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)

A lot of people used to use carrier bags and chuck them out every couple of hours. I doubt as many people do these days, but when I was a kid, lots of people did.
Not in Essex, if that's relevant!

I can’t imagine not having a kitchen bin. Ours gets opened a gazillion times a day. We also have an insert from an old pedal bin for tins and plastics which gets decanted into the outside recycling bins once or twice a day.

We have a binbag in the bathroom, those small bins are fiddly and too annoying.
Kitchen has a bin, but it gets left in the backyard a lot. Throughout late autumn, all winter and early spring our back door swells shut, if you get it open you will NOT get it closed again, so all rubbish has to go out via the front door.
I now have 3 bins in my livingroom, one for general rubbish, one for the paper/card (but we also have a burning bin we prefer to use) and one for the plastics etc. Not attractive but without access to the bins easily in the yard its easier to sort indoors.

Funnily enough I’m the opposite and went out of my way to avoid having an integrated bin in my kitchen. I can’t bear the thought of rubbish sitting inside the same housing as the shelves and drawers where my pans and plates live, even when they are divided from them. I think smells from integrated bins leach in to the storage area too, they sometimes attract vermin, and they always seem faffy and fiddly to me too.

I would far rather have a bin standing independently from my storage space, totally separate from everything else but accessible to dw and sink. Ours is at the end of a working, not serving, peninsula and we thought about where it would go ahead of time and allowed more space for it in a designated niche. It works really well!

I've just done a mental head count of how many bins I've got and realised I've got 12 of them....oh my!

1 each in both bedrooms of my small flat, 1 tiny bin in the bathroom and loo as they don't usually get very full (they're separate rooms in this style of property for some reason),1 in the hallway under the console table, 4 in the kitchen since we're moving to this new recycling system (food waste, plastics/metal/glass and another for cardboard/paper and one for general waste) then in my hallway store cupboard I've got 2 bigger bins to empty the smaller cardboard/paper and the other mixed recycling bins into, so I don't have to go downstairs constantly and can just make a once a week trip instead). It sounds a lot but it works well for me.

I've been watching it all unfold on local Facebook pages recently about this national united recycling system across all councils/areas...the idea of separating waste seems to be like asking some people to fly to the moon....it's utterly bizarre! And the thought of a food waste bin in the kitchen? Heaven forbid(!!) 😂

Two wastepaper bins - one upstairs and one in the living room. Food waste and anything that isn't recycling is collected in 'something' and put out each night. Today it was the large bag that the crusty loaf came in. Yesterday we finished a bag of potatoes so I used the bag that the potatoes came in. Tomorrow, who knows? Could be the cat biscuit bag or the multipack of crisps bag. I like to live dangerously.

I don’t have children so who are they going to babysit?

We moved to the sticks so if I go out with a friend I meet them in town so no, no women with continence problems or who are changing 30 tampons an hour ever visit me.

My next door neighbours on one side clearly don’t have any bins indoors as they’re out to their wheelie bins all the bloody time. They even walk to the end of the garden to scrape their plates directly into the brown bins. I honestly could not be arsed with that, emptying your inside bins once a day should be more than sufficient. No idea what the females do with any sanpro.

Me too. I tried one but soon got rid of it. My food waste goes down the waste disposal unit.

Oh i'd love a waste disposal unit!

Unsure why you're being so touchy. You don't have to change "30 tampons every hour" to sometimes want a bin in a bathroom. But as @MayFlyBee said if you literally never have a girl or woman in your house then go for it with your binless life. Obviously people do normally have the odd visitor so assumed you'd be the same.

Even in the rain?

It doesn’t rain as often as it does in the UK here (East Coast US) but it does get bloody freezing in winter and yes, they’re out at the bins many times a day in that.

I have integrated bins. It’s divided in two, one recycling one rubbish. They get emptied to outside when full. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a kitchen without a bin somewhere.

Fine - be disgusting. It's really up to you.

Unless you are one of these hermits who never have friends over, you need a bathroom bin to be a decent host.

I’m really glad those of you who don’t have bathroom bins also seem to be the people who never have anyone over!!!

My downstairs loo and guest bathroom both have bins and little obvious shelves with pads, tampons and disposal bags. (Same in other bathrooms too)

How awkward for visitors otherwise and moreso fucking grim to be happy for people to be touching things in your kitchen or your front door plus other doors carrying used toiletries.

If a friend didn’t have a bathroom bin and I needed to dispose of a tampon I’d just flush it. It’s their own fault if it causes a problem with their drains!

There’s no need to name call people who don’t have friends over! Some of us have a genuine reason for this. How offensive

@BashfulClam do you never have anyone stay in your house?

Big kitchen bin with a black bag in and a lid

A recycling bowl in a corner near the microwave

A small bathroom bin with a bag in it

A bedroom bin, for dry things and nothing dirty
Just like hair, or a wrapper for example

Bin just ends up being annoying to take it in and out of. We have a small secure bag in the kitchen taken out when needed, sometimes everyday, sometimes every couple of days - depend on what we have been doing.

Putting it in a plastic shell like it's a house for rubbish, and messing around taking it out then putting another back in the plastic house, now just feels so silly to me after all the years of doing this.

Bin in every room.

Kitchen bin, waste paper bins in bedrooms, small bin for empty loo rolls/ recyclables in the bathroom plus a small pedal bin there. I also have a recycling bin in the kitchen that gets emptied into the recycling bin outside.

Tampons don't just cause problems in drains. They end up in the seas and wash up on beaches in their thousands.

Please don't flush them, even if your inhospitable hosts don't provide an obvious and convenient place to dispose of them.

I'm firmly on team bathroom pedal bin.

Bin liners are a thing. You don't have to look at the contents before you lift the liner out and tie it closed.