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AIBU?

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Neighbours bins in the street.

45 replies

megansmarkle · 06/08/2023 00:41

AIBU to report neighbours bins in the street?

They aren't directly affecting me just make the place look untidy.

One row of houses leave their bins on the path because they are too lazy to bring around the back.

My neighbour leaves them outside her house but it doesn't affect me as such as it's around the corner. I just don't think she should keep them on the pavement,

OP posts:
Hawkins009 · 06/08/2023 00:42

Or the bins happen to disappear somewhere?

Mothership4two · 06/08/2023 00:47

They aren't directly affecting me

YABU

This is a AIBU? thread but you haven't enabled voting OP

HeddaGarbled · 06/08/2023 00:53

The whole row of houses, not just the one neighbour? If that’s the case, I think you’ll just have to accept that that’s where that row of houses keep their bins.

blahblahblah1654 · 06/08/2023 00:54

Find something else to worry about.

megansmarkle · 06/08/2023 00:56

Mothership4two · 06/08/2023 00:47

They aren't directly affecting me

YABU

This is a AIBU? thread but you haven't enabled voting OP

I'm on my phone

OP posts:
Mothership4two · 06/08/2023 01:03

OK

stevalnamechanger · 06/08/2023 01:08

Have them mysteriously removed . There's a great service that do things like this in London ... TipTapp for waste disposal 🤣🤣

Kind of joking 🙃

Yfory · 06/08/2023 01:23

If you report them (to the council?) do you seriously, genuinely imagine they will send someone round to tell your neighbours off and advise them to do better? Slapped wrist maybe?
I think it more likely you'll cause great laughter in the council offices that day.

Sorry op I know its annoying but tough. Move somewhere else maybe. I live on a terraced street. Half of us take our bins round the back. Half dont. It is what it is.

Underminer · 06/08/2023 01:39

My neighbours kept their bins outside the front all the time, which didn’t bother me, but they took them in when passers by started to use their bin as a dog poo and take away rubbish bin.

UncertainSmiler · 06/08/2023 02:20

Why don’t you have a strong word with them at one of your candlelight suppers?

Someoneonlyyouknow · 06/08/2023 02:26

Who would you report it to? Maybe you could just put them back in the correct place

megansmarkle · 06/08/2023 02:34

Yfory · 06/08/2023 01:23

If you report them (to the council?) do you seriously, genuinely imagine they will send someone round to tell your neighbours off and advise them to do better? Slapped wrist maybe?
I think it more likely you'll cause great laughter in the council offices that day.

Sorry op I know its annoying but tough. Move somewhere else maybe. I live on a terraced street. Half of us take our bins round the back. Half dont. It is what it is.

They actually do.....

OP posts:
megansmarkle · 06/08/2023 02:35

Someoneonlyyouknow · 06/08/2023 02:26

Who would you report it to? Maybe you could just put them back in the correct place

The council. They send people out.

OP posts:
BlastedIce · 06/08/2023 02:44

megansmarkle · 06/08/2023 02:35

The council. They send people out.

Do they wheelie?

JudgeRudy · 06/08/2023 02:48

The local council can call out and they can send targeted letters however they have no authority to act if residents dont comply - at least that's what my local council said.

Anetra · 06/08/2023 02:50

It’s not compulsory

Thefamilywaster · 06/08/2023 02:50

BlastedIce · 06/08/2023 02:44

Do they wheelie?

You win! 😂😂😂

Anetra · 06/08/2023 02:51

Mothership4two · 06/08/2023 00:47

They aren't directly affecting me

YABU

This is a AIBU? thread but you haven't enabled voting OP

Meant to quote you.

It’s not compulsory to enable voting in AIBU

Hollyppp · 06/08/2023 02:52

We keep ours out - they have nowhere to go!

PyongyangKipperbang · 06/08/2023 03:05

If you are up at this hour posting about this, I suspect that there is something else bothering you that you dont want to think about.

Why are you focussing so hard on something that you freely admit doesnt directly affect you, to the point of being "that" person who calls the council to complain that they make the street look untidy?

Mothership4two · 06/08/2023 04:30

@Anetra

It’s not compulsory to enable voting in AIBU

Didn't say it was, I was just asking the question but, actually, it make would make sense but OP cant

vodkaredbullgirl · 06/08/2023 04:33

BlastedIce · 06/08/2023 02:44

Do they wheelie?

Brilliant 😊

Yfory · 06/08/2023 12:19

Megansmarkle
Insufficient money for potholes, drain clearing and all manner of other essential council services in most council areas atm but apparently in your area they have enough money to employ someone to nag people to put their bins away neatly.

Interesting priorities.

tictactoe1234 · 06/08/2023 12:32

Sneak out under the cover of darkness and put your rubbish in them

PieterBrueghelTheBanger · 06/08/2023 12:33

My Council can go fuck themselves. I have the 'assisted collection' service for disabled residents and they either miss picking up my bins from the forecourt - despite being clearly visible and marked with Council's own special yellow stickers - or, on the rare occasions they are collected, they're put back blocking my doorway so I can't get out of the house, rather than where they were picked up from.

So they live on the pavement now. I keep them placed as neatly and out of the way as possible, and there's room for people, prams and mobility scooters to pass by.