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Original poster

My neighbours are on holiday AIBU to be excited about using their bins

135 replies

nottobrag · 02/08/2021 15:32

Of course I'm going to put them out for them for the next two weeks, but I can clear a load of recycling and rubbish .. whooo hoo this adulting is fun.. roll on bin day !

OP posts:
user1498572889 · 02/08/2021 17:34

Use them put them out for collection and put them back. No harm done they have asked you to put them out it would be wasteful to put them out half full. 😁

Redglitter · 02/08/2021 17:35

It's just a bit rude really imo

😂😂😂

Well it's certainly not in mine.

This threads hilarious. MN at its finest

I'd think my neighbour was mad if they phoned me while I was on holiday to ask if they could use my bin.

Maybe though it's because I know my neighbour wouldnt/doesn't bother. But then in the parallel universe that is MN id probably be classed as a CF. My paper/cardboard bin is always full by the time it gets emptied. Months ago I still had stuff to go out the night before bin night and I - shock horror - asked my neighbour if he'd mind if I put it in his bin. Not only did he say it was fine he actually said I could use his anytime mine was full & not to even bother asking.

tommyhoundmum · 02/08/2021 17:37

You should email or text and ask them

TheTallOakTrees · 02/08/2021 17:40

@nottobrag Go for it.

So much pearl clutching on here.

UnsuitableHat · 02/08/2021 17:41

LOL at all the outrage. What's the problem??

TheTallOakTrees · 02/08/2021 17:42

@PeapodBurgundy

I'm going to be loved by the outraged masses on this thread; I've been using the large sized bin from the empty house next door while it's on the market. We've gutted our entire house room by room, and have just started on the garden with nothing hanging about waiting to be filtered into our own bin.

The council tax is being paid in full for the property, and they'll be empty for the next person moving in, so I can't see how it possibly matters!

It would take us months to get rid otherwise, we don't drive, and you're not allowed to walk into our local tip (I once tried with two black bags and was turned away). The council haven't resumed the paid extra/bulky waste collections since they were cancelled due to COVID, and I never trust these so called 'rubbish removal companies' after previously living in a house with a back lane in which said carriers frequently dumped the rubbish they were paid to remove.

So radical.

You do realise that you will have some on here reaching for the smelling salts. So bad Grin.

Dyrne · 02/08/2021 17:46

For me the bit that would weird me out would be the knowledge that you’d just wandered onto my property to grab the bins to use them. As you’ve already been given permission to go on to the property I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong by wanging a bag in there at the same time! (Assuming, as PP have said, it’s not going to leak everywhere or stop the binmen from taking it)

SleepingStandingUp · 02/08/2021 17:48

@StrangeToSee

I power wash my wheelie bins regularly and any food waste goes in the food bin. I’d hate it if neighbours dumped smelly bags of rotting food or nappies in there, or dog poo bags. Imagine coming back to maggots in your previously clean bin!
If op puts a bag Inc food waste or nappies etx in a few days before bin collection, and the bin is them emptied, you shouldn't have maggots in your bin
Shodan · 02/08/2021 17:49
Grin

I've never even thought about whether my neighbours are cheeky-fuckily using my bins for their rubbish while I'm away. I'm just grateful they put them out for me!

Mind you- they've freely offered up their own garden rubbish bins for my use in the past. I cut down a rather large tree and was busily chainsawing it up and three neighbours asked what I was going to do with the resulting waste. On hearing that I was planning to haul it to the tip, they got together and not only offered up what space they had in their bins, they also showed me how to maximise that space.

Good neighbours are fab.

Original poster
nottobrag · 02/08/2021 17:50

@Dyrne

For me the bit that would weird me out would be the knowledge that you’d just wandered onto my property to grab the bins to use them. As you’ve already been given permission to go on to the property I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong by wanging a bag in there at the same time! (Assuming, as PP have said, it’s not going to leak everywhere or stop the binmen from taking it)
I was just going to load up on bin day, I wasn't going to be visiting my neighbours bins multiple times a day Grin. I feel I'm actually doing my bit for neighbourhood security filling their bins and of course putting it out as they requested.

Don't suck my joy 😂

OP posts:
hulahooper2 · 02/08/2021 17:50

Go ahead , enjoy

TobyLicious · 02/08/2021 17:51

You don't own the bins, they are owned by the council.
Go for it OP, fill your boots, and their bins!

NikkiBK · 02/08/2021 17:56

Why would they be asking OP to put the bins out, if they're not suggesting she use them? How much rubbish does a household that nobody is currently even in produce, to otherwise render a reason to put their bins out?

BluebellsGreenbells · 02/08/2021 18:01

Wow! This has made me chuckle!

In our last house the man across the road was in hospital and we all shared his bin and his green bin whilst he was away! Why wouldn’t you?

Next door is currently empty - damn right I’m using the bin! So are the other neighbors!

Full your boots, it’s like a gift.

Dyrne · 02/08/2021 18:02

To be honest OP I’m actually more jealous of your neighbours - for some reason it’s never occurred to me that I could have asked my neighbours to put my bin out for me if I was away on bin day. I’ve always just assumed that I missed the opportunity and would have to suck it up till next bin day. The thought of asking a neighbour to do it for me is an absolute revelation! Grin

BlueCherryBlossom · 02/08/2021 18:17

Brilliant thread.

Go for it, OP. Sounds perfectly sensible and reasonable to me.

tempester28 · 02/08/2021 18:21

Go for op - I would have a proper clear out Grin

SleepingStandingUp · 02/08/2021 19:13

@NikkiBK

Why would they be asking OP to put the bins out, if they're not suggesting she use them? How much rubbish does a household that nobody is currently even in produce, to otherwise render a reason to put their bins out?
Id assume they're half full since last bin collection.
Ireolu · 02/08/2021 19:19

My CF neighbors use our recycling bins even when we are about under the guise of you can use ours too if you want to. We never have. We can't be arsed to argue with them. They tend to put their stuff in on bin day itself.

garlictwist · 02/08/2021 19:25

Most of the houses on my street are student houses so are empty between June and September. I always use this time to get rid of loads of shit as I have the pick of many bins.

Thisisworsethananticpated · 02/08/2021 19:42

This was me in lockdown 1
2 vacant properties
Did the same

SD1978 · 02/08/2021 19:50

Holy feck. As long as you aren't putting slimy crap in there and not cleaning it, do people really get this het up about their bin being used when they'll never know? Have at it and enjoy!

Neverrains · 02/08/2021 20:03

Not sure id even notice if someone put slimy crap in my bin, I don’t inspect it. I just chuck full black bin bags in it!

ItsSnowJokes · 02/08/2021 21:11

Our neighbour moved out earlier this year and there was a delay of about a month till the new neighbours moved in. We used their bin and put it out every week and brought it back Grin we had done a load of DIY so had tons of boxes and it really helped us out!

DeathByWalkies · 02/08/2021 21:16

Everyone knows that the empty space in the top of the bins, once put out for collection, and past about 10pm on bin night, is fair game so long as you don't leave the lid up or do something equally stupid.

My neighbours flat is empty at the moment and I used the opportunity to have a clear out

YANBU