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In-laws using our skip

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DawnR96 · 19/03/2021 20:02

Please tell me if I'm just being a hormonal cow and I know this is such a petty problem but we're moving house, I paid for a skip because we have loads of stuff to throw away. I had to really struggle to pay for this skip and my in-laws who unfortunately live next door to us decided to dump 6 bags of rubbish into our skip without asking. I'm furious and want to call them out about being cheeky so and so but I also don't want to cause a scene as we're usually on good terms.

Its my time of the month, it's been a hard week but this literally nearly made me explode.

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Wolfiefan · 19/03/2021 21:36

Get DH to return their rubbish and remind them he will let them know (when you’ve put everything you need to in the skip) if there’s space.
Cheeky buggers.

SavannahLands · 19/03/2021 21:38

Most skips have a maximum permitted load allowance, with the collection lorries weighing the load as they lift for health and safety reasons. If your in-laws decided to clear a load of broken slabs and tree roots from their garden for example, as happened to.one of our neighbours, the company can refuse to take it, and may demand a re-collection fee for when they do.

LongTimeMammaBear · 19/03/2021 21:48

I can well imagine this is just icing o the in law disaster cake. You must be soooo glad you’re moving!

YANBU. Yes it is just rubbish but the skip space is finite and I you’re clearing out to move, you have a time limit. If you could easily do unlimited trips to the tip, you wouldn’t be spending 200 on a skip

SeaToSki · 19/03/2021 21:50

Sorry you have had an awful day 💐, do you want to vent about it here? It might help to have a rant to a load of vipers, you will never meet, who can occasionally be very kind

SnackSizeRaisin · 19/03/2021 22:07

Maybe they are planning to offer to pay for half of it, to help you out?

WingingIt101 · 19/03/2021 22:10

Yanbu that’d piss me off too.
6 bags! One you’d overlook (even if it is cheeky not to ask) but 6 is taking the piss.

Shrivelled · 19/03/2021 22:14

I’d be tempted to fill the skip and anything you can’t fit in just leave with them and say “do you mind getting rid of this stuff as we got rid of your black bags”. They can’t argue with that.

theoldtrout01876 · 20/03/2021 02:17

I had a hired skip on my driveway, friend/neighbor asked if she could put stuff in it. I said sure but NO TVs, its the one thing the skip hire people had said, no TVs. I came home from work and she had 4 TVs in there !!. I was not a happy puppy. I made her climb in the skip and take them out, She was not a happy puppy. I didnt care, cheeky cow was always trying to pull a fast one

sneakysnoopysniper · 20/03/2021 02:56

I live in a house that has a long drive with lockable gates. Shortly after I moved in I had the kitchen and bathroom replaced plus some other renovations and hired a skip. I had the skip put on the drive and each evening after the workmen has gone I locked the gates so it was impossible for anyone to dump anything into it. I imagine my neighbors were well pissed that they could not sneak up and put their rubbish in it.

timeisnotaline · 20/03/2021 03:19

@DawnR96

Far enough 😂 we've always been civil but living next to them hasn't been easy. They probably feel the same way about us though to be fair. I think I'm going to have a glass of wine and try to calm myself down after an awful day 😂
They moved next to you not you moved next to them, no need to be too fair!
1forAll74 · 20/03/2021 03:23

A person near me in my village had a skip outside their house, and were gradually filling it up, but one night when it was going a bit dark, they saw another neighbour three doors up from them, chucking a great load of rubbish in their skip,including some long planks of wood,and some bricks. When the skip chuckers went home up the road, The skip man and his son,spent a while, taking all the other mans rubbish to his house, and lobbed everything over the mans front wall,and onto his front lawn.

Lampzade · 20/03/2021 05:26

One of our neighbours asked if he could put a few ‘bits and pieces’ in our skip. He assured me that it wasn’t much
The next morning I woke up and the skip was filled to the brim with broken hoovers/ lawnmower, garden waste , branches .wood and to make it worse the garden waste soiled our drive .
I was absolutely furious and wanted to go over and have a word, but dh begged me not to

When said neighbour had his kitchen done, he ordered a skip and made it clear that he didn’t want anyone to put stuff in it...

Also, it is very annoying when random people walk on my drive to dump their rubbish in MY skip. I even caught a dog owner dumping her dog’s shit in my skip.
People can be extremely rude and ill mannered

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DawnR96 · 20/03/2021 08:51

Thanks all, I'm feeling a bit better after some sleep. I was so stressed yesterday, I had spent the day caring for my unwell dad and nan who ended up needed to be rushed into hospital, then I had to try and make sure everything was ready for my 9yo birthday today and had spent the day running around after everyone else and when I got home and saw my skip, my head just blew. I'm still fuming because I'm sick of them doing stupid stuff like this without asking but I'm not going to start throwing binbags through their windows like I wanted too 😂

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