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

[Moomoo06]

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 I personally wouldnt have the cheek to do it!

I don’t even have a bin as house straight onto the pavement and could cause a blockage. Bags provided.

Currently hanging my head with shame as a fox ripped the bag containing used cat litter open earlier this week. Ate all the shit and left the rest strewn for me to clear up.

Tampons and condoms in the bin at the same time could be considered unusual.
Eh? You take the tampon out & put it in the bin to have sex. You use a condom because you can get pregnant or catch something even on your period. Then you put the condom in the bin. Am I missing something? Do you have separate tampon and condom bins?

I wouldn't mind people putting a bag in my bin if there's space and it's collection day, I do however get annoyed when I go to put something in the wheelie bin the day after bin collection and it's full 😒. I keep my bin in my garage now til the night before collection.

Frankly the small amount of rubbish we generate as a family could go in next doors bins, instead ours go out ever 3-4 weeks. Maybe you should cut the rubbish you generate so she has no bins to stuff her rubbish in if it annoys you so much?

Yes, I even have separate bins for mini, regular, and super.

I'm well aware of the many reasons for having tampons and condoms in the same bin.
I'm guessing my point was too subtle.

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

At least it wasn’t tampons and condoms

It was a tied up bag, two hours before bin collection. Ours was full.

And it’s a BIN! It is for WASTE! It was going to landfill less than two hours later! I wasn’t lobbing unwrapped dog shit in there - I really don’t understand the problem and just like I would have no problem with a visitor putting a used tampon in a bin INSIDE
MY OWN HOME (shock horror!) I just don’t understand why a wrapped, in a knotted bag one causes offence? Ditto a condom wrapped and in a nappy bag but then I can’t envisage a situation when someone else would leave one in my bin.

But obviously people are precious about it and would rather not have a foreign bag of rubbish in their own bin and would rather empty it on the street. So I won’t and haven’t done it again.

And yes of course the most pertinent point of my comment and clearly a lie was that there was both at least one tampon and one condom in there at the same time

You should have either squished in your own bin or waited and put it in your own bin after it was emptied. Two hours later.

It’s really skanky to put your human waste into someone else’s bin

I'm on Diana's side here; it's a flipping BIN. Putting rubbish in it is its raison d'être.

But I've never understood the "This is MY bin!" attitude – possibly because where I live all the bins go on the pavement (so any old passer by can make merry with... putting rubbish in a bin), we share bins between properties (no numbers emblazoned, no lunatic weekly bleach cleaning of the wheelie bin), and – I think this is what makes the difference between caring what's in the bin or not – replacements are free from the council.

But still don't think I'd give a shit (or a tampon or a condom) if someone put some rubbish in my bin. Better there than the pavement.

Presumably if your bin is out then you’ve already filled it as much as you’re going to.

Nope. DH puts the bins out at a time convenient to him, generally last thing at night. The following morning I could add a full bag from the kitchen bin or some recycling that has been stacked on the worktop. I'd be incredibly annoyed if I tried to do this and found somebody else had filled the remaining space in our bin just because it was already put out.

@peghi because the council provide the bin as part of a paid for service (council tax is for this among others) and part of the requirement of the service is that you leave your bin outside your property and unsecured. If the council made you put your tv outside your house once a week and it got stolen while out there I think you'd be pretty pissed off at it costing you £100. Our collection times mean anyone who has a 9-5 job wouldn't be able to collect it back in before leaving for work so this does happen.

Councils no longer provide a bin when you buy a property unless you're a council tenant. The builder will often supply one.

Most bins which I've heard of being stolen (anecdotally of course but through working with local government) are not taken on bin collection day.

I put my bin out the night before, because I have to pull it down an unlit alley and I’m disabled and worry about falling. It sits by my front gate and I run out putting more in up to the point it’s lifted.

A replacement bin is £60. And yes, I look after my bin. And I don’t want someone else’s human waste in it.

If guns were meant to be a free for all, we wouldn’t have to pay for them, and we wouldn’t get issues with a bin per property.

I don't understand Bin Wars.

We have a mix of bags and boxes and bins. Some neighbours don't have bins due to lack of access, they are provided with natty pink bags. Some have garden waste bins that they have to pay for.

We have a courtyard garden, so use next door's garden bin.

The other next door have no wheelie bins and a courtyard garden, so they use our wheelie bin and next doors garden bin.

Garden bin next door sold up and moved, I checked with new owners and was told that they wouldn't mind and if the gardener only uses one feel free to use spare!

When food caddies go astray we round them up and redistribute them, I got a snazzy new one last time!

We don't even know each others names!

If the additional rubbish was filthy or leaked I could understand it, but otherwise I don't think I'd even notice!

I live in a flat- downstairs. Looks like a house. I don’t like him upstairs. I won’t bother with all the reasoning why. I just really, really dislike him and he makes my skin crawl!

However when I put my bin and recycling out, I will also do his. He will bring them back in. If I or he have not enough room, we’ll pop it in the other bin.

Mainly because it keeps the place looking tidy, and it’s still ‘neighbourly relations’! 😬

But on the whole, I don’t care who uses my bin, or what goes in it, providing I’ve put everything I need to in. I much prefer that than bags being left and torn open by foxes and cats, which when litters the street. It’s bag enough when it’s windy and the entire contents of recycling bins end up everywhere, and you have to rescue your recycling bins, food caddy’s and cardboard bags from 4 bloody streets away! (Or the mountain if the wind is blowing in the opposite direction!)

@peghi not sure where you are but they certainly do in this area and the other two areas I've recently lived. In England. The bin is provided by the council and remains the property of the council.

I've never managed to even half fill the waste bin,often don't put it out every other week .
I have almost filled the recycling bin when we had snow so no collection for 6 weeks.

If guns were meant to be a free for all, we wouldn’t have to pay for them, and we wouldn’t get issues with a bin per property.

I like your style, but that does sound a tad extreme

Scotland - if the builder in a new build doesnt supply one it's the owners responsibility to buy one. Thats been policy for at least 15 years in quite a few Scottish council areas - I assumed it was the same across the board. You are also entitled to take your bin with you should you move house.
Not sure what policy on recycling bins is now, initially they were free of charge and replaced FOC with just the main bin chargeable.

My neighbour does this but to be fair she does it with our knowledge & approval..... after her husband died DH or I used to put it out for her each week for several months but only was only ever marginally filled so we said just put it in ours instead. Comes in handy at Christmas or bank holidays when ours gets full so we use hers as our overflow then & put them both out. I must admit I would be annoyed if someone did it without asking though

Just a guess could it be that she struggles with pulling her bin outside for collection so just puts it in the neighbor's bins?

@BaronessBomburst
Tampons and condoms in the bin at the same time could be considered unusual. and therefore totally made-up

why? you know its still possible to get pg on your period?
rare but possible

and I cannot believe the angst about people putting bagged up rubbish in a flaming bin! seriously..... ??????

I have to pay for my bin.

I make sure it’s kept clean and maggot free.

Because I can’t afford to replace it.

Why is so unusual to want to look after something that belongs to you?

I don’t understand this at all.

I could, if it were a communal bin, but not when it belongs to a specific house, and they’ve paid for it.

I mean, you don’t come in and use my shower, or watch my tele, or help yourself to my food. What’s the difference?

It belongs to me. If you want to use it, ask my permission. And be aware, I might say no.

I agree proudirish.

It annoys me when my neighbour does this. They struggled with fortnightly collections and now it’s three weekly her bin is always overflowing and the crows attack the bags. spreading rubbish everywhere. I wanted to put an extra bag in last time after i’d put bin outnoblu to find it stuffed with her crap!