To pick up rubbish outside my house?

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I'm genuinely confused here re whether I'm crazy.
So, if there's rubbish from someone else's recycling or just random wrappers in my front garden/on the drive then I'll pick them up and put them in the wheelie bin.
Was at the in-laws on Saturday and as I was going into their house I noticed a dominos pizza leaflet on their front pavement. I picked it up and when they opened the door I said "this was blowing outside" and went to hand it to them.
They responded with "well it's not ours. We don't want it" and just stared at me holding it. I said "well shall I pop it in the bin?"
They replied "no. It's not ours" and told me to put it back where I found it.
I felt uncomfortable throwing litter back onto the floor (especially in front of my children) so I ended up putting it in the car and disposed of it when I got home.
Please tell me I'm not going crazy, and that normal people put other peoples rubbish in their own bin rather than let it blow down the street?!

YANBU

Definitely YANBU

It's just been playing on my mind. Like that genuinely looked surprised I had picked up someone else's rubbish? And as if it was dirty to want to put it in their bin.
I felt so skanky!

Totally normal. I always pick up litter if I see it in my village too, not just on my driveway!

I pick up litter on my daiIy dog walk. I bring an extra big dog poo bag and bung in cans, sweet wrappers plastic bottles and then bin it.

How weird are they. However YABU in that you should have just put it in their bin and not tried to hand it to them. I also wouldn't have asked them what to do with it and just put it in their bin regardless of what they said

Where litter lies, beauty dies.

They were being weird. I would have put it in their bin anyway.

I get a lot of litter blowing into my back garden from the railway station I back on to. If I didn’t bin it my garden would look dreadful.

What an odd attitude. They live there, why would they want to live in a street littered with rubbish?

I would have just put it in the bin though, I wouldn’t have expected them to want street rubbish taking into their house but I accept I’m a bit odd that way.

I do the same as you op and don't understand why some people don't want strangers' rubbish in a receptacle designed specially for rubbish.

YANBU we walk round the village with litter pockets every now and again. We collect bags of plastic and dispose of it in our bins.

Yanbu. I litter pick my estate. It goes in the public litter bin though.

You're not being weird. You did the right thing.

I don't understand why more people don't pick up litter to make their area look more pleasant (or don't drop it in the first place).

I've recently started going out with a litter picker and a bin bag and collect rubbish from nearby roads.

I've noticed bits of rubbish - like beer cans or pizza boxes - that have been on the pavement outside someone's house for days. It's odd that they step over rubbish each day rather than pick it up and put it in a bin.

Some people look at me like I'm mad. One person said to me: "That's the council's job." Another said: "You're doing someone out of a job." To me, that is a strange attitude. Plus, the council don't sweep the streets very often round here, so rubbish accumulates quite quickly.

I've got used to the occasional funny looks and comments and just ignore what other people think.

I think the trying to hand it to them was a bit strange... Why not just pop it in the bin yourself?

They may have got a bit defensive as the might have mistakenly taken it as an accusation that they dropped it, or are messy, so it got their backs up?

I understand why you picked it up, but if somebody picked rubbish off the street and then tried to hand it to me, then i would probably say no as well...

@RallySooney

Where litter lies, beauty dies.

Love this!

YANBU OP. They sound defeatist and miserable

When I go for a walk on the beach I often spend more time picking up litter than not. People who shrug it off and think it's someone else's problem are almost as much the problem as the mingers who litter

Why didn’t you just put it straight into their bin instead of pointedly handing it to them?

Perhaps the bin wasn't in front of the house. It's a minor point.

YADNBU OP.

Yanbu. I have to sweep the street outside my house after the bin men come as it just gets strewn with rubbish from split bags and looks gross!

I went out last year (when no one was about) and sprayed algon on a 3 point sign post nearby that was covered in green algae.
It worked a treat.
Council does b all nowadays and it looked so scruffy.

They're probably the type to leave their picnic rubbish behind. Wierdos!

I do the same too almost every day when I pass any near the house. I have picked up all sorts from masks to plastic gloves, alcohol bottles, a dumped death signs -MAMA in massive plastic, 6 enormous amazon freezer containers and much much else. People are terrible litter bugs. I am not quite at the point of wanting to change the law so your hand is chopped off if you drop any but it does annoy me.

Not unreasonable- I love a litter pick on the beach.

Everywhere would be better if everyone picked up their litter, like Japan

YANBU

I used to do regular litter picks in the woods over the road from where we used to live and people used to criticise me for it, but I didn't want to look out of the window and see litter, it looks horrible.

We all live in this world and have a collective responsibility to keep it looking at least half way decent and if that involves picking up litter then so be it.