Giving Up on the Bin
I hate the SimpleHuman rubbish bin, I bought for my kitchen, with a vengeance. Quite frankly, it’s absolute rubbish.
The main problem is that every time you take out one of the containers, it traps your fingers and as mine are sensitive after the stroke, it’s hurts. I forget the fact that it needs expensive special bin liners, the lids don’t stay up when you want and that it takes up valuable floor space in my small kitchen, but it has to go.
But lets face it, evety other one I’ve seen is expensive and/or a useless design.
So I’ve now relegated it to a bin for my dry recyclables.
My Useless SimpleHuman Bin
Note how I’m using two IKEA hooks to hold up a Waitrose carrier bag for my food waste and other non-recyclables.
I’ve bought a few useless things in my time, but I believe this is the worst husehold item I’ve ever bought.
The Anonymous Widower 
We have 2 Brabantia bins; one for recyclable rubbish and one for rubbish rubbish. They are not cheap but we have had them for years. They also sell spares, so when one of them had a “lazy” lid, we bought another. Although one is expected to use their bin bags we don’t. For the recyclable rubbish, we reuse the bag many times; until it is falling apart.
Comment by John | March 21, 2011 |