Neighbour never brings bin in!

[Strawberryfields1756]

This is probably really petty, but for some reason it infuriates me! We have a shared drive, both place bins at the end of the driveway. The binmen always leave both the bins on my side, right infront of my car so I always have to move the bins out of the way to get on / off the drive. The problem is the neighbour never moves their bin after collection, so it’s always left for me to do. Neighbour lives alone, works from home so home all day (also drunk drove and smashed into our parked car previously, but that’s another story). Today I had a visitor who moved my bin back for me, but didn’t put the neighbours bin back. It is still there now, nicely positioned right infront of my car! They’ve been home all day. I’m seeing how long it takes to be moved 😂😂 sad I know. Will probably end up moving it to be able to drive tomorrow. I’ve got 2 children and am pregnant so getting wound up with having to be the one to do it every week

Have you asked then if they could do it?
I would be tempted to run over it 😀

On days when I wfh, I wouldn't notice where the bin was left.
Presumably by the time they go out somewhere, you've moved it.

I really can't see why this is an issue.
People move their bin when they pass it / go out and it is in the way.

Ohhh no, I’ve seen them come and go before and just leave it there!

We would be the neighbours in this circumstance and I thought it was my neighbour posting till I read on!

So our excuse is we do try to get to the bins but when off DH sleeps in (i always work bin collection day) and then the neighbour gets to them before he can (prob because like you they are left in front of his car). This week we are away and so won't be there to get them back in either. Maybe have a word with them about it? I honestly don't think it's something worth falling out over.

Just move it enough so you can get your car out and leave it there.

Just keep the bin yourself, they won't notice 😂 my neighbour annoys me by taking in their bin very late at night, around 11ish. Drags it up 15 stairs, a long paved path, round the side of her house, banging into her house and rattles it down! Yep shes in all day too, doing fuck all apart from smoking several fags and watching TV while sitting on her wi dow ledge!

Go and talk to them (nicely though, yes?)

It's not petty. 50% of my street areable bodied idiots who never bring their bins in. They look awful and get in the way.
I've moaned about it to the council and refuse collection management, but despite the "rules" saying bins shouldn't be left out they've said they can't do a thing about it.

Seriously considering going rogue the day I finally move from here and drag them all up the street so they have to hunt for them.

Move it if you need to get your car out, but move it the wrong way. If his house is on the left, move it to the right.

I don’t know if they definitely do work from home, but constantly hear a loud phone ringing so kind of just assumed they do? they never answer the door (even to deliveries who always then knock on our door and ask if we can take their parcels in as the neighbour has written that on the preferred delivery method 😂 - we’ve stopped accepting these though as id end up having giant heavy boxes in my hallway for days) Also has dogs who I never see getting walked, aswell as having the lovely smell of dog shit radiating through the fence due to their garden being absolutely covered in it. So I suppose the bin situation is just the cherry on top

Is it the case that it only blocks your car because your car is the only one on the drive?

No it is a shared driveway where the cars park side by side, infront of our own garages

I think I will start doing this

So the bin men aren't ever putting it in front of the other car? That is unfortunate.

I'd also be tempted to just push the bin along so the neighbours' bin is in front of the neighbours' car.

Nope not even once have they done this! I’d never actually thought about that, maybe the binmen have it in for me 🤣

I sometimes leave my bins out for a day or 2. I never realised people were so uptight about it.

Do you leave it infront of other people’s cars for a day or 2? or just blocking the pavement making things difficult for wheelchair users / those with prams? I guess it’s easy not to get uptight about things that don’t affect you personally

Some people on my road never bring them in. We have small front gardens but there’s no front fence, they’re all just open spaces and the wind does pick up a bit because of no fences or hedges. I’d be a bit paranoid about someone kicking it over late at night!

My NDN is like this...she even walks around the bin to avoid moving it when another neighbour kindly places it at the bottom of her steps....if she leaves her property she will walk around it to open her gate and walk past!!!🙄🤣

We don't get how she cannot just bump it up the six steps herself. It's hardly taxing🤷‍♀️

She's not elderly or physically disabled. ..

Fine to see it doesn't affect you personally but surely it's nice to think of others occasionally?

Mine doesn't. She walks around it. Wheelie bin phobia.

Why wouldn’t you just move it onto the neighbours side of the driveway to get your car out? If you’ve got to bring your own bin in, I can’t see it taking more than ten second to just shift theirs sideways by a few feet. I couldn’t get worked up over this at all.

My neighbour sometimes used to leave her bin out and its sometimes in front of my car. I just waited for the times it had been emptied (I dont want to damage my car) and drove straight out pushing it over and into the middle of the road.

After a couple of instances where she had to scuttle out to go and collect it, it doesnt happen anymore.

I’m currently having this issue. I’ve been off work for the past 2 months. Out of being kind I’ve brought everyone’s bins in. 1st house brings them off the pavement and then someone brings them through the gardens. I’m house number 3, so it’s easier to bring them all through. All houses take their own bins out the night before. Note; we have shared access path going through our back gardens and I’ve only lived in the house for a few months.

I’ve got an older lady one side - she has carers and lots of family/friends/fellow church people coming in and out all day - doing jobs around her house etc.

The other side, a young couple who work from home. Have a dog and they use the back garden when going to and from the property throughout the day. Dog is always in the garden.

I’ve returned to work today, bins are waiting in house number 1’s path!

I went to bring in just my own, but my conscience wouldn’t take it! 🙈

I’ve come to think that my ‘kindness’ has now become an expectation!