You mean like a compost bin?
Perhaps you could put full bags, or partially-full but stinky bags, into the large can outside that gets picked up once a week.
I’ll go a totally different direction and say garlic press. Wastes at least half the clove, clogs up after one clove, leaves you with a tiny puddle of garlic water, and are impossible to clean, even the “easy cleaning” ones. It’s far easier, faster, and tastier to mince garlic.
Yes, word for word. It’s true you must sweep and then mop laminate floors, but at least you can get them clean. And a broom/mop weighs next to nothing compared to dragging around an awkward, heavy vacuum.
My vote for stupid household design: toilet placement and shape. It’s hell to get beside and behind them to clean. And in addition, the outside of the base of a toilet has that squiggly, pipe-shaped relief thingy which collects dust and grime. You have to get down on your hands and knees in an unsavory position in relationship to the toilet in order to clean that area.
Don’t get me started on floor tile grout and how impossible it is to keep clean. I’ve used bleach on it, which works, but in a couple of days the grout is dirty again and I have no desire to take a second bleach bath one month later.
This is the big one for me. I would love to let my yard to back to prairie but the city wouldn’t allow it. So I don’t fertilize, weed, or water and whatever grows I mows. I let it get as tall as I can get away with and love the birds/bees I get in the summertime. In the back yard with the privacy fence I don’t mow at all. I’ll keep it trimmed around my raised beds and air conditioner compressor but otherwise it if it grows then it deserves to live is my motto.
In the front, around the edges of the sidewalk, where we have to edge to meet city requirements, we’ve started getting some thorny stickers. So we’ve had to spread some pre-emergent on them in the late winter or early spring to keep them down. If we didn’t have to cut the grass then we’d have healthy native grasses there that would keep the thorny stickers out, but we’re not allowed to do that, so they creep in and have to be chemically dealt with.
Boo to yards. They’re not even that recent a fad, sometime around the 50’s with ads in magazines like Better Homes and Gardens. Before that pretty much everyone just had whatever was growing there and they’d mow it when it became inconvenient. The lawn monoculture, wasteful watering systems, and over-chemically treated suburban world is a recent development. You can get exemptions for xeriscaped yards, but those are expensive, albeit lower maintenance.
Enjoy,
Steven
The large can that gets picked up once a week is stored in the attached garage, so that would just lead to a stinky garage. 
You’re supposed to close the bags.
Dennis
They do make toilets with clean, smooth bases, no visible “S” trap. As for placement, where else would you put one, out in the middle of the floor? Sounds like you would appreciate a wall mounted unit, they are very neat:
Dennis
And put a lid on the can. Simple, really.
And although I love my ceiling fans in almost every room, I was never so happy as when the one in the kitchen broke and I won the argument about replacing it. Stupid place for a fan anyway. Catches all the cooking grease in the air, which then catches all the dust and crap when the HVAC come on. Then swooshes it up to the ceiling. I want the hours back I spent cleaning that damn thing please. So happy now.
I think these are starting to disappear, but let me add Kitchen Trash Compactors to the list. Having fought one of these for a few years, and eventually just using it as a glorified trash can, I don’t think they’re worth it. Just to have your kitchen trash in a spiffy little properly squared bag isn’t worth the cost and occasional mess.
I had ours removed and replaced with a pull-out drawer containing the regular trash bin.
I much prefer baseboard heat. Forced air creates a more variable room temperature, is noisy, requires more maintenance, and blows allergens around despite multiple filters.
I do have a problem with placement. Who in the world decided that it’s a good idea to put the commode right next to the tub so you have to crawl across it to turn the faucet on or step on it to get into the shower?
My fantasy is that someone will find a material as sturdy and easy to clean as porcelain that doesn’t also function as a resonance chamber so that unmentionable sounds aren’t amplified.
I’m trying to picture this layout.
Dennis
Hate that too. But the answer is simple. It’s the plumbing layout. Cheaper to keep all the supply lines, drains, vents close together and tie into one plumbing wall.
Not worth it IMHO.
Pretty much nailed it. My swamp cooler is a never-ending Saga. And the water where I live is terrible, and turns the pads into a concrete-like material in short order.
They do work well, but damned if you don’t earn that cool!
We’ve been living in our house for >20 years. We have carpet everywhere except the kitchen and bathrooms. We had 3 cats for most of that time (down to just one now, but that’s recent), and ever since we adopted the Firebug 10 years ago, we’ve had a small (well, now not-so-small) child in the house.
Carpet works just fine for us. I really don’t get why it wouldn’t.
Agree with this totally. I love ceiling fans and we have them in most of our rooms, but I wouldn’t dream of putting one in the kitchen. Yucch.
Speaking of bad kitchen ideas, we have central heat and air, and one of the vents is right underneath the kitchen counter, between the stove and the sink. It’s a stupid place for a vent, because who wants dust (or other crap on the floor) getting wafted up into the air right next to your kitchen counter? We’ve got one of those magnetic vent covers closing it off, but I wish there was something sturdier that I could close it off with.
Have you considered simply keeping the large can outside? That’s what people without garages usually do, but there’s nothing stopping you from doing that just because you have a garage.
Maybe the HOA doesn’t allow that.
Nah, I can’t imagine D’Anconia putting up with the tyranny of a HOA. 