# A $200 trash can?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 16, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926 "2005-09-16T04:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/1 "2005-09-16T04:44:46Z")
My friend’s boyfriend, in acquiring items for his new house, purchased a $200 trashcan. My response? “That thing better give good head.” That thing ought to eat the garbage and smell like roses and cook your dinner. Seriously, wtf can a $200 trash can do that a normal one can’t? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/2 "2005-09-16T05:36:24Z")
> [@](#): > > =saramamalana “That thing better give good head.” [Here](http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/sharon/images/trash.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/3 "2005-09-16T05:42:45Z")
Is part of the cost based on the garbage removal service? I used to live in a town that required you to buy special striped garbage bags that cost much more than reglaur bags. But if you didn’t use them you couldn’t drop your garbage off at the dump. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/4 "2005-09-16T06:07:13Z")
Could be marketed by the same folks that make the Toto Neorest toilet. $5K to poop into. ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/5 "2005-09-16T06:21:22Z")
> [@saramamalana](#): > > My friend’s boyfriend, in acquiring items for his new house, purchased a $200 trashcan. My response? “That thing better give good head.” > > That thing ought to eat the garbage and smell like roses and cook your dinner. Seriously, wtf can a $200 trash can do that a normal one can’t? :rolleyes: You sound just like my grandfather: “Why do I need a $30 calculator? My slide rule works just fine.” “Why do I need a $200 microwave? I got a stove, don’t I?” “Why do I need a $200 trashcan? My rubbermaid’s good enough.” It’s called _progress_, Sara. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/6 "2005-09-16T11:00:13Z")
It’s WiFi enabled! It’s got Bluetooth! It has a color touch screen, and can hold over 1000 Mp3’s! It holds trashbags! We can’t afford **not** to. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/7 "2005-09-16T12:17:12Z")
I always get a laugh out of the expensive “trendy” items featured in the colour supplements of the weekend papers. In the _Sunday Times_ a few weeks ago they featured an “American Retro” stainless-steel kitchen (swing bin) trash-can for £600 . For goodness sake it’s only somewhere to dump your trash! . This can probably go alongside the cheese grater for £65 or the wooden chopping board “with in-built knife draw” for £255. Over-priced goods for people with more money than sense. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/8 "2005-09-16T12:25:08Z")
It’s not something I would ever buy at my salary, or perhaps ever. But if he likes it, he likes it. This is all relative too. If I had a billion dollars in the bank, the trashcan would only have to be slightly better than the rest for me to spend $200. As it is, there is very little I can think of that would make me justify buying a $200 trashcan. So a pile on may be fun, and the rush of superiority might be a temporary turn on, but I find it completely unjustified. If he wants a $200 trashcan, more power to him. And more power to the $200 trashcan manufacturer, who, like many companies, have found a way to sell the intangible. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/9 "2005-09-16T12:26:01Z")
Does Mr. $200 garbage can person have a big dog? I’ve heard of Hi-tech trash cans that are certain to keep pets & other beasties out of them, but they are pricey. [This one](http://www.doggy-safe.com/pages/1/index.htm) costs 100 bucks and it doesn’t seem that special. I’m sure there are bigger, better, more dog-resistant than these. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/10 "2005-09-16T12:41:23Z")
I had to buy $200 Rubbermaid enclosure for my rubbish barrells - the damned racoons were getting into my rubbish almost every night (ususally if I put a fresh bag in, I could expect a visit). I tried bungee cords, then gave up. (My next-door neighbors we putting cinder blocks on the tops of their barrells, with mixed results. Next house I buy is going to have a garage. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/11 "2005-09-16T13:48:53Z")
Is it an elephant’s foot? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/12 "2005-09-16T14:00:03Z")
I really, really want one of those tall stainless steel cans for my kitchen but I have yet to bring myself to plunking down the $100 for one. So for the past 3 years it’s been the $20 rubbermaid. ---
**Author:** ![ten9ten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@ten9ten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ten9ten)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/13 "2005-09-16T14:09:57Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > It’s called _progress_, Sara. And how exactly has _garbage can technology_ **progressed**? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/14 "2005-09-16T14:17:27Z")
> [@ten9ten](#): > > And how exactly has _garbage can technology_ **progressed**? It’s NOT a garbage can. It’s a refuse containment/disposal system. Who says marketing is unnecessary? Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![ten9ten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@ten9ten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ten9ten)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/15 "2005-09-16T14:37:41Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > It’s a refuse containment/disposal system. Now THAT I would pay $200 for! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/16 "2005-09-16T14:52:33Z")
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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/17 "2005-09-16T14:54:32Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > It’s called _progress_, Sara. No, it’s called being a sucker. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/18 "2005-09-16T14:58:36Z")
For Xmas a few years ago, I gave my husband a Bajillion Gallon rolling garbage can. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. It is freakin’ sweet. It can hold the garbage for four people and rolls nicely down our gravely drive to sit and wait paitently for the crazy trashmen to pick it up. I paid $90 at Lowe’s for it. We’ve never had an animal get into it ( though, I compost so there is a Buffet Table for various critters in my side yard.) and it is flippin’ sweet. Did I mention how much I lufs it? No one else in our little neighborhood has one. So they lug several cans up and down their drives every monday. I point and laugh at them. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/19 "2005-09-16T15:15:51Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > \ Same here. Our council provides us with two “wheelie bins”, one for general rubbish and another for recyclable materials. Even when full they are very easy to move around. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926/20 "2005-09-16T15:32:50Z")
I spent like 10 bucks for mine at Home Depot, when somebody stole my last one. Oh, and who the fuck would steal a rubber trash container that was worth maybe 20 bucks, max? I’m thinking a sociopath who just didn’t feel like driving a couple miles to the store to get his/her own. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-200-trash-can/321926.md?page=2)