Are you a 'binfluencer'?

Well its Tuesday, so if I'm out and about on the Monday I can see in adjoining area which colour it is, but I've got both the council calendar propped up and a most reliable neighbour across the road to colour check with too.

When there is a bank holiday on the Monday they still come on the Tuesday. I always wonder what happens to the Monday people.

We get a fridge magnet wth all the dates and colours on. Failing that we could see what everyone else puts out.

Except when he’s away now and then, dh does them, so I never know which bin to put out except by seeing which the neighbours have put out - so always fairly late evening.

All our bins are put out on the same day apart from the garden waste which goes out every other week. Must be a nightmare for all of you trying to remember which bin ,which day!

We live diagonally opposite the street's binfluencer. He's never wrong and because he puts them out early we can all follow suit.

Ours are out today as we were reminded on our estate's Facebook page. Ours are usually first out.
Our binmen work Tuesday to Saturday to minimise Bank Holiday disruption.

Yes, I probably am a 'binfluencer' as I'm normally first out with them. I swap them round so that the one nearest the gate is the one which turn it is to go out. It's also written on the kitchen calendar.

However, there's always the odd time when I forget completely, (after seeing neighbours' bins out) and have to make a mad dash out with coat over dressing gown because even I'm not infallible.

For many years my next door neighbour has had an obsession about bins, rubbish and drains.

One day last year I brought in her green garden waste bin by mistake and she came around ranting and raving. I had hurt my knee and was barely able to walk. My nephew was due in 2 days so I told her that he would swap the bins over and bring hers back as I was unable to do so. Bear in mind that you only use the garden waste bin about once a week (she had the same gardener as myself) so there was obviously no hurry to get it back. She flew into such a temper. My nephew gave her a good telling off when he did return the bin.

A couple of weeks later all her bins mysteriously ended up in a back alley and did not get emptied that week. Oh dear ...

Do none of you binfluencers put out your neighbour's bins.

It's almost a race to be the most 'helpful' person around here!

Binfluencer! Love it.
Certainly not us on our road.

Cannot understand this obsession with bins. Dont you people have any hobbies? Time to get a life.

kittylester

Do none of you binfluencers put out your neighbour's bins.

It's almost a race to be the most 'helpful' person around here!

I have a ‘bin fairy’ who lives next door.

Think that I might be. Although I sometimes get it wrong. Just about to put mine out and I have checked with the Council website that my hunch is right.

You need to get your "Waste Disposal Service" or whatever the correct term for "binmen" is these days, to introduce the same service as ours.

They send a text message to those of us who want it, the day before the bins are due to be emptied reminding us that the following day is bin day, and which bins to put out.

This saves both them and us a lot of mistakes.

Gosh grandtanteJE65 that sounds very posh!! What a good idea. Not sure that my local council would be up for it though!

biglouis not an obsession at all, just one of the minor amusements of life. It's fun!

biglouis

Cannot understand this obsession with bins. Dont you people have any hobbies? Time to get a life.

No, nothing whatsoever going on in our lives, and it's called binmania.

biglouis

Cannot understand this obsession with bins. Dont you people have any hobbies? Time to get a life.

I did think this myself at one point. And also LOLed at the lady who pitied her single neighbour for having to put her own bins out.

Bigger fish and all that.

Bins and recycling are such a complicated business these days, though.
Not all of our rubbish goes in bins, some goes in boxes, some in different coloured bags. I daren't move house to a different area because it's a different country there.
Updating the recycling spreadsheets keeps me out of mischief.

My DH knows which bins on which alternate weeks but he does stress about it over Christmas when the schedule doesn’t run the same. Easily solved. I check on our councils website where it’s all listed. 9 am ours are emptied every week. You could almost set your clock by them. It’s very good.
At our old house, you were lucky if they got emptied on the correct day.

I'd make a rubbish binfluencer, as I rarely put mine out. Not enough in them to bother.