I just don’t see the appeal of saving soap slivers. It probably saves less than fifty cents a year in soap.
Nothing wrong with it, it’s just not really worth the effort to me.
I use body wash, so there are no slivers. But when it gets too low for the pump to reach, I’ll get a new bottle, and after using it a few times, I’ll balance the old bottle on top of it to get the last bit out. Same with shampoo.
Spousal unit uses bar soap, and he sticks the sliver to the new bar.
AND my daughter just started using cloth diapers on my granddaughter. The cost of disposables was killing her, since she’s only working part time. And it’s really not that big a deal. Heck, I grew up using cloth diapers on my sibs and the babies I baby-sat. The ones she uses now are an absorbent pad that slides into pants with a gazillion snaps, so they’ll grow with the baby. Very cool idea!
I’ve had the same two dozen or so cloth handkerchiefs since college, so they’re over 30 years old and holding up great. I guess in at least one regard, I’m actually not that much of a blow-hard.
I find it baffling to learn that some people throw away products (like soap) that aren’t used up. Of course I stick it onto the new bar; doesn’t everyone? I guess not.
Leftover… bacon grease? I don’t understand. When I’m cooking bacon, it’s because I want bacon grease, and so I cook the amount needed to provide the needed amount of grease. To the extent that leftover bacon grease exists in my household, it’s as an ingredient in a leftover dish.
Num! That’s how my parents made fried eggs - with bacon grease that was saved in a coffee can. We called them dirty eggs, because they’d come out speckled with bacon bits. We don’t eat much bacon, so no bacon grease at my house.
Yes, there is - and through the power of homeopathy that original bar is now the most powerful soap in the universe! Ingesting it will enable your body to clean itself.
My wife and daughter have separate bottles of body wash, face wash and hair wash. In this age of soap specialization I fully expect to soon find bottles of Big Toe Left Foot wash, Big Toe Right Foot wash, etc.
Hmm, if one were to put the bacon grease in an unrinsed coffee can and used that to fry the eggs, it would make an all-in-one-breakfast omlette!
Its just not worth it to me when I do the math. A bar of soap costs me about $0.50, I use about one a month, which means a sliver is maybe a nickel worth of soap and I throw away about 12 a year.
Even if I do that for the next 40 years, I’ll still only save $24 over the course of my life. Its just not worth it. I like having a hard, solid bar of soap. Slivers are all slimy and fragile.
Me too. I also save my old grease in a jar, but that’s because I don’t want to pour it down the drain, and if I just pour it into the trash, critters will get to it when i put the trash out.
Dammit, I wish you hadn’t said that. I’d been feeling all virtuous that I recycle the slivers. But, crap, I’ve been fighting to keep those slivers from falling off the new bar, to save less than a dollar a year? I think you might be right.
ETA: this was @Wesley Clark
In the shower, I use shampoo as body wash, as it’s essentially the same thing and I’m using it anyway. No soap slivers or soapy soap slime to deal with.
At the bathroom sink, I have one of those foaming liquid-soap pump bottles. When it runs out, I add maybe 1/4 shampoo and 3/4 water (or even less shampoo). It still foams and is plenty soapy.
Just think of me as the fat kid on the bus who tells you that santa claus isn’t real.
You mean Santa’s not real? Holey-moley. Soap slivers are now my last thing to worry about.
I tried to stick-the-sliver-to-the-new-bar, but Hubster got obsessive about picking the sliver OFF the new bar. So now I just throw the damned sliver away.
I have zillions of little tricks I do to save money, so I don’t feel guilty about that.
~VOW
I save bacon grease. I also meld old soap bars to new. We each have our own individual soap bars in our house.
But do you have your own individual bacon grease?
I had to google this since I couldn’t picture it in my head. It never would have occurred to me to do that much repair for a shirt