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’m a bin princess too. Mostly because bins go out the back way and DH parks out the back so he’s going that way whilst I’m going out the front, but it’s also a bit because I just don’t want to do them.

I have absolutely no idea and even less interest which of my neighbours take out or bring in bins either.

@reallifegetsintheway2

Lots of strong opinions! Tbh - I get it in the neck every Thursday from my mum (who is 82 and has arthritis) who puts out her bins and takes them in quickly- because she can because she's retired. The bin men leave the bins NDN's driveway most weeks. DM has a young next door neighbour who walks past the bin on mum's driveway. DM can't understand why she can't at least move it nearer her house instead. DM thinks its inconsiderate behaviour - is she too old school? Total coincidence that my NDN is also a WBP

Why is your mum expecting her neighbours to take in her bins?

I mean it would be nice if they did, but not touching your mum's bin hardly makes them inconsiderate? Think that's what's happening, this post was a bit confusingly written/

OP on bin day.

Sometimes dh does the bins, sometimes I do them and when I do, I do the neighbour's. I'm firmly in the - you need to get a life - camp because this level of scorn over something so minor is pathetic.

I don’t take the bins out. I’m 5ft tall and manoeuvring a fully wheelie bin is quite difficult for me. DH is home before I am so usually brings it in. It’s not a blue job in our house, it is a tall person’s job. Same reason I don’t cut the grass with our big petrol mower.

It’s been a long time (if ever) that anyone called me a princess.

What’s wrong with walking past a bin? It’s not disgusting or a hazard in any way. Unlike a pee-covered toilet seat or dirty kitchen.
DP puts the bins in because it’s his chore. He does his and I do mine. I mow the lawn - manly enough for you?
You need to get a hobby. Or do some volunteering

Ha ha - that photo is my mum! No I didn't proof read sorry- the NDN's bin is left by bin men on my mum's drive and she gets hacked off that is left to the husband to bring in late in the day. The woman walks past it/ gets in her car and ignores. Maybe I will explain to my mum the concept of division of labour.

My DH puts the bins out. It's one of the reasons I married him. He also is responsible for investigating any loud noises in the middle of the night.

I will happily be a Bin Princess. I am also the family breadwinner so I can buy myself a lovely crown.

I am more than capable of putting bins out, I just don't want to. I empty the household bins daily but dh puts the wheelie bins out.

Obviously it is gender neutral job, but DH does tend to do it more. But on the other hand I always clean the bathroom and he never does!

The other week DH was working away. I was trying to get the bin out the bin shed (which can be a bit tricky) when my NDN saw me. She said "leave your bins! I'll get my Steve to put yours out when he does ours. It's a mans job, not for us women, I'll get Steve do it!"
Don't get me wrong, it was nice of her, but I was a bit shocked that she delegated my bin duties to her poor husband, as she thought it was a task beneath "us women".

I'm a Wheelie Bin Princess and my dh is a Toilet Cleaning Prince.

I can walk past a wheelie bin in the same way that my DH can walk past a pile of ironing. Does that make him a prince?

Always knew I was a princess

@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.

Same way my DH will walk past the laundry basket and leave it for me to do. Just the way we split chores!

@reallifegetsintheway2

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

Even when it's empty I can't physically manage to move my bin (I'm early 40s but disabled) I have to rely on my dc to do the job, if their at school /out I have to walk round it. It frustrates me that I can't do it (as does everything else I can't do because of my disability) I don't need to be called a princess because I don't bring the bins in (fwiw 8 years ago pre disability I always did the bins).

I get your point Op and it’s clearly not just a thing near you judging from these posts.
Why are are so many men doing bins and grass cutting? Weird..

Wish I hadn't used the word princess...

#proudbinprincess

@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.

I think I could manage that, but I only ever drive past it anyway.

Meh, I've done the bins plenty times when I lived in houseshares for years but now that I live with DP it is his job. As is washing the dishes. I do the cooking, clean the bathrooms, he does the laundry... and so on.

I couldn’t be arsed to judge how people split household duties, but, ya know, you do you

What if no man will take it on? As a single woman, no family, over 60, I know this will be deemed irrelevant to the main discussion but just want to vent a bit. I am currently sitting indoors in an absolute mess so I know how quickly rubbish can overwhelm anyone and I am not a neat and tidy person. But I also seem to have become rubbish monitor for our blocks of flats. My ground floor windows are metres away fro our bin area so that is why I am concerned.

There are 12 flats and we always had big container bins until the council brought in wheelie bins. Only 4 for general rubbish and 1 went missing. But the container bins remained so everyone used them, they have not been emptied for over a year. Then rubbish gets dumped by sides. I removed some bags that were preventing closure of the bins and attracting flies in the heat a few weeks ago. I have complained online and by phone 6 times in 8 weeks including today. I get told to move the bins to front of property. They are too heavy to move, they would also cause a traffic hazard due to narrow pavements and cars driving onto forecourt. My point is some of us have to deal with the rubbish and the bins unless we can live with a heap of stinking festering rubbish outside our windows. I don't understand how my neighbours male and female ignore it but it is my decision to try to sort it out.

@FangsForTheMemory How many women do you know that would go to work if they won the lottery?

Of course many households (even if they deny it) divide chores along the lines of those that are seen as men’s jobs (bins) and those that are seen as woman’s jobs (laundry).

You don't have a dog and bark yourself

I have a husband and 3 sons. Like fuck am I doing the bins!
I just ironed DS a shirt cos he's going out tonight - I don't think he suffers from our household arrangements.