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re: Did anyone else’s grandmother have one of those built in trash compactors in the kitchen?
Posted on 12/21/25 at 6:48 am to Demonbengal
Posted on 12/21/25 at 6:48 am to Demonbengal
I have one in my house today and we use it as the primary trash can. The bags can be found on Amazon. They’re not expensive.
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Posted on 12/21/25 at 7:58 am to OysterPoBoy
Grandmother? ? Hell, WE had one baw!
Posted on 12/21/25 at 7:59 am to jasonbr1975
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Had one in our house early 80’s
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Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:02 am to jfw3535
The first house I bought had one. It no longer worked so we used it for storage.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:21 am to Chad504boy
I liked ours!
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:33 am to OysterPoBoy
We bought a house in 2014 .. it was built in 2006. It had a trash compactor — we took it out and made that spit into a cabinet. Much better for our needs.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:35 am to OysterPoBoy
Had one in the house when I was a kid in the 1980's, could hear it running clear across the house.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:44 am to OysterPoBoy
We had one growing up in S’port. House was built in 80s I think? It was cool.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:12 am to OysterPoBoy
Ours was broken when we bought the house. I had to dig it out with a prybar. We replaced it with an undercounter ice machine.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:14 am to okietiger
90s apartment had one.
Friend had one in his place, which was a party hangout. We put nothing but beer cans in it. He would take the resulting blocks of aluminum to the recycling place. Prices were pretty fair back then.
Friend had one in his place, which was a party hangout. We put nothing but beer cans in it. He would take the resulting blocks of aluminum to the recycling place. Prices were pretty fair back then.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:20 am to OysterPoBoy
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We used to love playing with that thing then we’d get yelled at.
We tore up so much shite trying to find things that it couldn’t crush.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:21 am to OysterPoBoy
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Did anyone else’s grandmother have one of those built in trash compactors in the kitchen?
I'm old, so we were the house that had one (us and many others built in the late 70s to early 90s. The one at my mother's house still worked until about 5 or 6 years ago. Since you can't easily find the bags for them any longer, she just kept one of the last bags she had in it as a liner and used regular trash bags.
Now that's dead, she still uses it for trash, she just can't compact it any longer (which is probably for the best because once the bags were full from multiple compacts, they could be heavy and difficult to get out of the bin).
Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:25 am to Bard
My in-laws have had one for decades. There was even one in the Death Star back in the 70’s:
Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:37 am to OysterPoBoy
Got a friend living in an upscale home in Metairie and he has one in his kitchen and uses it daily.
Personally, I never saw a need for one since our kitchen garbage bag goes out damn near daily between household and kitchen waste and cleaning the cat litter. It's heavy enough without having it compacted to add more.
Personally, I never saw a need for one since our kitchen garbage bag goes out damn near daily between household and kitchen waste and cleaning the cat litter. It's heavy enough without having it compacted to add more.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:05 am to OysterPoBoy
Just had one installed in my house about 3 months ago and love it. We have an older house that had one when we bought (broken) but decided to change it out they aren’t cheap ($2500) but damn it’s nice I only have to empty once a week.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:12 am to OysterPoBoy
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Probably used the same technology we used to go to the moon which explains why they are nonexistent these days.
Home Depot
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:15 am to OysterPoBoy
My parents have one, still operates. House built in 1989
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:33 am to DarkDrifter
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We had one in one of our storage rooms in the carport at the house I grew up in. Parents built the house early 80s and I remember it being old. Assuming it came from my grandparents house.
House we bought when I was in HS had one.
The reason yours was in the storage room of the carport was likely a rebellious homeowner. Many subdivisions not in the county/parish back in the 70’s and 80’s had Homeowners Association rules requiring them. I know I know silly right?? But they did. It’s why my house had one. Some of my friend’s parents put theirs in the carport storage room like yours.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:38 am to Stat M Repairman
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You went over to someone’s house and they had an intercom they were living high on the hog. A intercom that had an Am/fm radio built in was peak hog.
We had both a trash compactor (required) and an intercom with AM/FM radio.
True story:
My brother and I, on the weekends, would turn the volume of the intercom in our bedroom all the way down so we could sleep in. Sometime after daybreak, I’d see my Dad’s hand reach just inside the barely cracked open door and turn the volume way up. I could count the seconds before he returned to the kitchen and blasted us out of the bed…
This post was edited on 12/21/25 at 10:39 am
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:44 am to OysterPoBoy
Can still buy them.
I love it.
Especially after Christmas.
It takes all the boxes.
Wrapping.
Plastic.
that usually take up to 6 bags and shrinks it down to one so I only have to take one trip to the driveway.
I love it.
Especially after Christmas.
It takes all the boxes.
Wrapping.
Plastic.
that usually take up to 6 bags and shrinks it down to one so I only have to take one trip to the driveway.
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