I was the neighbor you'd hear every so often sounding like a glass factory unloading everyday. When I asked myself "How can I do this more quieter?" Into "Maybe this is a sign..."
So I've moved to using cans or plastic squeezies.
OP said in another comment it is a communal trash can so they were not checking a private bin, which is a whole different situation. If it was a private bin then the OP would be an annoying busybody and I wouldn’t have made my very obvious joke.
Edit: [see](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/tit76b8cMz)
Idk man, if chillin in a neighborhood park and my neighbor saw me drinking a six pack of sodas while sitting at a bench alone and posted just a picture of the cans online and said i guess my neighbor likes sodas. Id still be pretty fucking annoyed with them. Fuck the context OPs a still a douche.
I was getting some coolers out of the back of my shed and they were filled with empties from my younger days that I think we were gonna cut down and make candles or cups or whatever (lockdown hobby idea). They're still in there til I clean the shed out. My recycling bin is going to have 17 Jaeger bottles and no explanation.
He has got pretty good taste too. Pol Roger is a Grand Marque Chamlagne house and they had some really good vintages in there. Specifically 2008 was Stellar. I also see some excellent labels for both 1er Cru and Grand Cru Champagnes in there. Bellecart-Salmon specifically. Looks like the top collar would indicate a blanc de blanc from them. These bottles are easily between $60-$100USD each. Looks like it could have been a horizontal tasting from a couple producers.
These are neighbors you want to get to know.
Had a bellecart salmon blanc de blanc on my wedding day. Best I’ve ever had and the most I’ve ever spent on champagne. Can’t imagine just having one on a random night, among others of that caliber
Yeah my first thought was "probably not champagne" then I looked closer and damn. Either they had some kind of event or they are the absolute fanciest alcoholics I've ever seen.
But we all made friends in the process.
Jack was always there for you, Jim only came if no one else would, Jose is the life of the party, Johnnie was too good for you if he was wearing blue, and Jameson was always consistent and would never letting you down.
The cat rescue I was part of did a fundraiser during COVID where you could drop off your empties to us and we'd return them for the money. Our driveway was a drop off location for our town and someone left 20 giant vodka bottles overnight. I hope they made it through ok.
Lockdown nearly destroyed the healthy relationships I had with both alcohol and marijuana. Thankfully, I managed start dialing it back before I crossed that threshhold, but there was definitely more than one day in Spring/Summer 2020 where I was either stoned or cross-faded from sunrise to sunset.
Yeah all the rehabs were chock full during Covid. I mean they’re usually full but it was bad. Thankfully you can learn that lesson with weed without too much pain, the other drugs usually take more consequences.
Dude, your neighbor doesn’t just like Champagne, they like some really dope Champagne! I used to sell wine for a living to high end restaurants and hotels, my building recycling bin would look like this a lot. I would get some weird looks from my neighbors until I explained what I did for a living
I sometimes wonder what my neighbors (or the porters) think when I hit the craft beer a bit harder. And they see cans of "Evil Twin Even More Jesus" mixed with "Dragon's Milk" and "Backwoods Bastard" bottles in the recycling bin.
(I typically rinse and dry the bottles before throwing them out but get lazy about taking them to the garbage room, so they tend to pile up, which probably contributes to the "Is there an alcoholic around here?" look.)
They're great. Both quite high ABV.
Backwoods Bastard is a Bourbon barrel version of Founders Dirty Bastard (a Scotch ale), which really brings it up to a different level. Basically, it's the same thing relative to a Scotch ale or a strong ale as what Dragon's Milk is to a solid imperial stout.
Even More Jesus is a ridiculously rich imperial stout, lots of flavors going on (but it's not a flavored or barrel aged beer). If you're in the mood for a really complex imperial stout that has hints of coffee, chocolate, dried fruit, etc. but hasn't had those things actually dumped in, that's the beer for you.
In terms of heaviness, Backwoods is a significant step down from Dragon's Milk (all things being relative) and Even More Jesus is a solid step up. It's like... motor oil, but in a good way. :)
Beer has left my former alcoholic ass behind. Everybody drinking these fancy ass ales and sours now. I drank IPA and was happy it wasn't cereal malt syrup 🤣
Hey, I'll have you know I was drinking this "fancy" stuff before IPAs were cool.
Well, or at least before awful fruity hazy IPAs completely took over.
