John Lee On: Trasharoo

We think the Trasharoo is a pretty good idea. Most of us were already hanging garbage bags from our spare tires anyway, might as well make something that works at a little better. The Trasharoo is smart, well made, and not even very expensive.

But that's not what John thinks:

From my way of looking at things, this Trasharoo Mk2 is another example of a product that was made worse by over-featuring to appeal to the McMorons.

Frankly, I'm not a fan of the Trasharoo. The name is white trash. And the concept of a hispeed trash bag is aesthetically unsetting to me. However, I think it is a decent product. It's a trash bag for the spare. Not what I would invent, but I've seen far worse. I wouldn't be caught dead with a Trasharoo on my truck, but in the big picture of things it's really not that bad.

But then you have the attempts to improve upon the Trasharoo. Make it more versatile. More modular. More features. So you add the MOLLE loops to make the Trasharoo configurable. What, are you going to configure your trash layout or something? Then you add the extra pockets to increase its numeric capacity or perhaps hold spare magazines or something. You make it available in black, tan, and olive drab to appeal to the McMilitary wannabes. Are these genuine improvements to the design? Or, are they simply add-ons to make the product more appealing to McPeople? I think the latter.

One might argue that the Trasharoo Mk2 is not inferior to the first version, because the Mk2 does everything the original did. And the Mk2 can do more. I think this is the wrong way to look at things. There's a certain point where something gets worse with the addition of more. Look at it like seasoning on food. It's quite obvious that more is not better when it comes to seasoning. Even the McMorons can understand this. Why they cannot understand this when it comes to design or utility remains a mystery to me.

It's not even a little ironic that John sells Pelican cases in black, tan and olive dfab (must be the accent) as well... to appeal to the McMilitary wannabes. Let's not forget the black, olive and dfab weaponry either. John also sells dividers to put in your Pelican case. Because a waterproof, dustproof, gasketted, locking, vented, fiber reinforced box to put your shit in didn't have enough features yet.