Trash Can Guide

There’s nothing worse than a bathroom without a trash can. Sure, it’s (usually) not a place where people eat hamburgers or fruit with peels, but it is a place where small trash accumulates with astonishing speed. It’s amazing how fast the occasional toothpaste box, old toothbrush, and string of dental floss can clutter up a bathroom without a trashcan and make it completely unsightly.

So what you need is a small, unobtrusive trash can for all those little pieces. As with the other trashcans mentioned on this site, you can go very cheap, very expensive, or somewhere in between.

If you want to really splash out, you can spend $460 on wall-mounted HEWI, which does not have a lever. Instead, with slight pressure against its side. Spending this much on a bathroom trash can is, of course, your prerogative, but this writer has a hard time seeing how $460 merely for a wall mount and lack of a lever is a reasonable way to spend your money.

On the other end of the spectrum, you can spend a mere $3 – less than 1/100^th of the HEWI –on a Nine Star 5 gallon infrared-equipped trash can. This writer has to wonder why you would get anything more expensive. After all, it’s a trash can in a room that hardly lends itself to much thought in interior design.

What you need in your bathroom is a small, functional trash can that keeps the clutter at bay. The  5 gallons are more than enough to keep all your bathroom trash and the infrared function is just what you need to keep your hands away from the unmentionables that sometimes accumulate in bathrooms.

So go on the cheap. Save your $460 for a different part of your house, or put it in the bank. When it comes to bathrooms, function reigns supreme.