Why are kitchen bins so expensive

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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    essex-commuter wrote:
    What's so good about Smeg?
    I wondered the same. I like the name and the styling of the freezers (partly why I suggested the cooker).

    A little like in the 90s I liked Bang and Olfsen, even though back then they were just Phillips audio equipment with a fancy exterior.

    Essex-commuter, what bin do you have and why?
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  • FoldingJoe
    FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
    essex-commuter wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    What is most worrying, I am genuinely interested in what oven/hob/cooker Essex Commuter bought.

    It's sad isn't it. I'm an expert now in 'American' fridge freezers', oak doors and suites of furniture.

    We (I) bought a Rangemaster cooker in the end. Ms EC doesn't particularly like cooking, I did suggest I take the double oven doors off and sitck a microwave in each hole, at least then she could defrost two dinners at once! :D

    It has got a wok burner though, that sounds pretty cool.

    Might be the same as ours. A Toledo 110. :)
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  • rolf_f
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    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I fully accept that you can't learn everything from porn. There are however, techniques and positions you can learn from it. We are visual beings after all so it must help to benefit surely?

    Back in my childhood days the ultimate in bike stunts was a wheelie. Now, thanks to Youtube and the likes of Danny Macaskill a whole new imaginitive world of tricks that we'd never have thought of before can be watched, applied, learned and enjoyed. This approach can be applied to other things.
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  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    FoldingJoe wrote:
    Might be the same as ours. A Toledo 110. :)

    Correct...an XT :D
  • FoldingJoe
    FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
    Rolf F wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I fully accept that you can't learn everything from porn. There are however, techniques and positions you can learn from it. We are visual beings after all so it must help to benefit surely?

    Back in my childhood days the ultimate in bike stunts was a wheelie. Now, thanks to Youtube and the likes of Danny Macaskill a whole new imaginitive world of tricks that we'd never have thought of before can be watched, applied, learned and enjoyed. This approach can be applied to other things.

    You're showing your age now, Rolf F. ;)

    At least when I was a nipper the "Cherry Picker" was the stunt to aspire to, and also to lose the chance of fathering kids on!! :shock:
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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    [quote="msmancunia

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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    essex-commuter wrote:
    What's so good about Smeg?

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    FoldingJoe wrote:
    You're showing your age now, Rolf F. ;)

    At least when I was a nipper the "Cherry Picker" was the stunt to aspire to, and also to lose the chance of fathering kids on!! :shock:

    Possibly - though to be fair, I was always more racer oriented at the time so trying to go fast was as tricky as I ever got. Other kids were on their Grifters and early BMXs (and probably doing more impressive things) which should date me quite accurately!
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  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Essex-commuter, what bin do you have and why?

    Currently one that is stainless steel with a lid you push and it pops open. A friend has a similar one but his opens when he waves his hand over the top. Well it did until it broke.

    The new house (that will take the big boy cooker) has one that is built in behind a kitchen door apparently; I have no idea how good it is.

    Thanks for asking.
  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    Yesterday I was asking about washing my helmet, today I'm asking about Smeg. How spooky.
  • msmancunia
    msmancunia Posts: 1,415
    clarkey cat wrote:
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    Lol - touché, Sir. That made me crack up at my desk instead of doing very important work in my very important job.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,341
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    essex-commuter wrote:
    What's so good about Smeg?
    I wondered the same. I like the name and the styling of the freezers (partly why I suggested the cooker).

    A little like in the 90s I liked Bang and Olfsen, even though back then they were just Phillips audio equipment with a fancy exterior.

    Essex-commuter, what bin do you have and why?

    'That' fridge - the retro one parodied by Aardman was a one-off for SMEG, that just caught a passing trend. All their other stuff is just one of the more affordable brands you can get with a decent design pedigree. The cheaper stuff is generally pretty ugly, and the other nice stuff (German and Italian brands) is way more expensive.
    Here's something that is very pretty, although I'm not sure if you are actually supposed to cook in any of those kitchens.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Why hasn't this thread been locked yet?

    The only non offensive thing in it is Msmancunia and the sperm and that was OT to the thread :lol:
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,316
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Come again? I think you misunderstand me. I am at a point in my life where I am starting a family and creating a home. Whereas when I was in my mid 20s many of these things didn't matter or were out of my reach financially, they have become more poignant/important too my life. So I come here and ask because I like the people here.

