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Neighbour leaving bins out

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Sadsister224 · 29/12/2024 22:12

I live in a cul de sac where some of the neighbours gardens back on to my close. One neighbour takes forever to take their bins in. It makes the close look so untidy. It doesn't effect them because they dont see it because their house faces the next road. They were collected Friday morning and they're still there. WIBU to ask them to take them in more promptly?

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JRSKSSBH · 30/12/2024 08:33

Liverpool52 · 29/12/2024 22:18

That time of the year. We've had the pissy Facebook posts on our village group telling people the collections are delayed and can't people read the council website.

Well yeah but after your simular tantrum last year some of us now deliberately put our bins out to annoy you.

How does a perfectly normal thing of everyday life such as a wheelie bin make a road look untidy?

Grow up. Deliberately putting your bin out to annoy someone is pathetic.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 30/12/2024 11:38

JRSKSSBH · 30/12/2024 08:33

Grow up. Deliberately putting your bin out to annoy someone is pathetic.

This. ^ 👏

DilemmaDelilah · 30/12/2024 11:49

Our cul de sac is weird in that on one side you drive past everyone's back gardens and parking spaces, and on the other side (my side) we actually have a couple of shared driveways and some trees separating us from the other side. Our house is lovely, most of the houses on our side look nice and have kerb appeal, but you have to drive past the backs of the houses on the other side to get to them and everybody seems to leave their bins outside their back gates, so you're basically driving down an avenue of bins.

This does, I think, reduce the value of our home. When we moved in 12 years ago people kept their bins in their own back gardens, but they are now on full view. I imagine it must be irritating to have to go out of your back gate every time you want to put something in the bin, rather than just wheeling your bin out of your back gate once a fortnight, but maybe not.....

Letstheriveranswer · 30/12/2024 17:12

Flopsy145 · 29/12/2024 23:07

Wheel the bins round to the front of their house 😂 then you can't see them, and they have to make the effort to wheel them back. Repeat as necessary.

This!
Assuming they are out at work, the first time, do it if they are not put back in after 3 days
The next time, 2 days.
The next time, the day after collection. Do it while they are at work. Leave them in their driveway so they have to move them to park their car.

They will soon get fed up of having to wheel them back round and into their back garden, or through their house.

Obviously, if spotted, you are just being neighbourly

Sadsister224 · 30/12/2024 18:16

Still there. 5 days now. I think tonight I'll wheel them round to outside their gate.

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Mum2jenny · 01/01/2025 19:52

Sadsister224 · 30/12/2024 18:16

Still there. 5 days now. I think tonight I'll wheel them round to outside their gate.

I’d just leave them out, they must be due to be collected again shortly

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