Wheelie bin house number stickers

[Cobnapint]

Why do most people feel the need to put absolutely MASSIVE house number stickers on their wheelie bins? It does my head in.

At no point is anybody going to be far enough away from said bin to require seeing what number house it belongs to.

When it's next to your house the number serves no purpose whatsoever.

When the guy whose just taken the bin to the refuse/recycling lorry to empty it is bringing it back - he's right fking next to it, so unless he's got the eyesight of Mr Magoo, a 3 inch high number will suffice. Not something akin to the fking Hollywood sign. In fact a bigger number on the house would be of more benefit because now he's further away from it than he is the bin.

Pointless and chavvy !

[valiant]

I like it best when it's done in emulsion paint that's then dripped.

Classy that!

[Robertj21a]

It's for when the bin men leave them scattered around, nowhere near where they should be.

[Greendubber]

To be fair it helps me find houses better than the tiny/non existent door numbers some people have.

I have a small number on the top of ours.

[Turn7]

Because, as happened twice to me before applying the stickers....lazy assed dumb fkwits just take the nearest bin to their house....

And you end up binless....

[JJ55]

Round my way people nick wheelie bins so stickers/ paint are sadly a necessity.

Our council doesn't even supply bins so have to buy ourselves.

[Cobnapint]

valiant said:

I like it best when it's done in emulsion paint that's then dripped.

Classy that!

Or gloss on the brickwork next to the front door.

Full council.

[blearyeyedboy]

Cobnapint said:

Why do most people feel the need to put absolutely MASSIVE house number stickers on their wheelie bins? It does my head in.

Because counterintuitively, it works and I don't end up binless. The binmen around my place just seem to put the things back wherever and having a number on it means I get it back.

And your head being done in is none of my concern.

Function over form, chap. Form over function gave us the Vauxhall Tigra, lest we forget.

/thread

[Doofus]

I have badly aerosoled runny numbers on my bins. They aren't my property and their job is to hold refuse. I don't give a st what they look like.

What I don't understand is why people stick neat vinyl numbers on, or cover their bins in flower wraps.

These are the same people who hide the spare bog roll under a doll in a knitted dress, keep their TV guide in a fake leather binder, and their tv remote in a pouch hung over the arm of the sofa.

ETA: And also,

Elsehwere I said:

Dear Dustmen,

How difficult is it to PUT THE DUSTBIN BACK WHERE YOU BLOODY FOUND IT?

So big numbers on the bin give you a fighting chance of finding the fker after the bin men havebeen.

Edited by Doofus on Friday 27th July 22:04

[NerveAgent]

Because the bin men tend to leave them scattered all over the place.

You would have to be seriously deficient in the noggin department not to realise that.

And they tend to only sell the stickers in that size.

[Johnnytheboy]

Surely the ratio of bins to houses = 1.

So if no. 46 gets yours, you get theirs?

[Turn7]

Johnnytheboy said:

Surely the ratio of bins to houses = 1.

So if no. 46 gets yours, you get theirs?

You get home, having left your bin at your door step.....no bin is now within 30 feet of your front door, let alone has your house number on it.......

What do you do ?

[Doofus]

Johnnytheboy said:

Surely the ratio of bins to houses = 1.

So if no. 46 gets yours, you get theirs?

We have four.

[Johnnytheboy]

Turn7 said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Surely the ratio of bins to houses = 1.

So if no. 46 gets yours, you get theirs?

You get home, having left your bin at your door step.....no bin is now within 30 feet of your front door, let alone has your house number on it.......

What do you do ?

I genuinely don't know as ive never lived in a road like that, but I assume somewhere there's an extra bin.

[MonkeyHanger]

Some of my neighbours are getting on a bit so I drag their bins up & down the Street for them if they're too heavy. They all put numbers on so I don't have to mess around looking for numbers in faded black marker if I get home late in winter.

If that's pointless & chavvy then so be it.

[colin_p]

I carefully cut out some cardboard stencils in the style of A-team army ammo box labels and sprayed all four sides and the lid of all three of my wheely bins in a nice yellow etch primer.

They are, by far, the coolest bins on my council estate.

[finlo]

Pre numbering on more than one occasion i've ended up with someone else's stinking claggy wet ash filled bin.

[TooMany2cvs]

Johnnytheboy said:

Surely the ratio of bins to houses = 1.

So if no. 46 gets yours, you get theirs?

But you have your bin professionally cleaned every month, and polish it after it's been emptied, while theirs is gopping...

[Cobnapint]

blearyeyedboy said:

Because counterintuitively, it works and I don't end up binless. The binmen around my place just seem to put the things back wherever and having a number on it means I get it back.

No problem with the number, it just doesn't need to be so effing big. If you see a cluster of homeless looking bins down the road (surely they can't be TOO far away) you're going to have to walk towards them anyway to collect what is rightfully yours, look at the numbers when you arrive. You don't need to be able to see the number from the other end of the bloody county.

[marksx]

It's a number on a fking bin. Does it really matter?

I bet you have a bin store, as it's chavvy to leave ghastly looking bins on view outside the house.