    <snip>

    I genuinely wanted know what bins people have...

    It's good that together we have got the trivial stuff like religion, education, financial planning, pregnancy and the birth out of the way early doors so we can get focused now on the important stuff.


    Plastic bin, has set in the corner of the utility room for 6 years now. Probably £10 or so from Woolworths or such like. Every now and again Mrs TWH points out that it's getting a bit whiffy. It gets a bit of bleach and hit by the power hose....
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Rolf F wrote:
    Why hasn't this thread been locked yet?

    +1

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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Il Principe wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    Why hasn't this thread been locked yet?

    +1

    Binradar.

    Oh I give in - it's not going to happen.

    Does anyone actually still buy bin bags? I haven't in years. I'm fully self sufficient on charity clothing bags of which I get several every week.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    There's an alternative to bin bags?
    Food Chain number = 4

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  • woodnut
    woodnut Posts: 562
    Rolf F wrote:
    Does anyone actually still buy bin bags? I haven't in years. I'm fully self sufficient on charity clothing bags of which I get several every week.

    I do that, it's one of those things that gives me a warm glow :lol:
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    woodnut wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    Does anyone actually still buy bin bags? I haven't in years. I'm fully self sufficient on charity clothing bags of which I get several every week.

    I do that, it's one of those things that gives me a warm glow :lol:

    The real question is, what type of binbag?

    Budget? Handles? String pull?
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Budget, but not so budget that they rip as you lift them out of the bin.
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    edited July 2012
    seeing as we are on the subject of rubbish...does anyone else have bin collector nazi's?

    i put plastic bottles in out recycling bin only to have a warning sticker plastered all over the bin because the plastic was the wrong sort.

    how the bleeding hell do i know what type of plastic a bottle is?
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    woodnut wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    Does anyone actually still buy bin bags? I haven't in years. I'm fully self sufficient on charity clothing bags of which I get several every week.

    I do that, it's one of those things that gives me a warm glow :lol:

    The real question is, what type of binbag?

    Budget? Handles? String pull?

    nowt worse than budget bags that you pick up an split up all over you

    an there aint nowt minging-er than rubbish juice
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    double post
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  • timmyflash
    timmyflash Posts: 526
    Simplehuman - pretty, not a brantia, functional:

    http://www.simplehuman.com/products/trash-cans/

    Shame they call them trash cans though...
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    We've got mini bins for food (these are meant to be kept in the flat, but neither I or the flat downstairs have used ours), plastic bins for recyling (plastic, glass, paper and metal) and normal bins for all other rubbish. I think the council needed to spend money with the dedicated food bins.

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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    timmyflash wrote:
    Simplehuman - pretty, not a brantia, functional:

    http://www.simplehuman.com/products/trash-cans/

    Shame they call them trash cans though...
    I was looking at these and they do look well made. £50 will get me a plastic one. But it looked decent. Thanks. I will look at them again this weekend.
    Food Chain number = 4

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  • SteppenHerring
    SteppenHerring Posts: 720
    £100 for a Brabantia? You bin done.
  • woodnut
    woodnut Posts: 562
    We have one bin for plastic, cans & bottles, one for paper, a black "everything else" bin and a Labrador. I can recommend Labradors as ace recyclers of any food waste. Only downside is they also eat socks.
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  • timmyflash
    timmyflash Posts: 526
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    timmyflash wrote:
    Simplehuman - pretty, not a brantia, functional:

    http://www.simplehuman.com/products/trash-cans/

    Shame they call them trash cans though...
    I was looking at these and they do look well made. £50 will get me a plastic one. But it looked decent. Thanks. I will look at them again this weekend.

    Wanna buy mine? Think mine is 38L version of this:
    http://www.simplehuman.co.uk/products/b ... al-bin.php

    I want the bigger one that takes two inner bins - one for recycling. Can't stand having the orange bag just floating around the floor now we've started recyling..
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Thanks but no, I need a 50ml and I kinda want it new.

    (When I buy a new house I want to buy a new toilet and 'Christen' it).
    Food Chain number = 4

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