To be waiting to fill the neighbour's bin?

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Standing at my door, rubbish bags beside me waiting for the bin lorry. Neighbour is hardly ever here so his bin is nice and empty and mine is full (new bed packaging plus a clutter clear out.)
He's in but I don't want to knock and ask because I think he might still be in bed. The bags will only be in for about a minute.
I'm such a bad neighbour. 😂

(Before anyone starts, no, recycling hasn't made it here yet so not an issue. We're in the dark ages here with our dark grey all-rubbish wheelie bins and still using cassette tapes.)

You don’t have to recycle and get bank hol collections!? And have a neighbour with an empty bin!?
I’m so jealous OP, where abouts are you?

they never do them on bh here-is it fornightly where everyone lives?

no dont use someone elses bin without asking its rude

I've done this a few times Neighbour is a single man so bin is only ever half full. Plus he leaves it all the time so I feel it's fair game!

And our bins are always emptied on Bank Holidays here (Hampshire)

They collect your rubbish on a bank hol?

They do here. The normal bin collection has been this morning and emptied all the black bins. We have had the recycling bin collected on the BH in the past too. Black bin and recycling bins are alternate weeks, same days.

In Sheffield.

I would put a 'I hope you don't mind' note through his letterbox just in case, adding that if anything such as a leak happened you'd be happy to clean his bin afterwards, just to show willing.

It's the polite thing to do.

Bin men on a bank holiday?!?!

She had to go and pick them all out of the road!it was around 4 Tesco type bags.

I m in South London and they don't collect them in my area on bank holiday and your usual bin day gets pushed back a da y so mines Thursday but they will collect Friday.

they never do them on bh here-is it fornightly where everyone lives?

Same here ours are collected on a Monday (except bank holidays then it the Saturday before) We have general waste on week A and on week B it is recycling/Garden waste. I thought most places were fortnightly now and I honestly thought everywhere had implemented a recycling scheme of some shape years ago.

I always use my neighbours bin In my defence, I only put rubbish in on the day it's going to be collected. However, he works away for weeks at a time so I doubt he would notice anyway.

I'm in Surrey and they've been today. They only come once a fortnight, (every other week it's the green 'compost' bins) so I always worry I've got the wrong week and put the wrong bins out.
We have recycling tho.

Ah cassette tapes. I still remember the mix tape my first boyfriend made for me. It even had all the titles and artists hand written on the little card insert.

I hope you're right about your bank holiday collection OP! Otherwise you're in for a long wait.

Just put it in and put a note through his door. If you think you may need to do it again in future give him a bottle of wine.

Hang on...? You have rubbish collection on a bank holiday? Where do you live? I want to live there...!

Collections on BH here in Kent too. They have been this morning. One week it's general waste and the next week it's recycling. We also have fortnightly garden rubbish and they came early this morning too.

My bins have just been emptied - a lot of councils collect on bank holidays.

My neighbour across the road has moved out early and the sale doesn't complete for another 3-4 weeks. His house is empty. His bin is empty. I'm having a clear out for half term week and was planning to run to tip...but should I.....?

Where I live the bin men will not empty a bin unless the lid is fully closed so just make sure it does. I went off to work the other morning, I would usually be out all day but on this occasion had only gone to collect some stuff. Had noticed when I left that a couple of the neighbours had overflowing bins, came back just in front of the bin men to discover my bin overflowing and not shut and theirs shut. Had I not come home when I did mine would have been left. So sorry but I think you should ask first and not just help yourself.

We are in London and bins have been emptied. The bin men will actually pick up any excess bags and stick them into any bin with space before the bin truck arrives. Don't see an issue as long as it's not some nasty fish bag with moisture dripping out the base...

still weekly here im sure they'll change it eventually but atm we only have black bags no bins so would be right mess

I wouldn't mind anyone using my bin if it was half empty (so long as their rubbish is bagged and tied anyway) so long as they asked. I have two bins as a hangover from when we were a large family so always have one empty bin anyway so happy for neighbours to fill it if needed and even happier when they bring it back from the kerb for me after they have used it.

We always have bin collections on a bank holiday here (Lincolnshire).

Sometimes -most weeks- we forget to put the Wheely bin in the street and if there's anything in it our bin men take our bin from the garden! They don't put it back though but usually we just end up doing dump runs ourselves.

Loving all the angst! I wouldn't give a shite if my neighbour used my empty bin... and as for the poster who said it's illegal...I have no words!

Before wheelie bins, we just had piles of bags outside every few houses, as mentioned by a PP. Brilliant thing was, we are in a different borough to the houses over the road, and we had different collection days. This meant everyone used both days! You'd see everyone wandering over in the dead of night to put them on the other side's piles! It was brilliant, you never had rubbish hanging about for more than 4 days.

I've never understood why people are so precious about their bins. In my street we all use each others... If you have space and someone needs it they can go ahead.