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When is the last time you've seen a trash compactor? Where'd they go?

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Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/13/26
whoa cq
potluck
  01/13/26
Why does anyone needs one? Who wants to keep smell trash aro...
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  01/13/26
i had one growing up and yeah i never thought to get one lat...
Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/13/26
Probably easier to update kitchen cabinets and you’d n...
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  01/13/26
my childhood home also had a trash compactor and an intercom...
potluck
  01/13/26
i shudder to think what has become of my home movies. i r...
Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/13/26
My mom’s house has one. Don’t think she uses it...
michael doodikoff
  01/13/26
My parents swapped in an ice maker which was way more useful...
''
  01/13/26
Ice is ice. How was it better?
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  01/13/26
Better shape and a nice crunch.
''
  01/13/26
stand alone ice machines are becoming veddy veddy popular
Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/13/26
yeah i noticed a forcememe on them. idgi. i'm assuming pe...
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  01/13/26
it's the opposite, actually. now it's prestigious to have a ...
Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/13/26
heavy reliance on ice seems like a prole tell. xo should exp...
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  01/13/26
yeah im not a big icemo myself personally. but it's just a f...
Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/13/26
birdbrain UMC white women are 180
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  01/13/26
dey want dat crunchy ice
Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/13/26
They go under the counter. Takes up the came cabinet hole as...
''
  01/13/26
don't they just have big industrial ones at the dump? not s...
Kenneth Play
  01/13/26
ok but they were common in homes, are no longer, and I haven...
Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/13/26
totally fair! i am just questioning, what was their utility ...
Kenneth Play
  01/13/26
i think it was more about convenience -- fewer trips to the ...
Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/13/26
as i said below, the issue may lie with "garbage day.&q...
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  01/13/26
ty that makes sense. i'm in an apt building with a garbage ...
Kenneth Play
  01/13/26
was there not weekly trash pickup in suburbs in the 50s and ...
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  01/13/26
they break down a lot, encourage foul odors, require special...
TURD SANDWICH
  01/13/26
I had one in my house in Marin and thought it was awesome.
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  01/13/26
if you remodeled your kitchen would you get a new one?
Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings
  01/13/26
Probably not here. It was useful in CA because they only gi...
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  01/13/26


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Date: January 13th, 2026 8:43 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585641)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 8:54 AM
Author: potluck

whoa cq

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585653)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 8:56 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


Why does anyone needs one? Who wants to keep smell trash around?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585655)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:04 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)

i had one growing up and yeah i never thought to get one later, partially because of this, so this is probably tcr. however it's odd that they seemed ubiquitous in the 90s yet have completely vanished since. i can't remember the last time ive seen one. even a dead one like how you still see dead home intercoms all the time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585662)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:08 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


Probably easier to update kitchen cabinets and you’d never know there was one there, whereas intercoms you probably had people who thought they might still use them and figured why cut the wires.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585665)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:15 AM
Author: potluck

my childhood home also had a trash compactor and an intercom system. me and my neighbor buddy were working on a short movie about a trash compactor that was compacting the whole world into itself. other random plotlines interspersed with footage of my family trash compactor at work.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585673)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:18 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)

i shudder to think what has become of my home movies.

i remember the trash compactor getting maggot infested once and it was a bitch to clean out. to this day maggote are the only creature that makes me gag with disgust.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585758)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:34 AM
Author: michael doodikoff

My mom’s house has one. Don’t think she uses it though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585692)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:37 AM
Author: ''

My parents swapped in an ice maker which was way more useful imo and made better ice than the fridge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585696)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:44 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


Ice is ice. How was it better?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585704)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:46 AM
Author: ''

Better shape and a nice crunch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585706)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:15 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)

stand alone ice machines are becoming veddy veddy popular

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585750)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:18 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


yeah i noticed a forcememe on them. idgi.

i'm assuming people have shitty apartment fridges w/ no icemakers or their fridge icemakers break and they dont want to replace the whole fridge.

anyone who can afford valuable counter space for an ice maker you'd think has a nice enough kitchen with a fridge ice maker.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585756)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:21 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)

it's the opposite, actually. now it's prestigious to have a stand alone icemaker with none built into your fridge. combo units are like tv/vcr combos.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585768)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:42 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


heavy reliance on ice seems like a prole tell. xo should explore this more.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585804)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:50 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)

yeah im not a big icemo myself personally. but it's just a fact that stand alone icemakers are all the rage in high end kitchens these days.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585833)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:51 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


birdbrain UMC white women are 180



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585839)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:53 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)

dey want dat crunchy ice

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585843)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:34 AM
Author: ''

They go under the counter. Takes up the came cabinet hole as the trash compactor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585793)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:54 AM
Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

don't they just have big industrial ones at the dump? not sure why you would need a small one in your home

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585719)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:17 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)

ok but they were common in homes, are no longer, and I haven't thought about them in decades and wondered if my online friends would be similarly reminded of a once-common thing they had forgotten about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585753)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:24 AM
Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

totally fair! i am just questioning, what was their utility in the home to begin with. was the home or the garbage truck space-limited or something?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585777)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:32 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)

i think it was more about convenience -- fewer trips to the garbage can, fewer cans to take to the curb on garbage day. makes sense in theory, after all im sure everyone here jas manually compacted garbage to avoid taking it out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585785)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:41 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


as i said below, the issue may lie with "garbage day." we need a deep dive on garbage day to determine when and where weekly garbage pickup became widespread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585801)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:43 AM
Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

ty that makes sense. i'm in an apt building with a garbage chute so i don't feel like i'm missing out. wouldn't it start to stink if you just compacted repeatedly without taking it out?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49586032)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:19 AM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


was there not weekly trash pickup in suburbs in the 50s and 60s when these post-ww2 suburbs were all built in america?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585759)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:55 AM
Author: TURD SANDWICH ( )

they break down a lot, encourage foul odors, require special trash bags, can make the bag too heavy, etc.

they're SHIT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585858)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:12 AM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois)

I had one in my house in Marin and thought it was awesome.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585912)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:29 AM
Author: Smoked Double Baked Sweet Potato Skins and Wings (gunneratttt)

if you remodeled your kitchen would you get a new one?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585978)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:33 AM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois)

Probably not here. It was useful in CA because they only give you a tiny black bin, to encourage recycling and composting. But here they burn the garbage for electricity, so they give you a giant black bin and are always asking people to throw away more paper and plastic to fuel the incinerator.

But in CA it was useful b/c you could put 100lbs of trash into a small can.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2most#49585989)