Who is BU in battle of the bins? (light-hearted)

[nuclearwasteoftime]

Longtime lurker here- (joined to get bf advice but never managed to post, too busy bfing). I promise I'm not a bin troll.

NDNs have an unorthodox way of putting bins out. They get taken very early here, so most put them out the night before. Not NDNs. They have a lie-in, then nip out onto pavement at noon and swap their full bin with an empty one while we're all at work, ignoring big number stickers etc. (I've always wondered what they're up to, but now I'm on mat leave I've caught them at it!)

DH (irritatingly zen) says life is too short to care who has which bin, but I think it's cheeky- someone who put their bin out ends up with a full one for two weeks! Are NDN BU? Or am I being (as DH puts it) a Bin Loon?

sids I think the locked bins only open once they're tipped over, hence fine for refuse collectors. At lewst that's what I understand from MN

Why not take the neighbout's full bin out in the dead of night and fly tip it in an busy location. Take your empty bin back home and make a complaint to the council in the morning.Hopefully their bin wll contain some incriminating evidence.

Eat, sleep 7 nights repeat.

If it's got your house number on it then just swap it back, there's no denying it's yours!

This is my response too.

Pop a note through the letter box of all the relevant parties explaining what has been going on and warn that the guilty person may find their rubbish emptied onto their doorstep if it continues.

If they don't go out until noon, then as soon as the bin man have been, collect your bin. Do you have somewhere to store it they can't get at?

I would offer to collect other neighbours bins as well. Leave none for lazy neighbours.

Thanks Minerva, that makes sense now.

Cheeky bastards indeed!
You're going to have to take your bin in before they get a chance to swipe it

I paid for my bin and it gets cleaned by a company each fortnight so i’d be raging if my nice clean bin was taken.

But don't their bin have their house number on it (on the back from the council) so the NDN would know it belongs to them to ask to swap it back?
I've taken my neighbours before (by accident!) he just asked for it back!

Has anyone spoken to them about this? That would seem most obvious first step. If it then continued, I agree that you should swap it back and they retain their full one.
Alternatively someone could knock at night and remind them they need to put the bin out. If they are struggling in some way, perhaps it might be kind to offer to do it for them.

Well if they took my empty bin I'd simply take it back, so they have no bin.