What are the biggest wastes in household purchasing?

[Raazor]

Originally Posted by Bruze

Probably 60 years ago there was a thing in "Mad" magazine about what to do with those annoying soap bars that are half gone, somewhat unusable, so you throw them out.

Their solution: Make the bars hollow so when they're half gone they're all gone! Typical Mad Magazine, back then anyway.

Not sure if anyone followed up on that or not, probably a few Polish folk tried it.

But I have a solution that actually works: You must use Dial soap.

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See how the bars are curved?

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When the bar in the shower starts to get small and thin, I put a fresh bar beside it. When the time comes, and both are wet, I can rub them together vigorously and they will stick because of the curves. Other soaps that are flat don't work as well.

So I figure that in the past half-century, I've saved around $4.68 by doing this instead of throwing the slivers out.


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cliffs?

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Raazor

cliffs?

Soap. It’s the new white meat.

[Big bob]

Originally Posted by LATB

Soap. It’s the new white meat.

So are you like the paste eater from my time?

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

The worst thing about those plastic grocery bags is that they like to fly. They are the bain of any landfill operator. If they land on a cow pasture, the cows will eat them, causing blockage of the digestive system and the cow dies.

I used to consult for landfill operators in upstate NY and they were writing checks to farmers for dead cows all too often.

I was aware of that. Mylar balloons, as well. Plus other plastic crap. Slewfoot is so typical of all of the liberals I grew up with....it was always virtue signaling and 'do as I say', while they did the opposite out of convenience or laziness, while ignoring their transgressions.
My family knew they were lying hypocrites. Slewfoot, by his statement, is simply too dense to realize it.

[Ronins2ndCuzzin]

I have a great wife. We buy in bulk when we use a lot of it, and we only buy what we need for everything else (unless we're buying for preparedness, different subject all together). I would say if we burn money on anything, it's probably spices that we don't use. We have three shelves fill with spices, and we use like 5 of them...ever. I wouldn't be surprised if we have s30-40 Vietnam era unopened spice bottles in there.