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AIBU to think this neighbour is a CF using everyone elses bins!

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Moomoo06 · 28/03/2019 11:02

Neigjbour rarely puts her own bins put, she wait until other people in the atreet jave out theres pit and just goes and distributes her rubbish and recycling between them! She lives on her own so probably doesn’t have enough rubbish to fill the bin so not sure whether she just thinks its pointless putting them out. I have caught her a few times when its been quiet in the street and I’ve pulled up on drive or am going out to the car, either late at night (if anyone had put their bin out the night before) or sometimes early on a morning when theres no-one around. When her hisband was alive he would sometimes come and put his dog food tins in our bin! Not sure whether anyone else in the street has noticed and it doesnt really bother but I just find it rather amusing Grin I personally wouldnt have the cheek to do it!

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Moomoo06 · 28/03/2019 11:05

*Neighbour rarely puts her own bins out, she waits until other people in the street have put theres out

Sorry for the typos Blush

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SosigDog · 28/03/2019 11:07

I don’t see why it matters. Presumably if your bin is out then you’ve already filled it as much as you’re going to. It’s no skin off your nose if she chucks a few extra bits in. Odd that she doesn’t put her own bin out but I’m guessing she’s elderly if her husband has passed away, so maybe she struggles with the bin? If that’s the case then it would be nice to offer to fetch it out for her.

Langrish · 28/03/2019 11:08

Is it rubbish or recycling: if it’s recycling, some areas have to pay for certain things. Do you?

DioneTheDiabolist · 28/03/2019 11:11

One of my neighbours does this. Her bin was stolen and she can't afford the £100 it will cost to replace it.

It doesn't bother me.

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Moomoo06 · 28/03/2019 11:15

Sorry that was meant to read it doesnt really bother ME (I must start proofreading!)
Its both rubbish and recycling I have seen her doing it with, but no we dont have to pay round here, shes early 60s, I dont mind I just think that others might so just wondered what others thought, I doubt she puts much in our bins nowadays anway as theres five of us now and they’re mostly full to the top! I do think its a little cheeky as shes constantly complaining about a few other different neighbours, whose visitors sometimes park in front of her house, and they are the same neighbours whose bins I have seen her using! Grin

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NewSchoolNewName · 28/03/2019 11:18

Honestly, this would annoy me.

Our bins are nearly always full to the brim by collection day, and even after we put them out we might need to pop out to put something extra in e.g. soiled nappies. I’d be cross if I needed to put extra last minute stuff in the bin and I discovered someone else had used all our spare space.

And if it’s recycling, our council policy is for binmen to take away extra recycling if it’s in clear bin bags, so it wouldn’t be like the neighbours would have no option but to be stuck with their extra recycling if it wouldn’t all fit in their own bin.

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Moomoo06 · 28/03/2019 11:19

One of my neighbours does this. Her bin was stolen and she can't afford the £100 it will cost to replace it.
I think its awful how the council can charge that much for a bin its not fair on those who have rheres stolen.
Come to think of it her husband did steal ours once! We had it cleaned and theirs was very dirty with lots of food residue etc stuck in the bottom (we just swapped it back the next week)

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sugarbum · 28/03/2019 11:20

I wouldn't mind this, unless it meant that my bin wouldn't shut properly (they get a bee in their bonnet around that here, and won't empty the bin unless its completely closed)

I actually asked my neighbour if it was ok to put a bag in hers last week, as she only 1/4 fills it and ours is always rammed and it was just easier than squishing all ours down.

I think it would have been nice if she actually asked rather than what it sounds like - furtively disposing of her stuff in other peoples bins :)

Noonooyou · 28/03/2019 11:25

It wouldn't bother me! But then my street is very community spirited. We have a facebook group for our street and there is often people asking if they have any space in bins etc...

DianaPrincessOfThemyscira · 28/03/2019 11:37

I really can’t see the problem with this. It’s being collected that day.

I once put a Tesco bag from our bathroom bin in a neighbours bin, about two hours before the bins were collected. Someone, presumably the neighbour, took the bag out, EMPTIED IT ON THE STREET! So that was nice, tampons and condoms on the street Hmm. Their bin was almost empty as a couple only and at the time collections were weekly.

I was so angry. Proper raging. DH stopped me from going round and having a go. How disgusting and fucking ridiculously petty to do that?! Our bin was full!

