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

[WhoTheFuckIsSimon]

My neighbour and me do each other's bins. Whoever gets home first/is home does them.

[Floralnomad]

Bins left on the pavement all day is advertising the fact you're not at home.

I've been home all day , except for when I walked the dog (twice) , we had multiple bins out today and I walked past them ( twice) because like the pp the bins stay out until DH comes home to get them !

[TroysMammy]

I work mostly mornings and when I come home early afternoon I put my neighbours bin in their garden. TBF she has mobility problems and her husband comes home early evening. If I have to work late my bin is in my garden. It's no hardship for either of us to do this. It's just being neighbourly.

[gillybeanz]

It's your bin, your job.
It's not up to others to do your domestics just because you have a job.

[Believeitornot]

YABU

My kind neighbour takes our bins in but we've never asked and always say thank you when we see them. I don't expect it though.

[TopazRocks]

Maybe the neighbours are scared of causing an 'incident' by touching your bin - then getting mentioned on MN

[PortiaCastis]

Hi daily fail journo

[KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes]

What cunts.

Of course they should trot out and organise your bin for you.

Why should you do it? Clearly such things are beneath you.

[SawdustInMyHair]

Your neighbours may be dicks, but the bin issue is not relevant to it!

I've run after my neighbour's recycling box when it blew down the road, but that was an 'emergency' and they had no idea it was happening. I'm not going to do their chores for them, though! And I'm pretty sure they don't have such a dramatic sense of entitlement that they would expect me to!

[CatNip2]

I bring two neighbours in, but they are elderly and unstable on their feet, someone else puts them out for them. They never asked. If you lived next door to me I probably wouldn't bring yours in though because you are not elderly or incapable.

When you are off work on bin day, how many of your elderly neighbours bins do you bring in with your own?

[Earthling1970]

WTF!!! Maybe you'd like them to greet you at the bloody door with a pair of fluffy slippers, walk the dog, prepare your tea, run a hot bath with lots of bubbles (not forgetting your favourite rubber duck), then tuck you into a warm cosy bed with Timmy the Teddy so you can drift off into cloud cuckoo land.

[MrsMook]

YABU to expect it.

When our elderly neighbour was widowed, we offered to take it to the end of the shared drive. I also mowed her front lawns for her when they were getting long when her family were too busy to do it. It saved her worrying about it, and I didn't want her home to look neglected and unkempt for her security. It was a civil gesture, not a duty to her.

[nicenewdusters]

I'm fortunate to live in a very friendly road, lots of good neighbours. We often put the bin back for each other. The couple of miseries who add nothing to anyone's lives, and who do nothing for others, their bins have to wait for them.

Just saying.

[Sandyclaus]

Haha yabvu - with that entitled attitude I'm not surprised they don't!

My neighbours at my old house were wonderful - they took it out and brought it in in all manner of weathers - and were repaid with biscuits and bottles of wine for their kindness

[nicenewdusters]

Earthling

[WannaBe]

I actually find the responses to this far more bizarre than the OP itself. Seriously, it was a two line post and posters are resorting to namecalling and insults? Really, some people need to get a grip somewhat.

[startwig1982]

Our neighbour does but he's very sweet and will mow our front lawn too if we are too lazy haven't got round to it.
But I don't expect him too!
Entitled much.

[Libitina]

Is OP coming back?

If so, have a

[GeorgeTheThird]

My neighbours bring my bin in. I bring theirs in if I'm out first. Only takes a minute.

[BackToBasics2]

My mum used to do that with her neighbour. She's retired and he was a young, fit man who lived up stairs but what an ass.

She used to put his bin out (along with hers) AND bring it in. Sometimes his bin was very heavy too.

If he came home on bin day he would only put HIS bin away and leave hers and some weeks if she hadn't put his bin out he would forget so his wouldn't be emptied.

Yes I did used to say to her why does she do it but she didn't want a fuss

[LIZS]

Really? Ours stinks, wouldn't expect anyone to move it!

[CrotchetQuaverMinim]

I think it's nice to get them off the pavement - not because it's advertising the OP's not at home, or because she couldn't do it herself later - but because it makes it so much easier for people with mobility issues, prams, etc to walk down an unobstructed pavement. I'd hope (though not expect) that people would do it out of a sense of general decency and good will towards the rest of the world - not because they were doing someone's job for them to make their life easier.

I often push in the bins on either side of my house - not all the way over their drives, but just enough to get them off the pavement - for that reason. They can put them where they want them once they get home from work, but it saves people have several more hours of obstruction than needed.

I only do the ones right near me though, but would hope that others who are around in the day might do ones near them.

[WhatWouldFlopDo]

I'm on a main road with no wall between the drives of us and next door. Whoever can be bothered going out for their own drags the other one up too. Easier when it's only a one bin day, it's a pain when there's 2 each.

[MerchantofVenice]

Am I the only one who understood OP's tongue-in-cheek tone??

Jeez. Clearly the 'Dicks' bit was a joke. Some of you are so desperately earnest!

It is a bit mean-spirited to repeatedly leave a neighbour's bin where it inconveniences others, surely? No, they're not obliged to move it, but then no-one is obliged to be nice to anyone.

[WoahSlowDown]

YANBU, assuming you are a nice neighbourly neighbour.

Me and my neighbours always drag each other's bins in. Two of us don't work so we do it far more than the ones that works. It take two seconds and keeps The pavements clear. I only drag the bins clear of the pavement. I don't put them away beautifully.
There are a few wheelchair users about so it seems like a good idea not to have bins out.