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 put the bins out at our house, to be fair my hubby is disabled tho. It annoys me when people walk past their buns and don’t fetch them in especially if they are on a narrow footpath and to get past you need to walk on a road

NDN’s DH walks past the bin and leaves it for his DW to wheel it back, all of about 4ft. He’s never touched the wheelie bin, not even when they’d been emptied and a pair of tights with the foot caught in the lid (still with pants attached) were swaying merrily in the breeze! Bet the bin men/women were pissing themselves leaving that floaty number for all to see at the end of their drive I certainly was!

I seriously couldn’t care less who puts the bin out, fetches it in or does a naked rain dance around it in the middle of the street. Suggest you watch the news to find something actually worth worrying about.

Around here it's the man's job, despite the women being in all day and walking past the bloody thing multiple times. Sort of winds me up (whole women want equality but don't want...) but also there are bigger issues to give my head space to.

Before I was on my own the OH would usually do it because he had issues with things being a certain way but if I was home first or already home when emptied i would do it. Now I'm the only adult they would never move if I didn't do it!

Sorry but yabu. It’s none of your business who puts the bins out in other households! I don’t bring our bins in when I get home on bin day, usually because I have to carry my tired toddler in tow, who wouldn’t be still enough for me to bring in the bins (especially on the weeks where we have 3/4 of of our bins out!!). I think it’s judgmental and presumptuous of you.

Well hand me a tiara while I kiss my frog 🐸

No women on our street put the bin out either. If DH was home I'd ask him but the odd time he is home he forgets so I just do it.

@0blio

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

Love it....So funny....

Eh? What do you know what the division of labour in your neighbours house?
‘The bins’ is my husband’s only responsibility that he actually proactively manages. No way am I going to start stepping into that space. I’d wind my neck in if I was you

I walk past my bin on my way home from town with DD in the pram. I don’t want to touch the bins and then touch the pram or DD. I realise this makes me a princess in your eyes but IDGAF 👑

They've probably done a million other jobs and drawn a line at the bin!

DH puts ours out unless he’s ill or away, in which case I do it. The main reason for this is that, according to him, I do it wrong, especially the recycling boxes. I’m in no rush to correct my incompetence!

I am, by choice, entirely responsible for dealing with the bins at my house. DH does the laundry. Don't label me with your misogynist nonsense, thanks...

I have no idea the gender of who takes the bins in and out on my street, mental note made to start curtain twitching to find out. I have just discovered i am a wheelie bin princess though. Although this has less to do with me being a helpless pampered female and more to do with A- I am very forgetful and B- my husband has a longer commute to work, leaves first so makes sense he does it.

Well a wright old Queen here ( to bloody old to be a princess) !! Out side jobs is nothing to do with me!! Only inside my DH does is cook 50/50 and unload dishwasher. This arrangement has served as well for many a year. But what ever you want to do in your house is fine with me. Fill your boots do the bins if that makes you happy. But really stop worry about what the neighbours are doing life is to short.

I’m a wheelie bin princess, who knew? I watched my male neighbour bring my bin in while I sat in my kitchen. He and my DP share bin duty.

Caveat - if they both forgot and the bin men were coming I would drag them out but not back in.

Please please

We don’t really have a division of labour apart from doing the washing, I do that because I’m particular about treating stains, separating colours etc, otherwise we just do whatever needs done. Sometimes I deal with the bins, sometimes DH does.

Men should ALWAYS see to the bins!!

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YABU. How do you know that they don’t do every single other job in the house? The bins in my job in my house but DH cooks every night. By your reckoning we’ve role reversed!

My dh rarely does the bins. Or if he does, he expects a bloody medal.
But he does do all the shopping and cooking.

Say what you like, bins are not really ladies' work.

@MurielSpriggs

Say what you like, bins are not really ladies' work.

I do find this whole bin conversation pretty amusing. If there was one job that I, as a woman, would be happy to leave to a man, it would be the bins. I’m more than capable, I’m fact it was usually me in our last house whilst OH did bath time, but I don’t see why anyone would pick this as their chore of choice.