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

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Jade diverse university
  01/13/26
whoa cq
alcoholic aphrodisiac boltzmann toaster
  01/13/26
Why does anyone needs one? Who wants to keep smell trash aro...
Aqua double fault gaping
  01/13/26
i had one growing up and yeah i never thought to get one lat...
Jade diverse university
  01/13/26
Probably easier to update kitchen cabinets and you’d n...
Aqua double fault gaping
  01/13/26
my childhood home also had a trash compactor and an intercom...
alcoholic aphrodisiac boltzmann toaster
  01/13/26
i shudder to think what has become of my home movies. i r...
Jade diverse university
  01/13/26
Don't forget central vacuum systems.
Scarlet splenetic chapel philosopher-king
  01/14/26
My mom’s house has one. Don’t think she uses it...
tripping umber preventive strike
  01/13/26
My parents swapped in an ice maker which was way more useful...
odious chocolate stage
  01/13/26
Ice is ice. How was it better?
Aqua double fault gaping
  01/13/26
Better shape and a nice crunch.
odious chocolate stage
  01/13/26
stand alone ice machines are becoming veddy veddy popular
Jade diverse university
  01/13/26
yeah i noticed a forcememe on them. idgi. i'm assuming pe...
Aqua double fault gaping
  01/13/26
it's the opposite, actually. now it's prestigious to have a ...
Jade diverse university
  01/13/26
heavy reliance on ice seems like a prole tell. xo should exp...
Aqua double fault gaping
  01/13/26
yeah im not a big icemo myself personally. but it's just a f...
Jade diverse university
  01/13/26
birdbrain UMC white women are 180
Aqua double fault gaping
  01/13/26
dey want dat crunchy ice
Jade diverse university
  01/13/26
It's an American tell
Obsidian orchestra pit azn
  01/14/26
They go under the counter. Takes up the came cabinet hole as...
odious chocolate stage
  01/13/26
don't they just have big industrial ones at the dump? not s...
ruby boyish sneaky criminal faggot firefighter
  01/13/26
ok but they were common in homes, are no longer, and I haven...
Jade diverse university
  01/13/26
totally fair! i am just questioning, what was their utility ...
ruby boyish sneaky criminal faggot firefighter
  01/13/26
i think it was more about convenience -- fewer trips to the ...
Jade diverse university
  01/13/26
as i said below, the issue may lie with "garbage day.&q...
Aqua double fault gaping
  01/13/26
24 hrs and no scholarship on this. very sad!
Aqua double fault gaping
  01/14/26
ty that makes sense. i'm in an apt building with a garbage ...
ruby boyish sneaky criminal faggot firefighter
  01/13/26
was there not weekly trash pickup in suburbs in the 50s and ...
Aqua double fault gaping
  01/13/26
they break down a lot, encourage foul odors, require special...
Aquamarine heaven
  01/13/26
I had one in my house in Marin and thought it was awesome.
Iridescent low-t national
  01/13/26
if you remodeled your kitchen would you get a new one?
Jade diverse university
  01/13/26
Probably not here. It was useful in CA because they only gi...
Iridescent low-t national
  01/13/26
This reminds of the central vac systems were you’d hoo...
Vigorous nubile ticket booth
  01/14/26
ha the video that reminded me of trash compactors was some h...
Jade diverse university
  01/14/26
We have a central vac system (and intercom) that we've never...
Filthy spot regret
  01/14/26
They’re still around https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE...
fragrant main people
  01/14/26
Cr. Odd how one day they just went out of style.
motley lettuce station
  01/14/26


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Date: January 13th, 2026 8:43 AM
Author: Jade diverse university



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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 8:54 AM
Author: alcoholic aphrodisiac boltzmann toaster

whoa cq

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 8:56 AM
Author: Aqua double fault gaping

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

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:04 AM
Author: Jade diverse university

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=2Elisa#49585662)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:08 AM
Author: Aqua double fault gaping

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=2Elisa#49585665)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:15 AM
Author: alcoholic aphrodisiac boltzmann toaster

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=2Elisa#49585673)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:18 AM
Author: Jade diverse university

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=2Elisa#49585758)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:43 AM
Author: Scarlet splenetic chapel philosopher-king

Don't forget central vacuum systems.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2Elisa#49588412)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:34 AM
Author: tripping umber preventive strike

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

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:37 AM
Author: odious chocolate stage

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=2Elisa#49585696)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:44 AM
Author: Aqua double fault gaping

Ice is ice. How was it better?

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:46 AM
Author: odious chocolate stage

Better shape and a nice crunch.

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:15 AM
Author: Jade diverse university

stand alone ice machines are becoming veddy veddy popular

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:18 AM
Author: Aqua double fault gaping

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=2Elisa#49585756)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:21 AM
Author: Jade diverse university

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=2Elisa#49585768)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:42 AM
Author: Aqua double fault gaping

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=2Elisa#49585804)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:50 AM
Author: Jade diverse university

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=2Elisa#49585833)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:51 AM
Author: Aqua double fault gaping

birdbrain UMC white women are 180



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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:53 AM
Author: Jade diverse university

dey want dat crunchy ice

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



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:56 AM
Author: Obsidian orchestra pit azn

It's an American tell

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2Elisa#49588446)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:34 AM
Author: odious chocolate stage

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=2Elisa#49585793)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:54 AM
Author: ruby boyish sneaky criminal faggot firefighter

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=2Elisa#49585719)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:17 AM
Author: Jade diverse university

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=2Elisa#49585753)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:24 AM
Author: ruby boyish sneaky criminal faggot firefighter

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=2Elisa#49585777)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:32 AM
Author: Jade diverse university

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=2Elisa#49585785)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:41 AM
Author: Aqua double fault gaping

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=2Elisa#49585801)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: Aqua double fault gaping

24 hrs and no scholarship on this. very sad!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2Elisa#49588408)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:43 AM
Author: ruby boyish sneaky criminal faggot firefighter

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=2Elisa#49586032)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:19 AM
Author: Aqua double fault gaping

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=2Elisa#49585759)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:55 AM
Author: Aquamarine heaven

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=2Elisa#49585858)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:12 AM
Author: Iridescent low-t national

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

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:29 AM
Author: Jade diverse university

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

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:33 AM
Author: Iridescent low-t national

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=2Elisa#49585989)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:33 AM
Author: Vigorous nubile ticket booth

This reminds of the central vac systems were you’d hook a tube attachment up to ports around the house to vacuum.

Then stick vacs happened and those seemingly disappeared overnight

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2Elisa#49588299)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:49 AM
Author: Jade diverse university

ha the video that reminded me of trash compactors was some house that hadn't been updated since the 70s and also had a central vac!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2Elisa#49588318)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:34 AM
Author: Filthy spot regret

We have a central vac system (and intercom) that we've never used. I turned it on once but my wife didn't see the point. She runs those Roomba robots on each floor multiple times a day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2Elisa#49588386)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:48 AM
Author: fragrant main people

They’re still around

https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-15-in-Built-In-Trash-Compactor-in-Stainless-Steel-UCG1520NSS/312444175

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2Elisa#49588432)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 11:34 AM
Author: motley lettuce station

Cr. Odd how one day they just went out of style.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2Elisa#49588726)