To think this is bad neighbour etiquette?

[cherryexplos]

So when it’s bin day obviously the bins once emptied are just dumped wherever. Next doors (semi detached) has two bins and both were left blocking my driveway on the pavement.

This was yesterday morning and they still haven’t come and moved them.

They really are petty people.

Because you’re not willing to shift a bin 50cm to avoid it blocking your own path, and are choosing to be dramatic and inconvenience yourself instead.

I leave my out for days 😆

This can't be real? Surely no one gets this worked up about something so daft?

You're being petty. Touch their bin to move it, then wash your hands. Or push it aside with your feet. Don't start a thread about a non issue and be that neighbour.

They may have forgotten or have something else going on?

maybe they are not home? People are allowed to leave their houses for a day or 2

That’s puzzling. Do you think their bin is dirtier than your bin? Do you not have a box of disposable latex gloves in your household cleaning kit? I do. I use them to pick up cat, dog, fox and goose shit, but if I felt washing my hands after touching a bin was insufficient I would use them for bins too.

I am also in a semi. Binmen leave bins all over the place. Whoever is out first out of me and the neighbours (usually me as I get up early) moves the bins onto the correct driveways. It's really not a big deal.

The bin men almost always leave my bin (and very often my neighbours as well) blocking my driveway.
I'm leaving for work before they arrive, and home long after they've gone. I just have to hop out the car and move my bin to its space, and I just move the neighbours bin out of the way. It's not really a big deal.

to me bad neighbour etiquette would be just leaving the bins any old way and not putting them back for someone who may not be home for some reason

Is this for real? If they are in your way you move them. My neighbour and i share a driveway and if their bin is still out when we bring our in we bring theirs in too, that's being a good neighbour. Maybe they're busy, maybe when they left the house that morning the bins hadn't been emptied yet and they haven't returned yet, maybe they haven't had a chance to leave the house yet. You are being petty and you are a bad neighbour.

Just move them. How do you deal with real problems?

Surely your annoyance should be directed at the binmen who see fit to put bins blocking your drive after emptying them?

They didn’t put the bins there.
You have no idea whether they even know that the bins are there.
They are inconvenient to you but you won’t move them because why should you.

its not the neighbours being petty.

They are home.

But yes I think it’s gross and lazy to not move your own bin when it was collected at 8am yesterday morning.

If is the biggest stress you've got in your life, you really need to get out more.

You 'loath' moving a bin? FFS.

Precisely. This has got to be fake. Petty to the extreme.

If neighbour’s bins are blocking my drive (often happens as we’re in the corner of the cul de sac and bin men aren’t the best at considering this) I just move them.

I am home in bed ill. My bin went out Monday night to be collected yesterday am when I was feeling fine. It's out on the pavement in front of my neighbours but not blocking their drive. If I am your neighbour 👋 it may come in tomorrow if I am feeling better by then. Indeed it would be really nice if you could move it the 3 feet onto my driveway if you could. Thanks Anne.

I just put my neighbours back on to their property if I'm out anyway bringing in my own.
It's more that it would be a nightmare for anyone here to replace lost bins and I wouldn't want that for my neighbours. They will return mine and put them out when I'm on holiday

@cherryexplos YABU!

The bin men left the bins there on your driveway! Not your neighbours.

Just move them. I would - and I do if it happens... I even GASP move my neighbours bins off the pavement, onto the side on their driveways, to be neighbourly. (Quite often.) I do it for 3 neighbours sometimes! As well as my own!!!!!!!!!!

I know crazy right?! 😱 I mean they rarely do it for me, so..... hang on, I don't CARE, I still do it for them! 😎

@cherryexplos

It makes me feel sick touching bins tbh. I can do my own but no I’m not doing a task I loathe for someone who’s more than capable of doing it.

How dramatic! 🙄

I have a young baby and have surprised myself at the number of times I've totally forgotten to pull my bin in until the next day if we're having a bit of a bad day and not leaving the house😂 So it definitely can just slip someone's mind! As neighbours, we all pull each other's bins in if they're in the way or seems like someone isn't home. It's normal enough IMO.

Out of interest @cherryexplos do you work? Only ask as my retired mum spends time obsessing over things that really aren’t an issue put it down to having too much time on her hands

If our neighbour's bins are mistakenly left at the end of our drive, we move it to their driveway when we go out to put our bin away. We even put each other's bins out and back up the driveway if either of us is away on holiday.
And guess what I do when I get back in the house after touching the bin? Wash my hands! It's really not that hard.
Maybe your neighbour just forgot the bins have been emptied. Lots of our neighbours leave their bins out all day even though they're emptied by 10.00am and the neighbour's are in the house.

That's not being petty. They clearly didn't notice.

You say you are sickened by touching bins, well no-one enjoys it. But it sounds like a bit of an overreaction.

I leave my bins as I’ve always got my hands full with something, my neighbours shove them in my garden for me. My neighbour is really nice I’m so glad they don’t judge me like you would. Sometimes strangers just chuck my bins in for me.

If a bin was blocking my drive, it was bothering me, and it was particularly disgusting for some reason, I’d pop some gloves on or stick a bag over my hand before pulling it out of the way. What kind of person leaves it until they’re annoyed enough to post on MN, when the solution is so simple? I’m imagining the net curtains twitching as you angrily sip your tea, glaring at the bins while muttering about “those slatterns at 32” under your breath.

You’re being petty - just move the bin, wash your hands afterwards, and stop looking for reasons to take issue with your neighbours.