Garbage Disposal

​​Garbage Disposals. I have lived without them. I have lived a few years with them. Every rental is different and we have had multiple throughout our four short years being married. I  never realized how much I would miss those handy, loud, sometimes frightening beasts, until I was used to using one and then suddenly didn't have one anymore.

It didn’t take me long to readjust, as I never grew up in a house that had one, but my husband on the other hand did. So I didn’t think it would be a big deal, until I found egg shells, peelings and all sorts of grossness stuck in the bottom of the sink that I had to scrape out by hand.

The solution?

A PLASTIC BAG

That’s right, a common, stick in any possible place, sometimes annoying, plentiful, useful plastic bag.

Put one handle over the sink faucet putting the bag in one sink and spinning the faucet over the other. Then peel away in the open bag and rinse off, whatever your pealing, freely in the other. Then when you’re done just take the bag off and throw it away. Problem solved. No mess. No dirty, icky hands. No inconvenience. My favorite part, coming from working in a small kitchen, is that it frees up counter space and eliminates the back and forth juggle between washing things off and pealing.

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May not be the most environmentally thoughtful solution, but sometimes you have to work with what you have. If you have a backyard compost, instead of dumping it in the trash, turn the bag inside out over your compost pile and “TADA!” easy enough.