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Stolen Bin thread

462 replies

ichifanny · 10/01/2019 10:22

I have one of the larger council issued bins as I have 4 children , my neighbour also does though their bin is far older as they have grown up children .
I clean mine after each collection with bleach etc so it’s still fairly new looking .
I realised last week we have a stinking mouldy one instead now so been watching on bin collection day and realised my neighbour has swapped them over .
Now this could be a mistake I highly doubt they haven’t noticed theirs is now cleaner and bigger , so today is the day I’m getting it back . The man next door can be strange so I’m relauctant to approach him to ask for it back as I think he won’t back down so I’m just going to do a swap as soon as they are emptied , currently lying in wait .... wish me luck .

OP posts:
MsMightyTitanAndHerTroubadours · 12/01/2019 10:41

i know what's happened here...Wife of MrBinStealer has finally had enough of his lazy ways and they have had a massive row, he is now IN CHARGE of bins, for all time, and obviously has no idea whatsoever of which bin is his, or when collection is!

That's why he pinched your nice shiny bin and kept coming home to put it away when it had not been lifted.
He's a gaslighting bastard with a wife who has seen through him and he is trying to exert himself over you and your bin now instead.

#team WifeofBinStealer
#team ichifanny

VeganCow · 12/01/2019 10:50

my council will send extra recycling bins for free if we ask. So a few of us have 2 big ones for paper/card, 2 for bottles and cans and 2 for garden waste. I always manage to fill the 2 paper ones every month (all the Amazon deliveries) Grin

ralfeesmum · 12/01/2019 10:52

Could the guy next door be slotted into the "Mister Creepy-Weirdy" category ichifanny? Because if so DO be careful. Yes, its your right to claw your bin back but oddball blokes can (and do) go off at a sinister tangent because they live in their own little world full of imaginary paranoid conspiracy theories......

Ethel36 · 12/01/2019 10:57

Odd neighbour! Well done you! Still waiting for my bin stickers to come through the post

HundoP · 12/01/2019 11:01

Well done for standing up to the Bin Bully!

I think you need to carve your number into the plastic now!

OdeToDiazepam · 12/01/2019 11:09

My god what a bizarre man!

summersoonplease · 12/01/2019 12:34

Well done itch I think you've dealt with this wonderfully, do keep us posted what happens on next Bin day tho

Lemoneeza · 12/01/2019 12:34

Can't believe he had the front to knock your door and lie to your face Shock what a liberty!

FedUpEffedOff · 12/01/2019 12:37

OP you do realise that we will all require an update on the bin situ in a fortnight's time? Grin

AWishForWingsThatWork · 12/01/2019 12:55

He started being sneaky and moved it out of sight the week he nicked yours ... he knows fine well it wasn't his. Thought he could bully you into accepting the situation.

Keep decorating your bin! And look for a serial number in it and write it down.

MiniCooperLover · 12/01/2019 13:03

Amazing also that he was so determined to keep yours he'd come home specifically when it was bin day. What a sad git.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 12/01/2019 13:10

Bin terrorism.
I blame Osama Bin Laden

Maisymoo22 · 12/01/2019 13:43

Oh well done op...YOU DA WOMAN!!! 🤚🏻💯🥇🏆💪🏼

eggsandwich · 12/01/2019 13:51

What about putting a tracker device on the bottom of the binGrin

SandAndSea · 12/01/2019 14:01

Oh, well done, OP! I'm really impressed at your assertiveness. Star

summersoonplease · 12/01/2019 15:12

@BreakfastAtSquiffanys 😂😂😂😂

Oblomov19 · 12/01/2019 15:21

Do love a good bin thread. Do very British!!

WhoGivesADamnForAFlakeyBandit · 12/01/2019 15:31

Plan

  1. Bling your bin - all the stickers
  2. Block your bin - gravity locks
  3. Bugger your neighbour - not literally. Yet.
Rubusfruticosus · 12/01/2019 15:36

I'm not understanding the bin cleaning, or how they get very dirty in the first place. Do some areas not have food waste bins? We only really have non recyclable, non food, rubbish like soft plastics in ours, in a kitchen bin bag.

kaitlinktm · 12/01/2019 15:41

Do some areas not have food waste bins?

We don't have food recycling here. We have 4 bins - cardboard, plastic/glass/tins, garden waste (which we have to opt in and pay for and which does not include food waste) and then the general non-recyclable waste.

It annoys me that other councils can offer food waste and ours don't, but I suppose it depends on how often it is collected. All ours are emptied fortnightly.

Fromage · 12/01/2019 15:50

Have a look on google street view, if your street is on it. Sometimes they take the street view shots on bin day, or if your bin (or the neighbour's) is on view, it might clarify it for him. You can also - on streetview - click back to see the previous street views. Frankly, the further you can go back the better, if you can see the bins.

I think bing maps has a streetview sort of thing too.

The reason I know this is because of a friendship-ending row over the colour of a front door.

TooManyPaws · 12/01/2019 16:00

I'm glad all my neighbours live several hundred yards away though I do have the house name stickers on the bins.

The way to signal your social superiority is to put your bin out on time and, more crucially, take it in and store it out of sight of the road during the week. Bins in front gardens or, worse, on the street, are signs that you have not arrived in the middle classes yet.

Hmmm. Does that count for town properties only? My recycling bins live out in a little enclave between the hedge and the gate as we are all "road end" collections here. The household waste bin sits beside the front door steps as I would have to drag it all the way through the garden and paddock to the front gate so it's not terribly practical to put it there. And a lot of the bigger houses further up the road have the kitchen doors facing the road. Annoyingly, we don't get food or garden waste recycling as we're "too rural" so can compost everything (have they SEEN the amount of garden waste huge hedges and grassed areas produce?!) and they would have to buy new, smaller bin lorries for us. Does all this mean that we are irredeemable prebs, even the Lord Lieutenant across the river?

DoveOfPiss · 12/01/2019 16:05

We have a food waste collection every week in our area but they alternate recycling (blue) and garden waste (brown bin and annual subscription service)/ rubbish rubbish (ie to landfill).
In our previous house we qualified for a free second blue recycling bin due to having 6 people in the house. When my ex left us I kept the bin and took it with me when we moved.
We (5 of us) regularly fill both recycling bins in a fortnight but rarely fill the green rubbish one more than 1/3 in the same time.

steppemum · 12/01/2019 16:40

No food recycling here.
They do tins, glass, paper, plastic and then general waste.
You can pay for a garden bin, or take it to the tip yourself. Not allowed to pit it in general waste!

Mind you, I used to sort it into:
food for rabbit (brocolli stems etc)
food for chickens
compost
green stuff that goes to tip
plastics
tins
glass
paper and cardboard
tetra packets (which no-one will re-cycle now)
clothes for recycling
general waste.

Phew!