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Neighbours and bins - putting one on my lawn

88 replies

FortunesFave · 07/03/2021 20:14

Just moved house...well three weeks ago. Next door house is used as an Air B and B. Owners live miles away and it's managed by an agency. The cleaners come regularly and always put their bins on the side closet to our lawn....well one of them is actually ON our lawn. So two on their lawn and a third on ours...all in a row.

They do this I think because if they put them on the other side, they are more visible to passers by and look ugly.

Both houses have a big front lawn and there's a line of trees separating the lawns...it's quite clear whose lawn is whose.

The other side of their lawn is on a corner and visible from a street which is a popular one and I think they don't put the bins there because it's very visible to passers by and looks ugly.

AIBU to be annoyed by one of their three bins on our front lawn?

Or shall I ask the cleaner nicely not to put it there? What shall I say? Or move it myself?

OP posts:
veeeeh · 09/03/2021 17:49

Sorry for the huge link!

cherish123 · 09/03/2021 18:12

Move it.

Then if they don't take the hint, speak to the cleaner.

honeybee88 · 09/03/2021 18:15

Put up a small fence

Fairydustrust · 09/03/2021 18:17

Oh, OP. You live in Oz. By the beach. In sunshine and warmth. ... dreaming....oh, the bins. Yep, I would just kick them onto the middle of their drive. But I am in a mood because I am cold and haven't seen the sea for a year.

2andahalfpints · 09/03/2021 18:29

@Mooselaurels

Write them a poem:

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Your bin is on my land,
Get it off my land
You cunt"

I'm not very good at poetry.

😂🤣
NotFabulousDarling · 09/03/2021 18:34

The poem is a thing of beauty.
Is there a chance they don't actually have a permit for the number of bins they are putting out, and are hoping that they can fool the bin lorry crew into thinking it's your bin? Will the bin people collect two from your side? Also echoing PPs, they should be paying for commercial waste disposal as part of their business.

1forAll74 · 09/03/2021 18:38

Put a large to see notice on their bins, or put their bins on the beach, they might float away. I thought bin issues were only an issue in the UK, now it's a world problem, !

InsanityOf2020 · 09/03/2021 18:40

Because no one has suggested it yet, i call penguin bollards... solution to every parking and bin thread

MrMucker · 09/03/2021 18:41

@FortunesFave

Air B&B has decimated the rental market here. Houses which were previously let to families are now Air B&Bs and there are loads of people who are living in caravans on their Mum's drive and similar. It annoys the hell out of me.

I know people are entitled to do what they like with their properties but they'll kill the area. What makes it charming is that it's an old-fashioned community...or was! People enjoyed coming to have a holiday here in the caravan park or beach shacks but now every spare home is a bloody Air B&B with pissed up stag parties in them at weekends.

I will NEVER lease out my property like that. If we ever get rich, I plan to buy them all up and rent the buggers out again!

Eh? You said you moved there three weeks ago. So what is it that made you move there if it's seriously gone downhill and just about everything everybody else does in the area is an annoyance? Tell you what-if fun time weekend rentals are annoying you having just moved in, you'l get a shock when lockdown ends.
NigellaSeed · 09/03/2021 18:42

@Mooselaurels

Write them a poem:

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Your bin is on my land,
Get it off my land
You cunt"

I'm not very good at poetry.

GrinGrinGrin
caspersmagicaljourney · 09/03/2021 18:43

@Mooselaurels

Write them a poem:

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Your bin is on my land,
Get it off my land
You cunt"

I'm not very good at poetry.

Good stuff, totally agree 🤣🤣 Really funny
MrMucker · 09/03/2021 18:43

sorry, just spotted ur in Oz, so unsure about whatever lockdown is doing over there.
Whatever-why did you move there then if you are so scandalised by the area?

Idontknowhowtodothis · 09/03/2021 18:43

@mooselaurels

😂😂😂😂 dying

5adayincludeswine · 09/03/2021 18:45

@Mooselaurels

Write them a poem:

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Your bin is on my land,
Get it off my land
You cunt"

I'm not very good at poetry.

Hail the next poet laureate- just brilliant!!!
Wallyandasnog · 09/03/2021 18:45

@Mooselaurels

Write them a poem:

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Your bin is on my land,
Get it off my land
You cunt"

I'm not very good at poetry.

Yep! This is perfect 😄
doublehalo · 09/03/2021 18:51

@Mooselaurels

Write them a poem:

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Your bin is on my land,
Get it off my land
You cunt"

I'm not very good at poetry.

Gosh!

This is very moving. Thank you.

Merryweather80 · 09/03/2021 20:46

Nominate for classics.
A -for beautiful diagram.
B -for the poem. A masterpiece of apt beauty. Also needs nominating for the laureate awards.

FortunesFave · 09/03/2021 20:49

@Fairydustrust

Oh, OP. You live in Oz. By the beach. In sunshine and warmth. ... dreaming....oh, the bins. Yep, I would just kick them onto the middle of their drive. But I am in a mood because I am cold and haven't seen the sea for a year.
Sorry...it won't be long now! You'll be there before you know it!
OP posts:
PeachesPlumsPears · 09/03/2021 22:32

Hi Op, not sure where you are in Aust but in some states there is a fine for leaving your wheely bins out more than 24 hrs of them being emptied. I've sent you a message.

Peff68 · 09/03/2021 22:43

Smilebrlliant!

Flatoutonsofa · 09/03/2021 23:23

@Mooselaurels

Write them a poem:

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Your bin is on my land,
Get it off my land
You cunt"

I'm not very good at poetry.

You speak from the heart💓.
Pinkfluff76 · 10/03/2021 09:16

Just move it. The cleaners don’t know, the guests don’t know, the owners don’t know... I don’t know why you’re putting up with someone else’s ugly bin messing up your grass for a week!! You’re not being petty! They’re being rude and ridiculous. And no I’m fairness to the neighbours... they’re making lots of money renting the place out and then messing you around.

Pinkfluff76 · 10/03/2021 09:16

I meant in fairness

thelonghaul · 10/03/2021 14:37

@MooselaurelsGrinStar

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