Do you have a bin?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

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)

Some people are so incredibly fussy, germphobic and uptight on MN. I often think what terrible hosts they must make. It’s perfectly possible to be clean and tidy, but also have bins that make functioning in your home easier. MN makes me so grateful for my sane friends and family!

No proper bin just the Co op or Sainsburys bag hanging off the kitchen cupboard handle. To serve many purpose built homes on our estate 4 commercial bins stand never any wheelie bins. Our area of the county even keeps calling for its own proper community hospital once again like in the old days. One day!

Have the most pristine of plastic recycling.

No food caddy for the maggots to draw due to being an apartment/flat owner in the dodgy end of south suffolk still under this ‘better recycling’. Yuck parents in Essex love the food caddy their plastic recycling is a lot to be desired.

I have a bathroom bin and kitchen bin. If female visitors are here then I put a bin liner in the small bathroom bin, so they can comfortably dispose of period products and it can just be tied up and put in the outside bin after they've left. I also have dd's, obviously I don't expect them to traipse to the kitchen or outside bin to dispose of period products! I have a bin in the bathroom.

Kitchen, bathroom, ensuite & loo. Plus barely used waste paper bins lurking around in most other rooms.

I have teen girls so between them, me and all our visiting female friends I'd much rather everyone was comfortable using the loo.

Kitchen
bathrooms
my office
ds2’s bedroom

kitchen one emptied when it’s full. Others emptied on the evening before bin day.

I'm in Essex 2 bins indoors ( kitchen and bathroom) and black bin and food waste bin for outside ( as well as blue and white recycling bags(

Lol you aren't near Tameside are you? My relative has a large collection of outside bins like that

I cannot get my head around how the “bins are disgusting” people are perfectly OK with having an OPEN CARRIER BAG of rubbish just hanging in their kitchen?! And from it it sounds like, hanging off a door handle?!

On what planet is that more sanitary than have a purpose made lidded/hidden in a drawer bin? Surely your houses look like gross student digs if you have literal carrier bags of rubbish hanging up?!

This must be a fake thread.

I hit resistance on this when I got with DH as he grew up with no bins and taking a small bag out to the dustbin each day. MiL still had this system which was delightful when I was menstruating during multi-day visits.

Over time, bins have won. We have a kitchen bin and recycling box. Some of the bedrooms and downstairs toilet also have bins. The main bathroom doesn't as there isn't space and I don't use many single-use products. I'll carry down a handful of old toilet roll tubes or empty bottles at a time when they've built up (I use flannels and reusable san-pro such as cups and cloth pads). Guests don't tend to stay over night to need a bin there, but there is one down stairs where it's more likely to be used.

No I'm up in Scotland!

Just as well my garden is big enough to fit them all in. I don't know how some homes manage. Crazy stuff!

I don’t necessarily think bins are disgusting. Particularly now when so much is recycled. It’s more I don’t understand why people are so keen to store so much rubbish in the house. It’s waste, I want it outside as quickly as possible.
I do have kitchen bin, food caddy and bathroom bins as the rest of my household don’t agree with me. I begrudge the space given over to them though and draw the line at recycling bins, that goes straight outside.
I don’t see what is superior about a big ugly bin full of old wrappers that might sit there for days, over a small, ugly bag full of old wrappers that is gone at the end of the day.

Such an interesting relationship with items. Before they were used they weren't waste. Let's say a packet of crisps. Happy for that to be in your house but once it's empty you want it not just in a bin but out ASAP because now it's "waste"? A tin of beans fine when full (maybe even permitted when half full) but an empty (rinsed out) tin needs to get out!

It's mad to go outside every time you have a small piece of rubbish and I actually suspect you don't. I bet you have some things sitting on the side. Going outside every five minutes also means a door being opened and closed every whipstich and draft coming in.

