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Do you have a bin?

242 replies

mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/05/2026 21:10

Apparently noone in Essex has a bin?! (TOWIE)

Its unhygienic - which actually i do get, but i need my bin. I have one in each room 😭

(Edited quickly, a kitchen bin)

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NotTheOrdinary · 17/05/2026 21:12

What sort of bin? Surely everyone has a kitchen bin.

CurdinHenry · 17/05/2026 21:13

I was raised in a house with no indoor bins

I probably wouldn't have a bathroom one now

Generallychill · 17/05/2026 21:13

Yes a kitchen bin that gets emptied daily, recycling goes straight outside into the blue bin. And we have a small one in all bedrooms that gets emptied as and when its needed as thats usually just paper or snack wrappers. And one in the bathroom.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/05/2026 21:13

NotTheOrdinary · 17/05/2026 21:12

What sort of bin? Surely everyone has a kitchen bin.

Had to edit my op, yeah a kitchen bin!

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Attictroll · 17/05/2026 21:13

Kitchen bin and one only for dry things in bedroom… everything else straight in recycling

Legomania · 17/05/2026 21:15

PIL only have an outside bin. It's a pain in the arse, especially if you have your period when visiting them.

Cookingandfoldingthings · 17/05/2026 21:15

One in every room & a big recycling one in the kitchen. (I hate visible mess!)

NotTheOrdinary · 17/05/2026 21:15

Do they go traipsing out to the wheely bin all day?

OriginalPedant · 17/05/2026 21:15

Ae have a kitchen bin that is concealed in a cupboard. That’s the only one. No bathroom bins in any of the bathrooms.

Seawolves · 17/05/2026 21:15

Kitchen bin, bathroom bin, no bins in the other rooms. Bathroom bin mainly has my little one's dressings in it as well as toilet roll wrappers and inners.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/05/2026 21:15

Cookingandfoldingthings · 17/05/2026 21:15

One in every room & a big recycling one in the kitchen. (I hate visible mess!)

This is my thinking, one in every possible place someone can sit

All bar the kitchen bin is for non smelling stuff though

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ShetlandishMum · 17/05/2026 21:16

Kitchen only.

Makemeinvisible · 17/05/2026 21:16

I'm not quite sure what you mean OP.

I've got waste paper baskets in all 3 bedrooms, small pedal bins in both bathrooms and a largish brabantia pedal bin in the kitchen. Plus a kitchen caddy for food waste.
And outside I have an impressive collection of wheelie bins: purple, grey, blue, green and 2 brown ones.And a kerbside food recycling caddy.

How do people manage without bins,

NotTheOrdinary · 17/05/2026 21:17

I have a kitchen bin and a bathroom bin.

Our recycling goes in orange bags.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/05/2026 21:17

Legomania · 17/05/2026 21:15

PIL only have an outside bin. It's a pain in the arse, especially if you have your period when visiting them.

Oh yeah that would be a nightmare! Its good hosting to have a bathroom bin

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Drivingmissrangey · 17/05/2026 21:17

OriginalPedant · 17/05/2026 21:15

Ae have a kitchen bin that is concealed in a cupboard. That’s the only one. No bathroom bins in any of the bathrooms.

What do women (especially guests) do with sanitary products? You’re literally inviting them to just flush.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/05/2026 21:18

Makemeinvisible · 17/05/2026 21:16

I'm not quite sure what you mean OP.

I've got waste paper baskets in all 3 bedrooms, small pedal bins in both bathrooms and a largish brabantia pedal bin in the kitchen. Plus a kitchen caddy for food waste.
And outside I have an impressive collection of wheelie bins: purple, grey, blue, green and 2 brown ones.And a kerbside food recycling caddy.

How do people manage without bins,

Edited

And outside I have an impressive collection of wheelie bins: purple, grey, blue, green and 2 brown ones.

😄😄😄

I mean an indoor bin, mainly a kitchen bin

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Flamingojune · 17/05/2026 21:18

How do female households cope without bathroom bins

Perrygreen · 17/05/2026 21:19

Of course I have a kitchen bin. It never smells, no meat or fish go in it we're mostly veggie and have food waste outside anyway.

Plus a small bathroom bin and a bedroom bin.

Xiaoxiong · 17/05/2026 21:19

CurdinHenry · 17/05/2026 21:13

I was raised in a house with no indoor bins

I probably wouldn't have a bathroom one now

I have so many questions! If no bathroom bin, where do you put used cotton pads, hair that's been cleared off a hairbrush, cotton buds, sheet masks, sanpro, makeup wipes, contact lenses, blister packs of medication, the bits of plastic from a plaster...?

When you were growing up you didn't have a kitchen bin? Did your kitchen open onto a garden or patio where your bin was? I grew up in flats so the idea of not having an indoor bin is confusing - our bins were tiny (carrier bag sized) and we'd take the rubbish out every evening, but still, we had bins.

hahabahbag · 17/05/2026 21:20

Of course you need bins, big one in the kitchen and lidded ones in the bathrooms.

dementedpixie · 17/05/2026 21:22

2 bins in the kitchen (1 for general waste and 1 for recycling). A bin in each bedroom and bathroom.

FruAashild · 17/05/2026 21:22

Big bin in the kitchen (plus recycling options nearby) then small bins in the bathroom. Never understand why people don't have bathroom bins, where are pads and tampons supposed to go? My Mum has wastepaper bins in every room but I never bother, you can easily carry some paper to another room

suki1964 · 17/05/2026 21:27

In the kitchen under the sink, we dont have food waste - cat, dog, hens and compost sort that

On septic tank so bathroom bins are a must

Have a waste paper bin next to dressing table for wipes, tissues etc

in the living room - the stove - and if that's not lit, chucked in the coal bucket

mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/05/2026 21:31

I feel like Lauren Goodger doesnt want food rotting in the bin over night 🤷‍♀️

I empty mine like once every two days a day 😬

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