Buyers want wheelie bins included.. after discount

[Sellthishousetorhosecunts]

Our lovely FTB 🙄have requested wheelie bins be included after generous discount… many unreasonable requests met!

AIBU to leave dead nan ashes under the floorboards & take the wheel bins as a summer plunge pool for the kids 🫣

Taking lightbulbs is pathetically petty.

As for nan's ashes, no one would care, why would they? There's already lots of debris, dust etc under floorboards.

Discount/negotiation is entirely normal and you're being very unreasonable to get wound up about it. You either agree or you don't and then you move on.

I'd also caution against annoying your buyer. You don't know when you may need a favour from them, i.e. if post or a parcel gets delivered there, you need an element of goodwill for them to hold onto to it and let you collect. If we bought a house with an unhinged and stroppy seller like the OP who took all the lightbulbs, I'd be immediately shredding all post that came for them and putting parcels in the bin!

Id only take my wheelie bin if i had bought a nice new one and it was nice and clean or I was on a budget myself. Otherwise, If they were old and manky, I think Id like a nice new bin for my new property. If you want your wheelie bins for the above reasons then say no. But I wouldnt do it out of spite, its not worth bringing spite into it, just think logically if you want those particular bins or not.

We have to pay for our garden waste bins every year - it's not a fee for the bin, it's a fee for them to be emptied.

The previous resident left his garden bin anyway. As would I. Can't believe anyone would take a wheelie bin with them.

Taking a Wheelie bin when you move?? That's crazy.
I thought they belonged to the local council anyway - not the householder.

Taking lightbulbs is really spiteful and an arsehole move.
When my friend moved into his first property, the lovely selling householder left them a lovely note to say she hoped they'd be really happy there.

That reflected far better oil the seller than some spiteful person being petty about bins and lightbulbs.

As to the Grandmother's ashes, that's just disrespectful to the Grandmother.

I'm struggling to believe this is real

This. I can't believe people take their wheelie bins when they move.

MN never stops surprising me.

@Sellthishousetorhosecunts stick to your guns! I think this is an MN thing, like the mumsnet infinite roast chicken, where councils have a ring fenced wheelie bin budget and every household has at least 3.

I live in a London Borough previously mentioned in the thread and they don't give anything away for free. When I move I'll be taking my wheelie bin with me. I don't care how dirty or stinky it is, I'll clean it, that bin cost me £50!!

This has got to be a joke - nobody could be so pathetic to take the wheelie bins with. Actually when you consider taking light bulbs toilet seats etc it isn’t just pathetic - it is actually nasty

What if your Nan likes them though and doesn’t haunt them properly?

She may turn into a helpful poltergeist who moves their bins out in the night before bin day, then moves them back again?

What?? There are places where the council don't provide bins? What the hell?! Are they big Tory areas or something?

Where we live, you have to buy them! And they're on such a backorder, it takes ages to get them sorted! How do I know? We just moved house into this new area and the seller took the bins with her! Fair enough. But it was six weeks before we got our own bins. And the council, idiots, kept telling us to just put rubbish outside in bags and they'd get collected. On more than one occasion, they didn't! As the bin men refused to take them due to "health and safety". And this is a council that's declared itself bankrupt!

Maybe she'll end up preferring to live with them than with you because you dissed her ashes 😆

We pay annually for our brown, garden rubbish bins so people do tend to take them as they would have to pay again for a new one though I suppose it depends on the time of year, if the renewal is due then it's pointless.

Oh at least we don't have to first buy it and we pay about £60 a year which I thought was excessive, I feel less so now!

I bet they want you to leave the tiles on roof too!

I'm reading the thread and I'm beyond surprised, I'm flabbergasted 😳I

I've bought properties in Spain and Australia and when you make the contract for sale, some items included are non-negotiable. Wheelie bins, light fixtures, toilet seats ...even curtains and dishwashers are essential items in Australia. Once you sign the contract for sale, you'd be liable for anything you take under the contract you signed.

Wheelie bins are free from the local council. If one bin is missing, you contact the council and will be delivered within 2-3 days.

I should stay out from these threads, it's obvious different countries work in different ways.

I don't think wheelie bins are your own personal property anyway.

They are 'loaned/given' to each residence from the borough council in order to put each home's household waste in.

Your new residence will have wheelie bins. You don't need to take your old ones, especially if you're moving to a different borough council.....they may have different colours!!

Ok, on the vanishingly low chance the OP is serious…

You do not own your wheelie bins. Your council owns them.

You paid a fee to your council to have them. But they remain the property of the council (check your local council’s website, they will make that point in the small print). The charge to the householder is to cover the cost of supplying a bin for your use, but it isn’t your possession.

(This has been true for every council in England I’ve dealt with, I can’t speak for devolved regions.)

Were you to buy a wheelie bin privately, the council doesn’t have to empty it.

@Sellthishousetorhosecunts , if you want to disrespect your grandmother by tipping her remains under the floor like trash, go ahead. Be as petty, spiteful and nasty as you feel able. It tarnishes no one but you.

I hope you realise just how petty you sound @Sellthishousetorhosecunts (but then your username reflects your attitude)

The collection of brown bin waste is attributed to an address that pays for it annually. At least in North Wales it is.
(Nephew is a bin man, he loves brown bin days as they are easier)

OP you sound like you absolutely hate your buyers. Username calling them cunts for a start! Why so angry? Surely you can not be this hateful over a wheelie bin?

The bins won't really be empty on the day. There's always something to throw away!

But that's only just happened. Until a couple of months ago you had to provide your own bin, and most people (in my part of Cornwall anyway) didn't have wheelie bins. In fact, most didn't use any bin. Just stuck bags outside on bin day with sheets over the top to stop the seagulls getting them.

So if this person was selling their house 2 months ago in Cornwall, the council would have had naff all to do with what bin she had.

That's not true, we had to buy ours!