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 😂🙈

Either of us, whoever thinks of it first.

I wouldn't accept any suggestion that cooking or cleaning are women's jobs, so we don't have men's jobs either.

I always do the bin, had to shout at h to do it when I was heavily pregnant/overdue as he is a lazy shit

He did it twice 🙄yes I want to leave hime

We both Empty the indoor bin and recycling and put out the wheelie bins into the street.

We don’t have pink or blue jobs.

Me, husband

I do the bins generally, both the pulling out the wheelie bins to the kerb or filling the wheelie bins from our rubbish. DH does it if I can't, but he isn't expected to as he works full time and runs his own company, so the house stuff is pretty much mine as I am SAHP. If he sees the kitchen bin is crammed full he will sort it though, he doesn't just do the "Not My Job" thing.

It's not the worst job in the world cleaning out the blocked drains is the worst and if I hear the bin wagon approaching unexpectedly early, I'll haul my neighbour's bin out too if she's caught on the hop. Sometimes the refuse collectors change their start point round and instead of appearing in our road at 8:45 as is usual, they turn up at 7:05 causing all sorts of cries of alarm and dressing gown dashes

Used to be my husband, now my teenage son.

Either of us takes out the night before and I usually bring back in as home first after work.

We don’t have set jobs as don’t believe in labelling man or woman jobs as both are capable off doing everything a house needs to run.

We all do it, just depends who is around at the time .
We have to take ours round from the back of the house

DH normally puts it out the night before, I normally bring it in as I work part time. But if one of us forgets, the other would just do it!

Dh does it

And this does he also clean all the bathrooms and do all the dishes to stop your hands getting dirty he loads and unloads the dishwasher

Im perfectly capable of doing most things ...i just don’t want to

My DP puts ours out apart from when he was working away then I had to do it but it's the one job I can not stand to do.

DH because the bins need to be pulled up to the main road at the top of the driveway which is a 20 metre very very steep slope.

I'm afraid my weak female form can't manage it. Evidenced by the dent in the front of the car where the recycling wheely bin full of our many many empty wine bottles slipped out of my hand.

I'd bring them back down but those fuckers are uncontrollable.

DH does it. The bins go out Thursday evening, he's back from work first. I bring them back in on Friday as he leaves for work before they're emptied and it's my day off.

Food/kitchen/bathroom bins and recycling get put in their respective bigger bins by either of us or the cleaner, depending on when they need doing.

We're in an apartment block so we tend to do it together. If not then whoever is going out will take one with them. I struggle to lift the main bin so usually sort recycling (more faff) and he sorts other One

Our bin lives in a little bin shed at the end of the driveway so there's no taking it out on bin day as the bin men just get it from there but it means we have to go further to take our rubbish bags out and its mostly me that does that because OH's idea of taking the rubbish out is putting the bag in the porch and waiting for the bin fairy to take it.

Whoever remembers first, but it's hardly a 'job' it only has to be moved a couple of yards . Our lovely retired neighbour always puts it back.

But I will happily admit to never having mowed the lawn in over 30 years of marriage .

Whoever remembers first. Sometimes him, sometimes me.

DH, I do it if he's not here. Bringing them back in is whoever is there with an empty bin first, quite often that's me as I usually leave after him and if it's after the bin men have been then I may as well. More often I pass them at the top end of the road instead! For the other stereotypical divisions of labour - he cuts the grass as it triggers my hayfever, but I do all the DIY. We divvied up our household tasks according to what we disliked least (ie I hate hoovering, so he does it), but will usually each do whatever needs doing.

@RufustheLanglovingreindeer - me too!

It's just me and kids at home, so it's me. Has been just us for over a decade, but when my ex husband was still here, he did it, but I always had to remind him (we were in a 2nd floor flat and I was usually dealing with one of the kids). Growing up, my dad was the one who did it, though we all knew if he'd missed it, whoever noticed would put it out.

I guess when I think about it, I've grown up seeing men do it. Even now, most of my neighbours it's the 'man of the house' who does it.

@Ragwort I haven’t mowed the lawn either, mostly because my husband insists on a big, heavy petrol mower that is hard to start - if we had a lighter weight, easier mower I would, but he says it wouldn’t mow as well. So if he wants this monster industrial thing he can use it!

I have put the bins out before but oh usually does it before work before we are up (he lives at 5am) so he does it generally. He has to walk past the bin but he has forgot a few times 🤣

50/50 me and DH

I don’t mow lawns

But i also dont make beds...so does that balance out?

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I always do the bins. In some ways our roles are split in old-fashioned ways (eg I do the washing up, he does the DIY), but I always do the bins.

I do all 3 bins, we split all of our household jobs according to preference, abilities and fairness. My drive is narrow, sometimes I need to reposition the car to get the bins past. DH can’t drive.
I’m better at remembering timetables and which bin goes out when.
His talents are many and include exquisite ironing.