My neighbor in Austin keeps using my trash bin for his construction waste

He's been filling it with broken drywall and old tiles every week, which puts me over the weight limit. The city charges a $75 fee for overweight bins, and I got hit with it twice last month. How do you handle a situation where someone's convenience becomes your direct cost?

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miller.rowan11d agoMost Upvoted

Why do people always treat shared stuff like it's free?

lisa53111d ago

Saw an article that called it the "tragedy of the commons" which is a fancy way of saying if something is shared, some people just take until it's gone. Totally get what you're saying, @miller.rowan. It's like there's this weird disconnect where people don't see the cost or effort behind the shared thing. They just see it as available, so they treat it like a public resource with no limits. Drives me nuts lol.

sage30810d ago

Yeah that "weird disconnect" is so real. I had to deal with this with a shared printer at my old place. People would just send huge jobs without a second thought. What finally worked was putting a little sticky note right on it that said "Please keep jobs under 10 pages, ink is crazy expensive!" Made the cost visible, you know? It cut down the abuse by a ton.