It makes it easier to clean up the peelings of a salad or cleaning plates of post dinner garbage. Our trash pick up is once a week. We haven’t had a “garbage” man for 40 years.
In the summer the trash could get pretty ripe.
But yes, I lived my first 25 years without one. It’s nice—but it never changed my life.
We have compost piles or composters.
But then, when I was a kid and encountered my first flush toilet, it was a little scary.
Why would anybody want to crap IN the house?
In the same amount of time I can scrape the plate and put scraps into a small trash can I keep in my kitchen. I don’t have to turn on a noisy thing and put my hand near something dangerous.