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 agree with wigornian. Why waste money, send it back to JL and get the one from Leekes.

I have a lovely Brabantia bin that I'd wanted for ages. I waited until it was on offer on Amazon and saved about a third off the price. It's still going strong 10 years later.

£200 for a bin seems like an absolute fortune to me but then I guess everyone has a different idea of what's important and how much disposable income they have!

For us a new bin would be £6 from pound stretchers! I'd rather spend the £200 on a short haven break or a trip to Legoland or something!

Seriously ? Argos were doing a large Brabantia bin the other day for under 25 quid. Great quality and last years, save yourself the dosh.

Doesn't it remind anyone else of an office photocopier and printer?
(Sorry op. You had ABA so are well within your rights, if admin chic is the look you were going for in your kitchen)

Coffee...isnt that the best thing about shopping. . Dh and i love going to john lewis and imaging what we would get if we had that tree that grown money. Not played with any fridge freezers yet but might....im open to suggestions!

Its a nice bin OP. Really nice.

But it's going to cost at least that each year to buy bin liners for it. Or in cheap supermarket ones that won't fit. I predict you will have a drawer full of wrong sized bags in a month.

Also I have a recycling unit in a cupboard in my kitchen. There are 3 compartments. One for paper, one for glass/cans and one for general waste. What actually happenis the general one gets full and instead of emptying it the recycling compartments get empty milk cartons and yoghurt pots shoved in. So YABU to think this bin will help.

What are you all doing to your bins to break them?
I have an argos bin, that cost a tenner with a washing up bowl 12 years ago. Sits blamelessly in the corner.

Recylcing sits by the back door as a reminder to be taken to the garage each day - where the big piles live.

Vats of lube and marmosets?

£200 is ridiculous for a bin

Yes utterly ridiculous. Didn't stop me though. I got 20% off when John Lewis price matched a promotion, and this softened the blow somewhat. I have a small kitchen and nowhere to hide the bin so I thought I would buy a beautiful one as it's the first thing you see. It sparks joy, I'm glad I did buy it. I don't bother with the odour filters and Sainsbury's 50l kitchen bin bags fit it perfectly.

here Its £140 on here plus another 5% off with their code.

YABU not to get it cheaper.

I spent about £100 on a bin 5 years ago. Thought it was crazy, but it's on display in kitchen, used many times a day and actually I'm pleased with it. Parents even went and got same one.

If you like it, then fair enough I think. However, think I'd find all those compartments small, annoying and difficult to get bags for.

Meh. If she'd spent two hundred quid on a party frock that she'll wear twice a year if that (and was probably made in a sweatshop next to the Primark ones) then we'd be shrugging. The bin's on display 24/7 and used several times a day. If it makes her happy and she can afford it (big if I grant you because it looks too small to me) then why the hell not. It was a happy happy day for me when I finally ditched the last in a long line of crappy Addis swingbins for 60 quid's worth of sleek steel Brabantia.

I wouldn't spend £200 on the bin as I don't have it but having got into KonMari I understand needing a bin that brings me joy. My carrier bags on the kitchen door 'bins' don't

I shall now be shopping around for one like yours but at least £130 cheaper and probably emptying a cupboard to hide it away in. Who needs cereals anyway

I also need to know how and what kind of bin can go in a dishwasher? That would bring me lots of joy

Oh yes JL price match and the 10 year garantuee makes it not too stupid if you have the funds forgot the point

Those saying get a £20 quid bin from Argos, does that have all the different sections?
I presume op wants the 4/5 diffenent parts as has to segregate everything where she lives. Having 5 £20 bins would be £100 anyway and take up half the kitchen

How can some people have no bin? Where do you put stuff? Where we live we have to seperate regular rubbish, recycling, glass and food waste. So yes we need 4 different containers/ bins. We have an integrated one with three sections, and a compost bin on side.

roddas the £135 bin is a different model - I am getting a 60L model rather than a 48L one.

This is my bin Butterflies Not pretty but it does the job and I'm never going to be a Brabantia polisher .

You have to have the right dishwasher too - there is an additional spray head that goes in at the back after removing the top basket. I don't know how common this is but mine was the cheapest Bosch model.

Ah I don't have any additional spray head Barbara but if that fits my cupboard and doesn't melt in the dishwasher I think I might be in new bin heaven

THAT'S £200?!! It's tiny and if you would have asked me I would have said £15 from Ikea. I'm obviously no bin expert. However, if it makes you happy and you like it, yanbu.

60L for your waste and your recycling?

Regardless of the price that wouldn't work at all for us...that's tiny! I'd be emptying it twice a day when a section got filled.

I have a 'normal' 60L bin for waste. And three 60L bins outside for recycling. The amount of plastic we get through, not to mention tins (lots of cat food, tuna gets eaten a lot, tinned tomatoes etc) is huge, for a standard family of 4.

People with this mixed type of bin, how often do you have to empty it?

Agree about the comedy pricing compared to Ikea. Joseph Joseph do some cheap looking plastic stirring spoons for about a tenner each.

Almost identical item in Ikea - 40 pence. The JJ ones might be slightly nicer, but not Twenty Five Times Nicer.

For something that will be used day-in-day out I don't think £200 is outrageous but the compartments look too small to be useful - six bottles and a handful of newspapers in the recycling wouldn't be representative of our household.
Have you picked it up yet?

That wouldn't work for me but YANBU because you had ABA and can presumably afford it.
Interesting to see my lovely bin bought to fit a small slap bang on show place in our new kitchen in 2007 has gone up in price by 50%. That's binflation for you.

I'm sure there are plenty of hygiene enthusiasts on here that would class bin emptying as a daily job, so the size of the bin is not as important as if it was very big, there would be the temptation to leave it for days on end until it became a stinking mess that was too heavy to move easily anyway. I'm very much in the slattern camp, but even I see the need to empty the bin a couple of times a week, especially in summer.

OP I have this bin! It's brilliant, very very handy. I don't buy the custom liners though, we get some normal supermarket ones that fit.