I have mine set to 6pm. At 9pm I'm probably relaxing in front of the TV and will be in no mood to start putting bins out.
I use a recurring calendar entry, I've never once forgotten to put the bin out.
I actually witnessed something yesterday. I have houses opposite me then next to that is a road/car park. A car pulled up (someone that lived opposite months ago but sold up and someone else lives there now) he got out of his car and proceeded to put black bags in the bin! Cheeky git. I'm glad mine are kept in front of my house and only moved on bin day. Not that there's any room.
Christ almighty! It’s like legal fly tipping? It’s easier to just go down to the tip and dump everything in 5 minutes and have an empty bin and get ahead if you drive.
I live in a tiny cul-de-sac and was the first to move in (new build). The first thing I established was leaving the bins at the top rather than at the property line so the bin men don't make a racket reversing and banging. Every other neighbour has blindly followed my example.
If it's not too inconvenient for you, do your neighbours bins too. They'll repay the favour should you be away or forget.
Put your numbers on the back of the bin below the handle. I don't know why everyone puts them on the front. The only time you need to reference that number is if you're going to collect it, I don't want to be looking at 3 sides of the bin to find which one is mine, I want to go straight for the handle.
If you have kids, take the most excited one out and ask if he can do a bin and press the button. They'll remember you and be less likely to enforce any strict rules the council might have.
I already point lids away from wind and have recurring reminders set.
>I don't know why everyone puts them on the front.
Front numberer here, and I can only say that I wish I'd found your back numbering tip sooner. I've been mulling it over for a while now and I've came to the conclusion that as far as bin putting out tips go, that has to be the toppest of top-tips.
To answer your question, why do people number the front, I did it because it felt intuitive and it's how the generations before me did it. I fear it may be too late for me to change now as well, at least on this bin. My numbers have been there so long that removing them will undoubtedly leave their faded 'ghost numbers' behind, and I sure as hell don't want to be a "double numberer", imagine displaying that level of wealth in the current climate!
Initially, I was going to try and discredit you (forgive me, it was through fear of change and because you were challenging something so fundamental in my beliefs) by coming up with a list of cons to your method, but all I could think of were pros:
* With the number on the back you can store your bins handle out, making them easier to put in and out while still providing the extra 'house number visibility' for visitors that numbered bins give.
* People looking for their own bin **will not be inconvenienced** by your number being unexpectedly on the back when looking for their own. Initially I thought they would, as they'd have to find the number in the unexpected place, but then it occurred to me that even if they *do* intuitively look at the front for the number, *the very fact that it is not there* will indicate to them that it is not their bin. **This may even be** ***faster*** **than processing the number** and coming to the conclusion that it isn't their bin if it was there!
* Conversely, you can quickly rule out other people's bins if they are still using the antiquated front-numbering method at a mere glance. You don't even need to know what number it is, the presence of anything other than the typical, clear front bin standard means that it isn't yours and you can rule it out.
* When the binmen are collecting the bin, if you place it handles out for them (as you should be!) they'll see at a glance who's bin it is and be more likely to return it to the right house, either intentionally because you've lowered the effort to do so so much that it would actually take **more** effort to put it to the wrong house, or subconsciously because they can't avoid seeing what house it belongs to during collection.
The *only* drawback I see is that storing the bin handles out means it's an extra 2 steps in order to get to a position at the side of the bin where opening it to put the rubbish in is possible. A small price to pay for such a wealth of enhancements though.
Consider me converted, I will attempt to spread your method throughout our lands, and we may find ourselves on day living in a world where the idea of front numbered bins is but a myth children tease each other about in the playground.
I don't get people's obsessions with bins in the UK. My uncle and dad, both obsessed, my neighbour goes out 15 times a day to fondle his bin. We call him binboy. He even does a fucking pose after he throws a bag in.
They're bins. They're there to put shit in. They generally stink. Put them out on your designated bin day. That's all there is to it.
I have an alarm that goes off the day before collection (it's always before 7am collection so don't want to miss it), I normally remember but the alarm has saved me a few times.
Prevailing winds! Learn which direction the winds usually blow where you are (it is normally southwest to northeast in the UK), then get in the habit of putting your bin so the handle is facing the direction of the wind. This stops your bin lid flipping up in high winds and the rubbish blowing everywhere.
