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.)

While I think it's ok and I would be happy to have my neighbours use my bins in these circumstances, I think it's neighbourly to ask. SPEAK to one another rather than take an entitled approach to a bin on someone else's property.

I do think you should probably ask first. If his bin is half empty he shouldn't mind. Although if it right before the bin lorry comes and he is not home so it wouldn't impact on him in anyway, I don't think it would be a problem.

A previous neighbour used to use my bin and it really irritated me. Knowing it still had space in it I would go out with my own rubbish only to find the bin I thought had space left was now full. I wouldn't have minded if it was literally just as the bin men were arriving so it was obvious I wasn't going to use it, but this was often the night before!!

We had another neighbour from down the street who used to put there recycling in our recycling bin. We knew it was them as it was full of letters with their name an address. 😂 My husband took it back to their Garden, only to find it back in our bin the next morning! Again wouldn't have minded but we always have an overflowing recycling bin!

Can you pop a note through your neighbour's door saying that you were desperate to have some bed packaging taken by the bin men, etc, topped up his bin, apolos for being so cheeky, blah blah blah? I wouldn't turn a hair if I saw a note like that, I'd think it was quite nice that my neighbour had owned up rather than being sneaky, but I would be hacked off if I went to shove a last-minute bin bag in the bin and found it was full of something from someone else with no idea who had dumped it there. If you leave a note, he's got the option to ask you to take it out if he wants the space for himself.

I would be DYING of angst about the right thing to do, incidentally. I am paralysed by the need to be seen to have good manners, not upset people, not tread on people's toes or inconvenience them. It's an absolute curse. I blame my parents.

I say to my neighbours once I put my bin on the street that's it's full. If they want to add stuff then they can.

We get collections on bank holidays too. I thought everywhere in England did?

We get collections on bank holidays too. I thought everywhere in England did?

We don't here in mid Essex.

In Hants. Bins collected today.

I wouldn’t mind at all if it was right before the bin men were due. It annoys me a bit if it’s done the night before because I put the last minute bag in, on the way out in the morning & if someone else has filled it up it’s annoying.

Sorry all I forgot about posting this. I was all caught up in the excitement of my stealthy rubbish dumping.

Firstly, yep, our bins are emptied on Bank Holidays! How great is that? We're so far back in the past here that.. and this is the cool bit... it's WEEKLY! You can also chuck out fairly biggish items you want rid of (like a broken clothes airer for example) and they take them away! Seriously. Just chuck it next to the bin and voila! It's away with the bin men. I know. I know. Crazy right?

My bin lives next to the neighbour's bin on the street so I peeked. He's also not been home for more than a fleeting 10 min visit for a couple of weeks (as usual) so it's almost always completely empty.

But alas this post was all for nought. Whilst waiting for the bin lorry I saw him come out. I said hello and asked if I could use his bin. He said yes. It was all very polite and neighbourly.

Humph. Now I don't feel all sneaky and stuff.

We've also had a collection today. Only bank holiday there is no collection is Christmas day and New Years day, I think.

Why are people precious about bin space?
P.o. stated that this us illegal. Utter bollocks.

Dont see an issue if the bins are about to be emptied anyway. We do it when neighbours are on holiday

As an aside my recycling and bin collection day is Monday and they collect on every bank holiday (barring Xmas day if it's a Monday, then they come on Boxing day!!)

Ours is collected every Monday, including bank holidays. It was even collected on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. The truck has been round forbgarden waste but not general recycling which is annoying.

I have lived in Wales, Gloucestershire, Kent, Yorkshire and am now in Devon and I’ve never had rubbish collected on a bank holiday

My neighbours house was sitting empty for about 9 months until new neighbours moved on. So of course we used the both bins each week and always took them out. One week we did this and didn't realise new neighbours had started to moved in so we are now in a situation where we bring each other's bins in and out because they thought we were so nice bringing theirs out the first week (but It was only because we used it), so we can't not take their bin out now as it's rude

I have no idea what a Bank Holiday is (is that a personal holiday for bankers or something?) but in Australia our bins are emptied, regardless if it is Good Friday, Christmas Day, or any other public holiday. It is a health and hygiene issue, so is mandated by law.

Meant to add that ours is collected every Friday and yes that means Good Friday. If they weren't, health Inspectors would be blasting the garbage company and probably have them shut down.

I have a bit of a bin war going on with 10A. There's five bins in a group on the street the flats/houses here use. 10A is the only one that's labeled. They like to put their rubbish in "my" bin they must have seen me using it, the only bin with a cracked lid. They don't fill the others, OR THEIR BIN, just mine. I know it's them because they leave labels on cardboard.

So earlier I filled my bin up and then theirs