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

And 'wheelie bin princess' is extremely misogynistic since presumably men have been known to leave their bins out for longer than the OP deems acceptable but are not covered by the patronising insult.

I have never ever taken the bins out even once in my life. Dh never does school run, the little Prince.

But maybe ask the people in your street to ensure you are copied in on their chore rota OP so that you no longer need to worry?

But how can people actively walk a bin and leave it for their partner to do?

I bet anything your DH actively walks past some hoovering or laundry that needs doing…

I don’t put the bins out because I hate doing the bins. If I lived with another woman, I’d try to get out of it too - I don’t think it’s a man’s job per se. Just not a “me” job. I will bring them up onto the drive if they’re on the road though.

Jenna and Chardonnay

You are so funny! I'm not particularly girlie, and a lone parent so I do everything, but I certainly appreciate your candour and girlishness!!

If you have someone else who does it, given you are probably doing most of the other household and mental-load work, sashay away past that smelly bin!

I am a SAHM so my job is to put the bins out - what does that make me then?

DH takes ours out because he runs first thing on bin day. Our cleaner brings it in as she’s out to the bin and back during course of day.

God knows what that makes me 🤷‍♀️

Maybe they have princes who do fuck all else in the house and they refuse to take on the bins as well as the cooking, cleaning, laundry, childcare...

Proud to be a Bin Princess here. My exH never lifted a finger in the house or garden, I did EVERYTHING, including bins. These days, my DP puts the bins out as one of his "blue jobs". Other blue jobs include washing up and changing the battery in my car key fob. He's bloody wonderful.

@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 walk past the bins and leave them to DH because it's about the only job he takes responsibility for. That's fair enough because he still works and I don't but I'm still not going to take on his only chore.

He was away last week and visiting DD and I did the bins. She was bemused that it took about 2 minutes. When her dad does it it can take him 10 minutes. God knows why. Perhaps he has deep bin thoughts as he does it.

@QueenLagertha

I'll go one better...I've been known to navigate my car around our bin by doing a 5 point turn rather than get out and move it 😂

Hero status: achieved

It's the little old lady next doors job.
Just bringing them back in mind, i'm not cruel. Whoever remembers puts them out but she tells us off if we bring them in, she likes to help.

DH does it because he objects to me chasing the bin men down the street in my PJ'S with the bins trailing behind me.

I can see why, I am a ravishing sight in the morning (dragged through a hedge chic). Alas, he has thwarted my plan of enticing them with my dansel in distress act and running away with the bin men by taking it upon himself to deal with the bins himself 🙁

@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.

Slow clap

Maybe these men throw their laundry on the floor next to the washing basket, leave breakfast things in the sink for days and walk past all kinds of mess indoors.

And so the women walk past this one chore that he will actually do.

I mean there are far more threads about feckless men on here than anything else.

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.

And spider evictions too, @FlowersinJune?

This will probably upset you even more - I don't do the bins, but I also don't do anything to do with the cars. DH fills my car up with petrol, books it in for MOT and takes it to the garage. Shock horror!

Maybe because I already do the lions share of household tasks and I actually drive past mine, I would have to walk back down the drive.

Meh, DH and I have certain jobs we prefer. But now the wheelie bins are firmly in DH's territory. We keep our bins round the back of our flat. There's a alleyway round past the upper neighbours stairs that he fills with junk. Right now it's tyres. I told DH I was going to get the tyres and stack them just out of the alley and round the back. Maybe a metre away at most. DH huffed and said no way! We were not moving that guys stuff for him!

No. It was for me. It was so that I could get by with the sodding bin without rolling tyres out the way , getting stuck, scraping my arm against the rough casting or best of all, knocking a tyre and getting a pool of stagnant, smelly water splashed into my shoe.

Basically, you don't know WHY your relative doesn't do it. Maybe she's taking a stand? Maybe he's a useless Twat who will do the bare minimum of stuff and that one she knows he'll do?

Pretty much the only thing DH does here without a moan or groan. Yes I’m a wheeliebin princess but I always do everything else in the house so really I’m actually a bloody queen 😍🤩🥳

@BrendaBubbles

But how can people actively walk a bin and leave it for their partner to do?

I bet anything your DH actively walks past some hoovering or laundry that needs doing…

Lol!! Well said

I do bins when I can move them.
I have teenagers and adult children that walk past mess they have left in the floor and on the kitchen sides.. task blindness I call it.. and when we were in the office I had female and male colleagues who not only ignore washing up left in the side but add their dirty cups to it for the magic fairy that does it all, despite rotas to put dishwasher on and unload it (assuming people load it as they go)

Dh does it because he’s taller than me. He also does the washing and I cut the grass. No blue or pink jobs just equal household split.

Those “princesses” probably do dozens or even a hundred jobs a day in the house compared to the one task of pulling up the wheelie bin that has been designated as belonging to the man. It’s not about not being able to pull in a bin, it’s about not doing yet another chore.

Sorry, I mean neighbour not relative.