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)

My bathroom is small with no room for a bin, so I just have bins in bedrooms and the kitchen.

I can't say it's ever been a problem for me to carry anything a few steps across the hallway to a bedroom bin.

If I'm on my period but visiting other places I make sure I've got a couple of nappy sacks in my bag, they're always handy to carry around. I've never considered it rude or inhospitable if I visit someone who has no bathroom bin! I make sure I make my own arrangements if need be.

I actually don’t have a bin at all. We use carrier bags then take it out at the end of the day as I hate bins.

Where do people get carrier bags from nowadays!

Yes and no.

There's really nowhere to put a bin in my kitchen that works. We've tried.
Eventually we gave up and placed the bins in a sort of semi-outside corridor just off the kitchen. There's two ordinary kitchen bins, one for recycling and one for general waste.
Food waste bin is small and just sits on the kitchen window sill.
Thing is, I'm lazy and CBA to go to the outside bit every time I want to put something in the bin, so I have taken to hanging a carrier bag in the back of the door, lwhich I then take out to the bin at various points.
Honestly some kitchens just aren't designed with a good place to put the bin.

We do have a bathroom bin, a very small pedal bin in our bedroom, and a waste paper basket in my teenage son's room.

Carrier bags on doors sounds horrible.

Food waste goes in the food waste bin. Lives under the sink. Changed every couple of days or so, doesn't smell. I have an integrated bin draw. One for recycling and one for general waste. Never smells and emptied when full. Bathroom bin, lined, and a bin in each bedroom.

Same here. I hate nothing more than dealing with a ripping bin liner because it’s been over stuffed when you pull it out of the bin and I appear to live with Neanderthals. All bedrooms and bathrooms have a bin.

i Agree

I don’t understand this at all.

If you don’t have a kitchen bin, can you explain what you do with food leftovers that would be scraped from plates before cleaning? Do you walk outside with the plate and cutlery and scrape it straight into your outside bin? Do you use a giant wheelie bin liner?

I have genuinely never heard of anyone not having a kitchen bin.

Edited to add, we don’t have a food waste collection where I live.

Kitchen has a food waste bin, recycling bin and regular bin
Small bin in every bathroom
One in the living room and in each bedroom

This is what I love about Mumsnet - the unexpected glimpses into the minds of people who are at first glance just like me, who might be my work colleagues or neighbours - but have beliefs about mundane matters that are so completely at odds with my own that it almost makes my brain implode.

No bins. I mean, I know these people are apparently happy to traipse out to the garden bin umpteen times a day, but isn't it a tad inconvenient?

People who don't have a toilet brush because they find them disgusting but prefer to wipe poo streaks off the toilet bowl with their hands! (that concept completely blew my mind when I first stumbled across it on Mumsnet).

People who don't feel obliged to RSVP to birthday invitations that their children have received.

It's so interesting learning how other people's minds work!

Nought as queer as folk eh @ASingleDayOnVenus

Why is a barrier bag hanging around better than a sturdy bin?

My bin has never smelt. It's emptied every three days. What are you putting in a bin to make it smell?

Most bins have a lid so surely better than a carrier bag. Be like living in student digs with a carrier bag on a door handle!

And surely if the bin smells so does a carrier bag

If you don’t have bins, where do you put the rubbish?

Same as this. Sitting room only has one as my kids' friends often stay over on sofas. Bathroom bins emptied during weekly big clean. Kitchen food caddy emptied as needed or straight after dinner if I've binned garlic/shallot peelings etc. Also fascinated that some people don't use bins!

I can't believe how many bins people have!! What a faff it must be emptying bins right, left and centre! The thought of a bin in my bathroom with someone else's used tampons or pads in is horrible to me. I would never leave anything in a bin in anyone else's bathroom, I wouldn't expect them to have to dispose of my stuff - I'd take whatever it was home with me.

I grew up with compost bucket just outside the kitchen garden door, which was removed to the compost heap down the end of the garden when full. We had burning rubbish, used for lighting fires or put on a bonfire, though newspapers were kept for putting on the table or floor for jibs like cleaning shoes, cleaning silver, preparing fruit and veg. And there was non-burning rubbish, which went out to the dustbins. As I grew up and there were more recycling options, there were bags for those different things in the cupboard under the stairs. We did have a bathroom bin, because even before periods, there were loo roll inners, toothpaste boxes, empty toothpaste tubes etc, and then things in there would get emptied into the relevant bin downstairs.

I have a bathroom bin, a kitchen bin, a bin by the front door which only has clean dry stuff for the recycling, bin by my desk for paper mostly and bedroom bin for tissues etc in the bedroom. I just carry it downstairs when I need to. I put compostable stuff in a small box in the kitchen which goes to the compost heap down the end of the garden. And I use the food waste caddy from the council on the rare occasions I have bones to dispose of. I don't usually have much food waste besides veg peelings - I live alone and I know what portion sizes I eat. The bins don't smell because most of it's dry.

I've hosted teens who throw all sorts in the bathroom bin with no thought that it's me that has to empty it! They don't even wrap up sanitary towels/tampons. Even worse I had to tell one that in the UK we dispose of used toilet paper in the toilet. 🤮

My kitchen bin is for recycling. We don’t really put anything in black bags other than animal waste which is kept outside. Everything else is recycled.

Eww 😭 you poor thing

Its all bordering on period shaming

So you put used san pro in your bag or pocket?

I've learned so much from this thread 😭

Who is gonna take the influencer lead and trial 'sanpro' irl?

seriously???

Say you're staying somewhere three days.

You'd wrap up multiple used sanitary towels or tampons and keep them all in your bag to take home? And travel home with your bag full of tampons? That's less disgusting than putting them in a little bin with a liner next to the loo?

Would you bag up your poo and take it home with you too avoid getting your host's toilet dirty too? 😂