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When is the last time you've seen a trash compactor? Where'd they go?
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Date: January 13th, 2026 8:43 AM Author: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2#49585641) |
Date: January 13th, 2026 8:54 AM Author: orchid ungodly organic girlfriend 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: Self-absorbed garrison 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: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground 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: Self-absorbed garrison 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: orchid ungodly organic girlfriend 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: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground 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. |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 9:43 AM Author: appetizing field 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: balding maniacal sanctuary circlehead 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: offensive space 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: Self-absorbed garrison 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: offensive space 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: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground 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: Self-absorbed garrison 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. |
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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:21 AM Author: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground 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: Self-absorbed garrison 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: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground 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: Self-absorbed garrison birdbrain UMC white women are 180
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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:53 AM Author: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground 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: slap-happy queen of the night 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: offensive space 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: excitant useless brakes 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: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground 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: excitant useless brakes 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: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground 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: Self-absorbed garrison 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: Self-absorbed garrison 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: excitant useless brakes 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: Self-absorbed garrison 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: Arousing church chad they break down a lot, encourage foul odors, require special trash bags, can make the bag too heavy, etc.
they're SHIT |
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Date: January 13th, 2026 11:12 AM Author: Magenta elite abode toaster 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: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground 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: Magenta elite abode toaster 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. |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:33 AM Author: Bisexual Cracking Parlor 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 |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 8:49 AM Author: boyish well-lubricated temple hunting ground 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: Beta supple trailer park dopamine 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: big internal respiration site They’re still around
https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-15-in-Built-In-Trash-Compactor-in-Stainless-Steel-UCG1520NSS/312444175 |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 11:34 AM Author: dupa Cr. Odd how one day they just went out of style. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821446&forum_id=2#49588726) |