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?

Yep, is yours a 'stair basket'?

Ours is, I dont think its been moved once out of position.

Because it's a good habit to add to the rest of the good habits that result in a clean and tidy house.

"Because it's a good habit to add to the rest of the good habits that result in a clean and tidy house."

I suspect it is the absence of these habits that mean I do not have a tidy home.

Every room has a general bin. The kitchen and bathroom have extra ones for recycling.

The ones in the sitting room and dining room are waste paper baskets and mainly collect matches and spent tea lights/candles, maybe a sweetie wrapper here and there or other little scraps. The bins are really just there to keep all those bits from being left all over the place, since I can't stand clutter. They're emptied when they get about half full, which can take a while.

The bedroom bin is also a waste paper basket, and mostly collects tissues, medicine packets, packaging from toiletries and so on. I'll empty it once a week when we change our bedding, or obviously more often if needed.

Bathroom bin gets emptied when it's approaching getting full, which generally is every few days to a week.

The ones in the kitchen, and the recycling bins under the stairs, are emptied more often and just taken outside and put in the relevant wheelie bin.

When our house is finished being half building site I will probably start an evening routine of emptying all bins just to keep things even nicer.

I really miss living in a small flat where I could zip around and easily keep on top of cleaning and tidying routines.

All the downstairs rooms (whihc includes the kitchen and a toilet). And the bathrooms

Ive got a clean and tidy house but the waste paper baskets in the various rooms dont need emptying every day, they get emptied when they're full.

Every room. The bathrooms on the top two floors also have a recycling bin in so that people can just walk to the bathroom on the floor they’re on rather than having to take recycling down 3/4 flights of stairs. All emptied once a week or sooner if full (or daily if someone is ill and the bin is full of snotty tissues)

I am so surprised how many bins people have?! I think if I put a bin in the kids' rooms it would mean waste would be mixed with recycling and all end up in the black bin. I don't think it's too much effort to take rubbish down to the kitchen tbh.

I have 2 bags hung on my bedroom wardrobe doors and they have recycling in them for upstairs (one for empty bottles and one for card/paper). Then there are bins for general waste in each room.

Why would having bins in every room = bins full of rubbish? Mine get emptied every day if needed, it takes a few minutes.

Kitchen, both bathrooms, all 4 bedrooms.

Every room except the living room (right next to the kitchen), dining room and hall.
Then they need emptying, which the kids do not do nearly often enough.

Two under 10 DC & a DH that leaves things where he’s finished with them so we have them in living room, play room, bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchen (but rubbish still gets left on the table 😡).

We are also naturally untidy. I try, but it’s an uphill struggle. I could have a tidy house if I did it all, but then I’d raise two boys who would expect their wives to tidy up after them so I leave it to them then have regulate battles to get them to do a 10 minute in anything less than 90 mins. It’s fun.

I saw a FB reel the other day that might just change our lives…”Don’t put it down, put it away”. I say it in my head and several times a day to the DC and it seems to work!!

Kitchen (3 recyclables in one cupboard) and bathroom, we just take stuff to the nearest bin. We're a tidy family. Seems much less faff than emptying 15 bins about the place! Gets the steps in too.

Every room