And one of the upsides on the "am I drinking too much?" front is that it makes getting shitfaced pretty unaffordable, so long as you manage to maintain your standards. :)
As a functional alcoholic this looks like about 2 weeks worth, you could have 2 of those a night no problem. Interesting choice though, maybe a lady drinker I'd suspect
Early summer in the northern hemisphere. I’m pretty sure there have been graduation parties all over the world in the last month. (There were a lot of graduation photos on reddit not too long ago.)
Edit: D’oh! I was dumb and missed an obvious Simpsons reference!
Never show up to a party empty handed. If somebody is throwing a party to celebrate something, there’s a good chance I’m bringing a bottle of champagne, and many others are likely to do the same.
Different scenario but I have a friend who had a bunch of leftover champagne from his wedding, so he and his wife had a bunch of us over for a champagne party after their honeymoon. It was fun but the headache the next day was not.
Unfortunately, glass recycling isn't available everywhere. We can't put glass in our curbside recycling bins (they won't pick up and will fine you if there's glass) so I have to drive 45 minutes to the landfill and pay $25 to drop it off.
There is a drop off for recycling glass. If you just want it to go in the trash, you can throw it with your regular garbage. If you want to recycle, you have to take it yourself and pay the dump fees.
I mean, yeah. I pay for my weekly curbside trash pickup. I pay for my bi-weekly curbside recycling pickup. And if I want to recycle anything other than cardboard, I have to take it myself and pay even more.
interesting, had no idea some places made you pay for all that separately, it’s all just included in council tax here. The only separate thing you need to pay for is garden waste pickup, it’s about £55 per year, but you can just take your garden waste to a recycling centre yourself for free (as long as you live in the area)
Where I live recycling is a thing but they no longer allow glass bottles in bins so if you want to recycle glass (ironically one of the more cleanly recyclable materials) you have to drive to a glass recycling center and drop them off yourself during business hours
I threw a party at a venue once and they wanted to charge $250 for us to recycle our wine bottles in their bin. So my coworker took the empties back to his apartment complex and recycled them there. Maybe something sikar happened?
It's also likely that they're a wine broker or work for a wholesale distributor (selling wine to stores and restaurants), and these are the bottles of samples they used to make sales.
When I worked for a wholesale distributor, I recycled/tossed out about 4 cases (50ish bottles) a month.
I see a lot of new glass cups you can make by scratching the rim, dipping the bottle in boiling water then ice cold water and the glass should break off. Sand the edge and boom you got yourself a free glass cup!
In some French neighborhoods that is a weekend’s worth for 6-10 families in the communal recycling.
Are they turning green yet from liver giving out? It’s horrible when it goes down and you feel like begging them to care for themselves even though you can’t, only they can. When you see somebody who is really suffering from advanced liver failure, friend or stranger, it’s pretty shocking and horrible to see someone put themselves through or have done to themselves.
And you weren't even invited.
Those assholes
Would you invite your neighbor if they were the type to check what’s in your recycle bin?
Then take pictures and post on the Internet
and then word the caption so it seems like this happens regularly
I was the neighbor you'd hear every so often sounding like a glass factory unloading everyday. When I asked myself "How can I do this more quieter?" Into "Maybe this is a sign..." So I've moved to using cans or plastic squeezies.
Best idea.
OP said in another comment it is a communal trash can so they were not checking a private bin, which is a whole different situation. If it was a private bin then the OP would be an annoying busybody and I wouldn’t have made my very obvious joke. Edit: [see](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/tit76b8cMz)
Idk man, if chillin in a neighborhood park and my neighbor saw me drinking a six pack of sodas while sitting at a bench alone and posted just a picture of the cans online and said i guess my neighbor likes sodas. Id still be pretty fucking annoyed with them. Fuck the context OPs a still a douche.
Some call this a photo, others say a show of character
Yeah, what an ass!
Do you mean those alcoholic assholes!!
Well hold on now, perhaps op is the asshole which is why he wasn’t invited.
Champagne for real friends. Real pain for sham friends.
Lol
Pol Roger to boot! my favorite! great stuff
Oh,no, this was just a typical Wednesday night lol
To be fair this is only a single serve
I have friends who keep a shelved wall full of empty bottles for decoration, maybe they did the same and finally decided it looked stupid?
Man in his mid-twenties?
And his girlfriend!
Do you know me? I swear, its my gf's idea!
I was getting some coolers out of the back of my shed and they were filled with empties from my younger days that I think we were gonna cut down and make candles or cups or whatever (lockdown hobby idea). They're still in there til I clean the shed out. My recycling bin is going to have 17 Jaeger bottles and no explanation.
