Neighbours and bins - putting one on my lawn

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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?

Keep the bin. If they're repeatedly putting it on your lawn, it's obviously a gift.

So... Thank-you for the diagram OP

No question you need to move the bin every single time it appears on your lawn, as soon as you see it. The cleaners shouldn't be ruining your lawn or putting it on your property.

Move this naughty bin back to he other side on their (NDN) own drive or behind the other bins on their lawn.

If cleaners keep doing it, when you move it.., put it further back on drive (in the middle) or their lawn.... bin men won't empty then, it'll be in way of arriving guests, & cleaners will have inconvenience of explaining why that's so.

I'd be inclined to put a large rock or smaller bushes (if you don't want more trees) at end of your line of trees to continue that property line separating your lawns.

I'm thinking of shoving a big heavy pot of cactus or succulents there to be honest. We've got some half wine barrels that would be impossible to move and will solve the problem whilst being decorative!

@FortunesFave

I'm thinking of shoving a big heavy pot of cactus or succulents there to be honest. We've got some half wine barrels that would be impossible to move and will solve the problem whilst being decorative!

Sounds good and that you could do that fairly quickly.

Hope NDN's cleaners haven't moved NDN's bin back onto your lawn. I wouldn't even ask your DH to move it, as he's taking an pointless high road (it's cleaners for an AirB&B being CFs, not "friendly NDNs"!!) , I'd just keep moving it back myself, wherever was easiest for me .

@Hidinginstaircupboard no they haven't put it back. It's in front of their lawn now. The gates to the drive and garden are locked...I think they just put all three bins out and then take in whichever ones have been emptied!

instead of putting the correct ones out. So they took the empty ones back into the garden and left the full recycling one out! It's not hard to look at a schedule is it!

This thread has it all: bins, poetry and art

I'm thinking of shoving a big heavy pot of cactus or succulents there to be honest

Stuff that, I'd go with a landmine.

Mooselaurels 🤣🤣🤣 you get my vote for poet laureate. You are a natural.

It's clearly unwanted if they've fly-tipped it (leaving aside the irony of fly-tipping an actual bin). If you have (or can borrow) a decent electrical saw, cut it into several sections (like it's a really nasty, stinky, mis-shapen Easter egg) and then - as it's their rubbish - simply pop the sections into one of their other bins!

Alternatively, you could always carefully just saw around the base of the bin, so they fill it as normal, but when they try to move it, their rubbish stays firmly on their own property - regardless of what then happens to the panoramic-view feature-bin itself!

Chain and padlock the bin to one of the trees.

I think the cactus/ succulent pot is a great idea. Alternatively, put a laminated notice on all 3 bins saying 'bins must not be left on lawn of number x'. Hopefully the cleaners will think it's from the owners or their agency and follow instruction.

I'm way too invested in this. I'm angry for you Please get a massive plant pot to close the gap

@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.

Priceless.