Anyway, sorry to go off on one - not sure why it bothers you, I honestly couldn’t care less if someone puts something in my bin when it’s already out for collection.

outpinked · 28/03/2019 11:43

Christ, if I ever get het up over a wheely bin I know my life is completely over Grin. This is the sort of thing my DGM gets angry about ffs!

MaybeitsMaybelline · 28/03/2019 11:43

I have done this with next doors bin as he lives alone, but only on bin day and only when he has gone to work and only when i have knotted a bag so it didn’t spill in his bin.

I dont think my neighbour would give two hoots anyway since his bin never gets cleaned and is grim, i always bring his bin back down our very long shared drive after emptying and I jet washed all his block paving with mine last week.

Bringbackthestripes · 28/03/2019 12:01

Is it’s all alcohol bottles she is spreading around other people’s recycling so she doesn’t have evidence on show outside her own residence? I can’t think of any other reason why someone wouldn’t just ask if it would be okay to do this. I would be a bit put out if someone just did this without asking -our recycling is always rammed, bin not so much-just because it would be More polite to ask permission first.
It must be quite stressful for her to scurry about hoping people don’t see her.

thedisorganisedmum · 28/03/2019 12:10

How ridiculously rude to do that, she would really annoy me.

Bins are usually not collected if they are not closed properly, there's always a bag that we throw on the way out and our bins are then completely full by the time the lorry comes around. I haven't got the space for somebody else's rubbish!

if some idiots put general rubbish in recycle, the bin doesn't get emptied.

Totally worth emptying their crap back on their door step. My bins are not the local tip.

Some people are just ill-mannered entitled idiots. I am glad my current neighbours are considerate.

dirtystinkyrats · 28/03/2019 12:17

Some people are protective of their bin because of waste not being wrapped properly leading to maggots. We get our bin cleaned anyway so wouldn't bother me if there was space.

Chouetted · 28/03/2019 12:21

It wouldn't bother me hugely, I leave my recycling bins out anyway sometimes so that people staggering back from a night out can put their empties in instead of dropping them on the street.

I get the most incredible harvest of alcoholic beverage containers!

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Moomoo06 · 28/03/2019 12:24

outpinked I’m not getting het up over a wheely bin GrinGrinGrinGrin If you read OP I have said it doesnt bother me and I find it rather amusing! Smile

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YouBumder · 28/03/2019 12:25

It would, admittedly irrationally, annoy me too. I’d buy a bin lock so she couldn’t do it.

I once put a Tesco bag from our bathroom bin in a neighbours bin, about two hours before the bins were collected. Someone, presumably the neighbour, took the bag out, EMPTIED IT ON THE STREET! So that was nice, tampons and condoms on the street

Oh how convenient that between weekly collections your own bin was so full you couldn’t even squash in your own bag of bathroom waste. Putting your used condoms and tampons into someone else’s bin is disgusting. If you did genuinely have no room, and I find it hard to believe you couldn’t squash in the contents of a bathroom bin as they’re not that big, why not take another bag that didn’t contain your bodily fluids out of the bin and put that in the neighbours’ bin, freeing up space in your own bin.

YouBumder · 28/03/2019 12:28

Or kept your Tesco bag full of condoms and tampons tied up on your porch for 2 hours until the bin was emptied and then put it in there? You’re a CF Diana and then even more so to complain when called out on it!

CluedoAddict · 28/03/2019 12:29

It might be she has put out her bins before and they haven't been collected. We had a single man neighbour. The bin men used to not empty his bin as it only had a tiny amount of rubbish in it. He asked if he could put it in ours which we said fine no problem.

thedisorganisedmum · 28/03/2019 12:29

I completely agree, and I salute the neighbour who didn't put up with that. He shouldn't have emptied the bag in the street, doorstep would be better , but he probably didn't know who the owner was.

At least you clearly got his message!

Hotterthanahotthing · 28/03/2019 12:31

I would have not problem with bagged bathroom waste going iny bin, it's a bin fgs!
I'm more shocked that people manage to fill their bins.

CluedoAddict · 28/03/2019 12:31

@DianaPrincessOfThemyscira you are the disgusting one dumping your personal items in someone else's bin without asking first.

thedisorganisedmum · 28/03/2019 12:33

I'm more shocked that people manage to fill their bins

with collections only every 2 weeks, it's very easily done.

I am sure some counties have 3 weekly collections! Shock I feel sorry for people who don't have cars to go to the tip!

UserAlice · 28/03/2019 12:34

Our CF neighbours once put a load of dirty nappies in our bin. Arseholes.

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