What are the biggest wastes in household purchasing?

[ricks327]

Paper plates. We use regular dishes that get washed in the dishwasher. If we are hosting an event with more than 8, then paper plates are used.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

The deal is that laundry detergent doesn't foam up excessively in the machine like dish soap can. I simply use Purex laundry detergent in the gallon jug for about $6. It's 1/3 the price of Tide or All and works fine.

Tide is inarguably the best laundry detergent sold, period. It's why thieves steal it....it's almost as good as currency. I generally use whatever is on sale, sometimes I splurge on Tide if it's on sale. I'm not that particular.

Another undisputed best is Dawn dishwashing soap. Nothing else comes close. And for bar soap, Ivory for oily skin, Dove for dry skin.

I hate supporting woke Proctor and Gamble, but they do have the top brands in these segments. I did stop buying Gillette razors, though, due to their anti-male woke advertising.

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by jw38

I don't waste the money I have. I buy what I want, when I want it, and I use what I want. Life's too short to worry about whether or not I'm wasting money. My daughters will get whatever is left over.

I'm where you are now, for the past few years. (retired). But old habits die hard, and I was raised by depression era parents and taught to be frugal and responsible. I still get more pleasure out of doing the same thing for less (like soap or gas or paper plates) but will spend whatever the cost for steak, seafood, travel, etc. Life is too short and I won't outlive my money, so time to enjoy.

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Kevin68

A carbon filter or reverse osmosis system on your drinking water tap will get rid the taste. As noted below, most bottled water is tap water. However, it is processed through some combination of softening, RO, carbon polishing, or nanofiltration with ozonation/UV disinfection and a little salt added to get their proprietary taste.

You might be shocked to know of the lengths some companies will go through to put "spring water" on the label...only to process it through the same systems they run tap water through. Most natural spring water tastes horrible until you get used to it. Just like most love the taste of water from their well.

That's me. My well water has a very good taste. It also is naturally very soft water, which means it washes cars, clothes, dishes very good and for shits and giggles does not plug up piping. It comes from a well about 125' deep.

A couple contractors up here that have worked for me say I have some of the best tasting water around the lake. Do to medical problems I have to drink a lot of water so having good tasting water is a +!

[Kevin68]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

That's me. My well water has a very good taste. It also is naturally very soft water, which means it washes cars, clothes, dishes very good and for shits and giggles does not plug up piping. It comes from a well about 125' deep.

A couple contractors up here that have worked for me say I have some of the best tasting water around the lake. Do to medical problems I have to drink a lot of water so having good tasting water is a +!

Not saying you don't have good tasting water, but most groundwater tastes bad to people who aren't used to it. Most people get used to their well water and think it tastes great. What do your occasional out of town guests think?

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Kevin68

Not saying you don't have good tasting water, but most groundwater tastes bad to people who aren't used to it. Most people get used to their well water and think it tastes great. What do your occasional out of town guests think?

Well liked.

The next house down has a well point system and their water is awful.

[Red Baron]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

My wife of 48 years grew up with 4 sisters in a single Mom household and NEVER had enough coat hangers. Its been a weird hoarding thing for her and I have 3 bushel baskets of coat hangers in the attic that I've moved from house to house.

My brother helped me on one move years ago and said, "if you don't throw this crap out you don't have a hair on your azz". 15 years and 3 houses later they are still in the attic and I have a bald azz...

YouTube

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

Well liked.

The next house down has a well point system and their water is awful.

A well point is driven into overburden. It would make sense that the water is terrible, maybe even unsanitary.

A good well should be drilled into bedrock and sealed at the overburden-bedrock interface so shallow groundwater can't contaminate the well.

[SteveOceanside]

Originally Posted by bsmith

I always used TP and paper towels.
I had no idea I was doing it wrong all those years...until I got married.

Women have an entirely different view of the world. In the last two houses I've owned I've had a widowed neighbour who thinks washing machines need to be run on a daily (almost) basis. Whenever there's a dry day with some wind two or three lines of washing appear in her back yard. When it's not dry she'll run her dryer or let the damp stuff pile up until the weather improves.

WTF did these women do before washing machines? And the real question - does their obsessive laundry action mean they are much cleaner than men, or much DIRTIER?

[SurfnSun]

Originally Posted by Kevin68

A carbon filter or reverse osmosis system on your drinking water tap will get rid the taste. As noted below, most bottled water is tap water. However, it is processed through some combination of softening, RO, carbon polishing, or nanofiltration with ozonation/UV disinfection and a little salt added to get their proprietary taste.

You might be shocked to know of the lengths some companies will go through to put "spring water" on the label...only to process it through the same systems they run tap water through. Most natural spring water tastes horrible until you get used to it. Just like most love the taste of water from their well.

I read that article. It was as wrong as most junk that MSN puts out.

Are used to work near a Dasani plant and could see firsthand how much water was dumped after it went through the filtration process and didn’t meet spec. It was a staggering amount.

[Kevin68]

Originally Posted by SurfnSun

I read that article. It was as wrong as most junk that MSN puts out.

Are used to work near a Dasani plant and could see firsthand how much water was dumped after it went through the filtration process and didn’t meet spec. It was a staggering amount.

What article?

[LATB]

Originally Posted by SteveOceanside

Women have an entirely different view of the world. In the last two houses I've owned I've had a widowed neighbour who thinks washing machines need to be run on a daily (almost) basis. Whenever there's a dry day with some wind two or three lines of washing appear in her back yard. When it's not dry she'll run her dryer or let the damp stuff pile up until the weather improves.

WTF did these women do before washing machines? And the real question - does their obsessive laundry action mean they are much cleaner than men, or much DIRTIER?

Our washing machine runs every day. Often more than once a day. In the new house I have designed a large laundry room for my wife and we will also have a second washer and dryer in the garage.
The garage set will be mostly for dog stuff and some of my dirty oily dusty working on the farm, working in the shop or playing with the dogs clothes.
If we had the right weather I would absolutely use clothes lines to dry clean clothes. But here in my part of the world that’s about 3 days per year.

[SurfnSun]

Originally Posted by Kevin68

What article?

The one Torqaholic posted.

[GTOguy]

220 volt teapot. No place in the house to plug that SOB in. Worthless.

[owc6]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

220 volt teapot. No place in the house to plug that SOB in. Worthless.

I've got 6 places to plug one of this puppies in, but I'd have to go to the basement, the garage, or my studio.

Seems a lot of bother for hot water for tea.

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by owc6

I've got 6 places to plug one of this puppies in, but I'd have to go to the basement, the garage, or my studio.

Seems a lot of bother for hot water for tea.

It's an inside joke, aimed at Yadkin. He re-wired his wife's dressing area so she could have a 220 volt Euro style teapot. We teased him about it, but he had a video and it boiled water cold from the tap in about 40 seconds flat. Impressive as heck.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

It's an inside joke, aimed at Yadkin. He re-wired his wife's dressing area so she could have a 220 volt Euro style teapot. We teased him about it, but he had a video and it boiled water cold from the tap in about 40 seconds flat. Impressive as heck.

[owc6]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

It's an inside joke, aimed at Yadkin. He re-wired his wife's dressing area so she could have a 220 volt Euro style teapot. We teased him about it, but he had a video and it boiled water cold from the tap in about 40 seconds flat. Impressive as heck.

[LisaJohn]

I am jealous! I have always wanted two washers and two dryers but it never happened.

[owc6]

Originally Posted by LisaJohn

I am jealous! I have always wanted two washers and two dryers but it never happened.

Heck, I always wanted a wife to do all the cleaning, but alas, I'm heterosexual.