WIBU - Neighbour and Bins

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DH and I live on a lane with house set back from the driveway. We have 4 bins and most of the time we pull them in down our driveway and to the back of our house. Very occasionally, perhaps once a month, we forget to bring the bins back in the same day they are put out. This especially happens with the recycling/garden bins as we don’t use them as often (we have 2 for recycling and usually only 1 is full).

Important to note they always stay on our land/driveway space and don’t block road or pavement access for anyone!

Neighbour opposite has been round to complain that it’s unsightly when we leave the bins out. Her only complaint is that it spoils her view it’s not an access issue. She’s asked if we can make sure they’re moved the day they are put out. Apparently she had this ‘agreement’ with the last owners (we’ve lived here 3 years).

Neighbour is retired, spends a lot of the day gardening etc, DH and I work full time, are doing house renovations and I’m very pregnant. We don’t always have the headspace to think about the bins!

WIBU?

I can suggest a couple of good TV shows or books to entertain your eyes instead of watching your neighbours bin?

My next door neighbour can leave their bin out for 4 days. Doesn't bother me. Think they wait for the cleaner to do it.
Your neighbour reminds me of when out for lunch with friends and we were joined by someone who told us about her one of her sister's neighbours who apparently is a bit anal.

Another neighbour was getting work done at the back of their house so had to keep their bins out the front. This neighbour came to her door and asked for her not to keep her bins out the front as we don't do that on this development.
I would have had great pleasure in saying that actually it was so much handier to have them out the front so we were going to keep them there from now on. I can be petty sometimes.

The TV is in the corner by the window I can see the bin out of the corner of my eye it's quite distracting

Edited to add only wish there was something to watch on the TV it's all rubbish just like the bin

What does the bin do? Tricks? I want a distracting bin

Have you got curtains? Blinds? Another room to sit in, if you really can't help yourself

A bin is distracting? We keep ours at the front as otherwise they have to go up and down steps which is not easy when they are full. They are on our land, and that's where they are staying.

It's entirely up to y you where in your property, front, back, hidden or on show you curse to keep your bins * assuming they're is no strange cover mnant on your property governing this). Whilst it might be preferable for your neighbour to see your bins she didn't have a day, presumably in the she way she had no way over what colour you paint your front door or which colour roses you do or don't plant. Whilst its always good to be consuderate when you can, its not fair for her to dictate what you do in your own home and try and impress her preferences on you. Politely explain that you will oblige if and when it suits but now you are the owner of the property things will likely be different from in the past and hope she understand this.

I moved into a place with a neighbour like this, there was actually no point in trying to accomodate her requests as they became increasing more demanding and extensive and she wanted to run so many aspects of our lives. She was a bored busy body who couldnt stop and drove us mad; she got so excessive she ended up with a restraining order.. Needless to say it didn't stop at bins. Point is you need to feel free to live the way you want in your home, not live according to another person's rules, you don't know where they could end.

Id point out you pregnant and waiting on dh but if neighbour could help with the bins you be very grateful. The last few weeks of my pregnancy and the first few months after birth my retired neighbour caught her trying to drag the bins where their stored around the back of our Terrace house and around the the front to be collected...it was winter and no lights so I had to do it during day light hence dh couldn't help..he ordered that I stop and he do it ...I've done his since as he got older ...ask the neighbour to help if it bothers her so much..

Oh god the vipers are out again today.

I want to move anyway but the situation with the neighbour is making me want to move more - happy all of you

Id point out you pregnant and waiting on dh but if neighbour could help with the bins you be very grateful. The last few weeks of my pregnancy and the first few months after birth my retired neighbour caught her trying to drag the bins where their stored around the back of our Terrace house and around the the front to be collected...it was winter and no lights so I had to do it during day light hence dh couldn't help..he ordered that I stop and he do it ...I've done his since as he got older ...ask the neighbour to help if it bothers her so much..

Vipers?? 😄

Me too!

I would say "oh, we forgot about them. You're more than welcome to move them for us if we forget."

As stated we leave them on our land not a public space, the driveway is quite long and uphill which is why I don’t always pull them back in now that I’m very pregnant. DH sometimes doesn’t get back from work until 8 or 9pm by which time I’m guessing he’s not that interested in walking back down to pull them in! We do have a nice bin store it’s just next to our house.

Haha some of these bin posts remind me of when our grumpy git neighbour complained about us having a workman's van parked outside our house. He didn't like having to look at it all day every day 🙄

I had a neighbour like this. She really did my head in, so instead of having the bins around the back I started keeping them in the front garden. She was seething. It made me laugh.

People like this have too much time on their hands.

Assure her that she won’t have to see them in future as they will be behind the disused sofa you intend to store in your front garden from now onwards.

The stupid thing is we’ve made loads of improvements to the front of the house - new fencing, landscaped the front garden, new windows and fascias. It’s bizarre that she’s fixated on this. We’ve had barely any contact with her until this!

I have to look at this bin from my lounge from 15:00 ish

I think this is where you invited negative feedback @Purplebunnie.

I rolled my eyes when I read it but wasn't going to comment, but now you're calling people "vipers" I thought I'd stick my neck out and say you sound like Mrs Bucket.

Bins are on their own land.

I just didn't expect the negativity I got I just pointed out something that I don't find pleasant

I've not been enjoying MN lately perhaps I need a holiday from it

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Love it

Everyone, including me, in our area keeps their bins at the front of their property in full public view.

Tell her she’s welcome to take your bin down your driveway once it’s emptied so she doesn’t have to look at it?

I would point out to her that the bins are on your land and it's actually f all to do with her where you choose to keep them! If she doesn't want to see them, she can just not look at them 😂

Think it's fine to occasionally forget to put the bin away. As long as it's on your drive, as you say, it's okay. Neighbour is obviously a bit anal about it.