AIBU to throw away wine bottles left in our stairway?

[GreenMeeple]

There are two bottles of wine, one have empty and one unopened, in our stairway. We live on the top floor of a three storey building, two apartments on each floor. The bottles are on the stairway right between our floor and the one below. The bottles have been there for three weeks now. The cleaners are not removing them. Would it be unreasonable for me to throw them away?

I know for a fact they don't belong to the neighbourhood next to me (we mentioned them in passing). There is a woman with a drinking problem one floor down and I'm pretty sure they are her's.

I don't want to confront her about the bottles because she seems quite nice when sober and very sad when drunk. She has had periods when she seems to be doing really well and then is back to drinking. I don't want to confront her with the bottles if she might be trying to get sober.

Even though the bottles are not mine, after three weeks it should be okay for me to just throw them away right? I'm sick of seeing them everyday and my child keeps asking why they are there.

I wouldn't have thought anyone with a drink problem would be leaving a bottle and half of wine going spare.

Just chuck them.

It seems a shame to throw away an unopened bottle of wine but I think after 3 weeks you can move/consume/regift it (maybe not to the neighbour with the drink problem).

I'd probably pop them somewhere less 'in the way' for a few days, to see if anyone appears, looking for them. Then you can say "ah, I nearly knocked them over a million times so moved them [here]".

If after 3/4 days, no one came looking for them, I'd bin them. And then if someone looks for them, I'd say "I did see them; they were tripping people up for weeks. Last place I seen them was [here] but couldn't say after that" (if you think they might get angry/aggressive)

Edit to add that the only flats I've ever lived in had bicycles, prams, plant pots and general clutter on every landing, so a couple of bottles wouldn't annoy me too much, generally. However, them being on the stairs would, as it's just a tripping hazard.

Is the unopened one a Chateau Petrus? If so, then no, don't throw it out. Otherwise yes, throw them out.

With the layout of our stairway she can't see them going in and out of her appartement and there is no reason for her to go up to our floor.

I think she came home drunk one night and went up to far, left the bottles there and forgot about them.

I could put them out of the way down one floor but what if she is trying to stay/get sober? Wouldn't that be a horrible thing to do?

I agree, she might have left them there as a 'gift'. Out of her sight to avoid temptation. I used to do the same with half empty fag packets if I lapsed when giving up :D
I think you can chuck them.