Bin Night

Just had blue bins (paper) collected here. Didn't put them outside myself but did greet the Hausmeister while he was doing so, it was a moment of intercultural connection and rejoice.

We're still unsure if putting a big box of cardboard outside along with the bins is a faux pas, and don't want to inconvenience the bin men (praise be). Any Germans who can shed light on the unwritten rules of Pappe disposal?

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Sometimes though the hub men forget to take the fucker though.

new fancy proper locking lids

ooooo. pic please.

The future is here

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Hilariously, this already has a crack in it too

If anyone lives at number 13, they can have the template I made for spraying onto the bins. Flip it and it will work if you live at number 31.

Whoa!! If this was the 80s this would have been a lead feature item presented by Maggie PhilBIN

If this was the 80s, and @moocher supplied a 2 as well, it'd have its own show.

Rep

Numbers 1 and 3 might also be interested. Our bin night is Sunday; already looking forward to Monday’s rude awakening.

On certain streets in Islington (my street is one of them) we put our bin bags in a special cupboard, not in a bin. It’s not right.

^ sounds very wrong.

Quick straw poll. As Bin Night is so popular, what do folks think about a separate thread to celebrate and further discuss the finer points of doorstep milk delivery days?

either the bin men took or someone has stolen both my recycling bins

anyone else had thefts recently? wondering if its a worrying new trend

Almost a week since brown bin day Friday gone up in E17. Week gone and still reliving the potential disaster it almost incurred. Brown -garden waste and food waste bins got swapped after #binday with next door neighbour currently doing up his garden. We were also and GF half filled what we thought was our newly emptied bin with grass, BUT it was number 35’s(number on side) not ours. Suddenly saw ours in their garden witnessing our joyful use of the the rouge bin-like a cuckoo.
Realising the switch and our neighbours bin now semi full of our garden waste I can’t be arsed with removing, I knocked on their door and explained the situation. They had also filled our brown bin with garden waste. We left it at that and wheeled both round to their home. Quick look in our reunited bin as they shut their door and was a good quarter less filled than their rogue one we had for a day.

Not that I’ve thought of this much. But it’s bin day tomorrow

what do folks think about a separate thread to celebrate and further discuss the finer points of doorstep milk delivery days

incredibly up for this and it should be just the thing this decreasingly popular punk-ass internet web page needs

god bless guys

I've spent the day thinking deeply about this.

The whole lfgss community will experience bin night in some way so this thread reaches out to us all and binds us in that common cause.

Doorstep milk delivery is just not going to have the same commonality.

Peace, love, & a pint of Orange Juice from Concentrate.

Last night, left out two full-to-overflowing brown bins (one borrowed from neighbour) and five council bags of garden waste, all slightly filled over the 'Fill-To-Here' line. Could barely sleep wondering if they would be taken or we'd be made to suffer for the fuck the police attitude to suggested capacity.

Enjoyed a petit-mort this morning when they'd all been taken.

Doorstep milk delivery is just not going to have the same commonality.

Well, there's a Fishing thread - the key question is whether there should be an individual one for each kind of animal torture or should they be consolidated?

Who mentioned Dairy?

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It was our recycling bin last night (every other Friday night/Saturday morning). Due to the fact that there are 3 of us just sat about the house rather than out and about we're producing a fair bit more recycling, meaning that we had a couple of cardboard boxes left over that wouldn't fit in the bin. I decided to wait for the cover of darkness and stuff it into a neighbour's bin. What a rush.

I feel the need to honour our bins by giving them a proper clean. Last time I entrusted the task to professionals, but they forgot to do the organic bins, which suited them better than us, since it's the organic bins that heave the richest malodour into the street. I have a pressure washer, all I need is the will and the right moment, which of course would be very soon following one bin night.

pressure washer

Careful now

Forgot to pay the annual charge (£60) for our garden waste fortnightly collection (green bin).

Quite rightly our collection heroes did not oblige.

I'm a basic bin bitch. A binbecile.

The tip near my house has reopened, managed to book myself a slot this afternoon. Getting rid of the numerous, inexplicably large cardboard boxes and the 15 bags of garden waste we've accumulated is going to feel like the biggest bin night of all time.