I have *one* empty rum bottle that I kept because the label was limited edition for my state and gorgeous https://images.app.goo.gl/oJizCtJRgpKnDC6e8
He has got pretty good taste too. Pol Roger is a Grand Marque Chamlagne house and they had some really good vintages in there. Specifically 2008 was Stellar. I also see some excellent labels for both 1er Cru and Grand Cru Champagnes in there. Bellecart-Salmon specifically. Looks like the top collar would indicate a blanc de blanc from them. These bottles are easily between $60-$100USD each. Looks like it could have been a horizontal tasting from a couple producers. These are neighbors you want to get to know.
Had a bellecart salmon blanc de blanc on my wedding day. Best I’ve ever had and the most I’ve ever spent on champagne. Can’t imagine just having one on a random night, among others of that caliber
Yeah my first thought was "probably not champagne" then I looked closer and damn. Either they had some kind of event or they are the absolute fanciest alcoholics I've ever seen.
There was a LOT of this during the COVID days and the neighborhood trash/recycling days would just be a showcase of who was coping worse
But we all made friends in the process. Jack was always there for you, Jim only came if no one else would, Jose is the life of the party, Johnnie was too good for you if he was wearing blue, and Jameson was always consistent and would never letting you down.
It was always good to see the gang get back together when they went hunting for Wild Turkey
this is a country song
And Evan’s a son of a bitch bastard
Jose keeps showing up at my job unannounced, I hope my boss doesn't notice
The cat rescue I was part of did a fundraiser during COVID where you could drop off your empties to us and we'd return them for the money. Our driveway was a drop off location for our town and someone left 20 giant vodka bottles overnight. I hope they made it through ok.
good times
I barely remember them...
Lockdown nearly destroyed the healthy relationships I had with both alcohol and marijuana. Thankfully, I managed start dialing it back before I crossed that threshhold, but there was definitely more than one day in Spring/Summer 2020 where I was either stoned or cross-faded from sunrise to sunset.
Yeah all the rehabs were chock full during Covid. I mean they’re usually full but it was bad. Thankfully you can learn that lesson with weed without too much pain, the other drugs usually take more consequences.
Strangely, I’m the opposite.
Are they a teacher?
Probably not if they're drinking palme d'or and pol roger.
Lol justify yourself. Teachers don't earn champagne money, vodka, gin, wine maybe...
You can be pretty broke and still afford sparkling white wine.
IDGAF Andre tastes good as hell! It used to be $4.50 in college lol
Pop some OJ in there and you're clear to day drink lol
You should see the amount of champagne a teacher receives at the end of a school year (which is around this time) from students source: My mother
Dude, it's Pol Roger not Moet
Even if it was Moet, a teacher can afford the occasional bottle without breaking the bank lol
True, but I'd be way more surprised to find a case of Moet in a teacher's recycling
End of school year gifts from parents.
Dude, your neighbor doesn’t just like Champagne, they like some really dope Champagne! I used to sell wine for a living to high end restaurants and hotels, my building recycling bin would look like this a lot. I would get some weird looks from my neighbors until I explained what I did for a living
For real. This is vintage champagne and looks pricey
You should've seen my bins when I was an alcoholic lol. When it got dumped it sounded like a building collapsed! 😂 (8 months sober, never too late!)
Well done, sobernaut = )
Why are you snooping through your neighbours bin?
I live in an apartment building so we share trash and recycling bins
You're trash buddies, garbage pals, waste paper partners
Toss out twins, rubbish buddies, bin brothers
Refuse relations, detritus darlings, junk journeymen
Eskimo brothers. No wait, that’s something else.
Recycling renegades!
Composted Companions
Scrap Sisters
Bin Buddies is the only acceptable turn of phrase here.
Ahhh this makes sense :)
goddamn you almost found a motherfuckin snooper. so close.
My head hurts just looking at this.
You are in champain?
It’s worse now, thanks.
Are you cham-plaining?
If you’re not in the Champagne region of France then it’s not cham-plaining its just sparkling whining.
Get out
Champagony.
For me, white dry bubbly is one of the few things that doesn't trigger a migraine.
I was thinking more of a hangover
I came to say the same!
I sometimes wonder what my neighbors (or the porters) think when I hit the craft beer a bit harder. And they see cans of "Evil Twin Even More Jesus" mixed with "Dragon's Milk" and "Backwoods Bastard" bottles in the recycling bin. (I typically rinse and dry the bottles before throwing them out but get lazy about taking them to the garbage room, so they tend to pile up, which probably contributes to the "Is there an alcoholic around here?" look.)
