Despite what her neighbor would have you believe, Mim in Adelaide, Australia says she doesn’t actually just toss her trash into the street. In this case, she simply put out hard rubbish our for collection a few days earlier than suited the residents of 59 Windsor.
Mim says this note is just the latest installment in an ongoing litany of complaints, which “always come with the multi-coloured swirly script and hearts. They crack me up every time!”
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97 responses so far ↓
#1
lala
Unless you’re going to be out of town, don’t put your trash out sooner than the day before pickup. It’s just asking for dogs or pests to get into it.
Nov 30, 2011 at 8:21 pm rating: 79
#2
Marianna
Team note writer. Putting out the trash the night before pickup is fine. “A few days earlier”, not so much. By the time trash day comes, every squirrel, dog, and crow in the neighborhood will have strewn garbage all over the street, plus sacks of trash sitting by the gutter for days is just tacky.
Plus it looks like the note writer has one of those four-color pens, making her automatically the coolest girl in the whole fourth grade. Shame about her potty mouth, though.
Nov 30, 2011 at 8:29 pm rating: 71
#3
matt
I used to live near to where this note comes from. It’s an almost perfect example of bogan/redneck housing estates described in the TV series ‘Housos’. I’m not surprised the neighbors are trying to sell. The whole place sticks of shit from the nearby septic treatment plant.
It drives everyone crazy on the hot summer days, including the note-writer in this case. Who the fuck over the age of 10 writes with flowery script anyway?
Nov 30, 2011 at 8:39 pm rating: 7
#4
Vikki
Mim, my fellow Australian.
Time to make a discreet call to ‘Today Tonight’ or ‘A Current Affair.’
Nov 30, 2011 at 8:39 pm rating: 16
#5
Donna
I love that the people next door can’t complain on their own behalf.
Nov 30, 2011 at 8:41 pm rating: 15
#6
shesajem
I’d leave the trash out all week if I got that note. Ha!
Nov 30, 2011 at 8:42 pm rating: 14
#7
Heather
I’m on Team Notewriter, but can’t help but wonder how a 13 year old girl became a homeowner.
Nov 30, 2011 at 8:52 pm rating: 65
#8
Dusa
Meh, your property, do what you want. I’d purposely put bags of dried leaves on the street just to piss her off. (so no dogs would get in there since there wouldn’t be any ‘good smells’.)
Nov 30, 2011 at 8:56 pm rating: 5
#9
Alvis
I can’t speak for Adelaide, but in many locations, it’s illegal to leave garbage out for collection more than 24 hours in advance.
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:01 pm rating: 7
#10
Sean Jungian
Now THAT is how you write a passive-aggressive note!
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:14 pm rating: 27
#11
quat
I thought she wrote “by heaving Your fucking Rubbish in the Avenue”, which I did think was pretty gross. Then I realized it was “Leaving”.
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:39 pm rating: 7
#12
JME
I think that’s written in the Tengwar script, but I can’t tell if it’s in Sindarin or Quenya.
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:47 pm rating: 12
#13
Narny
I’m a fellow Australian and I’m tipping this is to do with council collection. As in where twice a year you can put bulk waste on the curb for collection (old furniture, boxes of rubbish and other household gear).
I got scowls from my neighbours when I put my gear out a few days early too.
Nov 30, 2011 at 10:04 pm rating: 5
#14
Dalamara
I bet that fucking rubbish is fucking delicious.
Nov 30, 2011 at 10:10 pm rating: 3
#15
Jennifer
The hearts! My God, the hearts!
Nov 30, 2011 at 10:19 pm rating: 16
#16
Grant
Is that font available in TrueType?
Dec 1, 2011 at 3:44 am rating: 11
#17
Nunavut Guy
Cry havoc and release the chili and broccoli eating dogs!
Dec 1, 2011 at 6:49 am rating: 10
#18
Olde Skewl
That’s the prettiest cuss out I think I’ve ever seen. Usually, people try to write a cuss out in an ugly manner, presumably to drive their point home but this? This took some time!
Dec 1, 2011 at 7:14 am rating: 3
#19
Ruth
So funny to see people (I’m assuming americans) who apparently leave their rubbish out in sacks on the street chastising others for gross bin habits! If you have pests that rip through bin bags, how about, I don’t know, depositing the rubbish in a container that the pests can’t open? Too crazy?
Even if the notewriter had a point (and they don’t), you have to fail them on the ridiculous penmanship alone, don’t you?
