Files Deleted Immediately Without Going to Trash

Hello! I was browsing the forums earlier for similar troubles - where finder insists on perminately deleting files and skipping the trash progress altogether as seen in this screenshot: .
The first thing I did was go to the Disk Utlitiy myself and verify/repair all my permissions - it repaired everything it wanted to but it failed to stop the trash problem. My theory is that, previous to this incident when I was using an App from the App Store called DaisyDisk I cleaned out 10GB worth of data that I considered unnecessary. It seems I was a little off with that thought, because I think I deleted my trash directory itself.
So online here I found an answered question to someone who committed the same careless deletion act that I did. The only problem is, I couldn't completely follow their instructions because however I may have screwed up, I did it worse than they did.
I would appreciate any help anyone could have to offer. I have done everything I could think of and one or two things that other people have thought of.

You need to use:
mkdir ~/.Trash
with a space before the ~. A command which produces an error message such as that generally doesn't actually change anything.
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