Is £200 for a kitchen bin fucking ridiculous?

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So we've just had a new kitchen fitted, which we saved for years to buy. Our black plastic swing top bin (B&Q, £21.99 - I promise this is relevant later) has had a broken bit for the past 8 years or so, so the lid no longer fits snugly. It's also very ugly, although I guess that's subjective.

I thought I'd like to get one of those brabantia touch bins as they look nice but instead I was inexorably drawn towards this: www.johnlewis.com/joseph-joseph-intelligent-waste-separation-recycling-totem-bin-60l/p1897300?colour=Stone

DH didn't want any part in bin discussions. I did try to get him enthused about bin choice, but he wasn't really biting so in the end I proposed that I should have Absolute Bin Autonomy and he acquiesced. With my Absolute Bin Autonomy I purchased the above bin using the joint account.

DH now says that £200 for a bin is a "fucking waste of money" given the longevity and cost of our previous bin, and I'll need to repay him in favours involving vats of lube and marmosets. It may have been marmalade. (He is actually joking, for anyone who may take this literally.)

To me, Absolute Bin Autonomy allows me to choose the bin of my dreams. I admit that £200 is a fucking ridiculous price for a bin, but the autonomy principle stands, no? AIBU?

My dh broke my blender years ago, so he decided to buy a new one. Mine cost less than £50.

He ordered it online, and I was in when it was delivered. The bloke struggled to carry it from the van. At that point alarm bells started ringing.

My dh had bought a £300+ all singing, all dancing magimix blender thingy. It has a lifetime guarantee I believe.

I could have throttled him. He said I was BU to moan as I never gave him a price limit! I didn't realise you could get ones at that price.

Your dh probably doesn't realise that some bins cost £200.

thisis I'm not that much of an idiot: the £175 bin is a smaller model

DH and I would both go bonkers if the other bought a bin that cost that much. Some have more money than sense.
YABU.

The bin of your dreams...?

You need to start dreaming bigger.

www.leekes.co.uk/index.php/joseph-joseph-totem-50l-bin-stone?gclid=CjwKEAjwuPi3BRClk8TyyMLloxgSJAAC0Xsje0ANR56OV9_iqN2r23Be96zUcqClOieHdzeZmPMIvxoCxzfw_wcB

£130 with 5% off with a code..

Poss different model (after reading thtead)

I don't even own a kitchen bin last one broke and we've never replaced it, we recycle everything anyway but if I had a spare £200 I'd buy that it looks awesome (never thought I'd say that about a bin).

Yanbu if you can afford it.

175 new on Amazon. Still a ridiculous price for a bin. I'm with your Dh.
But all the Joseph Joseph stuff I've looked at is way overpriced.
I need a new bin, my tall B&Q pedal bin is rusting away. So I'm getting one in IKEA on Monday.

I put my bins in the dishwasher.

I've had 2 washing machines in 20 years of being an adult and they both cost about the same as the OPs bin. To get value for money from buying Miele it would probably have to see me to my deathbed.

handslike I do usually have more sense than money. I didn't get obsessed with expensive prams for the dc, bought a high-street wedding dress, take the kids camping instead of fancy hotels. I think it was the Absolute Bin Autonomy that turned my head. When I collect it from Waitrose at the weekend I will let you know whether it was worth it or if it turns out to be a brief fling

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He gave you ABA. End of discussion

YANBU

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That's got to be one of the ugliest rubbish bins I've ever seen and how is it intelligent? Other than store a small amount of recycling it doesn't seem to do anything more than any normal stupid bin would do.

£200? Someone's laughing all the way to the bank. I wouldn't want it in my kitchen if they paid me £200.

It's a nice bin.

Previous poster is right though, you have spunked away your Absolute Autonomy joker. You should have saved it for a car or something Like I did mwa ha ha ha

You had autonomy, therefore ANBU, but 200 sheets for a bin is beyond the pale. That's more than most of my cars have cost.

That's an ugly bin sorry.....I bought a cream Brabantia one and I have to say that every day it brings pleasure to my life.

We actually have one of those bins

Probably but I have a stupidly expensive kitchen sink bowl and I love it.

You know you're being a little bit unreasonable! £200 for a bin is a bit ridiculous, especially when it's (a) tiny, and will need emptying about 3 times a week (more if you actually have kids), and (b) all the myriad little nooks and crannies look like they will get very dirty very quickly, and then be a complete pain to clean.

OP, you are saying that the "absolute power corrupts absolutely " applies to your bin choice?

Hmm.

Good point. If DH questions it again, just point him in the direction of Mussolini.

You stood no chance