Did I say garage? I meant Garbage.

[cereal K]

I said yes, but it's really more as-needed. Our cans live in the garage, which gets full sun exposure, so in the summer it can really cook and the cans get gross (even with the doors closed). H found a service that will come by and spray the cans out to clean them the day after your trash day. We put the service on hold in the spring-fall-winter, but will start it back up in the summer months.

[egishere]

We have our garbage and recycling cans cleaned once a quarter by a service. We just leave them out on trash day and the truck comes by in the afternoon after the trash trucks have been thru the neighborhood and cleans them in like 5 minutes.

[lostrn]

I cleaned ours once last summer when it got super nasty. But otherwise no. I can barely keep up with indoor cleaning lol

[mustardseed2007]

May 1, 2024 9:38:10 GMT -5 egishere said:

We have our garbage and recycling cans cleaned once a quarter by a service. We just leave them out on trash day and the truck comes by in the afternoon after the trash trucks have been thru the neighborhood and cleans them in like 5 minutes.

Yes - the ladies who trained our dogs and who boards our dogs when we are on vacation has a service come to clean their trash cans. They have a lot of animals in their house all the time (but in a controlled way like on dog beds and in crates and what not) and their house is spotless and apparently their garbage cans are very clean. 

[mustardseed2007]

On the other hand our trash cans are not cleaned regularly. It has occurred to me to do it, but I don't think I've ever done it.

[silva]

No, but I should. yuck.

[liverandonions]

Just here to say i like the Friends reference

[Leeham Rimes]

Only when it gets super disgusting. I should probably do it more but it’s not creating a problem like smell or bugs so I do it maybe a few times a year.

[pinkdutchtulips]

I have a complex dumpster ... the joys of apartment living 

[countthestars]

H does every few weeks in the Spring/Summer - basically a slash of dish soap and some water from the hose, dump out. No scrubbing.

[definitelyO]

I said no - but I think we probably spray it out once per summer

[twilightmv]

More in the summer, but yes. It's so easy. Just put the cleaning stuff in, hose, sun to dry. 

[Aloe Vera]

Only if my H doesn't use garbage bags. He once decided to clean a small ornamental pond and got rid of the stuff in the garbage can. It was wet, rotting stuff that smelled like something died in it. Of course, that's how we discovered there was a hole at the bottom of the garbage can. We had big blue flies all over our garage. I was SO MAD. All he had to do was use a leaf bag located in plain sight. He had to deep clean the garbage can and the garage floor so the flies would go away.

[DotAndBuzz]

physically scrub it? No, but I do hose it off every months or so when weather permits. Unfortunately this means it goes most of Nov-March without a rinse out, and it gets gross.

However there was this one time where I disposed of a GIANT bin (like, storage bin sized) of slime my kids made by dumping all the different slime they'd made over the years, and *all their friend's slime* into one container. That container broke and leaked all over the trash can. Know what slime is made of? Glue. And when that shit dries out, it's going nowhere, much less do I want to hose it out and have literally gallons of glue, etc, dumped into my yard. That time I called the trash company to get a replacement. No idea if they charged me or not, but if they did, it was money well spent.

There was a slime ban after that.

[tacokick]

My parents always washed them a lot but we don’t. They are city owned bins and we use thin (supposedly biodegradable) liners in them because people kept throwing random trash in them between trash days. We don’t have outside water hook up so that was a mess when something we didn’t know was even tossed in would rot in there.

[tacokick]

May 1, 2024 16:20:35 GMT -5 DotAndBuzz said:

physically scrub it? No, but I do hose it off every months or so when weather permits. Unfortunately this means it goes most of Nov-March without a rinse out, and it gets gross.

However there was this one time where I disposed of a GIANT bin (like, storage bin sized) of slime my kids made by dumping all the different slime they'd made over the years, and *all their friend's slime* into one container. That container broke and leaked all over the trash can. Know what slime is made of? Glue. And when that shit dries out, it's going nowhere, much less do I want to hose it out and have literally gallons of glue, etc, dumped into my yard. That time I called the trash company to get a replacement. No idea if they charged me or not, but if they did, it was money well spent.

There was a slime ban after that.

At first I thought you meant you sparked a community wide slime ban lol The power!

[bugandbibs]

Yeah, a couple of times a year I hose them out and let them dry in the sun. They can get stinky and people throw things in them without bags often. Not on any kind of schedule.

[fluffycookie]

May 1, 2024 6:15:42 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

OMG this is timely because I recently had a big family dinner where my aunt mentioned she pays someone $30 once a month to sanitize her garbage barrels and we all thought she was insane. She was aghast we didn’t regularly clean ours.

I have literally never cleaned mine, but like others we compost so no food goes in them and recycling is rinsed.

ETA: I guess this service isn’t as uncommon as I thought!

I just found a company that does this near us and I plan on hiring them for a once time cleaning because something leaked and it smells so bad. It’s 30 for each so I figure we may do it twice a year.

[elefun]

May 1, 2024 12:03:00 GMT -5 liverandonions said:

Just here to say i like the Friends reference

Thank God someone got it 😆

[liverandonions]

May 1, 2024 19:59:38 GMT -5 elefun said:

May 1, 2024 12:03:00 GMT -5 liverandonions said:

Just here to say i like the Friends reference

Thank God someone got it 😆

[gottadobe]

I had a service that came by once a month or every other month. I can't remember.
I loved it, and it wasn't terribly expensive.
Now we take the pressure washer to it if it gets too gross.

[cheeseplease]

Sometimes the lid gets left open after its dumped, and it rains, which then gets dumped out into the grass, if that counts, yes.  Otherwise only if it gets really bad but that is very infrequent thanks to rain washes.

[mrsd2006]

No, but I have been bugging DH to give them a good rinsing out.

My neighbor gets his washed by a service.