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?

Ha ha! I have this bin!
To be fair the cost was a drop in the ocean when it was written down along side the cost of the extension, new kitchen, new appliances, new accessories and pretty much new everything.

Had I only been buying a replacement bun I'd have stuck with a Brabantia again, but as we were spending so much anyway and this one fitted in with the new white gloss and chrome kitchen I felt why not. And I do like Joseph Joseph stuff so it kind of went with various other stuff I was getting.

As bins go it's a fairly decent one. The filters work and the recycling bit at the bottom is useful. We don't use the food waste box though as don't have a company and don't have a separate food waste collection.

But hey - it's my money to waste if I want to. I'm sure some of the things other people spend money on I'd see as a waste.

He cheaper one is a smaller model. There are two versions. We got the bigger.

Fwiw I'm not sure what some people are doing or putting in their buns for them to smell so bad. Okay this has a filter but it really does not smell at all, but then anything really strong smelling we would not leave in a kitchen bun regardless of price - things like chip Shop wrappings or curry waste etc goes straight out to the big bin outside.
And although we usually use the branded bags for it you can use ordinary bags if need be as the outside would still cover most of the excess.

Not an idiot thanks - sure you'd spend money on stuff I'd choose not to. My money, my kitchen, my choice. Simple as that.

I completely get it. I have yet to find the bin of my dreams and have gone through quite a few. I've probably spent more than £200 on unsuitable ones. Besides, you have ABA.

Will no one think of the marmosets though? I hope they have tiny blindfolds at the very least.

www.johnlewis.com/brabantia-built-in-bin-black-10l/p167201

We have this one. I take the rubbish & recycling out every day so my house won't smell of decaying food.

We did have a 60l brabantia but it was far far too big. I'm not tall so emptying the thing was a nightmare for me - you need to be tall to be able to lift the frankly which heavy at times huge bin liner out of the tall bin. I'm not. And not our kitchen is downstairs I can empty my new bin much easier and it's not far to take outside. the top but is 45 litres which is more than plenty for us, and the recycling but we use mainly for glass. It should decant a that outside twice a week. Top bin gets changed 1-2 times a week too.

Goodness knows what some people are doing though to have such smelly huge bins. We don't make enough waste for that I'm sure - hence one of the reasons for getting rid of the big bin.

We got an expensive bin but it is the first thing you see when you come into our house so it was worth it - it is kept spotless and still looks fab and works 5 years on.

I sent DH out to get a replacement pair of bins about 5 years ago as i was fed up with the crappy plastic ones we had, the only input i had was it had to be metal and foot operated, he came back with two lovely 60l stainless steel bins and just said 'dont ask about the price' , took him about 18 months to admit they were £75 each BUT they still look new and work well so will probably save us money over the long run

YANBU. DH and I bought ourselves a Wesco Kickmaster a few years ago for Christmas. I love it, it's like a big orange penis in the kitchen .

FWIW, despite having a family of 5 I think 60L sounds like a lot, our bin is 33L and since all paper/plastic/glass/metal is recycled that's plenty big enough.

I don't think that particular bin looks that great, so I'd skip it. I have an very old Bribantia chrome one that was pretty expensive, but I still have it 12 years later and it still looks great.

If you've got £200 and it make you happy then bloody well go for it OP! When I treat myself to something new I like to stoke it when I walk past it it and say to myself "oooo shiney!"
I hope it gives you as much joy!

It's a bin. I don't understand this. You put your RUBBISH in it.

That bin is also fugly. What am I missing here? £200 for something you empty your vegetables and mouldy bread into. I think you're mad.

Since I bought two of these www.simplehuman.com/uk/x-large-pet-food-can-fingerprint-proof-brushed-stainless-steel

to store chicken food in my utility room in, I don't think your being unreasonable at all. Enjoy your bin. I love mine and they are so useful and lovely to look at. Much better than the plastic tubs and feed sacks I used to have.

I spent quite a bit on a nice bin and don't regret it but looking at that one, all I see is it will be horrible to clean. Far too many bits.

I knew exactly what bin you'd be talking about I've coveted the same bin although couldn't bring myself to spend £200 on it, sometimes I stroke it lovingly in John Lewis.....realistically though you would have to empty it three times a week.

I have wanted this bin for so long but can't justify the cost :( When we win the lotto tonight though that baby is mine

Love that bin Ruhrpott

That bin is £50 in my local, TK maxx.

I was eying it up but sadly got the one eyebrow wriggle and flared nostrils off my oh at the price.

He'd have self combusted at 200........wonder if I can convince him now on account of it being a bargain ??

"I have wanted this bin for so long but can't justify the cost sad"

Really?? you have spent some of your one and only, finite life pining for a BIN that you can't afford?

Hmm...a few comments about 'smelly huge bins' and emptying your bin twice a week...why?

My kitchen general waste bin gets emptied once a fortnight. It's not used that much because everything is recycled. Food waste goes in the food bin. Anything non-recyclable that might be stinky like yoghurt lids gets rinsed before being binned, the same as most plastic stuff.

I just had a look because I couldn't think of stuff that goes in...I can see crisp packets, yoghurt lids, a few net things from fruit and veg and a couple of baby wipes. Nothing smelly in there.

It does actually look very...bitty. Lids and hinges and compartments everywhere.

Is it not going to be a pain in the arse to clean? No matter how slick it looks, it's still a bin. You're going to be putting wet, messy stuff in it.

Minecraft. We don't have food recycling facilities so our bin contains things like chicken carcasses, uneaten cooked food or pet food, cat sick (one of them has a tendency to eat too much and throw up - nothing wrong with him except greetings), bits of rodents due to aforementioned cats, any non recyclable food containers etc. So can be smelly if left. I don't wash any rubbish before putting it into the bin either.

Yanbu!
I have one pretty much like this www.johnlewis.com/wesco-pullboy-premium-integrated-bin-grey/p1972743
With an integral door to match the rest of the kitchen. It cost more than the price of this one but it's lovely to have it hidden away, the bins each lift out to empty them easily, I don't have an extra thing cluttering up my kitchen, it's really good!
Yanbu at all.

Greetings = greediness

Six pages if outrage about a bin

Heads to Lakeland to see I I can buy a smart food waste caddy in Lakeland by Josep. My Borough council utilitarian green one is doing nothing for my kitchen. Thanks OP.