Now where the heck did the blade to my blender go!?

[conuly]

I've checked the dishrack three times! Everything else to the blender was in there, so where is it?

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Comments

[conuly]

Garbage disposals only became legal in NYC within my lifetime and most houses still don't have them. (And in apartments, you have to sneak them in - landlords rarely want them either, because they think it might be a risk for the plumbing.)

[marahmarie]

Huh, all the units where I live are equipped with them (it's in FL, though). What landlords (at least my landlord; turning apartments for him, I see this first-hand all the time) have to worry about is the abuse of them. They get broken by people losing all sorts of metal or plastic implements down them; they back up from people throwing the wrong types of food or grease (or both) in and clogging them up...we were lucky ours was working right when we moved in and continues to, because honestly most of them don't work well (or at all) by the time a lot of the tenants move out (they do get replaced with new ones, though, as needed).

[conuly]

All that is the sort of hassle that landlords like to avoid here.

[marahmarie]

I've bookmarked (or email myself, maybe) a whole list of what not to put in the garbage disposal to share sometime soon, maybe. Another of the things that my Reading List gets me thinking about that just happen to coincidentally show up in SmartNews the next day...