Page 4 | Neighbours bins. Am I being petty?

SpottyPantsNextDoor · 2022-04-12T20:54:45+00:00

I’m not in the best of moods tonight so am I being a bit ridiculous MN?… My neighbour has a slightly narrower driveway than mine and on rubbish day he always puts his bins in front of my bushes - see diagram below. He can’t really put them on the pavement on the right hand side of his drive as there is a lamppost (marked by yellow L) and the bins would block the pavement. However there would be space to put them on the left (red question mark) and still get a car in and out of the drive but instead they’re always in front of our drive. It’s never really bothered me before but I’ve started to realise he does this every week now. It’s not just the bins being there but the bin men consistently leave bins directly in front of our driveway so I can’t get the car in and when I get home I have not just our own but the neighbours bins in the way. Am I being a bit petty?

jcyclops · 13/04/2022 17:23

Where I live, most neighbours are more reasonable with each other and with the refuse collectors. The bin lorry takes two bins at a time, so residents tend to put the bins at the kerbside in twos, not one every 10 yards in front of their own house. After collection the first neighbour to collect their bin will also wheel it's pair onto the neighbour's property.

JuneOsborne · 13/04/2022 17:25

Can I just say that your diagram is epic. I can feel the anger just from looking at it.

10/10

BitOutOfPractice · 13/04/2022 18:41

I’ve had two posts deleted off this thread because they refer to withdrawn posts. Those posts were withdrawn at the posters request. How is it fair that they’ve been allowed to get my lists withdrawn as well

BitOutOfPractice · 13/04/2022 18:42

*posts

LieNoMore · 13/04/2022 19:18

We have this same set up both neighbours leave their bins in front of my property and not their own, despite having a lot more pavement space. why? I’ve no idea!

Bin men always leave bins blocking my drive, but tbh one side if they see bins will move them and bring mine in for me so don’t mind, but the other side will leave them all day so I move hers to block her drive instead.

SwedishEdith · 13/04/2022 19:28

I love the "Us" and "Them" diagram [grins]

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SpottyPantsNextDoor · 13/04/2022 21:49

HELLITHURT

I leave the house several times a day, especially on rubbish day. Every time I leave the house on rubbish day.

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SpottyPantsNextDoor · 13/04/2022 21:52

BitOutOfPractice

I noticed this. Why on Earth would someone post on a rubbish thread then ask for it to be deleted - what on Earth did they write??

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SpottyPantsNextDoor · 13/04/2022 21:58

LieNoMore
I don’t think I’d mind it that much if he moved his bins back promptly but isn’t able to because he’s out at work…however this means I inevitably end up putting them back for him as they’re in front of my driveway. I’ve notice when we’re out all day, the favour is never returned. Mine are always still out. If it went both ways I doubt I’d be all that bothered about dealing with his bins.

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BitOutOfPractice · 13/04/2022 22:51

@SpottyPantsNextDoor they had said they’d forced the council to make the bin men come all the way back to her house to move the bins off her drive. I said that was embarrassing. She’s had her own posts removed and mn have removed mine because I’m answering her. That doesn’t seem fair.

Ikeptgoing · 14/04/2022 09:15

@SpottyPantsNextDoor

Just to update. I left my bin in the right where he usually leaves his. His normal rubbish bin is now where the red mark is. However the bin men have left his recycling bin in front of my bushes but not blocking the driveway at least 🙂

Amazed I’ve had so many messages of support, I was fully expecting to be flamed for being so petty. It’s just annoying to have to deal with a sea of bins every time we leave the house.

That's a result @SpottyPantsNextDoor

It sounds like that's your way forward. Just put your bins where he used to put his, so that his now go in front of his property and bin men are more likely to leave his empty bins near his property and not all of them in middle of your driveway entrance with all your empty bins too.

I'd leave his empty recycle bin - if it's not blocking your driveway- (if it like our area, it will disappear soon enough as someone else's ' second bin' ) - or you could move it to edge of his drive

carefullycourageous · 14/04/2022 09:20

Yeah, you are being very petty IMO. I couldn't be bothered to even give this a second thought, personally.

JemimaTiggywinkle · 14/04/2022 09:23

Excellent result. Are you going to keep putting your bins to the right?

Ikeptgoing · 14/04/2022 09:28

@BitOutOfPractice
It doesn't seem fair

It doesn't does it? but it sounds like that PP was getting flack for her posts so s/he asked HQ for them to be removed and in doing so, as you quoted or talked about them, HQ removed yours too. Hopefully PP will understand you did nothing wrong to have had your posts removed.

Sometimes threads get derailed so it's good everyone is back on topic of whether this neighbour is a bin-baddie or not - as it sounds partly NDN should put his bins outside his own property not neighbours but also how binmen are returning empty bins which is causing a nuisance blocking OPs drive with two household worth of bins.

At least OP seems to have got it mostly resolved now

And we got a most excellent bonus NDN bin-baddie story from HunterHearstHelmsley

caringcarer · 14/04/2022 11:01

Nothing I could get worked up over. The bin men are busy and not your neighbours fault bin men leave bins in front of your drive. I would let it go. Not worth falling out with neighbours over.

kimfox · 14/04/2022 11:15

Idk why your neighbour can't put his bins outside his own property on the red question mark - I would just put my bins where he's putting his bins (ie outside your house) and see what he does then!

