Ive been through 4 steppy trash cans in the last 10 years. I prefer the steppy kind

You'll have to work out the details with some makers, but you could get yourself some clogs made. You'd be going well to wear through a pair of wooden soles I should think. I get mine (only 6'6", 170lb, UK size 14) from Walkley Clogs in West Yorkshire, UK (they export). They are surprisingly reasonable.

Oh man I feel for you my husband is a size 14 shoe and we struggle to find him proper shoes. I know he likes red wings but I’m not sure they’re made in a size 18.

Vermont Glove makes some really tough leather gloves. You can get wool liners for them if it gets too cold out.

Oh, so that's where you go? (I'm sorry, it was right there on a platter and I couldn't resist - obviously you're not trash 🙂).

Yeah, they're not cheap. But the satisfaction of having them match, perfectly fit in that corner, look fairly neutral and be pleasant to use... It's worth it for me for an item I use multiple times a day, every day.

I understand that's not for everyone and encourage you to spend as much as you want on your bins.

You should buy 2 pairs so you do not wear them every day

Wearing same shoes every day is bad for you and them

I have one in my garage that I've been treating like a dumpster because the lid broke. Just found out I can buy a replacement lid for $20. Should clean up nicely and find use back inside somewhere!

What a garbage party that must have been.

Thank you, and yea I should have included a budget, as you said I do spend like 400 on 3 pairs of NB, and was hoping to top out at the 500 mark, but the idea of custom boots certainly aren't off the table

Shock Cousteau, how are people so much more clever than me

I've bought sheets from Company store for myself and clients and the quality is high.

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you throw trash in it. 🙄

have you seen how much they cost nowadays?!

This is difficult to answer without knowing your budget/preferences in footwear. I’m guessing your experience in different footwear varieties is limited due to the difficulty in finding shoes that fit correctly.

There are companies that make work boots made-to-measure for your exact feet (Whites Boots is a famous example). This is expensive. Just the fitting process itself costs 2-3 grand (at least the last time I checked), because they make a custom last (which is like a mold or model around which the boot is built) based on your feet. Then the boots themselves are $500-700 depending on materials. All in, your first pair of boots from a company from Whites might cost $3,500-$4,500 if you need a true custom shoe last built.

The upside is that boots like this last a long time, and can be repaired/recrafted as they wear down. Between resoles and rebuilds, a boot like this can last multiple years of hard work (I’ve met people who get more than 15-20 years of hard use out of a pair of Whites). Also, the boot maker can make multiple boots for you off of one last, so you don’t need to spend the custom fitting costs for subsequent pairs. This means you might be able to get two pairs of these boots upfront for ~$5k in total, and then rotate those two pairs to extend their lifespan.

The next question is: is this process cost effective for you? Three pairs of New Balances per year probably runs $400-$600. Over ten years, that is probably the same all-in cost as buying two pairs of custom, made-to-measure work boots and maintaining them with resoles/rebuilds. So even though the upfront cost is high, you may come out spending the same amount of money over a decade.

If you’re spending the same amount of money, then you should ask yourself which you would prefer: expensive, custom, heavy workboots that are durable and fit like a glove; or lightweight, disposable work shoes that do the job, but don’t last half a year before you need to break in a new pair. If you spend thousands on custom boots and then don’t like them, you’re out a LOT of money.

If you do go down the road of expensive/custom boots: Whites Boots and Franks Boots are the brands I know off the top of my head that can still do true made-to-measure. They’re both expensive, but I own two pairs of Whites that are built in their “stock” sizes and am blown away by the durability/comfort. People primarily use them for wildland firefighting and forestry, which are really tough conditions for footwear.

Check the the Danner Boot Company, they have black leather/ merino wool lined gloves. Plus a few other variations. The best part, the gloves are sized, 6 - 12 (guessing). I am 5’10”, usually wear a size 10 shoe. The size 9 fits me like a glove (pun intended). None of the S/M/L/XL stuff. I have short stubby fingers with wide hands and can never find gloves that fit correctly for ny fingers. Danner fits the bill.

Those things are beasts.

My dad bought gave me one before I went on an exchange program to the USSR (back during Glasnost when absolutely nobody predicted they were going to spectacularly collapse a few years later). When we got there the black market guys all tried to trade for hard currency.

The common items for sale/trade were crappy rabbit fur hats and cheap Komandirskie "military" watches. They asked to trade one of those for my G-Shock.

I told them I'd trade but only for a sable hat. They didn't think it was worth it so I took off the G-Shock and threw it on the concrete as hard as I could. One strap popped off and they laughed at me. Then I put the strap back on and asked if they wanted to put their watches to the same test. They just walked away.

It's got a few more scratches but it still works as well as it did when it was brand new.

A consideration: I gave my mom very very nice thick towels one year, as she was still using some of the same towels we had when I was a kid. They were pretty thin. Later on, I noticed that she was not using the new towels, and had put them away in the highest shelf of the linen closet. I asked her why, and she said that they were pretty, but took forever to dry when she washed them, which was costing money on the electric bill. She also said the thin ones got her just as dry. So I no longer keep the super-luxe towels, either. Medium to light weight ones are more economical and less expensive. So BIFL is not necessarily an unmitigated good.

I'm upvoting for title, but I'm not angry about it at all.

I have their 12gallon / 45 liter version. In the US this uses standard sized 13 gallon trash bags that you can buy from any manufacturer including store brand / generic. Agree the simple human bags are overpriced, so just buy the trash can sized for stand ones.

Probably because anyone who has ever lived in a house for 20 years has multiple bins laying around and still working fine. Even the cheapest plastic bin is buy it for life if you don't go out of your way to try to break it. So why would anyone ever want to post one?

I had a hard time consciously reconciling paying over $100 for a trash can when I got mine. Best investment I could have made. Adds serious functionality and class to my kitchen.

*Just don't buy their overpriced proprietary trash bags, normal 13 gallon kitchen bags fit fine

The ones you get from amzon here in the USA are thin and cheap, no where near the quality of the ones you get in Germany.

My favourite is deerskin which is less dense than cowhide so they feel warmer. It’s a nice durable soft light leather, get them lined with thiinsulate liner and they won’t break the back either. I use them on a motorcycle too. I have wool lined gloves and I’m not sure they’re worth the focus.

So I've had this issue since puberty. Realistically any color or pattern you use will show the discoloration eventually (even yellow). Darker colors with patterns work best to hide it.

Depending on how much it bothers you the best way to mitigate the problem is to change how frequently you change your sheets.

I've had multiple American cars whose engines haven't shit out on me either, one with 215k miles and the other with 290k miles. I'm beginning to think people just don't know how to maintain their shit and subsequently blame it on the origin lol.