Dec 1, 2011 at 8:55 am rating: 9
#20
Sue
There is a 59 Windsor Avenue that was for sale in Springvale, Victoria, but it’s about 9 hours away from Adelaide. It was sold July 26 this year. I’m just trying to see what kind of neighborhood we’re talking about here by doing some internet stalking… and where I’m from we call them herbie curbies
Dec 1, 2011 at 10:23 am rating: 5
#21
it's naptime
I read it as, “the people next door are selling their horse please don’t spoil it.”
I was imagining the horse getting into the trash and making a huge mess.
Dec 1, 2011 at 12:34 pm rating: 4
#22
Evie
All y’all trash Nazis need to come spend some time in Tennessee for a while. I live in a fairly affluent neighborhood, and we still have a neighbor who has an old Mustang that has been slowly decaying on his front lawn for like a year. It’s definitely a sad way for such a rad car to go, but nobody gives a hoot otherwise. His yard, his rules, brah.
Dec 1, 2011 at 1:16 pm rating: 6
#23
Kaylia Payne
Hey guys, I’m an Australian who lived for two years in America.
Putting your trash out early in America? Not the best idea because pests will definitely get into it.
Putting it out early in Australia? Totally fine.
I think her neighbour sounds like a complete tool.
Dec 1, 2011 at 4:36 pm rating: 12
#24
Laura
I live in rural Pennsylvania, and I agree, it’s not a good idea to leave your trash out any time before the trash pickup here. We always rush ours out because there is a conniving neighborhood dog who simply loves our diapers. Fun.
That being said, our garbage pickup actually requires us to leave the bags out on the lawn. It’s weird, and stupid, but it’s how they do things, and we don’t complain because our landlord lets us throw our bags in with his every week for free. We just learned better after the dog incident.
Dec 1, 2011 at 8:30 pm rating: 0
#25
latin-aggressive
You all “first world” complainers, so cute to watch, you chatting about rubbish and how terrible is to leave a bin outside before time of picking up. I wonder how many of you had been in a developing country… I only wonder…
Dec 2, 2011 at 10:00 am rating: 0
#26
Martin
Dullest. Thread. Ever.
Even the racism flame war seems forced.
Dec 2, 2011 at 8:41 pm rating: 3
#27
Rhoddy
Whatever the reality of putting bins out in various parts of the world, and whatever florid, crazy writing implies… at least they had the balls to sign it and leave their address. Leaving a signature and a way to get in contact totally changes the timbre of notewriting – even this rather bizarre bit of penmanship might appear tongue-in-cheek instead of total arsehole.
Dec 3, 2011 at 10:23 am rating: 3
#28
leelee
NO FRIGGIN WAY!!
If this is the same Windsor Ave I am thinking of, I also had a bin-related passive aggressive note attached to my car there in bright coloured texta about a year ago!! I wonder if it was the same guy?!
Unfortunately, it happened before I knew this site existed so I threw the note away but it went a little something like this:
“Thanks for parking in front of my bin you fucking idiot. It didn’t get collected and now I am stuck with this for another week and can’t add any more. DONT PARK IN FRONT OF BINS, IDIOT. Thanks”
I stuck a reply to a nearby tree suggesting that they put the bin on the edge of the driveway, not the middle of their lawn and that it was the responsibility of the garbage men to get out of their truck and manually collect it, not my responsibility to pass on a perfectly situated parking spot just because some idiot doesn’t know how to strategically place a bin on the curb.
Pretty cool to see this, wish I had taken photos of the notes! haha
Dec 4, 2011 at 5:37 am rating: 12
#29
Pers
I’d be ticked too if my idiot neighbour would put out their garbage DAYS in advance. No one wants to see trash rotting on the curb for days. I’m on the note-writers’ team 100%! Cheers!
Dec 4, 2011 at 5:28 pm rating: 1
#30
Grey
What Mim was referring to is called ‘kerbside collection’ here in Australia and it’s done twice a year in most areas. You put out items of furniture and old appliances on the street (items that can’t normally be put in the rubbish) and the council comes by and picks them up. In our area, you HAVE to put your kerbside items out at least 48 hours in advance so the council knows which streets to pick up from. And it’s perfectly normal, and even encouraged, for items to be put out earlier so other people can take them if they want. It’s a ritual for some in Australia to drive around in the days before collection night and look for things.
When I was a student, we furnished an entire house from kerbside collection for free. The items are often of good quality but just unwanted, or need fixing but belonged to someone who didn’t have the time or skills to fix them. And it’s normal for people to leave unwanted stuff out on the kerb when they’re moving too, which I bet this guy will do at some point when he moves.
This dude’s note was totally ridiculous under the circumstances.
Dec 10, 2011 at 3:54 pm rating: 6
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