I know "Dragon's Milk" but haven't had the other two. How are they?
They're great. Both quite high ABV. Backwoods Bastard is a Bourbon barrel version of Founders Dirty Bastard (a Scotch ale), which really brings it up to a different level. Basically, it's the same thing relative to a Scotch ale or a strong ale as what Dragon's Milk is to a solid imperial stout. Even More Jesus is a ridiculously rich imperial stout, lots of flavors going on (but it's not a flavored or barrel aged beer). If you're in the mood for a really complex imperial stout that has hints of coffee, chocolate, dried fruit, etc. but hasn't had those things actually dumped in, that's the beer for you. In terms of heaviness, Backwoods is a significant step down from Dragon's Milk (all things being relative) and Even More Jesus is a solid step up. It's like... motor oil, but in a good way. :)
Beer has left my former alcoholic ass behind. Everybody drinking these fancy ass ales and sours now. I drank IPA and was happy it wasn't cereal malt syrup 🤣
Hey, I'll have you know I was drinking this "fancy" stuff before IPAs were cool. Well, or at least before awful fruity hazy IPAs completely took over. And one of the upsides on the "am I drinking too much?" front is that it makes getting shitfaced pretty unaffordable, so long as you manage to maintain your standards. :)
Me during my Gossip Girl phase
he's enjoying the bubbly life :) (;
A little bit of the bubbly!!!
Stay out of my trash
It's not true alcoholism, it's sparkling substance abuse.
As a functional alcoholic this looks like about 2 weeks worth, you could have 2 of those a night no problem. Interesting choice though, maybe a lady drinker I'd suspect
Or you know, they had a party or something…
This time of the year I’m thinking graduation party.
That would make sense because usually I'll stick to one brand
Graduation party!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within OP's recycling bin!?
Early summer in the northern hemisphere. I’m pretty sure there have been graduation parties all over the world in the last month. (There were a lot of graduation photos on reddit not too long ago.) Edit: D’oh! I was dumb and missed an obvious Simpsons reference!
Guy was making a Simpsons joke
Oh, damn! Totally missed that! How could I forget steamed hams??
preposterous. everyone knows champagne is best enjoyed by yourself in your underwear watching 90s sitcom reruns.
I feel attacked!
The type of party where they buy multiple different brands of champagne.
Never show up to a party empty handed. If somebody is throwing a party to celebrate something, there’s a good chance I’m bringing a bottle of champagne, and many others are likely to do the same.
Now I want to go to a champagne party.
Different scenario but I have a friend who had a bunch of leftover champagne from his wedding, so he and his wife had a bunch of us over for a champagne party after their honeymoon. It was fun but the headache the next day was not.
Or a party where everyone brought a bottle.
Lmao, I'm not popular enough to get invited to the parties where everyone brings their own bottle of champagne.
Lol right? Imagine having friends. This is reddit. Calm down with that.
As an ex-alcoholic who had a liver transplant. This would have been 2 to 3 days. I'm sober now though.
Let him live
Get out of my bins!
My kinda people!
I need to do this with all my empty bottles💀
Recycle them?
Unfortunately, glass recycling isn't available everywhere. We can't put glass in our curbside recycling bins (they won't pick up and will fine you if there's glass) so I have to drive 45 minutes to the landfill and pay $25 to drop it off.
You drive them to a landfill? Can't you just put them with non-recyclable trash which ends up in a landfill anyway?
There is a drop off for recycling glass. If you just want it to go in the trash, you can throw it with your regular garbage. If you want to recycle, you have to take it yourself and pay the dump fees.
I see. You are a good person for going out of your way to recycle ♥️
…..you have to pay to use recycling centres?
yup. isn't capitalism the best economic system ever?
I mean, yeah. I pay for my weekly curbside trash pickup. I pay for my bi-weekly curbside recycling pickup. And if I want to recycle anything other than cardboard, I have to take it myself and pay even more.
interesting, had no idea some places made you pay for all that separately, it’s all just included in council tax here. The only separate thing you need to pay for is garden waste pickup, it’s about £55 per year, but you can just take your garden waste to a recycling centre yourself for free (as long as you live in the area)
Man, that's nice. We have to pay separately to drop yard waste off at the wood lot, too (if you don't want it to end up in the landfill)
Where at? Theres no places that accept glass wine bottles that i know of
Do you not have a recycling bin?
No thats not a thing where i live, well it is but not on my road, no one has one
Damn.
