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

I have a back injury which means dragging a wheely bin really hurts. I can do it but I'd rather not so I will walk past our bins and leave them for DH.
The same goes for carrying heavy bags so I leave them in the boot of my car for DH.

You wouldn't know to look at me that I have this injury as I'm very active but the very specific movements involved in pulling, bending and lifting cause me significant pain.

But you'd probably just call me a princess 🤷🏼‍♀️

My husband can’t see them. Definitely a pink
Job here.
It’s amazing how they manage to blend in with the 100 foot long gravel drive … grrr

It is a blue job in our house because it is one of our son's jobs. Not because he is male, just because of how it is divided. He does dishes too.

My Dh does the bins.
We both just assumed it was his job when we got married and he's always done it.
When he's not here the nice old man across the road does it.

I also earn more money than my husband. Send my ironing out and have a cleaner.

But I don't have a tiara.

DH does the bins and the recycling in our house.

I couldn't give a shiny shite what the neighbours thought, tbh. I also can't imagine them noticing - who cares?!

I share my bins with 4 other flats. All I have to do is traipse down a flight of stairs, out my front door, turn right, walk 20 steps and sling my rubbish in the bin. The only time I move a bin, is if I need the lid up for more than one bag.
I'm more annoyed that my neighbours don't know what is and isn't recyclable.

We stick a tenner under our bin and they take our buns off the drive and put them back, and take as much rubbish as we like (8 kids so more rubbish than most) including the rubbish from our business!

So we’re both princesses in this house

@reallifegetsintheway2

NDNs both doctors - she never puts out bins or collects in - will drive round them / ignore. He does it all the time. You kind of notice after living next door to them for years.

If a woman doesn't do all the chores is she then a princess? Or is it just bins you think all women should be doing in order to avoid your name calling?

There are no such thing as blue jobs in our house! Dh works most of the time so I do all of the typical man jobs.
Mil tells me off though she will say what are you doing that for that's a blue job!

This thread has reminded me of this Teresa and Philip May interview. There's boy jobs and girl jobs you see:

I always do the bins, my oh spend half his life in the gym but the bin is too heavy for him apparently, it's a job for the stronger female 🙄, he's definitely a wheely bin princess 👸 😂

@BeeDavis

My fiancé puts the bins out, I have the bins app on my phone which tells me what bin week it is… teamwork.

Please tell me the app?

For a lot of these women it might be the only housework that their partners do.

I always walk past the bin- my hands are always full when I am returning home from work with all my work stuff. I leave it to DH because it's just about the only thing he takes responsibility for. I do it if he's away, but still walk past it and go out later for it.

@BoredZelda yes. They are known as “Code 8s”.

Because when I'm getting in the house with the kids I'm paying attention to them, making sure they don't try and go in the road... Then trying to get them all into the house whilst the dogs go nuts!

I put the bins out and get them in. DP wouldn’t know when it’s black bags or recycling days tbh. But sometimes I struggle due to under disabilities even when it’s empty. They aren’t that light especially the bigs one and if you’ve got a should/back/hip/knee injury the dragging of a bin can be painful. Just stop being nosy and leave them be. The only time I get annoyed or my NDN who hardly ever pulls their bin up and blocks the pavement

@JellyBabiesSaveLives

Somewhat disappointed that this isn’t a thread about decorating your bin to make it look like Cinderella

Yes, I'm fairly sure someone in my neighbourhood has a giant Disney princess sticker on their wheelie bin. IABU to find this annoying. Does this mean it is a woman's job to bring in the princess bin? Or is a man allowed to do this? Maybe someone could send the OP some big princess stickers that they could stick on offending bins to highlight their displeasure that the woman of the house has failed to bring in their bin?

Seen as I was the plonked who made sure rubbish actually got into the bin, XH was I'm charge of making sure they went out and got brought back in. Clearly I'm a princess

I don't take our bins in or put them out, as I have a bad hip and our bins need to be bumped up and down some steps and pulled up/down on to a ledge type thingy. We are in an elevated mid terrace so it's not as simple as wheeling it over a flat area round to the back of the house.

Ucht mind ur own business. What’s it to you what other folk do with their bibs. My husband does ours so if that makes me a princess so be it ! I must be Cinderella before the ball right enough !

princess stickers that they could stick on offending bins to highlight their displeasure that the woman of the house has failed to bring in their bin?

• like the council ones to highlight you have overfilled your bin or left extra binbags on the pavement and are on a final warning

Nothing to do with being a princess - DH and I split the jobs/chores and he is charged with the bins and there is now way I am going to start dealing with them because that would mean I take an extra job onto my already very full plate! Same as I expect him (and the dcs) to clear their stuff away after a meal - should I pick them up too if I happen to be in the vicinity?

Is it, perhaps, because she has the kids and the pram?

I don’t touch the bins, especially the food bin cos I finding them fucking gross and my partner doesn’t mind. Really not a big deal