To expect my neighbours to bring my bin in?

[UnicornPee]

Just arrived home from work, 6pm. It's bin day and like every week none of my neighbours (all retired but fit and well) bring my bin in. It's always left on the street causing obstruction.
I just know that if I was at home all day everyday id ring someone else's bin in if they were at work all day.
Dicks

[user1467007852]

I think it depends on what area of the country you live in. I put mine and next doors out as he's elderly but I think the other neighbours the next side bring both of ours in as I work full time. I've only lived in this house a year it's just what's happened ever since I've been here. I'm away next week and I know one side will defitley put my bin out.

[WhatamessIgotinto]

Ha ha ha, how I love mumsnet!

[Familyof3or4]

There was a thread recently about spotting troll posts and I said I'd always fall for them.....but this one even I can see!

[steff13]

I live in a neighborhood with mostly retired people. One of our neighbors brings our trash cans up to the garage door every week, and we have no idea who does it! We've lived here for 9 years, and have never been able to catch them at it. Some wily good samaritan, I guess.

[Purplebluebird]

Hahaha. yabu of course. Hahaha :D

[imwithspud]

Depends how well you know them surely? I wouldn't bring in any of my neighbours bins because we don't know them well, and I wouldn't expect them to either (although I would be thankful if they did and would return the favour).

It's not the end of the world if your bin is left out till you get home.

[thecatsarecrazy]

I used to bring my neighbours in but then they expected me to put the fucking thing out too. When they moved I decided I wasn't doing it for new neighbours. Now new neighbours have smelliest rotten foul smelling devils anus of a bin and keep trying to pinch mine! Nope!

[PovertyPain]

My neighbour sent her son round to mine, with a letter, asking demanding that I put up the same style, very expensive, fence between us as she didn't like looking at my extension. [go fuck yourself smilie] I'm such a selfish person I wouldn't take your bin in either.

[hollyisalovelyname]

I bring my neighbours bin in and they do it for me too.
Just nice neighbourliness.
I think it's just thoughtlessness on your neighbours part OP

[smudgedlipstick]

Why on earth would your neighbour bring your bin in?!

[MerchantofVenice]

Cue a torrent of posts telling you, all straight-faced, that it's unreasonable to put bins over people's heads...!

[Lucyccfc]

One of our neighbours (don't know who) regularly puts people's bins from the collection point, outside peoples gates.

Very helpful? No, the idiot puts my bin outside a completely different no 1, despite my street name being on it, along with the correct bin. I'll put said bin over their head, when I find out who it is.

[Gingersdohavesouls]

I'm disabled, I have constant pain in my lower back and nerve damage down my left leg.
Not only that but as my house is set back from the main road I have to pull my bins up a long path and then up a set of steep steps... Most of my neighbours know I am disabled but in 5 years of living here I've only ever been offered help once, and only bcoz they saw me fall while trying to pull the (incredibly heavy) bin up the first step.

Even so, I don't ever expect help, and neither should you!

[Ilikegin]

We've got into a really uncomfortable position with bins! Our NdN who works shifts puts all four neighbours bins out most of the time during the day so we don't do it, but then sometimes he forgets/is at work but because we get out of the habit we end up forgetting and the bin is full for a whole month.. Then when it comes to putting them away it's usually on my lunch break and I don't feel the inclination to put all four bins away, so sometimes I just put mine away sometimes mine and his but not the other two, then he will come home and put the other two away and I always feel guilty that he's thinking rude cow why couldn't she have put them all away.. I just wish he'd leave everybody's bins alone!!!!

[MerchantofVenice]

I think there are two ways the 'dicks' comment could have been taken... either the wind-up, chuck-a-grenade way or (more likely a tongue-in-cheek, hyperbolic, comedy sort of thing. Weird that so many people have taken it as deadly serious. The over-the-top, not-quite-serious rant is practically a MN trademark, so I'm surprised so many posters are being so earnest and sanctimonious. Dicks.

[MrsJoeyMaynard]

I wouldn't take my neighbours bins in unless they'd asked me to, or they were physically incapable of doing it themselves. I will push them off the road / pavement onto the end of their drives if they're causing an obstruction.

But our next door neighbours don't seem to care about that anyway. Our bins get collected quite early, and it's not at all unusual to see the next door neighbours wander in and out of their property, past the empty bin - even if they are heading out as the bin men drop the empty bin back on the pavement - and leave it standing there until the next morning. So I can't see any reason for me to go out of my way to put their bin in when they clearly don't care about putting it in themselves.

[Loulou2kent]

Tbh daisy your right. where I lived 5 mins up the road in flats with many people, the neighbours were lovely and would do anything for anyone. It's been really horrible coming to a lovely house on a quiet road with no friendly neighbours. So I take that back. It's not just villages. There seems to be a lot more of a community vibe back in the busier flats than here. Such a shame.

[daisypond]

No lovely villages here. We're inner city and we move our neighbours' bins. There's LOTS of bins on the street as there's lots of flats where we live. They're left on the pavement by the bin men and cause an obstruction. Don't councils threaten enforcement action/fines if they're out too long?

[Loulou2kent]

Wow, I've just returned from holiday & had to ask a family member to drive to my house & take my bin back in otherwise it would have been left on the street. No doubt about it. As it was it was left there a couple of days. I wouldn't expect anyone else to do it. (Although if one of my neighbours was clearly away I would move it) however this is on a road where I was very obviously pregnant & my DP had an accident, blue lights to hospital & was bed ridden for months. People watched me struggle getting them in & out but I never expected help & it was never offered. I imagine in lovely villages with nice neighbours I may have been asked if I needed help.

But yes YABU for expecting it. Most people's bins are out here till they get home from work. It's just bin day. We all know why the bins there, it's not like it's been left out as a hazard for giggles!

[randomer]

OP do you help out in little ways? If so maybe you have a some sort of right to feel slightly peeved re bin.

[DoubleCarrick]

We have an unspoken understanding with our next door neighbour. We put hers out, she puts ours back. Been here seven years and neither of us has acknowledged it or said anything about it. It all started because she kept putting our bins back when we first moved in so we started putting hers out. Yet we never once spoke about it

[Rhubardandcustard]

I take my elderly neighbours bin in and put it out for her too, but she's 87 and can't really manage to do this anymore. With someone fit and healthy I wouldn't bother, as I don't see they need my help.

[Smurfit]

My neighbours usually takes mine out and brings them in. I'm perfectly capable, they're just nice. He does 5 or 6 houses in the street.

[Jayfee]

I would feel like I was intruding on their space??..

[ExtraHotLatteToGo]

Get a key cut, I'm sure they coukd wiz the Hoover around too & change the beds, do a few dishes...