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?

I've been distracted from the bin by the reviews - one purchaser uses the bottom to store cat food and treats...

meldish I prefer the £295 one. The Joseph one looks pfaffy. It isn't big enough for sorting recycling. I have a brabantia, and in the utility a square stand up green vinyl thing for tins and glass and a blue one for card and plastics. Lift up by handles, open utility door shake contents into wheelie bins. No bending to get out or put back.

Oh but if you really liked it YANBU. Will last longer than a coat, shoes or a bag

It looks like a filing cabinet.

it will still stink soon enough you know.

I'd have made you take it back.

But I guess if you have money to burn.

It is a lot of money, but you probably need to have a really nice bin to look at when you get back from Maui.

I can't believe you wasted the opportunity to spend whatever you like on something and decided that something would be a kitchen bin. You are unlikely to get that chance again:)

Send it back and get a normal bin. One that won't mind being filled with rubbish:)

200 quid for a bin? Yes, I looked at the link. You've way more money than sense.
Not struggling here either, but that's insane! I'm on the side of your DH too.
I actually bought a kitchen bin today. It cost £13. Perfect family size, and tasteful.
Your DH should have set a price limit if giving you total go ahead (is that what you want to hear?)
Or maybe like a normal person he didn't think you were going to squander two hundred quid on a bloody bin and thought it went without saying "don't spend hundreds on one bin."

Wow £200 is a lot
It does look slick

Oh no HowBad, OP said they saved for years to buy their new kitchen. Posters who get married in Maui never have to save for anything because they're very successful, have large houses and can pay for cruises for their hen parties.

A new kitchen would be nothing and £200 for an ugly rubbish bin would be a drop in the ocean.

I have a Brabantia bin and also a Brabantia ironing board.

Both are used daily ++ and are delights.

I have no doubt both cost a breathtaking amount of money (eg the ironing board was prob about £70) but the things you use everyday, as Mrs Miniver observes, need to be what you really really want (I may be paraphrasing somewhat).

You utter mug.
This is as bad as that time someone bought a fucking 'ironing station' for £200. Ans I asked her what that was, and cut off the waffle with 'so basically its a £200 ironing board with an iron on it.' and got a death stare.
Or the one where that idiot tried to sign me up for MLM buying a vacuum cleaner for £600. But if you sold 10 with a discount of £60 you got yours free.
'But it does everything!'
'Does it shit £20 notes?'.

I guarantee in 6 months time you'll be sick of it eating expensive branded bin liners and it will get constipated if you fill it with more than a teaspoon of waste at a time.

If I still lived in the city with the most complex recycling system known to man where all recycling had to be segregated I'd have bought a totem like a shot.

In fact I looked for a product like it for years.

Now I just need one with two compartments.

I'd buy up a shitload of those 'clever liners' quick smart, if I were you.

I came here to say that yes, £200 is a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a bin. But that bin is only £199, and therefore perfectly acceptable. YANBU. Enjoy your bin.

It's tiny. Hardly any space. Get a nice bin and a recycling unit thing

I spent £150 on a Brabantia touch top. Bloody great. Has lasted for ages. Wouldn't spend more though.

YABCompletelyU in posting that.

Many moons ago I gave DH Absolute Bin Autonomy. Therefore you are being unreasonable in posting a bin that I need, given that I no longer have a choice in the matter. DH would not consider anything non-Brabantia.

Ultimately, ABA does not involve a spending limit. Otherwise it would be Conditional Bin Autonomy. His fault.

I like it.

And the liners won't be a faff. Just order from JL and pick up at waitrose.

If a bin has to be on show then it's reasonable for it to be a nice bin.

I spent £150 on a Brabantia touch top. Bloody great. Has lasted for ages. Wouldn't spend more though.

Same here - no regrets. It followed a string of £20 cheap and crappy bins that didn't last more than a few months, so I suspect it may well save money in the long run.

Send it back now - same bin on offer for £130..... www.leekes.co.uk/index.php/joseph-joseph-totem-50l-bin-stone?gclid=Cj0KEQjw2_23BRDb_qbvzK3X8M8BEiQAg87AF0TxwTCf7Zo9uTVNd0i2P1p7goJRrrsaghm79miSqhQaAjHh8P8HAQ

YANBU. The bin is beautiful. The cost is also relative to the cost of the kitchen. You mustn't spoil the boat for a halfpenny of tar.

I do like a nice bin but I tend to wait for a sale for stuff like that. I got a nice Next green spotty one for £12 in the sale, wouldn't have liked it half as much if I had payed the full £40, it also matches my kitchen . £200 is a lot.

MN is like a parallel universe sometimes. We are talking about £200....and a bin? For putting crap in?