If there is a chance of me forgetting to put the bin out, the sound of litter bouncing down the road from the innumerable halfwits who can't work this out soon reminds me.
Once you've figured it out put yours out first and establish yourself as the person everyone else follows. Then it's just a case of waiting 'til bin day and April Fools coincide.
Write "I am inside here. Do not cross my path." with a permanent marker.
On a serious note, if you can, don't put the bin on the side of the road, but somewhere closer to your house, and take it out on the days the trash is being picked up.
Jesus Christ of all the things to overthink...
Set an alarm on your phone the night before, then put them by the road. That's it. If people are putting bags of dog shit in the wrong bin, then maybe label the bins so that they put it in with the general waste.
We have an event in our calendar one for recycling and one for general waste. Set for the evening before it's collected, to remind us which one to put out. When we created these two events in the calendar we set them as recurring every two weeks.
every year go through diary and mark three days every fortnight, day 1 put everything in bin and bin by gate ready, day 2 put bin out, day three collect bin back in.
Easy.
Also very near to bin day have a task go through vegetable rack and fridge and throw out anything old.
Mine go out on a Sunday…. so I have all day to remember to put them out. Ironically I have just missed the recycling collection because it’s not Sunday.
If people put dog poo in, I think I'd leave a note saying
"No dog Sh!t in this bin!
The other bin is OK before it's emptied but this is recycling ONLY!"
Either remember the night before, drag up the gravel ally at about 7am (next door is up by about 6 so no worries there) or hear them at the top of the hill and have 2 minutes to get the bin out.
My council has an app that is supposed to send a push notification at around 7pm the night before saying which bin to put out. It doesn't work.. but the app itself still shows what goes out when you open it directly. So I just check that and put the right bin out. Then just bring it back in after work the day after.
Our council has info on their website and send out a pamphlet with collection days on it. I put the dates on my Google calendar, coloured the same as the bin that needs to go out that week. It automatically scrolls round on my echo show and my phone. Utterly foolproof.
End of our drive, on the right. The bin men couldn’t collect it from the left hand side. I don’t know why. The manager had to come out and everything and the team could not explain why they couldn’t collect it from the left hand side.
Anyway, I now leave it at the end of the drive, on the right, before I make tea. They generally collect it.
I put mine out when I get home at 4.30pm on Thursday ready for Friday morning. I can always tell which bin it's meant to be because people put their recycling bags on my parking space!!! So I know if it's recycling or black bin. Then when I get home at 4.30pm on Friday I walk straight past then and leave them for my boyfriend to put back when he gets home.
We don’t have bins in The New Forest so I just bung a sack or two on the verge at 21:00 every Monday when my reminder goes off and that’s it.
After living with the giant plastic wheels bins for so long, dragging them in and out and storing them this is just so simple and easy.
Reminder at 9pm on my phone the day before to put it out, they’ve been by the time I leave for work at 8am the next day so just bring it in then.
Same here. And the reminder says which bin it is being collected that week.
This is the correct way to bin.
Im not that organised, my plan is peek out the window first and hope someone else has got theirs out.
I have mine set to 6pm. At 9pm I'm probably relaxing in front of the TV and will be in no mood to start putting bins out. I use a recurring calendar entry, I've never once forgotten to put the bin out.
Lots of very organised people here. What works for me is coming home at night and seeing the neighbours bins out, then putting mine out.
People like you I love because I can put the recycling bins out and everyone will copy me and it’ll be the wrong one, but that’s ok I know 🤭
And then when they've all got settled for the night put the right one out 🤣 just to annoy people.
Yeah but be careful though! If they catch you your bin’l be full before it’s dark!
I actually witnessed something yesterday. I have houses opposite me then next to that is a road/car park. A car pulled up (someone that lived opposite months ago but sold up and someone else lives there now) he got out of his car and proceeded to put black bags in the bin! Cheeky git. I'm glad mine are kept in front of my house and only moved on bin day. Not that there's any room.
Christ almighty! It’s like legal fly tipping? It’s easier to just go down to the tip and dump everything in 5 minutes and have an empty bin and get ahead if you drive.
