Wheelie Bin Princesses

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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

Yabu, my pelvic floor is weak from carrying babies. The least my husband can do is lug about bins, shopping and luggage 💅

DH does the bins. I haven’t done them since we met c5 years ago. I always drive past them, I don’t even know when bin day is 🤷🏻‍♀️ he clears the dog 💩 too and he fills my car with windscreen cleaner. When we’re out even if I’m driving, he fills my car with petrol. I guess I am a bit spoilt but why does that annoy you?

Yours,
Bin Princess 👸🏻

I'm out at work and DH is a SAHD. Darn right I'm walking past those empty bins if I happen to pass them. I clean the bathroom. Fair's fair.

But my husband enjoys putting the bins out. Who am I to strip him of this pleasure!

I don’t touch the bins. They stink and I don’t like it.

Plus, when I get home I have three kids in car, one of which needs carrying into the house. My husband comes home carrying nothing but his lunch box.

He can get the bin.

I put the bin out and bring it back in in my household. I do consider it a gender neutral job but I don't watch my neighbours to critique their bin management and wouldn't judge anyone who chooses to leave moving the bin until later. I also do almost all of the DIY with the exception of hammering in rawl plugs I always seem to bend them but my partner can hit them straight on so he does that part for me.

DH does our bins. Sometimes I'll bring them in but he's usually done it before I think of it. I don't care if that makes me a princess!

My dh mostly puts the bins out when he's locking the gates for the night. With routine jobs like bins I think it's good for one person to keep on top of it - we have 6 bins in total (3 different colours) and a separate recycling trolley. We both work ft but I take on much more of the mental load so thinking about which bin goes out when is one less thing to think about. I will bring them in though as I work from home most days.

The fact that you notice which neighbours apparently “never” put the bins out is a bit weird. As is the fact that it actually annoys you that someone with a pram and kids in tow doesn’t also stop to wheel the bin in. Maybe get a hobby that doesn’t involve watching your neighbours morning and night.

Meh. DH deals with the bin in our house, unless he's unwell or away. I do the lion's share of the indoor upkeep, because I work fewer hours than he does. That's what works for us.

In my parents' home, my mother did the bin because she was a SAHM and did very nearly everything around the house while my father earned the money. They were happy with that arrangement. It's no-one else's business, really.

I do ours (quite a walk too as they go at the end of a lane). I don't work. My husband does. So this, and lots of other things, have become my job because it's fair. 😊

I'm old enough to remember when the bin men did it. Came into the yard, hoisted metal bins onto their back, (sometimes two at a time!) and brought them back into the yard afterwards. In those days a man at the garage put the petrol in your car for you too, and you paid through the window without needing to get out of the car. Nostalgic sigh.

Like most others. I am perfectly capable of doing the bins, it's not a blue job per se but is a job that DH does and if I did it, it would one less job he'd do. So yes, i will leave it to him.

Whichever of us remembers, puts the bins out of an evening.

I might move it back in the daytime once empty but my priority is getting my baby out of the car, into the house, not moving a bin.

If any of neighbours judged me for this and moaned about it on an internet forum, I'd find that very odd.

I think I'll tell my husband it's solely his job now as I want to be a Wheelie Bin Princess! (Anyone else reminded of the old politically incorrect joke?)

Somewhat disappointed that this isn’t a thread about decorating your bin to make it look like Cinderella

So my husband has just brought our bin half-way up the driveway and left it there.

What does that make him?

I’ve split up with my husband so I’m my own princess. I will put the bin out but will drive past it and leave it there once it’s empty for varying amounts of time/days. The bin doesn’t complain if I just leave it out. It’s not a dog.

We both put ours out however bringing them in is one of our eldest's chores (he walks straight past them in his way in from school.
The only exception to this is DH or DS put the bottles box out for recycling as it's too heavy for me (I have arthritis) and doesn't have wheels.
Stereotypical jobs are not something we try to have - after all I am disabled and work in construction and DH in healthcare.

I am a wheelie bin princess. In the same way my prince of a husband walks past the laundry basket regardless of if it's full or empty. It's called division of labour. If my hands aren't full, or it's not pissing with rain, I'll take the bin in. But not always.

You need to mind your own.

Jesus why do you care?!
Get on with your life and stop whinging about other people's household chores.

Sorry posted in wrong place - have reported

My fiancé puts the bins out, I have the bins app on my phone which tells me what bin week it is… teamwork.

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!!

I'm not particularly girly, actually not all, a bit of an old battle ax type and with two dogs attached to me most of the time, but I awakes dress up and make a princessy effort for walking past the bins.

Definitely a princess here. DP does the bins, I only did it when she was pregnant.