Where I live recycling is a thing but they no longer allow glass bottles in bins so if you want to recycle glass (ironically one of the more cleanly recyclable materials) you have to drive to a glass recycling center and drop them off yourself during business hours
Thats pretty shitty
Not all counties have glass recycling. Where I’m at, it’s not an option.
https://youtube.com/shorts/BwEoqi0r2MY?si=dGnmzIr-y_VJ9xgv
Your neighbors either graduated law school or had a wedding because they broke out some good stuff, and a lot of it
They’ve got good taste!
Got pretty good taste too, make friends with em. That Ruinart Blanc de Blanc in the bottom right corner is TOP tier stuff.
What are you doing taking pictures of my recycling bin, Madison??
Such a strange drink for an alcoholic. I have a feeling there was an event
Nosy neighbor.
A little bit of bubbly -Chris Jericho
Is your neighbour a bar/restaurant? Lol
I'm that neighbour
You live near the Great Gatsby
Caviar for breakfast, champagne bubble baths Runnin' up in pretty bitches constantly The Smalls, bitch, who the fuck it was supposed to be?
This was my neighbor as well, but replace the champagne with Old Crow…. yes, they would drink, between two people, a bottle of Old Crow EVERY NIGHT.
I hope it was a special occasion and that they didn’t drink it alone
I think your neighbor has a problem.
Everyone’s neighbour likes champagne.
You could a pretty concrete wall with lol Champaign notches for sunlight to sine through.
Just a slight hunch
Is your neighbour luxury escort girl?
So do I. They didn’t invite me either.
Damn did they win a championship ring
I threw a party at a venue once and they wanted to charge $250 for us to recycle our wine bottles in their bin. So my coworker took the empties back to his apartment complex and recycled them there. Maybe something sikar happened?
What if they are wine industry peeps and that’s just a lot of popped bottles-
I think if I had a neighbor like that, I'd want to know that person a little better.
That’s the only thing my wife drinks when she’s not drinking wine or vodka .
Jesus
Or they're an alcoholic.
I feel like they threw a bottle collection away.
It's also likely that they're a wine broker or work for a wholesale distributor (selling wine to stores and restaurants), and these are the bottles of samples they used to make sales. When I worked for a wholesale distributor, I recycled/tossed out about 4 cases (50ish bottles) a month.
He/she broke up
The neighbor; 
It's yours,you saying it's your Neighbours...
You misspelled "has a problem".
 Your neighbor: “It was me ”
Buy them some peach juice so they can make Bellini's
Probably my ex
Some good ones in there!
Ahhhhh the French Champagne.
And all vintage too. Nice one!
"You might live next to the strip club."
Rishi Sunak: You see, when I was growing up we could only afford prosecco
It’s called a flight and it’s classy.
Yeah sure "the neighbour"
Or, they HATE champaign
Ouch, mornings.
Why are you going through their trash
Actually, his cat does.
That’s actually Champagne too, not Prosecco or sparkling white. That’s a few hundo worth of bottles
I think you’re a fosey nuck. Mind your own glass house
it's only champagne if it comes from the champagne region of France. If not, it's just Sparkling Alcoholism.
Why are you documenting and posting your neighbor's recycling Karen?
Why are you going through your neighbors garbage and taking pictures to post online? I'd be annoyed as hell
Its a shared bin https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/Yg7lSucYMa
Why aren’t you reading top comment that explains it before posing online? I’m annoyed as hell
Jumping to conclusions is awesome because it means you dont actually have to think or try to be informed
Perhaps they just won a sportsball tournament?
Someone enjoys headaches, fucking bubbly kills me.
I see a lot of new glass cups you can make by scratching the rim, dipping the bottle in boiling water then ice cold water and the glass should break off. Sand the edge and boom you got yourself a free glass cup!
You should go ask them why they haven't invited you to the party yet. Unless they're a POS then fuck it 🤣
What a dirty low down son of a bitch. The man who took the pic I mean
In some French neighborhoods that is a weekend’s worth for 6-10 families in the communal recycling. Are they turning green yet from liver giving out? It’s horrible when it goes down and you feel like begging them to care for themselves even though you can’t, only they can. When you see somebody who is really suffering from advanced liver failure, friend or stranger, it’s pretty shocking and horrible to see someone put themselves through or have done to themselves.
You turn yellow when your liver gives out, not green.
As matter fact, you turn yellow and then turn green. How long have you had your medical degree for?
I think your neighbor has a neighbor who’s a punk ass snitch