About 15 years ago I challenged our house to throw away as little as possible. We reduced packaging as much as we could and we reuse as much packaging as we can. Recycling is a bigger problem for us, especially cardboard as we get oat milk delivered in bulk once a month. Most plastic containers get reused - margarine and ice cream tubs as lunch boxes and freezing meals in. Yoghurt pots for painting. I'm currently collecting the tubs grapes come in to organise my daughters underwear drawer to separate school socks/tights from non-school socks and tights.

I'm not sure people have enough rubbish to throw out a bag a day either. We have a baby in nappies at the moment so we have more but we used to only have one bread bag of rubbish a week. Smelly things go straight outside but no smelly things go out once the bin is full or it's bin day.

We empty our living room, bedroom and study bins once every 2-3 months as it's only little bits of things that go in them and only clean things. We call our living room bin our bin of shame as it only has wrappers from evening snacks in it. Our downstairs loo bin only gets emptied when it's full as it's only cardboard tubes and paper wrappers from the loo rolls. We don't have many visitors of menstruating age but those that do either don't have periods due to contraception choices or use reusable sanitary products so it would be unlikely for there to be anything like that in there.

So teenage guests are meant to traipse outside and find 'the main bin' carrying their used san pro wrapped in tissue(?), chuck it in like that? to avoid offending a host- all for what is a natural part of life

Well quite, that’s how rubbish works.

I don’t go out for every bit of rubbish. As I said we do have a kitchen bin and a food caddy when I’m cooking for example I’d put anything for recycling to one side and take it out at the end as part of the clean up.
If anyone eats a yogurt, finishes the milk or has a can of drink throughout the day then they take the container to the recycling straight away. The room we spend most of our time is as a family is closer to the outside recycling box than it is to the kitchen where an indoor recycling bin would be and the bin is under cover so we’re not going out in the rain. It’s hardly every five minutes as most of the food and drink we use isn’t in individual packets or containers.
In my experience friends and family who have recycling bins inside and even with my own family and the kitchen bin there’s always a bit of bin jenga and it becomes a whole thing that it’s some else’s turn to empty it. Everyone just putting their own stuff in the recycling seems simpler.

I’m really careful about our recycling bins and we have a small area on the end of nearest worktop to back door where we put any items for recycling and probably move them 2-3 times a day
Today we put out wheely bin for plastic and metal - which was full! As we only put it out when it’s full maybe every 2 months and they didn’t take it! No idea why - assuming it was some dead solar lights which were a combo of plastic glass and metal (all allowed) maybe it’s the batteries - will ring them to check

So you what…? Throw them from the bathroom window? Shimmy down the drain pipe? Because, unless your bathroom(s) have doors going into the garden, you must have to walk through the house carrying your bathroom waste in order to get to the outside bin!?!
It seems a rather bizarre argument: ‘I think bins inside are unhygienic, so instead of using them I and my family and friends have to carry everything by hand through the house to an outdoor bin…’
If only someone could invent a receptacle to help you do that, sort of like a bucket, possibly with a bag in it, maybe with a lid to stop things falling out…

I only have a bin outside. And a recycling one in the kitchen.
But I live alone.

What about bathroom bits? Make up pads and female hygiene stuff?

Yes but when you go to put something in the bin and there's a used pad, unwrapped just sitting in the bin.....

Total insanity not having bins in the house I just can’t see the logic behind not having them. Yes they’re filled with rubbish but that’s why they’re contained and have lids. You’re not serving dinner off of them or sitting next to them on the sofa so what’s the issue?

Kitchen bin for non recyclable stuff such as certain food packaging, kitchen roll, non recyclable teabags (some teabags contain plastic which doesn’t biodegrade) etc. Food waste goes in a caddy under the sink. Recycling goes in two mail sack type bags, one for paper etc and one for plastic and tins. Also have bathroom bin but no bins in any other rooms.

I once started a job where they provided no bins in the women’s toilets. They expected us to take our used period items through the halls, into the break out room with both men and women and use the kitchen bin. I told them in my first week of starting that this is absolutely disgusting and not on. They then got an open bin no lid for the women’s bathrooms, I quit very quickly.