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Because recycling has reduced my trash to about a half can a week, it sits in my kitchen longer than it used to. And it’s about 70% garbage! My kitchen has developed an odor that gets worse when you walk past the trash can.
I have tried containing the odors in sealed bags. Over the past two weeks, I’ve started keeping a garbage bag (i.e., bread bag) in the corner of my sink just the way my mother used to when I was a girl. But then, we had a garbage collector (separate from the trash collector). Remember that smelly old truck that came by early on Saturday mornings —followed closely by a swarm of flies? I’m glad we don’t have that any more, but now my garbage has become my biggest problem.
I want a garbage disposal. Badly! My husband, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to want one bad enough to make the effort. So I see I will have to take matters into my own hands. (Sound familiar girls?)
Home Depot has a great website where they show you what it takes to install a garbage disposal. Seems simple enough, and not very expensive. Much cheaper than the thousand dollars and more simple than having to pull the dishwasher out, remove cabinetry and drywall, and install electrical outlets as my husband explained. But then, I suspect he just wants to make it sound more difficult than it really is so I either stop nagging, or treat him like a god if and when he gets to it.
Nope. As far as I can tell from the Home Depot site, the equipment would run about $200 (maybe a bit more if I get the top-of-the-line disposal). And it seems as simple as a bit of under-the-sink plumbing. But the website also mentions that the disposal needs a source for power and, if you don’t already have one, you’ll need to install that. It’s not otherwise part of the instructions. So maybe hubby has a point.
As for the style of disposal, Home Depot sells many different sizes and flavors (horsepower). It suggests households with only two people in it can have a 1/5 horsepower disposal, while large families should maybe go with 1 horsepower. My husband also lilsted off all the things you can’t put into a garbage disposal: potato peels, celery, banana and other stringy peels, egg shells, etc. But, researching the varieties at Home Depot, I see the InSinkErator Evolution Essential™ model ($199) can handle such tougher jobs. And it’s supposedly not very loud either. I’d rather get a disposal that’s stronger than my two-person household needs if it can dispose of more of my garbage than other models. My goal is to eliminate trash completely. Not just narrow it down a bit.
I do NOT intend to try this myself. I don’t even know how to check the oil in my car. But, I just made a deal with my son. His wife also wants a garbage disposal. So I agreed to buy the equipment for his, if he will install mine! Yay!
More on this later when it happens.
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