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 not doing bedtime the night before bin day puts out the bins and recycling for collection. We keep full bin bags in the garage between collections, and it's generally pretty equal on who empties the bin and takes it round to the garage during the week.

I do it. It isn't exactly hard.

My neighbours! And they put them back too 🙈

I think there's something incompetent looking about us because our neighbour in our first house did it too. Tbf there are reasons it works for them and we always check it's been done and do both if we need to.

I will do it if I get to it first. My dh thinks of it as his job and takes it seriously. He's written which bin it is on the calander all year. He is always first to put the bin out. The neighbours all follow his lead on which bin to put out.

Either of us, it's no one's specific job.

When not in lockdown it would probably usually be me as I leave first in the morning.

It's a real faff where I live. We either need to go out our door, through another door and then the building's front door, then walk to the end of the block before going through a locked gate, down an alley way before walked about 40 yards to the bins. Or we can climb out our window but we need to unlock the bars and climb over the spare bed.

Apparently I can just leave it in the hallway on Mon/Wed/Fri and the porter will take it, but I've never done this 🤷‍♀️

Oh, I forgot to add that we generally take the bins out together to make it more fun 🤣

Husband. I only ever do it if he’s away m.

Either of us? Whoever can be arsed really? I only ever specifically ask DP to take it out when it's the glass bin because it's too heavy for me when it's full. Otherwise I'm fine with it.

I do the DIY in our house too

Usually DH but mostly because they might be spidery and I have a very strong aversion to spiders. Since lockdown it has been me (once they have been checked and verified as spider free) as DH is still going to work and I’m WFH so it is a nice chance for me to walk down to the road and see the outside world!

At home it was always my Dad's job because he would have considered it a man's job. When I lived with exh it was whoever happened to think about it at the time. Now it's my job as I live with the two dc.

Me always - I can't cope with the stress of waiting for DH to take his turn (he'd need reminding or do it in a panic as the bin lorry drives round) so I'd rather just do it myself. He does lots of other things that I don't do so I don't mind.

DH finishes work late so puts them out on his way in from work. I get home from work earlier the following day so put them away. At the moment DH is doing it mostly because he's better at remembering.

Usually me unless it's particularly heavy then I'll get OH to do it

I'd rather DP do it as two weeks worth can make the bin very heavy and it needs pulling down lots of steps. I sometimes risk it down the grassy hill but it's a minefield of dog poo and very bumpy. It has tipped before which wasn't fun.

Whoever remembers first.

My husband generally does it, just because he works late most nights and so is coming in with boots etc on just as I’m thinking ‘shit, bins need to go out and I haven’t done it!’ which works marvellously well!

If it's just me at home then I do it. If my fiancé is at home he normally does it, sometimes I do it. Works for us.

My dad used to do it growing up. Now my dh does it. It is the only household chore I just don't want to do, dh doesn't mind so it is a win win for the both of us.

MOH does. We live in a flat and the black sack goes down to the bin store which has rats. I fill the sack and ask him and he does it. I take the recycling to our local Sainsburys each week.

I do. I'm single parent. I'm training dc to do it.

My lovely neighbour always brings them in though.

Husband when he is home, me when he is away working

I generally do it. Always the recycling as I'm up first. The bins are collected later, but again it's normally me, unless my wife gets to them first.

I’m really hoping this is sarcasm

Me too @Bluntness100

The idea of someone not daring to go outside to do a household task because they’re a woman absolutely cracked me up.