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

Tbf some people have go drag them up steps, there is steps up to my house and I have 3 to take in not 1, saying that I still manage with kids and a pram as I don’t have a partner to do it

@MrsClatterbuck

Dh puts the bins out and brings them back in again. I attend to them inside the house. Empty the small bins and put into outside bin. Sort the recycling which includes removing the stuff dh puts in which doesn't belong also sort out the food waste bin. I have a system for this. He has the easy part. He no longer asks me which bin goes out on which day thank goodness just looks out the window to see what the neighbours have out

Same here. I do all the ‘inside stuff’, the sorting of the recycling, emptying the small bathroom bin to the big bin etc. He takes the bins out and brings them in.

No pink and blue jobs in my house. Something needs doing I'll do it. Cut the grass, put something together, clean the bathroom, anything! I brought the bins in this morning and my partner put them out.

Well, you'll all love this

The bins and grass are DH's jobs normally, I do everything else (he does sometimes cook actually)

Anyway, I didn't want to be a wheelie bin princess after the OP defined one, so yesterday I dragged the bins back (with baby in one arm and 3 year old with me pretending to be a dog on a lead). Somehow, I didn't notice that they weren't actually emptied yesterday due to the bank holiday changes.

So I missed getting the food waste bin back out in time this morning and now it's crawling with maggots! What an idiot. Admittedly I am extremely sleep deprived and was very distracted l!

Yeh rule number one always check they’ve been emptied 😂 we are a family of 5 though so I know when it’s not been emptied!

@Onlinedilema

I'm always amazed that people think putting a bin out is a job. Wow, you must lead a charmed life. How is it an actual job. Unless you live in a stately home and have to wheel your bin down a mile long, uneven, travelled path, it's hardly hard work is it.

Absolutely!

People list their jobs on here and 'putting the bins out' is one but it happens knce a week and takes 2 minutes! And don't get me started on 'life admin' 😠

@JaceLancs

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

Exactly the same here.

My 17yo is driven to swim training 8 times a week and college 5 days.

He has chores. His are taking the rubbish out, hoovering, sorting recycling and putting away the washing up.

(Plus any others such as dusting, mopping etc that we split when we do a whole clean).

He also carries the heaviest shopping bags up the stairs!

I'm more than capable but if I do "his" jobs because I notice they did doing he would then pick up another chore for me. He's just not at that point of noticing things need doing yet!

I live alone and I take in my neighbours bins (one single aged 88, other a couple in their 60s). They also take mine in. It's a case of first out does the job!

I hate putting out the bins. Haaaaate it. I have to drag them from the back of my house, around past next door and out to the street and then up hill a bit. I live alone, have no desire to be in a relationship ever but on bin night I do wistfully wish for a husband to do it 😂

Previously I’d always lived in flats with communal bins that got collected by the fairies and I did not consider this chore when I moved into a house. I would very happily leave them for someone else. Alas, there is no one else. The cats aren’t interested.

Ha ha. Who cares. Gender neutral. My dh is wfh, no office since lockdown so it's the highlight of his week. Who am I to spoil his fun, and my hands are clean. Who wants to clean maggots out of the food bin. Urgh

If the bin men left mine in the middle of my drive, I'd probably just park elsewhere or drive over it, that's how averse I am to bins for so many reasons.

And I also used to work in construction so it's not because it's a blue task. If that makes me a princess, can I put my name down for Frogmore Cottage?

@WheelieBinPricess did you post again so you should show off your name change? Check out the typo...

Curtain twitchers, eh!

Does anyone suppose COVID has made these worse?

What's a pricess? @WheelieBinPricess

@TheCanyon

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.

Sorry, the neighbours are bastards for not bringing YOUR bins in?

That whole post is just weird, @TheCanyon
Your 86 year old neighbour has no obligation to bring these people's bins in just because they share a side passage?
And they can't possibly have "parked up" and watched you bring the bins in for 8 full years, either. Unless you deliberately rush out to do it when you see them driving in?
They probably think you're nuts.

If I didn't leave the bin for husband to do that would take away the only job he actually does ! He only does it twice a month as I pay for them to be cleaned and they bring them back all smelling lovely and pop it where it needs to go , so 6 times a month I ask him to do something in the house and I'm buggere" if I'm doing it !!

Yabu.

I'd love to have your problems in life op. I can't say I care to notice which neighbour puts which bin out.

Couldn't do that even if people wanted to where I live if it's not in quick enough someone robs it

Sorry, the neighbours are bastards for not bringing YOUR bins in?

Sounds like they watch whilst others bring THEIR bins in. I’d just leave theirs.

God maybe I am your neighbour OP.
Bin is DH’s job. I put it out once when he was away, it was full.
Saying that you must have a lot of time on your hands to notice. I couldn’t tell you who does what out of all my neighbours bins.

I am a single parent
For years I've always put them out myself.

Well if they’re princesses then I must be the queen as our neighbours usually bring ours in when they do theirs

Me and my DH both do it. I'm always bemused that it's seen as a male job. I also enjoy mowing the lawn but I seem to be the only female in my street who does it. So many people make comments, asking why my husband isn't doing it. I'm perfectly capable - why shouldn't I do it? Even the postman was outraged and had to voice his concern.

I must admit one of my neighbours bought my bin in a few weeks ago, no idea why unless they saw me struggling with it which is an embarrassing thought but was very grateful cause was in a lot of pain at the time with a flair-up.