Binned

All went well this week, the bins went out 2 hours before collection. Instead of 24 hours before, as bin fancier was doing. Mystery solved, it's a local woman, who goes through everyone's recycling looking for magazines, that she can take instead of buying them. At least, it wasnt a male stalker. Alls well that ends well.

put a little note on it , saying please leave my bin where it is .

Perhaps keep good relations with the neighbours. You never know when you might need their help.

@GrauntyHelen How very ungrateful

Why ? Are you disabled ? Do you know the unintended consequences of kind acts carried out from the perspective of an able bodied person who can’t appreciate the difficulties faced by the disabled? No disabled person I know (and that includes myself) would dream of being ungrateful for the help received from kind people. All she, and I are saying is that it would be better for people to enquire as to what is helpful and what is not. What’s wrong with that ?

everyone keeps them out front here.
never heard of dragging them through house, not since i was an infant with the old metal ones with ashes in them. and had to be carried.
people would refuse to do that round here. they'd just leave them on pavement if no frontage.
but then i'd never heard of people crossing your garden for wheelbarrow access until i read MN. is it ooop north ?

4allweknow

You can lock a bin store.

many people have no room for a bin store, or live in rented accomm and not at liberty to build one.

That's great news.
Glad you've solved the issue.

Problem solved. Bought a bin store. Had it erected in back garden. All recycling can now go out at last minute so I have recycled everything I need to.... basically I put it by front door 2 save me from tripping over it in hallway. Well... at least I still feel independent... for now. Thanks all

How to be grateful about something that makes life more difficult?
Disabled people are just that. People!
Would everyone appreciate others interfering with the way they do things, without checking first?
I wouldn't.

How very ungrateful

I am not sure where you live, but if you have a shared hallway or front garden, maybe the person who moves it is being helpful or is fed up with your rubbish sitting about until the last minute? So in answer to your OP, yes you are being unreasonable!

@BlueBelle. But the point is, that in a lot of cases random kindness to a disabled person perceived as struggling, is not necessarily helpful to that person. I’m not being unkind or ungrateful but disability is a personal issue and most disabled people have their own way of doing things which may seem unwieldy or awkward to someone able bodied. I’ve been at the receiving end of a few random acts of kindness which have had unintended and difficult consequences. Would far rather be asked, that’s all I’m saying.

….….but original poster doesn’t have assisted collection ??‍♀️ So not relevant oh blimey it’s such a minor bit of help

I'm glad somebody agrees.
What a pain, though, having to provide medical evidence again.

@MissAdventure. I agree with you. I have a disability and I’m always grateful when some kind person offers to help, but there IS a downside to not finding out what is appropriate and what is not. For example, I have an assisted collection for my bins as I can’t move them - this means that the bin men collect them from outside my back door, empty them and then put them back. When we first moved here a couple of years ago, a kind neighbour put the bins out for me, which resulted in the council stopping the assisted collection because the bin men had reported that the bins were put out as normal at the end of the drive and they assumed I no longer needed the help. It took weeks to put right and I had to provide another lot of medical evidence to back up the request. I’ve also found that on some occasions when I’ve politely declined the help offered and pointed out that I’m better left to my way of doing things, I’ve been regarded as having a chip on my shoulder.

If you have mobility problems that mean you have difficulty with your bins or recycling boxes, contact your local council to see if they have any, more suitable, alternatives for you. I have a disability and our bin men collect the bins from the passageway at the side of our house, empty them and then put them back. They do the same with the recycling boxes as I can’t manage to carry them. Alternatively, I agree, a polite note asking for the boxes to be left there until bin day is probably the answer.

They tear open any bags they find here.
They don't worry what colour it is.

I'm wondering why foxes would want to feast on recycling?

It does seem that way, but the point has been made several times that the op values her independence.
It is causing her stress, so I don't think that is particularly helpful, whatever any of us may think.

missadventure of course I didn’t mean that, we are talking about a specific thing a person who isn’t very mobile leaving her bin near her door and someone when taking their own out thinking they are doing a favour surely that’s not beyond reason or kindness
I m not talking about a neighbour painting her front door or weeding her garden without talking it over it just seems such a small kindness to get in a tizz over

Does your food waste bin not have a “locking” lid to keep animals out? Ours are council provided and once you lower the handle down it locks the lid in place.

Minerva

Are you my neighbour? Shall I stop trying to help?

Are they causing an obstruction? Perhaps someone feels they are an eyesore left in (what I assume is) a communal area for longer than necessary.

You don't agree with people finding out what will actually help someone before doing it?
Fair enough.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that.

I don’t agree over this missadventure it’s hardly interfering to see a bin waiting, know the neighbour can’t walk much, and put it out for her My friends neighbour always does that for her, automatically when he does his own bin He doesn’t ask permission and she’s very grateful He brings it back too
I think user is really making a mountain out of a molehill
I don’t think foxes or cats are going to bother with a recycling bin and as others have said surely between 3 pm and 8 am the next day you haven’t made mountains of recycling

I actually can’t work out the logistics of users hall / bins etc etc she spoke of her recycling being moved but in the second post it’s the food bin that’s worrying her ??

Maybe your neighbour thinks they are being helpful so best leave a note to explain you would rather do it yourself. I put out bins for 2 elderly neighbours every week and spray the handles at the minute cos of Covid. One of them gave me a box of chocolates and a wine gift bag and inside it was a bleach spray which we both roared with laughter at. They can't thank me enough for doing it for them.