Neighbor keeps moving my trash can
Neighbors who obsess over your trash often push the cans out of place, such as all the way into your driveway. This tampering ultimately results in your trash not getting taken.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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Neighbor keeps moving my trash can
- 1Smearing Vaseline or a toilet wax ring on the trash can handlesDid this help you?
- 2Placing the bin directly in the driveway opening to block unauthorized parkingDid this help you?
- 3Calling the city waste management department or local sanitation guys to report the issueDid this help you?
- 4Taping a warning note or printed security camera picture to the binDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“a neighbor who I never met before keeps pushing my trash can all the way into my driveway, which ends up in my trash not getting taken.”source ↗
“I had a neighbor that would mess with mine and it took just once.”source ↗
“Sorry about the neighbor. I have one who obsesses over my trash.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
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- 4How to keep toddlers out of the trash
- 2Kitten kicking litter out of the box and making a mess
- 2How to stop neighbors from interrupting yardwork