Ask next door neighbours to take their bins out before 11pm?

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i suspect I probably am being unreasonable but wanted peoples thoughts on whether I should make a friendly request to my neighbours..
they seem to wait until gone 11pm each week to drag their bins down the alleyway between our terraced houses. The issue is (and I think this is where I’m being unreasonable) is that it makes my dogs bark because it’s quite loud and that wakes me and my kids up.

i guess the solution would be to somehow train my dogs not to bark but I A - don’t know how and B - kind of want them to alert me to something that sounds so close to the house.
They’re not particularly barky dogs in general.
we’re on good terms, would I seem like a complete arse if I just asked them if there’s any way they could but their bins out any earlier? They have two primary aged kids so I assume they wait until they are in bed etc

That’s what i do. It’s better for you, and for them: someone’s sorting the bins out for you.

That’s a win-win.

Get someone to wheel your bins up and down to do this training with them. Shouldn't take more than a few days if you're consistent with it.

We're not 11pm but we put ours out once we've finished the clear up at the end of the day, so that ALL the rubbish, including that from any snacks/treats we've had of an evening, go in the bin and isn't hanging around for another week. It's likely 11pm is just before bed, so they're chucking the last few bits in, and taking them out while letting the dogs out for last wee.

You could ask but they don’t have to oblige.

We put our bins out late and wouldn’t change this if a neighbour asked. I’d suggest taking the dog to training classes for the barking or training them yourself to recognise the sound of a bin.

I’d be nice about it and not take offence to the suggestion though. It depends how awkward you’d feel to them saying no.

My bins sometimes go out late because I work shifts, and my late start is too early to put it out before work. The council doesn't let us put them out before 7 pm, and I start work at 1 pm on my late shift.

I would love it if someone offered to put the bin out for me on my late shifts. Trust me, dragging a bin down the garden path, in the dark, often when it's raining, is the last thing I want to be doing at 11 pm after a long shift at work.

I'd offer to put it out for them if they can leave it in the front garden earlier in the day.

Sorry I know you’re not that late but that’s no excuse to put the bins out at 11pm. How much rubbish can a home create between say teatime or 11pm??

11pm would wake us up with the window open dog or no dog.

There are several people stating that 6:30 in the morning would also be unacceptable though.

How many people who think they can’t put their bin out early actually have a council that will enforce that rule? 🤣🤣 that’s the rule of our council too but they deffo don’t have spies checking this.

If someone is out the house from 6.30am to 11pm at night and can’t put their bin out between say 7.30am and 10pm then they’d just have to put it out whenever they could.

The majority of people are home at reasonable times and should put their bin out at a respectable hour if they are at home. Society is selfish these days and it’s getting worse.

Well we're a weeknight for bin night, so by the time we've done pick up, dinner, dog walk, bedtime, watched some TV or done something for our evening together, usually with a snack, we've not had time to put the inside bin out, empty the bathroom bin etc.

We just do all that, let the dog out for a wee and put the bins out, usually around 9. It's not that hard to see how if someone eats dinner later than us, for example, their bin might not be ready to go out til later.

We also don't yet have the food waste bins, so anything that's gone in from dinner prep would need to go out with the bins or it's sat for another week. We do try to compost, but not all rubbish from food is appropriate for that is it?

They can still add rubbish to it when it's out the front.

we had a brick walkway & the noise was dreadful. Inconsiderate neighbour would take his out really late & wake everyone up, then leave it out the front of our house for days. I started returning it to his front door step.

9s fine but don’t use tv as an excuse for someone to annoy their neighbours at 11 pm 🤣🤣🤣 people need to grow up and ADULT!!!!!

We make dinner, and put the bins out while we cook or wash up.

Ffs when you put your bins out isn’t the barometer of being an adult.

Also, a bin doesn’t need to be ready to go out, you make a judgement as an adult that the tiny bit of rubbish you have after tea time and between 10pm can wait till the next collection 🤣

I wouldn't take MN as a goid unducation if his your nuce, normal, neighbours will feel 🤣

there is no harm in asking.

Not the barometer, don’t be dramatic, no one said that did they? It is a little part of being an adult though actually. Obviously there’s loads more factors involved. Being a respectful neighbour is a part.

Honestly just ask them. There's nuce considerate rolls & ibvioudky ding realise uts waking you up. Just talk to them.

I'm pleased that routine works for you. Don't use the fact that something works for you to tell everyone else what they should be doing.

I'm not using TV as an excuse, it's our downtime, we don't do jobs for an hour between DDs bedtime and "closing up" for the night, because if we carry on doing the jobs, we don't actually stop. So that time is protected. The way our days/evenings run work for us and if we had later days, that would just be how it was.

One of our neighbours puts theirs out on their way to getting in the car at 530am because they start work early, have long days and are exhausted when they get back and were forgetting before bed. The routine works for them, we don't get to dictate.

You can ask super nicely. Explain that you absolutely know this is totally your own dogs fault, but it's waking your kids up. Is there any possibility they could do it earlier, or could you please do it for them?
Be really nice about it and very apologetic.
What do you have to loose?

Yes, I make that judgement as an adult. And my judgement is that I don't want the rubbish waiting a week when it doesn't have to. Especially when it's about to move to fortnightly. I don't want food wrappers sitting for a fortnight because you say that's ok.

You can collect rubbish if you like, I'll put mine out when I have it.

You said you do yours 9pm so you’re fine anyway.

All I’m saying is that I was raised to do anything I can to be a respectful neighbour unless it was out of my power like a 12 hour shift worker.

Watching tv or taking a few mins to put my bin out is in my power. It’s easy peasy.

That’s fine you do you hun and piss your neighbours off. Oh no wait you do yours at 9pm this isn’t about you!

If you don’t piss your neighbours off the this isn’t about you so it’s all good!

Oh, thank you, for telling me I'm fine. I'm so pleased I meet your rules for what constitutes a good person.

Anytime xx

Oh you're a "Hun" person. There will never be anyone who can please you.