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

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clear prole
  01/13/26
whoa cq
Odious Vermilion Partner Box Office
  01/13/26
Why does anyone needs one? Who wants to keep smell trash aro...
Mint adulterous feces dilemma
  01/13/26
i had one growing up and yeah i never thought to get one lat...
clear prole
  01/13/26
Probably easier to update kitchen cabinets and you’d n...
Mint adulterous feces dilemma
  01/13/26
my childhood home also had a trash compactor and an intercom...
Odious Vermilion Partner Box Office
  01/13/26
i shudder to think what has become of my home movies. i r...
clear prole
  01/13/26
Don't forget central vacuum systems.
Canary passionate clown
  01/14/26
My mom’s house has one. Don’t think she uses it...
diverse cheese-eating rehab
  01/13/26
My parents swapped in an ice maker which was way more useful...
vivacious kitty cat internal respiration
  01/13/26
Ice is ice. How was it better?
Mint adulterous feces dilemma
  01/13/26
Better shape and a nice crunch.
vivacious kitty cat internal respiration
  01/13/26
stand alone ice machines are becoming veddy veddy popular
clear prole
  01/13/26
yeah i noticed a forcememe on them. idgi. i'm assuming pe...
Mint adulterous feces dilemma
  01/13/26
it's the opposite, actually. now it's prestigious to have a ...
clear prole
  01/13/26
heavy reliance on ice seems like a prole tell. xo should exp...
Mint adulterous feces dilemma
  01/13/26
yeah im not a big icemo myself personally. but it's just a f...
clear prole
  01/13/26
birdbrain UMC white women are 180
Mint adulterous feces dilemma
  01/13/26
dey want dat crunchy ice
clear prole
  01/13/26
It's an American tell
Flirting primrose patrolman wrinkle
  01/14/26
They go under the counter. Takes up the came cabinet hole as...
vivacious kitty cat internal respiration
  01/13/26
don't they just have big industrial ones at the dump? not s...
Fishy pea-brained theater
  01/13/26
ok but they were common in homes, are no longer, and I haven...
clear prole
  01/13/26
totally fair! i am just questioning, what was their utility ...
Fishy pea-brained theater
  01/13/26
i think it was more about convenience -- fewer trips to the ...
clear prole
  01/13/26
as i said below, the issue may lie with "garbage day.&q...
Mint adulterous feces dilemma
  01/13/26
24 hrs and no scholarship on this. very sad!
Mint adulterous feces dilemma
  01/14/26
ty that makes sense. i'm in an apt building with a garbage ...
Fishy pea-brained theater
  01/13/26
was there not weekly trash pickup in suburbs in the 50s and ...
Mint adulterous feces dilemma
  01/13/26
they break down a lot, encourage foul odors, require special...
vibrant masturbator pistol
  01/13/26
I had one in my house in Marin and thought it was awesome.
deep boiling water
  01/13/26
if you remodeled your kitchen would you get a new one?
clear prole
  01/13/26
Probably not here. It was useful in CA because they only gi...
deep boiling water
  01/13/26
This reminds of the central vac systems were you’d hoo...
Violet Heady Voyeur Police Squad
  01/14/26
ha the video that reminded me of trash compactors was some h...
clear prole
  01/14/26
We have a central vac system (and intercom) that we've never...
Startling senate jap
  01/14/26
They’re still around https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE...
Very tactful home liquid oxygen
  01/14/26
Cr. Odd how one day they just went out of style.
fluffy newt institution
  01/14/26


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Date: January 13th, 2026 8:43 AM
Author: clear prole



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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 8:54 AM
Author: Odious Vermilion Partner Box Office

whoa cq

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 8:56 AM
Author: Mint adulterous feces dilemma

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

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:04 AM
Author: clear prole

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=2#49585662)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:08 AM
Author: Mint adulterous feces dilemma

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=2#49585665)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:15 AM
Author: Odious Vermilion Partner Box Office

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=2#49585673)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:18 AM
Author: clear prole

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=2#49585758)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:43 AM
Author: Canary passionate clown

Don't forget central vacuum systems.

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:34 AM
Author: diverse cheese-eating rehab

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

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:37 AM
Author: vivacious kitty cat internal respiration

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=2#49585696)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:44 AM
Author: Mint adulterous feces dilemma

Ice is ice. How was it better?

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:46 AM
Author: vivacious kitty cat internal respiration

Better shape and a nice crunch.

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:15 AM
Author: clear prole

stand alone ice machines are becoming veddy veddy popular

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:18 AM
Author: Mint adulterous feces dilemma

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=2#49585756)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:21 AM
Author: clear prole

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=2#49585768)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:42 AM
Author: Mint adulterous feces dilemma

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=2#49585804)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:50 AM
Author: clear prole

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=2#49585833)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:51 AM
Author: Mint adulterous feces dilemma

birdbrain UMC white women are 180



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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:53 AM
Author: clear prole

dey want dat crunchy ice

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



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:56 AM
Author: Flirting primrose patrolman wrinkle

It's an American tell

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:34 AM
Author: vivacious kitty cat internal respiration

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=2#49585793)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 9:54 AM
Author: Fishy pea-brained theater

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=2#49585719)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:17 AM
Author: clear prole

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=2#49585753)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:24 AM
Author: Fishy pea-brained theater

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=2#49585777)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:32 AM
Author: clear prole

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=2#49585785)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:41 AM
Author: Mint adulterous feces dilemma

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=2#49585801)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: Mint adulterous feces dilemma

24 hrs and no scholarship on this. very sad!

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:43 AM
Author: Fishy pea-brained theater

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=2#49586032)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:19 AM
Author: Mint adulterous feces dilemma

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=2#49585759)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:55 AM
Author: vibrant masturbator pistol

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=2#49585858)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:12 AM
Author: deep boiling water

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

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:29 AM
Author: clear prole

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

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



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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:33 AM
Author: deep boiling water

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=2#49585989)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:33 AM
Author: Violet Heady Voyeur Police Squad

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=2#49588299)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:49 AM
Author: clear prole

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=2#49588318)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:34 AM
Author: Startling senate jap

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=2#49588386)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:48 AM
Author: Very tactful home liquid oxygen

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=2#49588432)



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Date: January 14th, 2026 11:34 AM
Author: fluffy newt institution

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

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