To think this is bad neighbour etiquette?

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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.

We are in a terrace of 6 houses, we put each others bins out, and bring them in whenever needed. If anyone is away we put it in the group chat, or if someone is ill or with a broken foot (me). Sometimes they are out for longer if the wee man who cleans them is late. All good here.

So would you move their bins if necesssary?

I would just move their bins to their house. You are the real problem. We share moving bins with our neighbours: first person arriving back and has time and appropriate clothing, moves all the bins (3 each most weeks 4 each occasionally)! If you cannot get on with all/most of your neighbours what are you going to do when you need them? Make no mistake that time will come.

So what? The bin isn't bothering them but it is botherng you but you are refusing to move it even thoug it's blocking your driveway. I would call you the petty one, not your neighbours.

I bring my own and my neighbour's bin back onto our own driveways. She leaves for work before the bin men come and it's no trouble for me just to bring her bin in as well. It takes less me than a minute.

when my kids were tiny I couldn’t always be on top of all these things. 6 yrs ago I broke my ankle and couldn’t get out to move them (a neighbour did). Over the summer we were away, ditto. Many reasons why perfectly nice people don’t always “jump to it”. I’m just so glad you’re not my neighbour - you sound horridly petty.

You are the petty one here.

You have a bin man issue, not a neighbour issue. They didn’t block your drive, the bin men did. But it takes seconds to move them so they are not blocking your drive if it’s bothering you. Less time than it would have taken to write the post moaning on here in fact!

Normal people with busy lives are not paying this much attention to their bins. Mine can be out for days sometimes as I work long hours and get home late by which point I’m so tired I barely know my own name and so the bins are not a priority. I will bring them in next time I need to take rubbish out to them.

What a weird suggestion. You think it is reasonable to create a hazard on the road? What would be the point?

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I agree with you.
What a petty thread!

I am worried now that I might be a bad neighbour… or even a ‘gross and lazy’ neighbour!

Our bin men come at about 5.30 am. By 7am my neighbour from 2 doors down has put everyone’s bins back for them. She says she ‘likes a tidy street’.

But I am in bed drinking coffee til 7.30. Even 8 , some days.

Should I get up and move my bin in by 6.45?

6:45!! You should be doing it at 5:30 when they leave them all atrociously higgeldy piggeldy you lazy so and so! What is the world coming to.

I am actually wondering if this thread isn't a reverse ...

We have lovely binmen who seem to manage to get everyone's bins in the right driveway, even when the bins are identical and don't have numbers on. (The council don't provide a bin for general waste, you have to get your own or just put the rubbish out in black sacks.)

The guys at the council tip are really friendly and helpful, too.

Almost makes it worth paying the 4th highest council tax in England...

Hmmmm.

You may be right and I need to improve my etiquette. I need to be out at 5.31 and follow the bun men down the street. Because if people go back to sleep after the bim bam bin banging and truck bleeping, they won’t want me out any later, with the trundling and gate shutting din etc.

And I could go back to bed after.

Would it be acceptable to go out in my pyjamas and dressing gown?

My NDN works on bin day. I put her bin back so that she doesn't have to block the road while she moves it and can drive straight up her drive.

It's the neighbourly thing to do imo.

You should see the front of my house- it’s an absolute mess. My doing though as I have no energy or stamina to clear up. Bins all higgledy piggledy since bin Monday. Not blocking neighbours but I’d say we are an eyesore.

Yes of course! I can’t believe you’re asking 🤣

My relative called today and on his way out he moved aside two large bins that had been left outside my gate. If you leave a bin unattended around here it will soon get filled with all kinds of crap that doesnt belong there. In this case someone had thrown a couple of coke cans in it since the bin men emptied it.