Bins

Look at your council website and see what their policy is regarding leaving bins out. Most councils will issue a fine if the bins are left on a pubic road after designated collection day, so you may want to try advising your neighbour of this. If things don’t change, reporting to the council seems to be the only alternative. Don’t they find it tedious, going out into the road to put stuff in the bin ?

With regard to others putting their vile garbage and other unmentionables into neighbours’ bins, we solved this at our tenanted property after the tenant moved out.
My chap drilled a small hole in the wheelie lid and another hole into the bin itself. We passed a reasonably fine but strong chain through both holes. A small combination padlock kept it closed until the new tenant took over. Worked a treat & the bins remained sanitised.

I'd be more worried if they start filling my half empty bin with their garbage.

I'd be very tempted to lose them somewhere when it's dark. Hide them in someone else's garden or far down the street, but don't complain about them before you do it, as she'll know it was you. I think your neighbour is a bit ignorant.

Just shift it - and continue to until she gets the message - her behaviour is not OK

My house has only a front garden and she has the back garden so she has to put her bin out on the pavement. The bin men came today and she is the only one who hasn't taken her bin in. I'll see what happens.

She eventually moved it after a week. If it happens again I will have a friendly word with her. She'll left it on the pavement. None of my other neighbours have ever done this. Thanks for all the responses and suggestions.

Perhaps she’s busy sorting out her bins!

Where is Hippie20?

Is your neighbour able to easily move her bins? Although I’m perfectly able to bring mine in my younger neighbour usually shoots outside, as soon as the bins have been emptied, and parks mine by my side gate. I do the same for her, if she doesn’t beat me to it.
If your neighbour is less able, why not do the same. Otherwise, just move them to her gateway each week, until she gets the message. Life’s too short to work yourself up about trivialities.

Put them back outside her house.

Hide them down the street.

There’s a brilliant ‘bin’ thread on Mumsnet at the moment.
Councillor substituting his dirty bin for neighbour’s freshly cleaned one .

‘To go round’

Just thinking if she doesn’t have her bin, where does she put her rubbish?

Yes that recently happened to my son , he’s only young and lives alone he messaged me to tell me the neighbours bins were tipped out by animals outside his house. Oh the mess was awful , I noticed in a photo he sent me that the bins were left outside all week next to the house. My son leaves his out the back of the house and brings out the bags on rubbish collection day. I sent the photo to the council and the photos of nappies and mess everywhere . Next day bins gone from the front of the houses and all rubbish cleared the council sorted it out oh my god it was grosse!

We only leave our bins out on collection day, my neigbour and I take each others bins in again if one of us isnt home.
Hippie 20 just leave them back at the neighbours house and she might realise what she has done.

Hippie where have you gone?
I know we're all repeating the same thing "move them yourself until she gets the message" - are you not bothering to reply because this is not an option?
We don't have a clear understanding of the set-up on your street - for instance, how wide is the pavement, are your drives next to each other or a house width apart?
I can't understand WHY she would put them in front of your garden in the first place- what's the point?

Just move them into her driveway/garden. Takes 2 minutes, then you don't have to look at them, maybe she will take the hint.
Don't stress the small stuff, just move the bloody things.
Yes, it's totally not your job, but it's just a means to an end.
Think of it as paying it forward..... Good Luck.

This has been an issue at my house too. I look after hubby who is bedridden and carers call three times a day. They park on my drive and don't usually cause a problem but last she put both her bins right across the top of my drive so they couldn't even get out of their car on the pavement side. Every week she puts her bins on my drive so in the morning she can just drive in and out whenever she likes but blocks my drive.

Just move the in front there house . She might get the message then .

ElderlyPerson

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Are the bins labelled with the house number of the house to which it relates?

If so, are those numbers large and clear?

All my bins have large numbers on them; doesn't stop the bin men from leaving them several houses away.

So sorry Hippie20, I hope this can be resolved amicably. In my previous property my neighbour would come into my drive to trim his plants - and drop his fag ends. As a reformed smoker I found this infuriating, but never mentioned it, I wish I had.

Saying that, I hadn't realised how lucky I was to have had a big drive where my bins lived all year round, now I've downsized to a bungalow it seems to be like a competition of sorts and people 'talk' if your bin is still out after a certain time! Nothing better to do.

I started putting a pack of biscuits on my bin at the rental at the start of lockdown last March, and have continued to do so here at my new property .... my bin is pushed back by this nice crew.

My neighbour did this many years ago, when the wheelie bins were initially introduced. I moved it to her driveway and of course she couldn’t get her car in without getting out of her car to move her bin. Oddly she stopped placing it at the front of my house. Good luck.

And

Are the bins labelled with the house number of the house to which it relates?

If so, are those numbers large and clear?

Can you clarify please?

Where does your local council require you to put your bin?

For example, on the pavement, at the edge of your property, on a grass verge (if any) between the path and the road.

Are the bins wheelie bins or the traditional dustbin that you needed to buy from a shop?

Who owns the bin? The residents, the council, the contractors?

Where does your neighbour place the bin?

Where do you place your bin?

Is your neighbour's bin on your property, on the pavement, on a grass verge or in the road, or what?

Does your neighbour put anything into the bin while it is outside your house?

Does your neighbour place the bin there or is it just where the dustbin people leave it?

Is it always placed in the same place or does it vary?

Is it possible that your neighbour cannot physically move the bin and is thus stuck with where the dustbin people leave it?

What does the council include in the contract with the contractor?

Is the council paying for work that is not being carried out?