That’s why, when I open a new container of honey, I transfer the entire contents to a glass mason jar while it’s still liquid. It wouldn’t be necessary if they used the proper type of container in the first place.
Hah - you are apparently not the only one with that gripe!
I’m really not seeing that stopper as a shot glass. Does it say it is anywhere on the bottle?
A brand of shampoo and conditioner that I’ve used for years now comes in a huge size - basically a year’s supply - with a pump. Huge pain in the neck to deal with in the shower, so I dispense it into smaller bottles. Using the pump to do so with the shampoo is sort of OK, though I haven’t gotten close enough to the bottom to determine how much waste there will be. The conditioner, though… is so viscous that the stuff doesn’t flow to the bottom of the pump’s tube. Easily 10% waste. And the damn bottle is so huge that it’s not like I can prop it upside down to “drain” into another bottle - since, again due to the viscosity, it would take a large part of forever.
With the smaller bottles of the product, at least I can simply store it upside down on the shower caddy.
The thick stuff like conditioner is a pain with no good answer.
My habit with thinner stuff like pump hand soaps, dish soap, “body wash”, shampoo, etc., is to use them until the pumping action gets flaky, then switch to a new bottle, saving the old bottle. Once the new one is maybe 1/3rd used, remove the pumps, stack the old bottle atop the new in a corner on the counter, and let them transfer overnight. The next morning one bottle is nearly full again, the other is completely empty, and you’ve wasted almost nothing.
That we have to do this silly rigmarole is just that: silly. But it can (reasonably) be done.
I don’t use conditioner. I have had oily hair most of my life, so I never really needed it. But as I’ve aged, my hair has gotten drier. I recently received a free sample of a “leave in” conditioner that I’ve used twice now, and I really like it. Perfect solution for me.
I get the same problem with lotion. Some brands are so thick the pump stops working not because the bottle is close to empty, but because the lotion is so viscous that the pump creates a void at the bottom of the tube that lotion hasn’t flowed into to fill. Then I have to shake the bottle to make the lotion move into that space. Then when the bottle is close to empty, I turn it upside down by propping it up in a corner, although that’s tricky and the cat will often knock it over. And then remove the pump, and get lotion out by pounding the bottle against my hand. Or sticking my pinky finger into the bottle and digging some out.
About eight years ago, there was a news story about an MIT spin-off that developed a coating that when applied to the inside of a container, could allow the contents to slide out without leaving anything behind. I haven’t seen any commercial use of that yet.
As long as the manufacturer can sell you 10 usable ounces for the price (and profit) of 12, there’s no reason to deploy it.
We get the products we collectively demand. And if we collectively demand convenience and pretty packaging over lack of waste, well, that’s what we’ll get.
That’s not stupid, it’s insidious, evil, & greedy. HP got their hands slapped a while back because they forced a firmware update that, if it detected after-market (non-HP) cartridges in the printer, would permanently disable the printer.
In HPs defense , the consumer didn’t pay for the ink cartridges that no longer work - because you don’t pay by the cartridge. You pay based on a plan for a certain number of printed pages per month. And it was clear to me when I signed that it worked that way - it’s not better for everyone but it is if you don’t print much.
There’s a tool specifically designed to solve that problem. (I haven’t tried it.)
https://www.amazon.com/Compac-Mayo-Knife-Scraper-Spreader/dp/B001DVYEQQ
The trick is to buy a big enough jar that it expires before you use it all. That way you don’t have to worry about getting every last bit.
Mayo is fully edible for about 2 years after the date printed on the package. That date is just there to encourage nervous nellies to waste half their grocery purchases, thereby doubling profits for the food manufacturers.
A couple of bad packaging designs:
Banquet Sausage links seals by rolling the top down and securing it with a piece of tape attached to the bag. But the tape won’t stick if the bag is greasy. A bag of sausages. It’s useless after the first time.
They used to have those plastic grooves that you press together. I sealed, but the sides - where the bag had a fold - weren’t included, so they were open.
Thomas’ English Muffins are still packaged in flimsy plastic that and be resealed and tear if you look at it.
This is why if there is anything questionable about the way the manufacturer-provided packaging seals I put it in my own sealed bag.
I trust my own nose and eyes to determine if something is still edible rather than the use-by or sell-by dates on the packaging. Especially because I often freeze anything that is freezable to extend its storage life.
I only bought these once, because I thought they were terrible. Glad I didn’t have to fight with the packaging.
It’s not illegal, not even misleading, but I can’t believe it’s a good model for any consumer. Providers of hard goods are adopting the subscription model because they see how well it is working for software companies. But ink isn’t software. I would be wiling to sign up for an ink subscription where I actually buy ink. But I will never pay for ink by page count especially when the printer tells HP everything I’m doing.
The idea that you have usable ink that you can’t use and HP can’t use just seems moronic.
Until you vote with your feet by throwing away the printer and never buying another HP product and launching a TwitFace campaign to ensure everybody else boycotts them and they go out of business, they’ll keep doing it because it works. For them.
We collectively get exactly the treatment we collectively accept, and not one iota better.
You’re either the winner or just another victim.
I’ll vote by never buying another ink jet printer from any company. They suck.