Why the need to do this so early?

[Binannoyance]

Wheelie bins. When do you deliver it to the roadside for emptying?

Every bloody weekend one of my neighbours pulls her bins out and bashes them around to straighten them up at least a whole 24 hours before they’re due to be collected.

We’re on a road of mainly working people who are up and out early every day. I have to be up early 6 days a week. Sunday is the only day I don’t have to be up and out early and I’m awoken before 6am to the sound of bin thunder.

She will then keep walking down her drive to put things in the bin all day.

For info, she does it every week, she is semi retired, I haven’t spoken to her about it as she took a dislike to us shortly after we moved in 9 years ago and I don’t want to make anything worse.

It’s not the biggest deal in the world but I’m sitting here grumpy I was woken up when it still had a 5 on the clock! Would I be unreasonable to push her in with her damp grass clippings and shut the lid? (Joking!)

I put mine out the night before, otherwise I risk missing the collection. They seem to rock up whenever they feel like it. Which can be any time between about 5:30 and 9am.
If they've been and gone by the time I leave for work at about 7:30, I'll quickly bring them in again. Otherwise they'll continue to sit out until I get home at 5ish.

Our bins are collected at around 5.30/5.45am. So people put their bins out the night before. Recently this seems to be getting later and later - the last few weeks I have been woken at around 3.30 by noisy bins. Hardly seems worth trying to go back to sleep at that point.....
And then every other week our garden waste bins are collected the day after the ordinary bins, at the same time. So two days in a row of late putting out/early collection.

Glue her bins shut one night.

YANBU.
We put ours out between 7-10pm on Sunday night. The sound of us doing this seems to summon my surrounding neighbours and within half an hour of ours going out all their bins are out too!

My first thought is that it could be a genuine health problem causing memory loss/anxiety and she’s trying to maintain independence/lower anxiety by putting them out in advance.

My second thought is maybe she feels safer putting them out when it’s light rather than last thing at night when she could be attacked in the dark.

Our two opposite neighbours both put their bins out at 10 am Sunday morning and our rubbish is not collected until Monday early afternoon. They put their bins in only area where visitors can park.

It’s a few minutes of noise.

It's a few minutes of entirely unnecessary noise, made deliberately at a time when they know that most people will be trying to sleep.

If somebody has a small child who is woken an hour or two early by the noise of the bins on a weekend day, and then can't/won't go back to sleep, that will have a real negative impact on the parents' whole day - for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

The evening before

Send me her bin, I’ll tip it over the bonnet of the annoying dickhead next door who likes to rev his fucking orange fucking sports car at 6 a-fucking-m

Just have a word with her, let her know it's waking you up and ask if she would mind doing it at a more neighbour-friendly hour. If she's worried she might forget if she doesn't do it first thing, you could offer to take her bin out at the same time as you do yours.

Just have a word with her, let her know it's waking you up

There's no way that she doesn't already know that she will be waking people up. Even the 'straightening up' that she also insists on doing sounds like it's calculated to make maximum noise for maximum disturbance.

I wonder if she's just one of these selfish people with a self-imposed very, very tiny world, who thinks it somehow makes her 'better' than everybody else, just because she arbitrarily gets up very early (and likely has an afternoon nap anyway), and wants everybody to know that. It's amazing how many of these people will choose random routines for themselves and then think that others should be expected to do the same, or otherwise be rightly criticised for their 'failure'.

I imagine she is, and she will also be one of those people who "always" does [insert pointless task designed to irritate other people and make herself feel superior].