Is my ndn a CF or am I an unreasonable grump?

[QueenOfIce]

Ndn lives around the corner so not directly next to each other, both have bins in the same area. Came out to put last of the rubbish out night before bin day to discover ndn had used our bin as her overflow.

There wasn't going to be enough room for the rest of my rubbish and hers so I took hers out and put it beside her bin.

This has now happened 3 times, is she a cheeky mare? I don't think I'd mind if our bin was empty!

That would piss me off too. Could you keep your bins somewhere else so she can't access them?

Definitely a cheeky sod, you're not being unreasonable.

Very cheeky! But it's happened 3 times now...time for a word with her?

Definitely a CF...

And buy a bin lock.

Could you get a bin lock to prevent your neighbour from doing this again?

Hmmm I do this. We very occasionally have an extra bag and I ask the kids to check if anyone has space in theirs once they’re at the road. I don’t think our neighbours would mind and I wouldn’t be offended if they took it out to make room for another of their bags.

I also think she's responsible for nicking our bin when we first moved in, she had complained to my dh that theirs had not arrived. Council dropped ours off and suddenly ours disappears and she has one

You can get bin locks?!

yup CF

Do you get charged per bag?
Only asking as this would be the only reason I’d be pissed.

In winter binbags on the floor get blown around the street & missed, cats & crows peck at the bags which then means last weeks chicken carcass is strewn across the road.

It’s tidier, I don’t see a problem.
She wasn’t to know you were bringing out another bag, the bins were out, she must’ve assumed all your rubbish was too.

Neighbours a cf. Keep taking it out if she puts it in yours and you need to use it

That would really piss me off CF. I only just manage to get my own rubbish in my bin, without some CF stuffing theirs in, without asking.

Given that like hers ours is also full come bin day how can she not know her rubbish will overfill ours?! I've taken rubbish out 3 times now to get ours in. Next time I'm putting it on her doorstep. Rude.

Definitely get a bin lock and clearly mark all your bins and recycling receptacles with your house number.

Like a pp, I wouldn't mind if I had space left over, or if someone put their rubbish in my bin once it at been put out for collection, but this is extremely irritating!

I got pissed off when this happened once after 7 odd years of living beside my neighbours. They had a humongous piss up which kept me up all bloody night and then I was up at 6 with my baby.

I made an absolute racket emptying their bottles and cans and putting them neatly in front of their own bin. Then I filled my bins and moved them to the kerb- they’re out front as no way of putting them in back garden, so they were accessible. They never did it again and we continue to happily take in each other’s parcels etc, so thank god that was enough for me, it wouldn’t have ended well with them, they love a scrap

Not going to lie, I've taken neighbours rubbish out of my bin and put it in their garden more than once. Get a bin lock.

I've ordered a bin lock, dh is getting paint to put our no on. We did get white adhesive ones but when our bin disappeared so too did the no. Some people are so bloody rude and just because someone 'thinks' your bin isn't full it doesn't give them the right to dump their crap in there.

Yes, she is cheeky. We all know bin space is precious now and we can get fines, if people put the wrong things in our bins. I am really close to my neighbours, I have done this a few times and vice versa but we always ask each other first. Even before the days of small bins and recycling, I would ask.

That's just rude. There's a big difference between using a bit of space in a bin when a neighbour has already put their rubbish out and being a CF who sticks your rubbish in your neighbour's bin before they get the chance to do so.

Use a CD pen for the number. You can't get that stuff off for shit.

She wasn’t to know you were bringing out another bag, the bins were out, she must’ve assumed all your rubbish was too.

Well, exactly! What does she know?!

She’s a CF!

It would be fine if she asked (my NDN often asked to use my garden waste bin) but unless it's the last minute before the bin men come then no she shouldn't just use yours.

If she asked I'd ask her to wait until very late the night before to make sure our rubbish was all out. Then she'd know there was no room! Our bin men can be arsey and don't collect rubbish that's not actually in the bin.

I can tell when a particular person's visiting a particular neighbour as they always put stuff in our recycling bin. They do take stuff out, as well, but their deeply peculiar mixing up of bin contents frequently means that when I go to put stuff in the recycling last thing there's not space/I have to split it between the two bins or put it in the neighbours' bin.

TBH it's v sad as it's an effort to disguise how much they're drinking, but beyond the frustration of having to faff with the recycling (I recycle All The Things, down to washing foil & bringing home plastic bottles to wash & recycle) it causes problems as I'm on assisted collections because hauling bins about wrecks me on the occasions I can physically manage it. Recycling bin being left on the street for emptying seems to be taken as a sign by the refuse collectors that they don't need to put it back; & the mixer of recycling doesn't move it back either. People walking past then treat it as a general bin until I either haul it back in myself (incredibly painful, even when empty AND risk of serious injury) or beg someone to help. At the moment my brother's here so he can do it, but...

However, I digress: unless you have a specific binshare agreement with someone you shouldn't be filling their bins. I reckon it's ok to put a binbag into someone's bin the morning the bins are emptied (before they're done, not after!) as long as they'd still have space for another themselves. The vast majority of what goes in my dustbin is catpoo & catlitter - I'd be really REALLY unimpressed if I managed to change the catlitter just before heading to bed (say around 10pm) & found p

Funnily enough, that was meant to say:

& found people had filled up the bin with their rubbish. Additional bags won't be taken, & tbh I'm not sure what the local fox population would make of a bag that reeked of cat urine being left on their route to my garden (the local fox nightspot) either...

(One of said cats caused the post-break. Mercifully not with urine...)

Down with bin-banditry!

Good luck with the white paint - I've the original wheelie bin the council provided when they first brought them in: number painted on, plus a sticker with house number & road name. Bin-lock sounds like a wise investment, too. (Hope you didn't have to pay for your new bin, btw...)