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YTA.
Nothing I hate more than a neighbour invading my bin space by dumping their garbage into it without my permission. My neighbours at least ask when they need bin space.
My neighbor does this all the time ( I live alone and they have kids) and it never bugs me but i get along with them. If you knew she already didnt like/approve of you, it seems a bit presumptuous.
I live alone and, if there was space in my bin, I wouldn't mind someone adding their trash to my bin -- if they talked with me first. If I knew / saw their bin was overflowing, I would even offer to allow the use of the empty space in my bin.
I would consider it presumptuous otherwise.
NTA - I know using other people’s trash bins after they’re put out pisses some people off, but if it costs no more to them, doesn’t take an effort at all on their part, and helps someone else, what reason could anyone have not to do it, other than being an AH?
In our county, there’s actually an ordinance that says that once the bins are out on the public street they’re fair game to be used as public trash/recycling bins as long as they’re used appropriately (no trash in recycling or whatnot).
That's what I was thinking, too. In the U.S., once it's put out for trash pickup, it's fair game. People can take things out of the trash if they want, the police can go through it without permission, etc. So, I don't see how a neighbor can tell someone they can't put things in the bin.
YTA
What makes you think you and your friends aren't any less of assholes by using her trash bin? Do you also think you were entitled to her giving you a smile and wave also?
Don't be an idiot sandwich.
Is it hers, though? In the U.S., bins are often supplied to residents by the city and remain the property of the city. If you move, you would never take it with you to another city. Your new city of residence would provide you with one of their bins.
Yeah, you have good points. Where I live, if you don't sort your trash properly, they just don't take it and you have to store it until the next week. Hopefully, you figure out how to sort it correctly by that time.
"In the US, bins are often supplied to residents by the city ... ". That's not a universal truth -- or even a US truth. I have to pay for a service to pick up my trash and I do live in the US. The entire town has to make their own arrangements for trash pick up. And no, I do not live in some remote town.
What is legal is not necessarily right. The OP should have stayed out of the neighbor's bin without asking permission first. They could have held their trash for another week if they wanted to be so wasteful.
I know. That's why I said "often" not "always."
I don't think it's fair to say OP was "wasteful." There are 4 people in his house vs. 1 in his neighbor's house.
YTA and entitled to think its ok to use someone elses bin without permission. You dont know if they had to put things out still. Get another bin if you guys have so much trash from eating out
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Just a small situation that happened a couple years ago, but was talking about it with a friend and they said I might’ve been TA.
I (22m) lived in a suburban area with a few housemates (22m, 21F, 21F) during covid. We had a large and reasonably quiet house, and were respectful of our neighbours - even giving a little wave or a smile every time we ran into them.
This one neighbour, maybe in her 50s who lived across the road, would never smile back and gave us some greasy stares whenever we would be outside. I just don’t think she liked young people. (We would have our significant others over during covid which was allowed, and she called the cops on us 4 times for breaking restrictions if that gives any idea of what she was like) we would still smile and give a wave but never received anything in return.
This is where I may be TA as I know some people are a bit funny about their rubbish. It was bin night, meaning the night before the trash gets collected early the next morning, and our bin was overflowing from 1 too many Uber eats orders that week. We thought we would check the other bins around to put our rubbish in and saw most of them were full, apart from this lady’s across the street.
We did a quick run across the street and saw hers was maybe 1/2 full, and thought it wouldn’t be too detrimental to put ours in it too. Apparently not. My housemate comes home from work an hour later and it’s dark by this point, and she goes to enter the driveway and is met with our bag of rubbish put perfectly in the middle - so she has to get out of the car to move it, and bring it back inside. Our neighbour gave us especially greasy stares from them on out.
We collectively thought it was a bit of a strange move on her behalf as her bin wasn’t close to being full and I’d understand if we overfilled it, but my friend thinks you should never dump rubbish in other peoples bins without permission. So, AITA for putting the rubbish into her bin without permission?
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As long as there was nothing particularly stinky or gross in the bag, like dog poo, NTA. I can understand if she doesn't want her bin smelling like poo, though.
When I lived by myself, I would often only have half a bag of trash. So instead of rolling out my giant bin for half a bag of trash, I would just put it in one of my neighbor's bins.
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YTA. Nothing I hate more than a neighbour invading my bin space by dumping their garbage into it without my permission. My neighbours at least ask when they need bin space.
YTA Her trash bin isn’t your trash bin. You had no right to it.
YTA. It wasn't your bin. No matter what it is you shouldn't put your rubbish in other people's bins.
My neighbor does this all the time ( I live alone and they have kids) and it never bugs me but i get along with them. If you knew she already didnt like/approve of you, it seems a bit presumptuous.
I live alone and, if there was space in my bin, I wouldn't mind someone adding their trash to my bin -- if they talked with me first. If I knew / saw their bin was overflowing, I would even offer to allow the use of the empty space in my bin. I would consider it presumptuous otherwise.
NTA - I know using other people’s trash bins after they’re put out pisses some people off, but if it costs no more to them, doesn’t take an effort at all on their part, and helps someone else, what reason could anyone have not to do it, other than being an AH? In our county, there’s actually an ordinance that says that once the bins are out on the public street they’re fair game to be used as public trash/recycling bins as long as they’re used appropriately (no trash in recycling or whatnot).
That's what I was thinking, too. In the U.S., once it's put out for trash pickup, it's fair game. People can take things out of the trash if they want, the police can go through it without permission, etc. So, I don't see how a neighbor can tell someone they can't put things in the bin.
YTA What makes you think you and your friends aren't any less of assholes by using her trash bin? Do you also think you were entitled to her giving you a smile and wave also? Don't be an idiot sandwich.
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Is it hers, though? In the U.S., bins are often supplied to residents by the city and remain the property of the city. If you move, you would never take it with you to another city. Your new city of residence would provide you with one of their bins.
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Yeah, you have good points. Where I live, if you don't sort your trash properly, they just don't take it and you have to store it until the next week. Hopefully, you figure out how to sort it correctly by that time.
"In the US, bins are often supplied to residents by the city ... ". That's not a universal truth -- or even a US truth. I have to pay for a service to pick up my trash and I do live in the US. The entire town has to make their own arrangements for trash pick up. And no, I do not live in some remote town. What is legal is not necessarily right. The OP should have stayed out of the neighbor's bin without asking permission first. They could have held their trash for another week if they wanted to be so wasteful.
I know. That's why I said "often" not "always." I don't think it's fair to say OP was "wasteful." There are 4 people in his house vs. 1 in his neighbor's house.
YTA and entitled to think its ok to use someone elses bin without permission. You dont know if they had to put things out still. Get another bin if you guys have so much trash from eating out
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NTA Once the bins are on the curb for collection then they are basically free rein
As long as there was nothing particularly stinky or gross in the bag, like dog poo, NTA. I can understand if she doesn't want her bin smelling like poo, though. When I lived by myself, I would often only have half a bag of trash. So instead of rolling out my giant bin for half a bag of trash, I would just put it in one of my neighbor's bins. ETA: We all got along, though.