WDB
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Post by WDB on May 1, 2017 12:57:44 GMT
I thought of putting this in 'Tech' but chose instead to be the first to post here in 2017.
What should be a neat idea - a covered bin that you can open without bending down - is actually anything but. I suffer from these things anyway because MrsB1 prissily refuses to have an open waste paper basket anywhere, so each room is blighted by a small, cylindrical pedal bin.
Trouble is, for the sake of further prissy neatness, the thing gets shoved tight into a corner, which means the lid has no room to open. Which in turn means that, to operate my neat, hands-free bin, I must first bend down and move it out from the corner, then stand up to operate the pedal and drop in whatever small item I want to get rid of.
I've thought of just flinging the bins in a skip, but they'd only reappear after an interval in which other stresses would arrive to replace bin stress. So is there a technological solution instead? I'm thinking of a flat-sided bin whose lid opens within its own footprint, so that it can stand hard against a wall and still open. The right solution here could add years to my life.
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Post by Humph on May 1, 2017 14:05:37 GMT
Just chuck stuff on the floor. She'll get antsy about it but she'll pick it up eventually.
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Post by tyrednexited on May 1, 2017 15:30:35 GMT
Just chuck stuff on the floor. She'll get antsy about it but she'll pick it up eventually. 😜 ...with what you've previously written about your wife and the state of her car, I fear there may be a flaw in that argument.
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Post by Humph on May 1, 2017 16:50:11 GMT
No, the inside of our house is cleaner than a space lab. Crumbs are detected at 50 paces. Her car though...
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Post by Alanović on May 2, 2017 9:07:20 GMT
As always, with wifely annoyances, you should just accept it will never change and simply walk a bit further to, say, the nearest bin which does not present this annoyance. It is easier to adjust one's own behaviour than try to enforce a change upon an unresponding object. We only have bins in the kitchen and bathrooms, everything gets walked to the kitchen at throw away time. I am still trying to train the children not to leave yoghurt pots/lids etc in the living room however.......
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Post by bromptonaut on May 2, 2017 12:33:12 GMT
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Post by crankcase on May 2, 2017 13:48:42 GMT
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Post by Hofmeister on May 2, 2017 21:28:16 GMT
No, the inside of our house is cleaner than a space lab. Crumbs are detected at 50 paces. Her car though... Stuff like that works well in my house. Crumbs never actually reach the floor, hoovered up in mid air by the ever present golden hairball. Socks just get taken off dumped on the floor anywhere I like, collect them at the end of the week for washing from the dogs bed where they have ended up.
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