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 😂🙈

DH. It’s one of those jobs that irrationally annoys me, like making packed lunches

Whoever loses rock, paper & scissors when we remember it's bin day.

Bins from kitchen to wheelie bin - both of us but him more than me.
Wheelie bins out the front - nearly always him.
Because he does the washing up after dinner so that’s when the last bag is added to the wheelie bin.

I or one of the kids take the wheelie bin back nearly always because we normally get back before him.

Husband! I'm quite capable but hate it, all the recycling falling out, stinking food waste bin, walking it through out tunnel link with huge dangling webs. His happy to do it so he does

If he's here Dh takes them out & I bring them in. If he's away I do it. Currently we're taking it in turns.

Blue job I'm afraid!

All three of us. Not all at once,obviously.
There isnt a job in the house that is any one persons to do except the menu planning. I do that because I like it but it never goes to plan anyway!!

It may seem old fashioned but my hubby is always the one to deal with such things! Each to their own I suppose.

Either me or whichever DC I happen to ask. I don't like doing it so I usually remember when I am cooking the dinner

I work part time. DH works FT. I do most of the housework, but DH likes to think of 'waste management' as one if his contributions to the household.
But he doesn't get home until 7.30 (except lockdown) so I figure I might as well do it. This frustrates him because he feels he's not pulling his weight.
So, in short, we argue about both wanting to do it!

It's mostly me that takes the full binliners and recycling out to the wheeley bins from the house. But DH who pulls the bins onto the street on bin day because he can do it at 7:30am but I'm at work already long before that (in normal times).
In lockdown we just stick to same routine because it's well it's routine.

DH - umm just because...

The last few years it has been because I am at work, he is at home so he tends to empty the bins during the day and fills the bins.

Our pretty old neighbour usually brings them back in.

In our last house, could have been either of us. Here, we both tend to do it together — the lane down to the road is almost a quarter of a mile long, and grassy, narrow and pot-holed enough to make wheeling two heavy bins along it a bit of a pain for one person. It’s quite enjoyable with two unless the bullocks break out from the field.

Well comeoneileen1234 ... I must say I’m disappointed! There is no need to respond to me in such a way when I am just politely stating my opinion. At least I don’t choose my children’s names based on common vegetation! I am riled by your response. Think of the example you’re setting to your children

OP it’s the same in my house! If DH says he will do it, he will wait until —he— I hear the bin lorry in the morning, then will drag himself out of bed, moaning the whole time! So normally I do it and don’t bother asking!

I’m a single parent so if I don’t take them out then they won’t go out. Does amaze me how many women won’t do it though!

My two lazy husbands would never have even thought of putting the bins out, they were more than happy to let me struggle down the drive with heavy bags on my own.
So I've got rid of them and now my bin bags (which I still put out) are much lighter.
But yes I think a bloke should do it if he is bigger and stronger than me.

DH was away for 2 consecutive weeks every month for 4 years so I got used to doing a lot of "man's jobs" around the house. Nowadays it's often DH as he's often home before me, but I will still do it frequently.

I do. DH never remembers which bins go out which week.

How heavy are some of your bin bags than you think a man should do it. I didn’t think having a cock was required for carrying a bag, I see feminism has a way to go yet. These posts on mumsnet surprise me tbh

DH, he always has to ask me what colour though

When I was a child in the 60's and 70's my Dad always put the dustbin out. But in those days there wasn't such a thing as a wheelie bin and Mum couldn't lift it. It was a big old fashioned metal dustbin that was heavy. So I suppose it was the "man's job" in our house then. Dad was the only one strong enough.

Now, DH tends to do it because he gets up very early and beats me to it. If he works away then I do it obviously.

DH. They've to go down the drive past his car, and he's not quite forgiven me for knocking his wing mirror off once so he takes them out and brings them back in every week.
The rubbish out of the kitchen is the dcs job - between the 5 of them they take it all out every night after dinner.