To ask who takes the bins out?

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I've just spoken to my SIL who says she's never put their bin out and it's the mans job. Theirs is round the back though so they have to bring it round the front.

My sisters is on their drive so I guess it's easier.

Mine is at the back and we have to go down a gennel through a car park then take it to the front.

My DH works away lots so even when he's home he doesn't think about menial day to day things like bin day so I usually do it unless I ask him, though if he is doing it he will jump out of bed when he hears the lorry.

If you life alone obviously you have no choice.

Pointless post I suppose. I think I'm over tired. The kids have sent me mad 😂🙈

Whoever is home between 7 and 8pm the night before bin day - to avoid making a racket too late and disturb the neighbours.

It's not the most fascinating job, can't see the issue with making it a DH's job. Plus when you are pregnant in the UK, you are told to avoid getting near the cat litter tray, so by extension...

The kids!

Why do people think putting the bins out is a mans job? It’s 2020 not 1950!

My ex was a lazy bastard and if I didn't take the bin out it didn't go out. I even took it out 40 weeks pregnant as he was 'busy'

My husband takes them out as they are usually heavy and we have a really steep driveway. It's 50:50 who brings them back in again.

Whoever puts the last thing in that fills it

Since lockdown I've been asking my DD8 to go and take the recycling round the back. Up to now she's finding it fun. DD10 won't even attempt it!!

Whoever is in the kitchen when it becomes impossible to squeeze/contort whatever piece of rubbish it is in to the last possible space in the bin. Failing that (in non corona times), the cleaner.

@okiedokieme that reply was to you

50/50.

We also take the neighbour’s bins out. And in return they bring them all in.

Or sometimes they put them out (if we forget) and we bring them in.

If I remember the night before I get one of the kids to do it (remembered about 20 minutes ago)
If I remember in the morning I either rush out in my pyjamas or do it in normal times when I do the school run.

Same with putting bags/recycling into the bin, any of us do it.

When we're leaving for work depends if we need to defrost the car. If so fiance will start the car and I'll put out the bin. Otherwise fiance will do it as I hide in the car and wave at him. The kitchen bin bag it's either or, whoever notices first.

Kitchen is my husband’s job as his area to take care of in the house is the kitchen.
He also puts the bins out, as they sometimes need carrying around the cars. When he worked away i parked in a way that i could put the bins out no problems. He doesn't, therefore he makes the job difficult so it is his job.
I sort the bedroom bin as its only me who uses it.
We both do bathroom.

However, while it is dh who is in charge of kitchen and the bins, it was me who implemented the system which makes it a simpler and cleaner task.

When I was growing up it was my dad and grand dad. In our house it is me - I do all the sorting too. It’s an another domestic task that h doesn’t see. Although he moaned at me this week because of the pile of recycling - I pointed out recycling collection is currently stopped and the tips are closed.

Whoever is up first/whoever remembers first/whoever isn't with DC when one of us remembers.

I don't get it being a man's job. I wonder if people who don't take the bin our because it's a man's job also don't mow the lawn or do DIY because it's a man's job. I also wonder if they still expect the men in their life to be cooking and cleaning and doing 'women's jobs'.

DH normally does it, when he takes the dogs out for their nighttime wee, but occasionally I do it. It's usually either DS or me who drags the bins back up to the house from the bottom of the drive, whoever gets home first.

I do, but on the very rare occasion that I forget, the bin men just pop into our drive and take the bin themselves.

I wonder if people who don't take the bin our because it's a man's job also don't mow the lawn or do DIY because it's a man's job

do you remember the thread about the poster, a single woman, who was absolutely mortified at the idea of mowing the lawn, because "what would the neighbours think"?

But giving boring chores to your DH because you really dislike them, sounds like efficient team work to me.

Dad used to do it, husband does it now but I’ve done it before. Mainly him though.

I’m on my own, so I do it, but I’ve made it an almost non-job. Bin in on the drive, and I take recycling out as I go along (once or twice a day) and the kitchen bin when needed. So there’s no big hoo hah on bin day.

When I was with exh he used to do it - but it was his only bit of thinking and remembering so I wanted him to have something I didn’t have to think about. He made it into so much more work than needed! Recycling bins in the kitchen that needed to be emptied into separate bins outside the front door, and then those bins would be taken to the big bin on the drive on bin day. The back door bins would fill up with water so they were extra heavy and couldn’t be held against your body only with your arms outstretched, and I can’t carry something like that. This meant if I did have to do the bins it was super hard. And the inside bins would always be really dirty and need washing out.

My way is so much simpler!

Usually me because under normal circumstances dp works away a lot. When he's here it's about 50/50. I don't understand the mans job bullshit, we tend to use our hands, rather than our genitals to move them so the absence of a penis has never caused me any difficulties.

Me normally after a few glasses of wine - they go out on a Friday night. My Friday night ritual is to take bins out and then walk round the block with the 2 kids and the 2 cats!

I used to do it as I worked from home and DH didn't so I had a bit more time. When he downshifted he was meant to be responsible for it (the brown bin can be a bit heavy for me ... it makes sense that it's a 'stronger person' job) but he didn't always remember, or know which bins it was each week. But he's got very good in the last few weeks knowing the recycling centre is shut.

@Parker231 quote one poster who said it's a mans job.