Wheelie Bin Princesses

[reallifegetsintheway2]

In my naice middle class area, there are multiple able bodied wheelie bin princesses who think that putting out the bins is a 'blue' job i.e. male (obviously if in male / female relationship). Worst still is those princesses who either walk past them when they return home in the car or with the pram / kids from school and wait for their (male) partner to bring them in. I admit they annoy me more. For reference, I do both, as does DH, and I am female.
Yabnu - it is a gender neutral job
Yabu - get a life, reallife

How do you know that this isn't just the way they split chores in their house?

Why does it make any difference to you who puts the bins out?

Well, good for you 🤷🏻‍♀️

My DH puts the bins out too.
Guess that makes me a princess too 👑 .

DS does mine and NDN - not that I’m incapable we just choose different chores

True x2.
But how can people actively walk a bin and leave it for their partner to do? I couldn't that's all.

It’s a gender neutral job but that doesn’t mean they’re wrong for having jobs that one person tends to do. My husband usually does the bins but if he’s not around then I do. No big deal.

I’m obviously a princess as well

I could easily walk past a bin and not do anything 😂

Whoever remembers first does it here. I wonder how much of the rest of the domestic work they do? Their houses are probably Hinched to hell and back. You have no way of really knowing what the division of labour is.

It's about the only thing I miss about my ex husband - bins were his job.

YABU 😂 I can't believe you've even paid attention to your neighbours chores.

I walk past mine sometimes. You wouldn’t know it to look at me but I have issues with both my shoulders and pulling the wheelie bin in is beyond me at times. So yes, I leave it to the two perfectly fit men that live in the house.

@reallifegetsintheway2

True x2. But how can people actively walk a bin and leave it for their partner to do? I couldn't that's all.

If they’re pushing a pram they probably don’t want to stop and have to go back for the bin. If their partner is happy to do it later I honestly don’t know why it bothers you as a bystander.

Surely first adult home after its been emptied should put it away?
I most often put the bins out, I'm more organised, dh would leave it until he heard the bin lorry outside our house.

You are very invested in what people do with their bins.

How do you even notice something like this?

I have no idea which of my neighbours puts the bin out. I have never paid any attention / can't remember.

FWIW - sometimes I put them out, sometimes DH does.

Our bins are always the last to come in on our street We both walk past them multiple times before one of us can be arsed to wheel them back round to the garden.

I walk round ours on way back from school run because I'm pushing a pushchair 🤷‍♀️

I am one of those "princesses". Our bins are overly full when they go out and I cannot physically move them.
Bringing them back in tends to be evenly split, but I have left them out on occasion and DGAF what anyone else thinks. Some of my neighbours leave theirs out for days, nobody in our street cares.

Fair dos if you have health issues. But if its empty it's quite light?

DH has 2 jobs in our house and the bins is one of them. He slacks in other areas so I refuse to bring them in, he can do it, therefore it's his job - end to end.

I too, am a princess. However, you may borrow my crown should you wish 👑

Who seriously gives a shit?!

Oh and DH always does ours because we forget until like 10pm the night before every week and I'm in my pyjamas by then and don't want to go outside again.

Reminds me of that time that (female) movies stars had a clausule in their contracts with the studios that said under no circumstances were they allowed to take the bins out as they might get papped and it would spoil their carefully cultivated glamorous public image.

My husband does our bins.

I work in construction 🤷🏼‍♀️