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 😂🙈

Me mostly unless it needs to be squashed down for extra room.
I mainly take them back in too as DP would be working. We do have some separate man woman jobs in the house too.

Probably about 60:40 me:DH. It's a whoever remembers job (after checking what colour the neighbours have put out).DH usually brings them in as they get picked up just as he returns home for lunch

In our last house it was usually me with DDs help, but there were multiple bins to taje down the road that we did on the way to school.

DH always does the tip runs for garden rubbish though. (Or FIL).

DH does it here (although if he's working overtime or he's ill I do it, it's not as if I won't do it, he just adopted it as his job when we moved in together, much like the shopping is my job)

I do everything in house and garden. DP does nothing at all unless asked to apart from occasionally doing the dishes which he does wrong..Mostly happy with it this way.

Me, it was meant to be DH job but he always forgot so I just do it myself.

DH always takes them out, but we have a lovely NDN who is always alert to the bin men emptying them and always brings them in and leaves them by the side gate. We have always been lucky with our neighbours.

Whoever remembers did it. However, our bin is meant to be kept round the back so it would have to be DH every time because we have steps and I'd likely put my back out trying. Then a few years ago we thought sod it and left the bin beside the neighbour's. His was in front of the houses on a patch of land. Now both bins live there all year and the bin men pick them up from there too so no forgetting to put the bin out. I'm also happy for people to put their litter (not rubbish bags though) in because I hate littering.

Generally dh as not a job I like ours also have to be taken from round back dragged through a car park to be put in front of our house ( bad design for newish build ) and we have recycling boxes that fill with water so it's several trips round taking the bin , 2 full recycling boxes ( soon to be 3 ) and food waste bin . Yet out bins are in little alley by our 3 houses which is accessible to bin men via the road it backs on to and they come up there for other houses so would be easier if they could just take from there . It's a 10 minute job and in winter horrible as boxes full with water and splash all over you ( planning on building a bin store to protect them )
Often dh forgets though so ends up left to me as hes already gone to work and they come about 7 am here

DH, he puts them out, occasionally I might bring the boxes in if they’ve been before I leave for work, but he generally brings them in too

Whoever is at home and not busy at the right time. Most often me because my partner’s usually at work.

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

My wife doesn't either. We gravelled the back garden and got rid of all but one little bush, so it's just a case of pulling up any weeds as and when they appear in the gravel.

I do mow the front and side grass and trim the hedge. It's something I've always done and quite enjoy it.

3 different bins
Green
Recycle
Other

Both of us move them

We also recycle glass & other stuff ourselves

It's not a difficult task

I had to get rid of all our grass. I had to take the mower out the same way as the bins unless I took it through the house. If DH was home more often I still don't think he would have cut the grass.

For us, it’s just whoever notices/whenever it’s full - probably we both do this about the same (we live in flats so there’s a big bin storage so it’s not so essential we take the bins out on a set day).

DH

Hi I do it as usually am checking which one is due recycle or household one. App on my phone with dates so its easier for me.

Whoever happens to hear the Alexa reminder which is whoever isn’t putting the baby to bed. If it needs jumping on to make space for more stuff then DH will do it.
We do generally split jobs according to preference but that’s one of the ones which is a whoever gets there first one!

I do everything as single parent.

DH and he empties the kitchen bin. No idea why though. He also does most of the washing up and hoovering

DH does the bins and our DD does the recycling as one of her chores for pocket money.

I have to admit, the cleaner normally does it, and I only twigged today that it's somehow continued to be emptied magically for the past few weeks of lockdown.

I've been doing a cracking job of continuing to smush down the innards whenever it looks too full when I get to it though.

I think it's fine to have jobs you never do as long as you're both happy with the split - I do plenty of heavy jobs outside, and all car tinkering is mine because he doesn't even drive.