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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 12:02 pm to
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
42701 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 12:02 pm to
My wife and I had one in the first house we bought, which was built in the 80s. We really liked it and have one in the house we have now that I put in. End up with a week's worth of garbage that would fit into a medium sized Ice chest.

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Probably used the same technology we used to go to the moon which explains why they are nonexistent these days.



You can still buy them now, but they have gotten very expensive (like $1100 to $1800), though. If something breaks on mine, I order the part and fix it
Posted by dkreller
Laffy
Member since Jan 2009
33453 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 12:05 pm to
My mom still has one
Posted by Turnblad85
Member since Sep 2022
4599 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 12:07 pm to
No. One grandmother had a ditch out back she threw her trash in and my other grandmother had a burn barrel.

Posted by AncientTiger
Mississippi- Louisiana - Destin
Member since Sep 2016
1881 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 12:07 pm to
Grandmother? I had one fella.
Posted by holmesbr
Baton Rouge, La.
Member since Feb 2012
3907 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 1:13 pm to
Maw Maw had one late 70's early 80's. Had to use a special sized brown paper bag thing. Compressed a typical key then can size into about a foot or so cube. I think it got used until the bags ran out. Or something liquid found the hole in the bag and seeped out into the machine under the counter.
Posted by andouille
A table near a waiter.
Member since Dec 2004
11391 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 1:25 pm to
I had one in the house we liver in 15 years ago, we loved it for a purpose. We would throw all the recyclable cans, soda bottles, junk mail in it. We only had to bring the bin out once a month.
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
11252 posts
Posted on 12/21/25 at 1:50 pm to
Where I lived in Germany, the property had a hole in the ground trash can. The cart way was totally automated. A big multipart arm came out of the dump turck, , opened the lid in the sidewalk, lifted the can up, emptied it, and returned it to its hole in the ground and put the lid back down.
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