New neighbors stole our bin

[saffyBoo]

Actually can't believe I'm writing this but I think it's pretty amusing plus I've recently lost the will with pretty much everyone and need to share this before I lose the plot totally. 😂😂😂

New neighbors next door moved in yesterday..... I haven't met them yet...... It was recycling day yesterday and we have two recycling bins clearly marked with our house number on the lid and side of each the bin...... Went on school run as they were still moving in....... Came back home to find they had pinched one of my bins off my drive and stuffed it to full with their packagin brown boxes etc

1. why?
2. really why?
3. I'm really annoyed because I'm going to have to go over there at some point today and ask for my bin back that I have to pay extra for having an additional bin and get to look like a dickhead neighbor being petty about bins. Great start to a new neighbor relationship but I can't let them have it or get away with it can I??
4. I really wish I was making this up honestly

shearwater, No.

The thing is, RTFT, I do usually have a pretty good sense of humour about threads like this. I'm forever suggesting bad or childish behaviour in retaliation when I think it's warranted

But this one just really doesn't sit well with me. They're new neighbours and they might not have realised. Even if they had, a simple, mature 'Oh oops, you've used my bin, here's the deal' approach might have disarmed them a bit and they and the OP might have got off on a nice friendly footing. Instead she's probably set up an adversarial or at least awkward, let's not look at each other dynamic, which is really tiring when you have to live near someone.

Wow taking back stolen property is wrong/bad mannered now?
Dont be daft.
Dp knocked they werent in. Tough. He took back his property. He put the rubbish in thier own empty bin he didnt post it through thier letterbox ffs!

There was no mistake something clearly belonging to someone else isnt up for grabs!

Willow, OK, well that isn't how I'de deal with my neighbours, that's all.

And why not have a go at someone else on here advocating a more pleasant approach, if it bothers you so much, and lay off me?

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Empty bin on drive and take bin back. Cheeky fuckers.

Been here.... I marched up the drive and took my bin back. IDGAF - it was my bloody bin! This was in Staffs and it is such s ballache to get a new one (seriously you have to get a crime ref no & everything) and in Cheshire East where we now live you have to pay £30 for a replacement bin regardless of the circumstances.

Must be the day for it. Came back from school run to find my garden waste bin that I pay extra for sitting on ndn drive.
I marched right back up there and got it back. Stupid thing is in the summer when we went away they cut down a bush in their front garden and I offered them the use of my bin cos I would be away. Cf

Go over and take their crap out of the bin and bring it back,,cheeky fuckers

I live in a cul-de-sac and we were friends with the chap directly opposite us. One day he was having a moan about the bin men leaving all the bins on the wrong drives. When he was at work I pinched his bin and wrote a ransom note and put it through his door. Anyway he came back from work opened his door picked up the note,read it and looked really puzzled. Turned out I’d pinched his next door neighbors bin who’d literally moved in the day before 🙈. No wonder they were walking up and down the street all day looking at the bins. Waited till it was dark and put the bin on the end of there drive 😂

This probably wasn't even the neighbours' fault; it was probably the movers, who may or may not have seen OP's number on the bin, but didn't give a toss anyway because, well, they're movers, they don't give a toss in general. That's not the neighbour's fault but now they think OP is passive-aggressive.

Only on mumsnet is it ok for someone to steal your property and not ok for you to get it back!!

I would also go there empty their crap on their driveway and leave them a note - apologies will be accepted tomorrow from ...am till ...am. Thanks oh welcome ?!!

Can I volunteer for the squad? I'd love to see AF in action!

My next door neighbour was moving out and filled my recycling bin with their shite - non recyclables too. I may have actually made one of those inarticulate noises of rage you read about and kicked the fuck out of my bin until the stuff was strewn on the road.

Of course I then had a moral moment and realised that I couldn't leave it there. I'm not a fuckwit. So I had to bag it all up again. No point in anything else. Not the new guys moving in to the house's fault so I sorted the recycling from the ordinary rubbish and put it back.

It did feel good having my moment of rage. I got chatting to one of the mums from school who was passing as I sorted it and it's always a good day when you make a good acquaintance.

I'd like to be on the bin squad, also the CF parking threads AND I have soft-play aged kids if there's an issue there.

No advice on the bin, but

I don't know why my autocorrect is spelling Neighbors not neighbours

somehow it's been set to correct to American English spelling. Mine is trying to correct "neighbours" as I type this.

#whateverbinstealers

Ooo I love a good bin thread!
We had ultimate bin-gate in our village! Someone stole the village hall bins (were seen putting them in back of their car but denied it when challenged next day. so passive aggressively the village hall commity put a “where you wheelie bin?” Headline on front of the next newsletter with a cartoon thief with a wheelie bin in a knapsack! Hilarious. Article asked for bins to be returned as village hall a charity and could not / should not afford buy new ones. The suspect then called the police (I kid you not) claiming newsletter (didn’t name or describe her!) liebel!
I kid you not. All on the commuter were interviewed and everything!
I love my village

Ps glad your bin is home!

Only on mumsnet is it ok for someone to steal your property and not ok for you to get it back!!

This. The DP knocked. They weren't there, took back his property. Job done. Bin was clearly marked. The neighbours came onto their property and poached it. So the DP took it back.

When my in-laws hired a skip to be placed on their drive the company actually provided additional hire of a tarp to place over it and lock down because it's so common for people to use other people's hired skips to fly tip!

@dontalltalkatonce

Yeah, cowboy builder and "collect your rubbish for you" guys do it all the time. You see them driving around blocks a few times, then jumping out and filling other people's skips. There was a thread on here from a while ago where the couple went through the rubbish which had filled their skip overnight, found something with an address, went to that house and got the other couple to pay the cost of emptying it. They tried to say it wasn't theirs, but eventually admitted they'd hired someone off Facebook or something to clear their rubbish.

It's very clear in law that it's the rubbish owners who ate responsible for disposal so they're meant to check that the guys have a contract with a refuse site.

Fighting with your neighbours on the first day could lead to a lifetime of warring misery. No...no...no. Pull on your rubber gloves girl, put their rubbish in a plastic bag, and pull your bin back over to your place. Leave the rest of the new black bags on their doorstep with a nice note, and a cheap bottle of wine saying you noticed they used your bin, here's some spare rubbish bags in case they need them and wine for when they've had enough cleaning. Keep it peaceful GF ... and smile even if you secretly hate 'em! :)

You could go round and be all welcoming and just mention the bin situation in passing, just say oh yes, before I go... blah blah, no need to get angry, just get it back in a laid back way, mention the extra payment though so they don't think you are strange!!! Good Luck

RTFT, iwunder, the partner went over, knocked on the door, so he took the rubbish out, placed it on the side and wheeled the bin back. No fight necessary. Just took back his property. Sorted.

Dh has done the right thing. They are embarrassed, they'll get over it. The more you let people walk all over you the more they take advantage.
Why are people so wet, stand up for yourself

Glad you got your bin back

@saffyboo

" the owner of this bin is a mumsnetter unless you want a aibu thread starter about you don't touch"

I so would put it on 😂