To think £36 is an acceptable amount to spend on a kitchen bin. Sorry boring.

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So our kitchen bin is cracked. It was a cheap £10 ish one which only lasted a few years. Our holiday home has a metal pedal bin with a plastic liner. This is also flimsy imo.
So I choose a hard plastic pedal bin which looks sturdy. I commented that it looks much sturdier. Dh said well I should hope so for 36 Quid. I than mentioned reviews and he said the company probably posted them.
Aibu to think he is a misery guts and the price isn't excessive.
We can afford it too.

YANBU IMO. You get what you pay for. In fact mine was over £150. Didn't realise until I'd lugged it to the John Lewis counter with a load of other stuff and I was too embarrassed to say no! Besides it's an unusual shape and I needed it for the space in the kitchen.

It has also lasted over 10 years now, but I must admit I did look at it and think, "you do know you're just there for me to throw shit into, right?!"

I've got a pedal bin, looks (from a distance) like a brabantia. It came from Woolworths closing down sale. It'll be a shame when it does break.

I've got a 50l Brabantia press button lid and it's fab.
The oringal lid broke so I just went to their spare parts website and brought another one without replacing the whole bin.
You can get good priced Brabantia bins from dunelm....cheapest I've found.

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever"

I spent £56 on a Brabantia about 7 years ago, still going strong. ExH so enraged at the time (not only about the extravagance, he also felt that the tiny cracked and stained plastic thing it replaced had a good few years left in it) that he posted on Facebook about my profligacy! He got a lot of this kind of reaction

So it sounds like the Brabantia ones aren't any more durable than cheaper bins, you can just get spare parts for free when they break.

We bought a simple human one. About £50 or so 12 years ago I think. Still works and looks great.

I think you should get the bin you want and ignore the grumpy sod you are married to.

Sorry. Talking about my marriage there!

I wouldn't spend that amount on a bin, I'd rather spend it on lots of other things! Our bin cost £7 3 years ago and still looks new. That said, if you want to spend that amount on a bin, completely up to you

We got a £170 wesco space boy bin- its bloody amazing! I never thought I would ever spend that much on a bin (Christmas present to each other) or that a bin could change my life but it has!

I've got 2 recycling bins that fit in a cupboard in the kitchen and you just pull the door out. Would be perfect if DH didn't insist on buying cheap liners that are slightly too small.

YANBU - a kitchen bin is something you use daily and it's always on view. People spend far greater sums on kitchen gadgets that rarely move from the back of the cupboard once the initial novelty has worn off.

When I buy things I look at the price vs how long it will last, £36 on something that will last 5+ years isn't expensive. I'm looking at getting a new one, our dog can open our current bin and keeps raiding it and getting mess everywhere so I want a big one with a pedal opening and I don't care how much it costs lol.

It's an Addis one. Ironically it was dh who broke the other flimsy one.

And it has a lock.

We've got a simple human one with a separate compartment for the recycling, it was expensive but it's on show in the kitchen iyswim and needs to keep the dogs and cats out and be easy to wipe down and clean out. We have a cheap plastic one which we still use elsewhere, but somehow the lid on that always got grim (maybe I'm not the best cleaner!) and there was no where to put the recycling.

I'm not into brands/labels/status stuff AT ALL but, after much discussion, my partner and I decided to splash out on the kitchen bin as it is something we use multiple times a day and is a massively visible feature in our small kitchen.
We spent just over £100 on a Simplehuman Touchbar 2 compartment bit. One side is perfectly 'carrier bag sized' for rubbish, the other side is for mixed recycling. Really practical, works brilliantly and fits the space well. No regrets here.

We did the same with the pretty, ceramic compost container that sits on our worktop. Quite a few friends have laughed at our 'posh' compost container and while I completely see their point - why spend money on something so utilitarian - I really like it and it's much easier to keep clean than those plastic lidded containers.

We honestly don't usually spend a lot on house stuff. Just thought we'd splash out on these two items that we use, and are on view, all the time. I also didn't know I felt so strongly about this!

£36 for a bin you like sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Aha! A bin thread, just what I need! Do any of these great bins fit under worktops? I need one that does, preferably a pedal bin or sensor. Will I need a child lock for it when DS starts walking? All advice greatly appreciated! Sorry OP, not trying to hijack your thread, I think your bin sounds very reasonable.

We bought one of those sensor bin things that cost the earth. Dog realised she could waft her paw across the top and delve in while we were at work. Fancy bin now lives in the garage, cheap Brabantia bin lives in kitchen as it's dog-proof and means she hardly ever shits our felix cat food wrappers any more.

YANBU, if you can afford it and it's something you want/need. It's on show all the time so might as well have a nice one if you can. Our Brabantia is over 10 years old and still going strong, cost per use must be fractions of a penny now.

Our bin is a pedal one, really strong plastic and quite big and it was more than I even thought bins could cost haha but it has a sliding lock on the top which has proved to be an absolute life saver with a naughty young beagle. It's lasted 3 years and has plenty of years left!!

Btw rikalaily if your dog is determined they'll get their noses and push up the lid of a pedal bin, and raid it anyway, a locked lid was our saviour!

YANBU - a kitchen bin is something you use daily and it's always on view

Yep, this. We spent a fair bit on a Brabantia over 10 years ago, but it still looks really good.

If you can afford to, get a decent one. Just because you chuck rubbish in in, it doesn't mean it can't look as nice as the rest of the room.

YANBU. If I could afford it I would get a Brabantia. But for now, we have a 40L Curver from Amazon that cost us £20.... it does the job.

I spent about £200 on a Vipp bin about ten years ago. I could afford it, they look great and they're practically indestructible. If you can afford £36 for the one you like then go for it.

Thank you for replies. I am pleased with it and that is allergic mattered. I will just ignore grumpy dh.