Really? REALLY?

[EmilieMadison]

We have three white plastic stacking recycling bins (see huge picture below). We purchased these instead of using the free issued recycling bins because we dont have a place in our house where we can hide our recycling as it accumulates and we wanted something that would look tidier. 

Recycling days are Friday and ours gets picked up anytime between 2 and 6pm. They came around 5 today and I was going to get them from the curb after dinner and NOPE. Gone.  Someone took all three of them, and the lids. 

[ginger]

[niki]

Could the garbage people have taken them by mistake? I would call.

[eb777888]

OMG!! I'd be fucking PIST. Ugh. Sorry.

[EmilieMadison]

Aug 1, 2014 19:58:52 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Someone assumed that they were free?

Possibly. But it was sitting with the other neighbor's recycling bins. On recycling day. But either way, they're gooooooooone

[EmilieMadison]

Aug 1, 2014 19:59:19 GMT -5 niki said:

Could the garbage people have taken them by mistake? I would call.

Nope, they were there (empty) about 20 minutes before I went outside to get them. 

[nerdicorn]

If you get more bins like this, I highly recommend slapping some recycling arrow stickers in a nice color on both sides and the lids. Hopefully then people will understand they're not curbed freebies.

[EmilieMadison]

Yeah, we're kicking ourselves for not labeling them somehow as "recycling". We'e been using them for months and we just never thought about it, mostly because they're sitting with the other recycling bins and we stupidly assumed that people would realize that they were all, you know, recycling. WRONG.

[bab]

People are such assholes.

If it makes you feel any better, I got my Ikea catalog yesterday and they are selling those exact bins for $9.99 each. Are you near an Ikea?

[bab]

www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10255897/

[EmilieMadison]

Thanks bab! They are actually from Ikea We had two of the $15 ones and one of the $10 ones. So not expensive, but still!

[MixedBerryJam]

Aug 1, 2014 20:02:52 GMT -5 nerdicorn said:

If you get more bins like this, I highly recommend slapping some recycling arrow stickers in a nice color on both sides and the lids. Hopefully then people will understand they're not curbed freebies.

Put your house number on them, too.

[bab]

Aug 1, 2014 20:22:00 GMT -5 EmilieMadison said:

Thanks bab! They are actually from Ikea We had two of the $15 ones and one of the $10 ones. So not expensive, but still!

I understand.  I'd be pissed!!!

[bluetopaz]

Oh, I'd be so mad. I'd be the crazy lady standing out in my driveway, screaming at nobody/nothing in particular, just pissed.

[EmilieMadison]

Aug 1, 2014 20:45:15 GMT -5 bluetopaz said:

Oh, I'd be so mad. I'd be the crazy lady standing out in my driveway, screaming at nobody/nothing in particular, just pissed.

I may or may not have shaken my fist at the sky while standing at the end of my driveway...

[bugandbibs]

That sucks.

We use those same bins for laundry in our house. I love them.