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Neighbour and her wheelie bins

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Milsplus3 · 29/12/2019 19:21

AIBU to be pissed off my neighbour keeps putting her wheelie bins outside my garden on collection day instead of her own? Close enough to touch my gate and pushed right into my fence which has started making paint chip off, also makes it a pain to wheel my own bins out of my gate to the front of my house and straight from my gate we have to walk into the road to avoid them.
I know she is doing it on purpose which gets my back up more. I noticed her rush out when it got dark to put them there, everyone here usually puts them out on their way to work/school run on morning of collection at council request as our pathway is tiny.
Very tempted to wheel them to the other side or put my own in that spot even earlier/leave them there permanently, but it makes me as petty as her and I’m not interested in having bin wars.
Set up is my house is end of terrace, hers is terraced and she has a wider front garden as mine stretches around the side, (dead end and brick wall next to my garden) therefore more room for her to put her bins outside her house which doesn’t inconvenience either side of her neighbours. No where else to put them as we’re opposite an open field.
Any suggestions??

OP posts:
fedup21 · 29/12/2019 20:22

Why wouldn’t you just knock on her door and ask her to put them outside her own garden?

This.

How do you know she’s doing it on purpose? Do you mean to annoy you?

Stephminx · 29/12/2019 20:23

Why not knock on her door, explain it’s Causing damage and ask if she can put them outside her own house. You know, like maybe have an adult conversation ?

Bluntness100 · 29/12/2019 20:26

Bit bemused by people leaving their bins outside someone else's property and then trying to justify it by saying it makes the bin men's life easier.😂

Why don't uou put it outside yours then and bring the neighbours bins over to join yours there then?

Trust me, the bin men don't care. Put your bins outside your own property,

TheReluctantCountess · 29/12/2019 20:27

Either put your out first, or move hers and put yours there. Just put them (hers) in the road Grin

TheReluctantCountess · 29/12/2019 20:28

You could fill her bin up with rubbish after it’s been emptied too.

FiddlesticksAkimbo · 29/12/2019 20:41

Isn't life too short for this?

Bourbonbiccy · 29/12/2019 20:48

Just knock on her door and talk to her.

Do you already not get on? Why would you to think she is doing it deliberately to annoy you?

Beautiful3 · 29/12/2019 21:03

I would wheel hers over to her side and put mine out.

ragged · 29/12/2019 21:15

i could imagine wheeling hers a good quarter mile away.

lboogy · 29/12/2019 21:20

People are strange. The bin men sometimes leave mine and my neighbors bins in my drive. One time I saw her walk over to her bin on my driveway close the lid and walk back to her house, leaving me to wheel her bin back to her driveway. Very odd. Anyway , yanbu. Some people are very strange

Original poster
Milsplus3 · 29/12/2019 21:49

Sorry for the bad diagram been many years since I used paint! I’m the left garden she’s the right.
My bins are the 2 boxes on the left in front of my garden against a brick wall, hers are next to my gate on the right. The bin men reverse to my end as it’s a dead end then empty from my house onwards so it doesn’t make a difference in terms of her putting them near mine.
We don’t get on no so the mature way would be to talk about it but unfortunately it isn't possible, she would turn it into an argument and enjoy the drama, I’m the opposite and would prefer to stop walking into the road with my children including a baby in a pram just to get out of my gate. It’s 2/3 days a week they’re there until she begrudgingly puts them back in her garden.
Thanks for replies, the venting has helped! Like the idea about using it as my own Grin

Neighbour and her wheelie bins
OP posts:
SomeHalfHumanCreatureThing · 29/12/2019 23:55

Wheel them back into her garden so they don't get collected

ZacharyQuack · 30/12/2019 00:20

Fill her empty bin with jelly and glitter

looselegs · 30/12/2019 00:59

No, you're not being unreasonable.
We have a drive at the front of our house, where hubby parks his car. I park mine on the road, across our driveway.
Every week, the neighbour on the left puts his wheelie bin right in front of my car, about an inch from my bumper. The neighbour on the right does the same at the back of my car. They do this so they can get their cars off the drive. Every week I have to move them to get my car out. What pisses me off is that the next door but one neighbours on either side don't have any cars at all, so why don't they put their bins on the other side of their driveways so that I can get out??

Toppedtoo12 · 30/12/2019 01:12

Just tell her to stop

hazell42 · 30/12/2019 01:15

Get a grip.
They are dustbins
Unless she is dumping the rubbish on your lawn who cares?
Seriously. Get a grip

rededucator · 30/12/2019 01:17

Wheel them miles down the street, then ask her where she left them when she can't find them

NewtonPulsifer · 30/12/2019 01:21

Buy some wheelie bin number stickers for the house next door but one’s house number and stick them on her bin. That’ll start a bin war with someone else. Grin

mrshectic · 30/12/2019 01:28

JigsawsAreInPieces Set fire to them Grin.... brilliant!

When I first moved into where I am now (semi detached, rented....although neighbour that complained was NOT connected), i has put my bins out as usual...in my slopey drive, but just past the fence to my neighbours drive. I was in bed (11.30pm) , just nodded off... when there was banging at my door...tbf, it scared the shit out of me as I’d only recently separated, on my own with 3 kids...
I opened door to find my neighbour, having a tight go at me about how my (now empty,but light weight bin ) was blown onto his drive by the high force winds and could’ve damaged his car Hmm
He literally made me remove it (in the pouring rain...while my door slammed and I had to climb over my garage in dressing gown to get in back door!).

If it is a deliberate intention to piss you off....then have words....otherwise they’ll always be taking the piss!
If you honestly don’t think it is, then just say something in passing when you next see them.

Don’t let it anger you.... they’re neighbours, so these thing’s will only escalate if not sorted out sooner rather than later!

mrshectic · 30/12/2019 01:28

Also.....totally agree on the diagram!!!

MissMoan · 30/12/2019 01:45

Could you ask her why she does this?

Cookiedough123 · 30/12/2019 02:00

Put yours in your space earlier than usual. If she moves it thsn next time smear the handle in something like oil and greasy stuff. Just remember to wear gloves to move it ha ha. Sorry I'm pretty.

Original poster
Milsplus3 · 30/12/2019 02:09

Thanks for the laughs it makes night feeds more fun Grin
I don’t need to get a grip my neighbour does, she’s been nothing but hassle since I moved here for me and all the other neighbours, I just don’t want to give her the reaction she’s desperate for.
(Daydreams about setting fire to her jelly filled bins)

OP posts:
Username455 · 30/12/2019 02:31

Yanbu. You should permenantly leave your bin in that spot instead. If it was me, I'd probably have a word first though. I know you think she's doing it on purpose to annoy you, but maybe she is doing it on purpose because she thinks it's more convenient for the bin men.

When we first moved into our house I used to leave the bin on the left hand side of our drive next to our hedge, but the bin men always empty our bin with the neighbour on the right's bin and leave the bins on the right hand side of my drive next to the neighbour's drive, so now I just leave them on the right instead. (There is a low wall in between our drives.)

My friend lives in a small close. The bin lorry doesn't go into the close, it just stops at the end, the bin men leave everybody's bin who lives in the close outside my friend's house & she hates it too!

Elieza · 30/12/2019 09:45

Do the council not have rules about how soon you out out your bin and how late you bring it back in? If she’s leaving it out for days and blocking the pavement perhaps the council could get on touch with her to ask her to take it in back in on bin day. As you have not spoken with her she won’t know it’s related to you?

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