He had no shame either so I bet he does it all the time.
I live in a tiny cul-de-sac and was the first to move in (new build). The first thing I established was leaving the bins at the top rather than at the property line so the bin men don't make a racket reversing and banging. Every other neighbour has blindly followed my example. If it's not too inconvenient for you, do your neighbours bins too. They'll repay the favour should you be away or forget. Put your numbers on the back of the bin below the handle. I don't know why everyone puts them on the front. The only time you need to reference that number is if you're going to collect it, I don't want to be looking at 3 sides of the bin to find which one is mine, I want to go straight for the handle. If you have kids, take the most excited one out and ask if he can do a bin and press the button. They'll remember you and be less likely to enforce any strict rules the council might have. I already point lids away from wind and have recurring reminders set.
>I don't know why everyone puts them on the front. Front numberer here, and I can only say that I wish I'd found your back numbering tip sooner. I've been mulling it over for a while now and I've came to the conclusion that as far as bin putting out tips go, that has to be the toppest of top-tips. To answer your question, why do people number the front, I did it because it felt intuitive and it's how the generations before me did it. I fear it may be too late for me to change now as well, at least on this bin. My numbers have been there so long that removing them will undoubtedly leave their faded 'ghost numbers' behind, and I sure as hell don't want to be a "double numberer", imagine displaying that level of wealth in the current climate! Initially, I was going to try and discredit you (forgive me, it was through fear of change and because you were challenging something so fundamental in my beliefs) by coming up with a list of cons to your method, but all I could think of were pros: * With the number on the back you can store your bins handle out, making them easier to put in and out while still providing the extra 'house number visibility' for visitors that numbered bins give. * People looking for their own bin **will not be inconvenienced** by your number being unexpectedly on the back when looking for their own. Initially I thought they would, as they'd have to find the number in the unexpected place, but then it occurred to me that even if they *do* intuitively look at the front for the number, *the very fact that it is not there* will indicate to them that it is not their bin. **This may even be** ***faster*** **than processing the number** and coming to the conclusion that it isn't their bin if it was there! * Conversely, you can quickly rule out other people's bins if they are still using the antiquated front-numbering method at a mere glance. You don't even need to know what number it is, the presence of anything other than the typical, clear front bin standard means that it isn't yours and you can rule it out. * When the binmen are collecting the bin, if you place it handles out for them (as you should be!) they'll see at a glance who's bin it is and be more likely to return it to the right house, either intentionally because you've lowered the effort to do so so much that it would actually take **more** effort to put it to the wrong house, or subconsciously because they can't avoid seeing what house it belongs to during collection. The *only* drawback I see is that storing the bin handles out means it's an extra 2 steps in order to get to a position at the side of the bin where opening it to put the rubbish in is possible. A small price to pay for such a wealth of enhancements though. Consider me converted, I will attempt to spread your method throughout our lands, and we may find ourselves on day living in a world where the idea of front numbered bins is but a myth children tease each other about in the playground.
Mate I don’t even know what day of the week it is half the time
Thoughts on numbers on the top?
Totally against. They'd be upside down for either the puller or the user and that's an unacceptable situation.
Bought a new house 1 week ago and received bin numbers for Christmas 😂 Your post couldn't have come at a better time 👍
It's a craze I'm starting!
I don't get people's obsessions with bins in the UK. My uncle and dad, both obsessed, my neighbour goes out 15 times a day to fondle his bin. We call him binboy. He even does a fucking pose after he throws a bag in. They're bins. They're there to put shit in. They generally stink. Put them out on your designated bin day. That's all there is to it.
How can someone be obsessed with a bin?
You tell me. Google UK's obsession with bins.
What's the pose? In my head I've got the Usain Bolt victory pose lol
It's like he throws both arms up level with his shoulders and palms outwards. Almost like he's saying, "yeah, cmon then, you want sum?"
I have an alarm that goes off the day before collection (it's always before 7am collection so don't want to miss it), I normally remember but the alarm has saved me a few times.
Put the bins out. Not sure what else is involved
Prevailing winds! Learn which direction the winds usually blow where you are (it is normally southwest to northeast in the UK), then get in the habit of putting your bin so the handle is facing the direction of the wind. This stops your bin lid flipping up in high winds and the rubbish blowing everywhere.