I do find it annoying when the bin men don't put bins back where they found them as I constantly have to get out of the car and move our bin out of the drive when I get home so so can park. I'm never going to complain about it though as it's not the biggest deal in the universe!

Ikeptgoing · 14/04/2022 11:29

@SpottyPantsNextDoor

LieNoMore I don’t think I’d mind it that much if he moved his bins back promptly but isn’t able to because he’s out at work…however this means I inevitably end up putting them back for him as they’re in front of my driveway. I’ve notice when we’re out all day, the favour is never returned. Mine are always still out. If it went both ways I doubt I’d be all that bothered about dealing with his bins.

I also think this is where you have made an ongoing mistake as he didn't appreciate it nor start putting his bins outside his own house . If you do move his bin from blocking your driveway, put it 3 m to right to block his driveway. As that may encourage him to be more neighbourly

Let him get out of his car to move his bins so he can drive in to park and put them back himself where he keeps his bins usually.

None of that will change binmen a behaviour which is a nuisance but you'll have less far to go & also if you continue putting your bins outside your property on RHS where he has been using that space it's too much effort for him to walk his bins round yours to the other side of your drive so hopefully he'll continue putting his bin outside his own house.

WhenDovesFly · 14/04/2022 11:37

@SpottyPantsNextDoor

FairyCakeWings That’s very true. They’ve been leaving in the middle for years…surely not leaving bins directly in front of driveways is part of basic training?!

You would think it's common sense but it's not, apparently. I used to live on a very busy main road and the driveway had just enough room to get a car on (rest was wall and garden). I purposely left my bins on the pavement, tucked against the wall, but the bin people would leave them in front of the driveway. Everytime! Such a fecking nuisance when you came home by car and couldn't drive straight in off the main road. I'd have to pull in across the pavement (blocking it all), get out and move the bins up the driveway, get back in the car and finish my manoeuvre.

HELLITHURT · 14/04/2022 20:52

You would think it's common sense but it's not, apparently. I used to live on a very busy main road and the driveway had just enough room to get a car on (rest was wall and garden). I purposely left my bins on the pavement, tucked against the wall, but the bin people would leave them in front of the driveway. Everytime! Such a fecking nuisance when you came home by car and couldn't drive straight in off the main road. I'd have to pull in across the pavement (blocking it all), get out and move the bins up the driveway, get back in the car and finish my manoeuvre.

Must've been awful and taken you hours 🙄

Seemssounfair · 14/04/2022 21:02

Its annoying the bin men block your drive, but it is absolutely nothing to do with your neighbour.

Phone the council if you want to complain, but really, life is too short to get wound up about such a small thing. Do you have other stresses that you are redirecting your frustration to these bins? If you fix the bin problem the other problems will still be there, so work on them instead.

carefullycourageous · 14/04/2022 21:47

I think people are moaning unnecessarily here. Refuse collectors are working bloody hard, it is a hard physical job and they have to keep to time, and they clear up all the shit you throw away.

They are not your personal hired help, and I don't want my council tax going up because some lazy fuckers CBA to take two mins to move their own bins!

Ikeptgoing · 15/04/2022 17:51

I don't want my council tax going up because some lazy fuckers CBA to take two mins to move their own bins!

Jeez talk about PPs replying to something not said by OP!!!

I don't want my council tax going up because some lazy fuckers CBA to take two mins to move their own bins!

She's not complaining about "CBA to move her own bins" OP is fed up of both her NDN and her bins being left in middle of her driveway as NDN puts his bins outside her house too. (In our area we have 3 bins that go out each household each week so that's 6 bins every week!!

And OP is not complaining to binmen, she's only asked if SIBU to be fed up of it.

How lazy CBA are some PPs who can't even be bothered to RTFT or at least OPs posts?!

Anotherselfemployedcleaner · 15/04/2022 21:25

@carefullycourageous

It’s not a case of being ‘lazy fuckers’ - I wouldn’t be happy with my bin men purposely leaving my bins in the middle of my drive when there’s obvious clear space each side. How does that impact their time?

carefullycourageous · 16/04/2022 07:37

[quote Anotherselfemployedcleaner]@carefullycourageous

It’s not a case of being ‘lazy fuckers’ - I wouldn’t be happy with my bin men purposely leaving my bins in the middle of my drive when there’s obvious clear space each side. How does that impact their time?[/quote]
It takes longer to do things carefully, it always does. They are moving from bin to bin as quick as they can.

If it doesn't take any time to put the bin in the right place why are people moaning about the time it takes them to do it

I think people just sound very entitled, they take all your rubbish away. Get over yourselves. Maybe pay a domestic help to pop round and move it for you if you are too busy to move it yourself? No one is so busy that they do not have time to move their bin back, they just think they are.

Honestly I'm just glad it gets taken. In my area they also come back and sweep up broken glass etc. They prioritise the public health aspects rather than my personal convenience, quite rightly.

Every week I move my bins back to the right place. And I am fine with that.

DisforDarkChocolate · 16/04/2022 07:41

The thing is it's the bin men blocking your drive, not your neighbour.