"Where To Throw The Garbage"

"My wife and I have been married for 6-years now, and while I believe people need to accept each other's quirks, especially since usually they do not effect "life or death", there is one quirk I think is absolutely silly: where to throw out the garbage.

We have a typical garbage can, we even have a garbage disposal in our sink. According to the disposals operating instructions, there is hardly nothing we can't throw in there.

So my thinking is simple, we throw what we can in the garbage disposal, and the rest in the garbage can. In our community, the garbage truck comes by twice a week, so we don't (shouldn't) have the issue of it building up.

If it does, we have a big (really big) garbage container (provided by the city for Free) in the garage.

I take care of the garbage, so I don't mind taking the garbage from the inside garbage can to the outside container if it fills up inside too fast.

Well, my wife tells me that is the wrong way to do it, and that I must follow her method, which is the following:

1. Only non-stinky garbage can go in the garbage can. Like paper, or straws, or empty (non-recyclable) containers, etc.
2. Only real tiny, and non-stinky items can go in the garbage disposal in the sink. Such as peas we didn't finish eating, or egg shells, but nothing more even though the operating instructions says we can even stick bones in there.

...and here comes my super huge beef:

3. Everything else must be put in a plastic bag and stored in our freezer!

The idea being if the garbage is in the freezer, it won't smell!

The garbage itself doesn't smell either, it only smells if you open it (obviously), but because my "taking out the garbage" has now turned into a scavenger hunt, where I inevitably will forget one of our "garbage places", and then have to take multiple trips back and forth, I would prefer this "method" stop.

I would like to be normal and throw all my garbage in the garbage can and end it right there.

New Side Updates
"I have read most of the comments (thank you for the support, it's good to know Im not nuts... yet), and I think after reading the most recent update from my better-half, the only other update I'd like to make is to simply the matter and not complicate this too much (which I think is part of my wife's problem in understanding this):

Garbage goes in the *garbage* can (I think thats why they call it a "garbage can" after all).

Food requiring freezing for preservation (like ice cream, frozen veggies, etc.) go in the freezer.

And scavenging through the house looking for garbage in every nook and cranny seems a little absurd to me.


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