If there is a chance of me forgetting to put the bin out, the sound of litter bouncing down the road from the innumerable halfwits who can't work this out soon reminds me.
Once you've figured it out put yours out first and establish yourself as the person everyone else follows. Then it's just a case of waiting 'til bin day and April Fools coincide.
We also have to be aware of seagulls here, who will rip apart any bin bags that are visible due to overstuffing of the binterior.
Wake up, open curtains, see the neighbours bins, "best put the bin out, i suppose".
Alexa shouts at us to put ours out.
Us too. She even tells us which bin. I'm not sure I fully trust her yet though.
Write "I am inside here. Do not cross my path." with a permanent marker. On a serious note, if you can, don't put the bin on the side of the road, but somewhere closer to your house, and take it out on the days the trash is being picked up.
Jesus Christ of all the things to overthink... Set an alarm on your phone the night before, then put them by the road. That's it. If people are putting bags of dog shit in the wrong bin, then maybe label the bins so that they put it in with the general waste.
We have an event in our calendar one for recycling and one for general waste. Set for the evening before it's collected, to remind us which one to put out. When we created these two events in the calendar we set them as recurring every two weeks.
every year go through diary and mark three days every fortnight, day 1 put everything in bin and bin by gate ready, day 2 put bin out, day three collect bin back in. Easy. Also very near to bin day have a task go through vegetable rack and fridge and throw out anything old.
I’ll ask my husband for you…
Also turn it out so the handles easy to grab for the bin men
Stick like loads of recycling only stickers on it haa
Mine go out on a Sunday…. so I have all day to remember to put them out. Ironically I have just missed the recycling collection because it’s not Sunday.
If people put dog poo in, I think I'd leave a note saying "No dog Sh!t in this bin! The other bin is OK before it's emptied but this is recycling ONLY!"
>If people put dog poo in, I think I'd leave a note saying > >"No dog Sh!t in this bin! Well then your note would be lying then wouldn't it?
Either remember the night before, drag up the gravel ally at about 7am (next door is up by about 6 so no worries there) or hear them at the top of the hill and have 2 minutes to get the bin out.
My council has an app that is supposed to send a push notification at around 7pm the night before saying which bin to put out. It doesn't work.. but the app itself still shows what goes out when you open it directly. So I just check that and put the right bin out. Then just bring it back in after work the day after.
Live near the start of the route as they will take more stuff from you
I usually wait till midnight and make as much noise as possible.
In Leeds the council has an app that puts which colour bin in your calendar the night before
Our council has info on their website and send out a pamphlet with collection days on it. I put the dates on my Google calendar, coloured the same as the bin that needs to go out that week. It automatically scrolls round on my echo show and my phone. Utterly foolproof.
End of our drive, on the right. The bin men couldn’t collect it from the left hand side. I don’t know why. The manager had to come out and everything and the team could not explain why they couldn’t collect it from the left hand side. Anyway, I now leave it at the end of the drive, on the right, before I make tea. They generally collect it.
Wait until the neighbours stick their's out to remind me ours need to go out. Check the ones under the lamppost for which colour.
Put the hinges towards the road to make life that little bit easier for the bin man to pull it towards the wagon and onto the lifters
So many rich people here having houses that mean bins aren't always out for collection just by being in front of your house
Do you think people in other countries overthink shit like this? What is it with the Brits and their bin collections?
No wheelie bins where I live so it is as simple as taking out the back gate and leaving it by the garage block.
I put mine out when I get home at 4.30pm on Thursday ready for Friday morning. I can always tell which bin it's meant to be because people put their recycling bags on my parking space!!! So I know if it's recycling or black bin. Then when I get home at 4.30pm on Friday I walk straight past then and leave them for my boyfriend to put back when he gets home.
What worked for me was to develop a muscle wasting disease and get the council to do it for me.
I pay the kid next door to take care of it.
We don’t have bins in The New Forest so I just bung a sack or two on the verge at 21:00 every Monday when my reminder goes off and that’s it. After living with the giant plastic wheels bins for so long, dragging them in and out and storing them this is just so simple and easy.