marks a bin as yours like a smelly bag of shit or a sanitary towel glued to the bottom :o

Excellent!

Horah!

If you have a suitably sized child, perhaps they could wait for Santa in the bin and jump out at her if she tries anything.

I would be painting your house numbet all over the bin and padlocking it to something.

Yay, good wins the day.

Could pitch Bin Wars to movie producers? I can see it getting funding, just need the right name attached to it and it'll be a hit. Who would be an appropriate bin star, worthy of such an action drama?

Definitely paint your number on it! Well done

I have the opposite problem. Every bin day there's an extra bin snuggled up to mine. Just reappears when I put it out on the road. Feeling sorry for the poor homeless bin and will give it a home for Christmas.

Thank for the joys that was Christmas Eve bin rage on MN. I have been most entertained & a very happy ending!

Woo-hoo!

But are you sure you want to leave the other bin in the alley?