Seems silly but I must admit that I love this garbage can! The lock comes in handy when the larger dogs of the house want to go dumpster diving when no one is around and it's much more solid than I was expecting - last step can we had broke within a couple of days and we didn't even use the stepper so I was really happy to see that this has lasted months. I did break down and buy the bags made for the can as they were a perfect fit and nice / strong bags but you can still use your normal every day bags in the can too.