Comments on: Waste not, want lots!

By: class factotum

class factotum — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:19:42 +0000

NTB, I hope it’s the housekeeping issue. That’s just gross. What? It’s so hard to wipe off the top of the trash can after you’ve cleaned the mirror? Ick, ick, ick.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:51:34 +0000

I have to say, class factotum, that I never did meet a lidded bathroom-sized trash bin that I liked. The lids always get icky, and not kitchen icky, either, which I can deal with. Onions, yes. Random brown bathroom stuff? NOOOOO. I’ve only seen them in other people home’s, however, so perhaps they are simply not as keen on housekeeping as I am?

By: class factotum

class factotum — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:13:37 +0000

Or get one with a lid. That way no one has to look at the contents unless she is actually contributing to them.

I am thrilled with my new kitchen trash can. For two and a half years, whenever I visited my fiance’, I had to put up with his awful kitchen trash can. It was short with a lid that had to be mashed on the lid, not at the base, to open, so any time I wanted to peel an onion, I had to lift my foot 18 inches to step on the lid at least twice to get it to open, then I had to bend down to make sure the onion peel made it into the trash can instead of falling to the floor.

When we got engaged, I told Chris I didn’t want a ring but I wanted a decent trash can, which, as you know, are not inexpensive. Not as expensive as a diamond ring, but more than getting your oil changed. Now we have this gorgeous high silver tube with a lid that rests in the corner of the kitchen and looks very nice.