Which rooms have a bin in your home?

[Wishitwasstraightforward]

I'm not a naturally tidy person and neither are the rest of my family. I'm trying to implement systems and strategies to help us keep the house in a better state.

We have a bin in the kitchen and a small one in the bathroom. Unsurprisingly, rubbish doesn't make it into either bin as much as it should.

I think a bin in every room might help. I guess more of a waste paper type bin rather than one for anything more grubby.

Do other people have bins in several rooms or am I being ridiculous?

@Doggielove Bizarrely Baslisk Dog only likes paper so bathroom bin safe ( apart from empty loo rolls. ) Maybe bathroom bin too high for wee dog. But yes I think he thought he was being helpful - that's my story & I am sticking to it. 😂

Memo to self - get a taller bin for sitting room.

But to answer the question we have a bin in almost every room.

Bathrooms only plus food waste bin in the kitchen.

Lots of wrappers are cardboard and containers are plastic that are recyclable. I have had enough of sorting out rubbish for recycling when it can easily be sorted out when it's created.

Incidentally any cardboard or recyclable plastic generated in the bathroom gets put next to the bin then moved when I get a chance.

One in every room, bedroom, kitchen, living room… guest bedrooms don’t though!

Kitchen, utility, downstairs WC, en-suite, bathroom, study and dressing room.

That made me laugh!

I’ve been looking for a bedroom sized bin with a lid for this exact same reason!

To be fair, they still dump it where they leave it.

Not in the convenient bin nearby!

Every room yep, in fact a couple of small waste paper bins in the sitting room. I think not having them everywhere makes life difficult

Kitchen , bathrooms X2 , bedrooms x 4 . Emptied every day .
Used a lot too .

@soupfiend these are very good points! My awful system is to leave items like that at the top of the stairs to take down to the kitchen - I don't think it's the wisest system!!

Every room except the hall and landing.
Kitchen has two, one for food/ dirty waste and one for clean but not recyclable.

I bring things like that downstairs but lots of card for fancier products cant be recycled, plus the plastic wrap on the outside, plus I have a lot of medication wrappers that go in the bin, I dont relish the idea of coming downstairs each morning with my empty cup of tea, fresh glass of water and trying to carry bits of rubbish and snotty tissues that I breed

Well, we have a system whereby things are left at the bottom of the stairs forever, still to be taken up, so theres still room for improvement!!

this thread is making me laugh so much, it's like people are trying to outdo each other on how many bins they have.

Just remembered our recycling bins in the kitchen so we do have 3 bins in the kitchen, waste paper baskets in conservatory, living room, 3 bedrooms and the bathroom bin of course

Definitely not unusual i would say. We have bins in every room of the house - five bedrooms, the study,bathrooms and even the dining room. The only way we can keep the house free from rubbish.

Feels unusual not to have bins in bathrooms. We absolutely need them as DC and friends use period protection which can't be flushed so get wrapped and placed in lidded bin.

I’m more amazed that all 30 bins are emptied everyday 😄

Kitchen and bathrooms.

I still do a sweep where I grab an empty loo roll bag and go through the draws/cupboards in my bedroom/bathroom once a fortnight and fill up said bag with rubbish/items that have been shoved in places because 'I might need/use them' but never will.

Our bins are not emptied every day - which is the fatal flaw in my plan @Wigtopia 😊

Why do they need emptying every day?

Ours are not (bathrooms and kitchen only) but I’m surprised by those that sept have one in almost every room and say they empty them daily!

Kitchen, all bathrooms, my bedroom, DC bedrooms

Every room. Why wouldn't you?

On the subject of the "bottom of the stairs pile" @soupfiend - until recently we had a handy basket at the bottom of the stairs. Its purpose was to nicely gather things that belonged upstairs ready for them to be tidied away.

In reality things sat in the basket for ages gathering dust. I ended up rehoming the basket.