To have taken my bin back from CF neighbours?

[Magicra84]

When I moved into my new house three weeks back I put my wheely bin out for collection. When I went to being it in, it had gone! Our council charges £50 for a new one which I can't afford so I have a few bin bags outside my door.

I can see the whole terraces back yards from a bedroom window, and when I looked to see if my bin (which had painted house numbers on done by the previous occupant) I saw it in my next door neighbours yard. I don't know them well, but she seems nice but he never smiles at me if we're outside at the same time, almost frowns, so to avoid confrontation over the bin, I have left it until it goes out this time. Well, it was there, full of dog poo, clearly has my number painted on, so I've claimed it back. Man neighbour scares me a bit but the bin is mine! I've put clear sticker numbers on now. I hate cheeky people who make life difficult.

This happened to us once in a flat we rented, we had only been in about 2 weeks when I put the bin out one day, went to bring it back in and it magically disappeared.. people are scruffy. I didn't even know bin stealing was a thing, but after figuring out what type is people the neighbours were and the area it didn't surprise me. DP was pretty sure he knew who it was and took it straight back as soon as it was out and I got large numbers to stick on it. We didn't stay in that flat long. Now we live in our own house in a pleasant area and have wonderful neighbours who always bring our bin straight back in after the bin man has been.

Great idea to mark the base as well.

When I lived in student housing in a very busy terrace street with bins kept on the path (it was nearly always covered in litter anyway). I started putting people's rubbish back in their own bins if they used ours (there were already 5 people using our bin) especially if it was recycling. The council were very strict about what they would accept and if they could see anything that shouldn't be there they would refuse the entire bin. One of our neighbours (not students) were the worst for coming out and using our recycling bin incorrectly because theirs was already full and had been refused collection. I'd regularly have to got through the top layer and put thing back in their regular bin just to get our collected but the cycle would repeat, even with numbers on the side. If I could've afforded it I would've got a bin lock, if you find the numbers don't work I'd really recommend getting one.

If I’d seen my bin in their backyard, assuming I could get in, I’d have gone in and got it. Cheeky bar stewards.

Next door took my brand new recycling bin the first time we put it out, a fortnight ago. It goes out again on Tuesday and I am going to be having it back!

Not the same thing, but still bin scruffs. We don't have bins so have to put supplied bags out (don't even separate recycling which infuriates me but that's another issue). One night in the early hours I could hear a couple of drunks coming down the road talking loudly. It went on for ages and accompanied by lots of rustling. I looked out the window and they were rummaging through the bin bags outside every door in the street, tearing them open and throwing crap everywhere. I called 101 and a police car caught up with them shortly afterwards. When I went out the next morning the poor street cleaners were cleaning it all up outside my door, I felt so sorry for them.

Why do people steal bins!? Very odd indeed! But OP you did the right thing in taking it back!

Now you have it back, time to play the Bin Fury game. Buy some random bin number stickers from Home Bargains or similar. Go out at night and stick numbers on bins that don’t match the houses. Watch the chaos unfold when people discover the bin confusion. Ideally swap wanker neighbours bin with a tough no-nonsense type for maximum fun.

Yanbu. I wish I knew which wanker neighbour stole mine.
On the other hand I have a nice shiny new bin which doesn’t stink as bad as the other one did.

Get yourself one of these stickers and nobody will steal your bin again!

Now you have it back, time to play the Bin Fury game. Buy some random bin number stickers from Home Bargains or similar. Go out at night and stick numbers on bins that don’t match the houses. Watch the chaos unfold when people discover the bin confusion. Ideally swap wanker neighbours bin with a tough no-nonsense type for maximum fun.

Alternatively, make sure you move into house number 30 - and then claim/confiscate all of the bins with the anti-speeding reminder stickers on them, which are 'clearly' all yours

Bin locks solve everything. It's annoying that you have to resort to buying one but it's worth it. And It stops random passerbys from filling your bin up.

Ginger that’s brilliant I want one.

Who are these people stealing bins

We've done the opposite. We've accidentally taken and cleaned our neighbours bins and didn't realise til we had done it. I managed to realise before they got home and quickly swapped them back. It was a genuine mistake.

My neighbour does this. My bin is washed out regularly and hers is full of moggotty bin juice.

She steals mine all the time. I’d never heard of a bin lock but it sounds a solution so thanks !

Ginger that’s brilliant I want one.

Behave yourself - you don't mean that!!!!!!!!!

I just go and fetch my bin if some "accidentally" collects it with their own. I got a glare once and called out "I noticed you'd got mine so I thought I'd spare you the effort" she just flapped her mouth a bit. I've started locking my gate. A shame for my parcel safe space but then the parcel people will leave it on the doorstep anyway now.

We have to lock ours in the back garden now as one fo our Neighbours fills it up with her crap!

I had someone nick my recycling box once and left me with a crappy broken one. I found mine outside a house In the next street already with a load of rubbish in. I just chucked it all out into the crappy box, left it there and took mine.

Some bastard filled my newly emptied (council enforced slim bin) with their rubbish whilst my bin was on my drive. I was absolutely raging, and wanted to go through the bags to find some evidence of who they were so I could dump it back on then. DH stopped me doing that.

Our neighbours keep stealing our recycling pods that are for paper and card, the council won’t take your rubbish unless the paper is separated in this pod, and as most of our recycling is paper it’s incredibly annoying.

We ordered a new pod last month then first time we put our bin out that was stolen as well. Our bins get collected and left in groups of two of three, so I’m pretty sure that it’s our next door neighbours who have taken them as on both sides they now have new looking pods that seemingly never go missing. I was a bit cheeky and decided to pinch one back from the group of bins left outside our house a few weeks ago, came home from work the same day and someone has been onto our driveway and taken the pod back out of our bin!

Finally had a third one turn up yesterday and I’m going to paint our house number all over it and hopefully that will deter people from taking. I don’t understand why people do this, if you’ve broken or damaged your bin just order a new one, why keep stealing everyone else’s? These pods are free as well, you just order them online. I’m going to invest in a ring camera to see who it is if it happens a third time.

I had the opposite a couple of weeks ago - we have recycling boxes that go out - for some reason the bin men piled about 10 in my drive after collecting them. Most of the rest of my road still seemed to have their boxes from what I could see so I just redistributed them around the nearby houses whose box I couldn’t see. 2 days later my box was gone and I had a stern letter from an anonymous neighbour telling me that I’d I wanted a new box I should approach the council rather than destroy the goodwill of the neighbourhood. I’ve clearly been out on someone’s hit list because I didn’t spend an entire afternoon carrying a stack of boxes up and down the road knocking on doors to find out who had lost theirs. 🤷‍♀️

@OverThinkingUnderDoing you don’t live in Birmingham do you? This would explain why my pod keeps disappearing...

I just go and fetch my bin if some "accidentally" collects it with their own. I got a glare once and called out "I noticed you'd got mine so I thought I'd spare you the effort" she just flapped her mouth a bit.

It's astonishing how CF some people can be in taking offence and thinking you the one in the wrong when you're reversing their wrong. I always think that it's one thing when CFs chance their arm to see if they can get lucky, but when they are called out or thwarted, they could at least have the (relative) good grace to shrug and admit defeat, rather than actually getting angry at you for stopping them.