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

@PumpkinKlNG

Wherever you want to send it but I do think it’s ridiculous that grown women can’t bring their own bins in 🤦‍♀️

Im a grown woman.

I’m also disabled. I can’t bring my bin in without severe pain.

Bins snd petrol in the car are prince jobs in our household, I'm too princessy to deal with the smell. I often walk past them in my glass slippers without even a backwards glance. (I don't even put the household rubbish in the wheelie bins, am worried my hall gown will get dirty!!)

Ive done the bins and my neighbour s today(they away)..DH does it when he not working....swings and roundabouts...in the winter DH does it as it's stored in a dark location..in the summer I do it 90% of the time as I've more time....

get a life

Have just remembered. The night before bin day I park in front of the gge. Usually I pull down to the front of the house but the binnies leave the bins at the top of the drive on bin day and it's a tight turn out of the gates

Usually DH gets home after me so I often park in front of the gge on the evening of bin day as well.

I’d never walk past my empty bin because some CF might stick their dog shit in it and then I’d have the choice of letting it fester for 2 weeks or fishing it out. Or even a crisp packet would piss me off because it’d stick to the bottom of an empty bin forever.

Whoever does the evening chores on a Thursday usually puts the bins out.

Our rather lovely postman usually brings them back in

I drive past my bins and leave them for my —shock horror— 5 and 7 year old children to bring In!

What must you think of me @reallifegetsintheway2

I do most things - DH can do the bins...

I walk past our bins in the same way DH walks past the hoover everyday. Without a care in the world…

Are people really saying that they would return home, walk straight past the empty bins in the road and not put them away, because it is their other half’s chore?

We don't put the bins (they are in a little gated off bit in the front yard) but we do have to put the refuse out on bin day can't leave the bins out on the street but refuse on collection day is OK

If I do the rubbish, I have to drag the bin out to be able to tilt it. My DP doesn't need to do this so it's easier for him to do the rubbish. He even do it for our M/F neighbours too, who share our bin area.

Why not offer to bring the wheelie bin princesses bins in for them as you obviously have enough time on your hands to notice it and are irritated enough to comment on it? That’s what a true wheelie bin princess would do.

I refuse to engage in even talking about the bins (which is a favourite pastime of our neighbours). It’s the one job that is all for my husband. However, I do agitate the local council on behalf of the whole development when the fuckers don’t pick them up. That’s more my area.

Oh shit, have you been watching me?

Bloody hate wheeling the bins in.

Our neighbours do this, a couple aged 40 and 50, both absolutely healthy and fit, just park up RIGHT next to the bins/sit on their arse and watch as me, our 86yo neighbour and other 74yo neighbour bring them all in. Bastards. In 8 years I've got the male to help once, but only cause he wanted the gossip.

Unfortunately our houses are a row of 4 with alleyways between so 86yo and them share a passage so would be petty as fuck not to bring them in. Though don't know why we bother when they don't give a shit.

It’s my partners job to “deal with the bins” and we are a same sex couple . I have OCD and get yucky intrusive thoughts about the bin and she likes that she has a chore I can’t do since I do most of the other practical stuff.who really cares so long as it gets done

[quote TenPenceMix]@SkinnyMirror
So I meant for the people without pain etc who can get it but choose not to. [/quote]
But how do you know who those people are?

My neighbours probably think I'm a princess for ignoring the bins as I walk, run etc and I'm very active. But the pulling action is very painful which is why I don't do it.

People shouldn't be so quick to judge.

My DH puts the bins out & takes them in again. It makes him feel manly & full of serious purpose. He would be utterly bereft of meaning if this task was assigned to me, a woman. He considers it a valuable & significant contribution to the overall running of family life.

I know of multiple households where bringing in the bins (and car/bbq/garden general tinkering) is the man's only domestic job.

If that was the case I wouldn't move the fucker either, except to push it out of my way...

This is quite odd to post about but has made me laugh because I usually get DH to do it - not because it’s a gendered job but because he doesn’t put them back right and it irritates me so I let him get on with it. Currently my focus is on getting him to load the dish-washer correctly which has been a work in progress for a couple of years so not sure we’ll ever get round to correcting his bin etiquette

Meh, I never do it. If I've got my pram then I'm not going to faff about getting the bin in. I've always got something to get out of the car too, so I never have my hands free.

We don't have wheely bins here, we get a big box for glass/tins etc and a big caddy for food waste, everything else just in black bags and it goes out once a fortnight and my dp always takes it out. I'm short with can't say I feel like much of a princess though while he's doing that and I'm inside washing dishes and cooking etc!

Had no idea I was a wheelie bin princess but I rather like the title. We (shock / horror) have old fashioned 'blue and pink' jobs in our household and we're extremely happy with it. Works for us and that's all that matters surely?

Bin Princess here 👑 I won't even empty the inside bin as it makes me heave. Luckily my DH is my knight in shining armour and happily does all bin related tasks in exchange for clean clothes. We pretty much share everything else.
When I briefly lived away for work pre DH my dad used to come up for dinner and do my bins!