To steal back my bin and hide it in the garden

[Lillyringlet]

Two weeks ago our recycling bin went missing and the only one left was the neighbours beaten up one covered in yuck. As the lid has a giant cut and dent, it leaks and doesn't cost properly so stuff gets stuck to the inside of the bin and gross.

Of course we wait to see if they take it in and ours returns but give up and burrow theirs for the fortnight.

Today I take out ours and sue enough the neighbours have put out our nicer bin (despite the white paint splatters). Waited for the bin men and stole it back.

Normally my bin is out front but I've put it in the garden so I can "decorate" it so they can't do it again.

Aibu for being so protective over a sodding bin 😅 (I'm going with yes)

No YANBU, oh the cheeky fuckers!!

Ooh. Bins.

Our bins have a sticker on the back (mostly faded now) saying ‘This bin is on loan to 27 grump road’ and the council name.

Does yours have similar?

Yes steal it back.

Keep it in your garden and paint your door number on every single part of the bin in large numbers. Put it twice on each side if necessary and on the top and bottom.

Only when your bin is sufficiently covered with your door number put it back out.

A bin lock would stop them using it and therefore would be no point in them pinching it again. Numbers on it too, in case they don't realise there is a lock on it and pinch it first.

Yanbu. Most people where I live have their house number on their bins.

You can just call the council and get another one if yours is broken 🤷‍♀️

Put your number on in large permanent marker

I'd definitely steal my bin back. Nobody is taking my nice, clean and well looked after bin and replacing it with their shit one!

We have to pay to replace our bins.
We have 3 and all of them have been damaged by the refuse collectors throwing them around, leaving them in the road etc. Why they can't just replace them where they found them I don't know. They just throw them in the general direction of the house and move on.

I've had to take mine back in the past. I painted our house number on every side and then inside the bin lid, and on the top I wrote "Please do not steal me"

Cheryl only if you have CCTV trained on the bin

I'm eying up skme giant gnome number stickers I've seen on ebay for our bins.

YANBU. We have put our door number and street number on our bin after it went missing for a few weeks.

At £50 a pop they're not cheap.

CherylCheshire

No YANBU! A few years ago our neighbours stole our bin, we left theirs on the street outside their house as it was absolutely disgusting and didn't want to use it. When they put ours out the next week to get emptied we ran out and got ours back. Unfortunately for them someone else actually stole their bin (probably cos it had been sitting on the street for a week) but we got ours back and painted a massive number on the back.

All's well that ends well 🤷‍♀️

I never understand why people do this!

We got new NDN recently, and their house has no wheelie bins.

They waited til bin day and stole two general waste bins and one recycling. It was bloody obvious what they had done, as they didn't have bins one day then had three on their front the next.

My neighbours seem to have accumulated three landfill bins 😁

Bin issues really irritate me. We have loads of recycling bins but my neighbours seem to like to fill my bins with the wrong things. Ive just bought locks for all 3 as it was driving me up the wall!

I spray painted mine with our house number in a lovely, neon pink. No one steals my clean bin!!

My brother actually swapped his bin with his neighbours without their permission because the neighbour filled their own bin up, so then decided to use my brothers bin (3/4 full) for tampons and nappies which weren't in a nappy bag or done up. So once the bins got emptied my brother took next doors bin and painted his house number on it and gave them his bloody shitty bin I found it all rather funny when he angrily told me about it

make sure when you spray paint your house number on it you also go around the paint with a nail and scratch the outline into the plastic so they cant just paint over to scrub the number off

This happened to me but have no idea who got my nice new only a year old recycling bin. My bin was the only one left out. When DH power hoses out the back I will get him to do it as well. Was going to buy a new bin but dh thought I was mad so did not do it. The rage has now subsided and the other bins have nos on them. I keep my bins clean and will wash them out every so often. The recycling bin should be the one easiest kept clean as everything going in is clean and dry at least in my case that is what happens

I swear it's worse than parking sometimes.
Bin men don't help with not putting them back where they found them

Go and steal it back the cf’s

Cheeky fuckers!