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

[SquidgyRedBall]

One of my neighbours brings mine in. No idea who. Feel a bit lazy not doing it myself but I leave it out on collection morning and go to work and it's always nicely tucked away when i get home.

God bless retired neighbours I assume

[Memoires]

thecook say it how it is, eh? That's an unnecessary personal attack.

[HoneyDragon]

I don't bring my neighbours bin in unless they go away.

I'd be dead if I did.Their dd gets pocket money for doing it

When I go away I asked their dd nicely to do mine too.

She never asks for anything but always gets a fiver and a pressie

[shadowfax07]

We live on a new estate, three of us moved in within a week of each other. Whoever is first on the scene when the bins have been emptied will bring the bins in. Some days I'll put the black boxes back, Joe next door but one will put back the cardboard bags, and Claire next door will put back the garden waste bins.

If one house is on holiday, we only have to mention that to the other households, and we know the bins will be taken care of.

Isn't what good neighbours do?

[FoxInABox]

You should move to my street. One of my neighbours has appointed himself as designated bin returner. He practically runs out the second the bin men have done the bins. On the odd occasion I have beaten him to it and started putting the bins back, he has become quite irate! I really appreciate it and wanted to return the favour, only I don't think he wanted me to!

[paxillin]

My neighbours are the same. Clean their windows, but not mine. Water their garden, not mine. Do their own shopping, not mine. Mop their own floors, not mine. I have to to my own household, garden, shopping...

[tidyfairy]

I am retired, and take the opportunity to be out and about as much as I can before I die. Never get home before midnight. Why doesn't that young lass next door fetch my bin in when she gets home from work?

YABU

[thecook]

Memories

I actually waa in agreement with the OP until she used the words 'dicks'

She is out at work all day. Our bins get emptied around 9.30am when I am at work. I have to return my bin when I get home. When I was at off sick I used to bring in the bins of those at work. I think that is a nice thing to do.

It is the sense of entitlement that retired and fit folk don't return her bins.

[TrivialBlah]

Even though I would never expect anyone to bring my bin in, I do get slightly annoyed that my neighbour never moves ours out of the way, even though we always move theirs if they're on shifts.

Mind you, ours gets left in random positions by the bin men. I wistfully remember the days of bins being carried, yes carried back to the yard, no wheels either. Hoorah!

[ExtraHotLatteToGo]

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

[Jayfee]

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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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!

[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]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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!!!!

[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!

[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.