Just let me fill you in on a little know fact…. pumpkin seeds are NOT good for your garbage disposal. This weekend I was trying to scrap ours and did a number on our disposal…
My photo-journalism skills are top-notch, don’t ya think? Hope you weren’t eating when I sprung that one on ya!
But, no worries, they came to the rescue…
Not everyday the plumber wears a spiderman glove to work!
And next time I’ll just use the trashcan!!
Yeah, I’ve been down this road before… Let me tell you something else that doesn’t play nicely with our friend the disposal, shrimp peels. I peeled like 100 of those dudes one time, and threw them down the sink thinking nothing of it, and WOAH!!! I was cleaning them out for hours! Luckily you have a handy husband…
By: Peter Gowesky on November 12, 2008
at 8:21 am
Glad I’m not the only one who has done this…except mine was potato skins…directly after my husband said not to run them down the disposal…well, I thought he was being overly cautious…surely something that’s MEANT to dispose would dispose potatoes, right?
Well, no. But hey…nothing that disassembling all of the plumbing, buying one of those ’snakes’ and running 352 different kinds of chemicals down it can’t take care of…well, actually, maybe not…we did that only to discover it was a job for the plumber.
Nice.
I am much more obedient in this area as a result. ; )
By: Bonky's Mama on November 12, 2008
at 8:30 am
How much does “Spidy” charge?
I’d gladly pay top dollar for that cute little guy to fix my disposal.
By: SHerri on November 12, 2008
at 8:37 am
Brad was doing the same thing on Sunday morning.
Definitely a “man job.”
By: Lisa on November 12, 2008
at 8:44 am
Oh what a pain! I had to learn this lesson the hard way too, but mine was with pasta.
By: Kelly on November 12, 2008
at 8:44 am
lol…I just did my annual “Garbage Disposal Unclogging” last week. It seems that we can’t go more than 6-8 months without clogging that darn thing up.
I usually don’t have the girls around when I do it though. 1, because it’s so gross that they wouldn’t want to see it anyway and 2, because I get so stinking frustrated that I can’t guarantee that my language will be…uhh…Christian.
By: Brad Ruggles on November 12, 2008
at 8:47 am
I am so proud of Pete for fixing that for you. You know if I still lived down the street I would have done that for you the day it got clogged! I also like your photography work- I think you cut out the plumber crack on purpose–right?! And of course Gagey looks like he was so much help. Every family has one child who always wants to help!
By: marla P on November 12, 2008
at 8:53 am
funny!
By: danielle on November 12, 2008
at 9:21 am
Love the expression on your little one’s face! It’s the exact same expression I had on my face when I looked at the 1st picture!
By: Robin on November 12, 2008
at 9:47 am
Anything starchy or containing “skin and seeds” will turn your disposal and pipes to glue. Funny, they don’t tell you that in the owner’s manual. My MIL has burned up two disposals in 5 years.
Love the look on spidey plumber’s face. “How did THAT happen?”
By: Starwoodgal on November 12, 2008
at 10:26 am
You should’ve toasted ‘em…they make good snacks!
By: Christina Schmidt on November 12, 2008
at 10:49 am
Wow! You married a keeper! Haha.
PS – I have heard that ground coffee is bad for the disposal…I wonder if anyone could prove/bust that myth?!
By: Kayla Grace on November 12, 2008
at 11:03 am
That should restore the man-card for sure. Anytime you rip into the drain system it’s a manly thing.
Did Pete have on the other Spiderman glove?
By: Tommy Sircy on November 12, 2008
at 11:44 am
Once I did that with rice – I poured a can of Coca-Cola down the disposal with it and let it set over night – the acidity ate it away and after 30 seconds of plunging the next morning it was good to go. . .and we drink that stuff. . . actually Brandi, I’m pretty sure it was Diet Dr. Pepper instead of Coke. . .a good reason to kick the habit???hehe
By: Amy Colon on November 12, 2008
at 11:47 am
What would we do without handy husbands?
(Pay a lot of money.)
My little guy LOVES to help his Daddy, no matter how gross!
Cute pic.
By: Jocelyn on November 12, 2008
at 12:02 pm
I am sure Pete will be very happy to hear that you will use the trash can next time. LOL
By: Cheri on November 12, 2008
at 12:48 pm
He’s so cute with the spiderman glove! What a great little helper!
By: Monica Hunt on November 12, 2008
at 1:03 pm
Ok, I just learned A LOT in these comments… I put EVERYTHING in my garbage disposal. And I don’t have a husband with a cute spidey side kick to fix it in case of emergencies.
I guess I’d better be a little more careful with my leftover ramen noodles! 
By: gitz on November 12, 2008
at 2:02 pm
That’s funny! Just a couple of weeks ago, my husband found the reason our sink kept backing up. Two un-named little people in our house had been using the sink (not the garbage disposal side of the sink) for a popsicle stick disposal. We had 21 popsicle sticks CRAMMED in our plumbing under the sink!!!
By: amy on November 12, 2008
at 3:33 pm
I did that once with apple peels and cores. Oops!
By: Marla Taviano on November 12, 2008
at 6:11 pm
thats just kinda gross.
i had my plumber yell at me once for stuffing coffee grounds down the sink.
he gave me a whole list of thinks NOT to put down the sink. now i am a garbage disposal nazi.
By: sarahmarkley on November 12, 2008
at 6:34 pm
Cute pic. I’m glad I’d already ate when I saw the first pic. Lol.
By: Amy on November 12, 2008
at 9:44 pm
I had that happen once with potato peels. But, you would think that anything could go down your garbage disposal, but I guess not. Egg shells are bad for it, too. Go figure….
By: Marlen on November 12, 2008
at 9:51 pm
Hey, I just last week found out that a garbage disposal has a “trap” (a.k.a. that nasty place that you took a photo of!) Mine looked similar, but I created my clog with potato peels. Good times.
By: Denise on November 12, 2008
at 10:47 pm
thank you for photo shopping out the plumbers butt.
By: tam on November 13, 2008
at 12:49 am