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AIBU we ended up with maggots in our bin?

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Kerals26 · 19/07/2017 15:06

I'd really appreciate some views from others on this as I feel my husband is being really unfair. In our household I do all the food shopping and cooking (and usually the clearing up to, but that's another annoying story). At the weekend when he was out I barbecued a whole salmon for us. We've had a lot of problems with flies recently so I was extra careful with it and kept a food net (rather than a tea towel) over it when it was cooling down and then cut portions to store when it was cool.

Yesterday morning my husband found maggots in the bin and blamed me. He is annoyed because I am barbecuing more recently (he dislikes the fact that I bought a bbq against his wishes) and also have sometimes had the windows and doors open for fresh air in the recent hot weather (he hates flies and thinks all doors and windows should be shut to minimise the rail of getting a fly in the house).

The only thing I can think that caused the maggots was that a fly flew into the bin and laid eggs on some of the discarded salmon skin/flesh. There was nothing else in the bin that I think could have caused it. I am very good at closing the bin so its pretty unfortunate if a fly got in when my back was turned and laid eggs. I see this as bad luck but he is blaming me for the maggots for aforementioned reasons.

Is he being unreasonable or am I being unreasonable to think this is not my fault?

OP posts:
fc301 · 19/07/2017 17:32

Forgot to put general waste out so it built up over 4 weeks. That plus the intense heat recently meant loads of maggots in outside bin, some under the kitchen bin ugh! So I'm worse than you & YANBU.
When your bin is at the roadside tip a whole kettle of boiling water in around all the sides. Then squirt bleach in down all the sides. Empty and put another full kettle in again. Leave upside down to drain. Worked a treat & I didn't have to get icky.
Bag up & freeze food waste in hot weather.
(Your DH sounds like a tosser).

fc301 · 19/07/2017 17:33

And I have a waste disposal which I only use for fish waste.

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