Are you a 'binfluencer'?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

Grantanow My OH family is in S Somerset - brilliant service there and we found the tidy-tips to be both friendly and well organised, best we've found and with the family spread far and wide we have had cause to visit many! Cherish them!

Our collections in South Somerset seem to work well and they have a calendar leaflet as well as emailing for holiday changes. No complaints from me at least.

My nephew puts out the appropriate bin for me the night before. If the bin men leave it in front of my gate I drag it in. However if they leave it across the street I wait til the next time nephew comes around and he brings it in. With mobility problems even the empty bins are getting a problem for me. Every time he leaves he takes a black bin bag of my stuff with him and dumps it in the communal bin at his flats. That way I dont have to bother with the bins too often. Its a boring chore.

I never touch the bins. My husband has always done them, so it has never occured to me to.

My neighbour who is single does her own bins, but I dont suppose she has a choice.

Hetty58

If in doubt, I just check the council website. I'm amazed at the number of neighbours who always put bins out, on the usual day, following a bank holiday!

But sometimes they come on the usual day, and sometimes a day late.
Not complaining, I'm always pleased and grateful that they come at all. I just enjoy that the whole thing feels like a game sometimes.
Kate1949 Our elderly neighbour puts our bin away for us!
Minimoon Good luck!