Neighbour has an opinion on where I put my bins

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We live in on a very quiet cul de sac. The homes have large front gardens and small drive ways. Almost identical to photo attached (not my street just an illustration of our set up). Houses also have a side yard/paved side garden where people keep their bins.

Well I have decided I will keep my bins in front of my garage at the front. We have a dog who gets let out throughout the day. I have a lot of anxiety around my dog being let out as I am not always convinced the side gate is left shut. It gets opened when it is bin day. Every time I let the dog out I have to check to see if gate is close and when I see someone else letting the dog out I shout at them to check. It’s just unnecessary chaos. Ideally I will just put a padlock on the side gate so teens don’t mess up by leaving it open. We live 3 turns away from a somewhat busy b road.

Anyway, a neighbour has since come around and said please can I put the bins back into the side garden as it is unsightly. Granted I am the only person on the cul de sac with them out. But who cares??

I am not the arsehole, right?

edit: whoops looks like I took out voting somehow

Bloody hell..

It's a bin not a giant cock and balls!

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Our neigbour gets really uptight about the bins. She reminds us everytime they go out to promptly put them back because it's unsightly. Sometimes she takes it upon herself to wheel them through our side gate to get them out of her view. So I padlocked it to stop her doing this and now leave them out the front permanently knowing it eats her up inside. Yes I'm petty af.

Once upon a time hanging the washing out used to cause a lot of frothing.

still does...

People do tend to put it in the back, it's less often an issue.

Goodness, you must have devalued the house prices in the road by 20%.

Do you also leave your grass long and windows peeling?

Because leaving your bin out is a drug gateway for that type of behaviour.

Tell the nosey interfering neighbour to FO! Youll put your bins where you want to on your property. Jesus, whats next, they dont like your car as it brings the neighbourhood down? Id stick a dirty stained mattress out on the front garden along with a sofa just to piss them off 😂

It's ok. You can't see them behind the old sofa and the car on bricks.

I wouldn't complain to you about leaving bins in your front garden but I do think it's unsightly and contributes towards bringing a nice street down. Fair enough if you live somewhere where there is no other option or if you have a disability, but otherwise it is pretty antisocial. Why would you want to.make the place you live look scruffy?

Incidentally, when New York was cleaning up its act, the approach was zero tolerance on things like graffiti and broken windows etc because an area which had these kinds of problems tended to attract other anti social problems too. Having front gardens littered with bins unnecessarily is another first step to adversely affecting the quality of an area in my opinion. And it's not about snobbishness; it's about living in a nice environment and keeping it that way which is .to everyone's advantage.

If you have the option, why not take pride in your house and where you live?

Being untidy (not to mention dismissive of your neighbours) just makes quality of life worse for everyone eventually.

Tell your neighbour you do not answer to him.

I don't know what 'on average' means in this context. But I can think of at least 4 estates in my neighbourhood, in 2 different postcodes, built in the 70's, where there are covenants about bin storage, colours to be used on doors, type of fencing, and so on. The people who buy there are aware of the strictures, and want to buy into a certain uniformity and clean mid-century style.

Never known it, other than houses built in last twenty years 🤷‍♀️

Our cul de sac all built late sixties. There's covenants. No caravans, no keeping chickens are two I can recall.

I agree with your neighbor, to be honest. I actually live in a city with a local ordnance banning garbage cans from being visible from the street. At first I was put out by it, but it's actually really unsightly - there's that word! - when someone leaves them out, especially right in front of your garage doors.

Deal with your anxiety about your dog in a concrete way - locked gate, etc. but don't inflict a crappy view on your neighbors. It may only have been one neighbor who said anything but I bet the others all agree.

I live in a conservation area and the houses that are on the main roads passing through the village have a bunch of conditions about what can be in front of their homes, fence size etc. It's not uncommon.

I agree fence size etc, just not bins. Because not that long ago everyone had just one dustbin.

Yep, that’s not the covenants we are discussing. It’s lived in a 1930s build saying no caravans, nothing about bins.

I never said houses did not have covenants

This thread has been a real education. I had no idea that anyone cared about leaving bins outside the front of the house - where I live, everyone does it, and I can't imagine anyone complaining about it.

It's wild what people can waste their energy worrying about when they've got nothing better to do isn't it (I appreciate the irony of writing this while scrolling mumsnet for updates on a wheelie bin thread).

Well Honey dew has the right to stay annoyed...

My neighbour has started leaving her bins out the front and I hate it. It looks awful. However, it’s her house, her bins and it’s NONE OF MY BUSINESS! So I’m not going to say anything to her. Besides that I only see it when I am out the front and when I am in the house I can’t see it.

Bins look awful on the street. Put the bins in/out while the dog is in the house. My goodness, what a pointless problem!!