Yup. Doing this saves me about a fiver every twenty years.
My OH and I play a little game, completely unspoken, where we each refuse to be the one to deem the old toothpaste tube as now empty. It's amazing how many days you can go squeezing and squeezing that tube!
Sometimes I go to the length of slitting the toothpaste tube to extract the last smear.
Sometimes, to my shame, I will be seduced by another toothpaste brand with grand promises of whiter, shinier teeth, and open it before the previous pack was finished.
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Yup. Doing this saves me about a fiver every twenty years.
Every last drop of everything used, and not to save money,( apart from face creams etc which cost too much to waste) Probably due to upbringing, being one of six children, and dad working two or three jobs to keep us fed and clothed. OH was almost an only child, and more comfortably off, and has a somewhat cavalier attitude to the last few spoonfuls of marmalade in the jar. I do a lot of finishing up stuff! Shampoo, washing up liquid, hand wash, the nearly empty bottle gets water added to use up the last dregs. Tubes of creams get cut in half so the trapped remains can be accessed, with the cut section as a temporary lid, as @FourLeafClover does. I’m always amazed at how much longer the tube lasts, that must save much more than a fiver every twenty years!
Yup. Doing this saves me about a fiver every twenty years.
“ that must save much more than a fiver every twenty years!”
I’m inflicted by hyperbole, @Ergates. On reflection I bet it’s more like £7.50.
In a similar vein, what do people do with the time saved by texting u rather than you, gr8 instead of great etc? I wonder if they save it up and treat themselves to an extra five minutes in bed once a decade.
Yup. Doing this saves me about a fiver every twenty years.
Like @Ceres I chop the top off the toothpaste. Less so the ketchup, because by the time I get to the end of the bottle (we have the plastic ones), it's about two years out of date!! If it's within date, or just out, I add vinegar. I mainly use it on fish and chips anyway.
Yup. Doing this saves me about a fiver every twenty years.
I agree with all of the above - I'm a generation off folks who remember rationing but still brought up not to waste stuff. We have toothpaste squeezers (also used for tubes of tomato puree), and I always cut open "empty" tubes of face cream etc - you can sometimes get an extra couple of weeks' worth out of what's sticking on the inside of the tube. Hair conditioner, I add water and shake it up to get what's sticking to the inside and then put the resulting solution into a spray bottle - instant leave-in conditioner/defrizzer.
The last bit of the tomato ketchup gets washed out with water and added to soup/casserole/chilli/pasta sauce/the water for slow-cooking meat. The brown sauce and salad cream bottles I leave to OH and I expect he throws out the last dregs - I can't stand either of those.
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Sometimes, to my shame, I will be seduced by another toothpaste brand with grand promises of whiter, shinier teeth, and open it before the previous pack was finished.
Shampoo, washing up liquid, hand wash, the nearly empty bottle gets water added to use up the last dregs. Tubes of creams get cut in half so the trapped remains can be accessed, with the cut section as a temporary lid, as @FourLeafClover does. I’m always amazed at how much longer the tube lasts, that must save much more than a fiver every twenty years!
In a similar vein, what do people do with the time saved by texting u rather than you, gr8 instead of great etc? I wonder if they save it up and treat themselves to an extra five minutes in bed once a decade.
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