To think my neighbours are just weird?

[Pogsandfrogs]

They’ve stolen my bin. Today is bin day, and all the bins were left out on the pavement after collection. I’ve just gone out to put mine away and couldn’t find it. It was in front of my driveway (I saw it from my window) but then I got a call so I couldn’t move it immediately.

I then see next door has put their bin back at the side of their house … but they’ve also taken my bin as well. Why are people so odd? I don’t understand this weird behaviour.

Have you tried talking to you neighbours because, and this may shock you, they are the only ones who can answer your question.

This isn’t about the wrong bin. Would you go and put two bins back at the side of your house? Knowing you only have one?

Could they have moving it out of the way/wind for you?

Yes seeing a huge green bin already at the side of your house must be hard to miss ..,

Literal zero wind here.

😂😂 i felt i could say this because it cannot be a serious thread and seems soooo crazy. Who wants to steal a bin fgs!! If you were actually a slum dweller i wouldn't have said it, I was being hyperbolic to get my point across not to insult you, promise! 🙏💐

Well obviously this there's no other explanation.
Let the bins love.

People do get strange about bins. One time ours had gone missing. Turns out a neighbour 4 doors down had taken it. She couldn’t find her own (which had been left round the corner by the bin men) so just took ours. Fuckin’ weirdo!! I’m glad you retrieved it OP. You are not the odd one in this situation, your neighbour is!!

Just go get it

I was just joining in with the thread!

If it wasn't the wrong bin then I agree with a PP. Definitely bin love which will lead to a litter of bin babies.

Well, apparently he had a lot more rubbish to get rid of than me so really needed 2 bins and anyway, I really should collect my bin as soon as it was emptied.

I’d say that I was at work when it was emptied but I brought it in as soon as I got home and that he needed to speak to the council about an extra bin as I needed mine

He'd then complain that I didn’t bring it in straight away and that the bin men wouldn’t empty his bin if the lid was up so needed a second bin

I’d reiterate that I was at work and he needed to ask the council for another/bigger bin, he couldn’t just take mine.

He’d then go on about how they wouldn’t give him a bigger/second bin, and wouldn’t even empty it if the bin lid was up….

He'd then go o a bit rant about the “clown-cil” and potholes, the skate park before circling back round to really needing a second bin and I should collect mine as soon as it was emptied.

It was on repeat every 2 weeks. I just nick it back now.

My husband did just that once. I’d got the bin in, he’d assumed I hadn’t and took the neighbour’s one. The fact that it clearly had their house number on it, and that he put it right next to our bin of the same colour didn’t ring any alarm bells for him apparently….

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Could the binmen have put it there? Don’t overthink it, just go and take it back.

Oh my goodness, he sounds unhinged. 😱

I live in the roughest slum, and just wanted to clarify that we don't have bins, we burrow in the rubbish. I paid £8.40 to live here.

Bins seem to engender really strong emotions in some people.

I moved to my new house about six months ago, and every single bin day (before 7am), my neighbour comes onto my driveway and opened the bin lids to see what is inside. Sometimes he comes three or four times to check, all before 7am. I can see him clearly on the cameras.

He opens the black, brown, green and new food bins.

So, I brought them into the garden and closed the gate. Next week, he opens the gate and came into the garden to check the bins.

I told him that I could see him on the cameras and asked if there was a problem? He said that he often forgets what goes in each bin and was just checking.

I get that he’s old/retired/bored/has medical issues but, honestly I don’t care, now I just bolt the gate. He can ask his wife.

Just go next door and take the bin back.

@Pogsandfrogs I'm so invested now... did you get it back? And did they ever explain?

I’ve had someone steal a bin. It was one of the small recycling bins - this woman just came up at midnight, had a rummage around in it, tipped the stuff in it out into our other bin and walked off with it (we saw her on the camera). The thing is, I reported that we needed a recycling bin to the council on LoveCleanStreets and they delivered one the next morning. So stealing my bin was a really pointless thing to do.

People seem to be really struggling with comprehension on this one. The neighbour took BOTH bins, not just accidentally took the wrong bin 🙄
My neighbour stole my recycling bin once, probably because ours was the only one left with a lid (back before they gave us big wheelie bins) I didn’t know who had stolen it until it appeared outside hers the next week. I stole it back. She had even tried to scratch off our house number that I had painted on it 😂

I took our bin in once, DH came home later and took “our” bin in again. Neighbours knocked and told us we had theirs. No big deal, easy mistake. We now have numbers on them.

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they weren't odd but kind. A bin sitting out when every other one is away is inviting burglars to your house. They moved it onto their land so they didn't trespass onto yours.

There was a food waste bin unclaimed on our street for ages. Some bloody busybody was evidently convinced it was ours and kept putting it on our drive. I kept putting it on the street, still empty of course, and they kept putting it back on the drive. Drove me nuts. I was taking it further and further.

What utter shite