Using leftover slivers of bar soap

I just use my soap until it disappears . . .
 
Phroig said:
Thanks for all the responses; looks like I have several options. All your personal stories of achieving financial success from sliver saving have inspired me to keep trying.
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When I started really saving & investing at age 30, my goal was to have $1M (not including property) by the time I was 50.

I made it when I was only 49 and 2 months. Soap sliver saving is definitely worth it!:wiseone:
 
ecowtent said:
I add it to my DH’s shaving mug. What is BTD?
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Blow that Dough 2024

Yeah, GM does that too. You get to order your car exactly how you want it and you get to pick it up in Detroit and drive around the city for a couple weeks. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: You can pick your new Corvette up at the assembly plant if you wish! :cool:
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Blow That Dough 2025

First BTD of 2025. I'm planning to go on a tour that includes Patagonia in March of 2026. We're restricted to one bag (for the internal flights) but of course will need plenty of warm clothing. Somewhere in my wanderings n the Internet I saw an ad for Oliver Charles- yak wool sweaters...
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ArmchairMillionaire said:

Blow that Dough 2024

Yeah, GM does that too. You get to order your car exactly how you want it and you get to pick it up in Detroit and drive around the city for a couple weeks. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: You can pick your new Corvette up at the assembly plant if you wish! :cool:
www.early-retirement.org www.early-retirement.org

Blow That Dough 2025

First BTD of 2025. I'm planning to go on a tour that includes Patagonia in March of 2026. We're restricted to one bag (for the internal flights) but of course will need plenty of warm clothing. Somewhere in my wanderings n the Internet I saw an ad for Oliver Charles- yak wool sweaters...
www.early-retirement.org www.early-retirement.org
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Thank you. I never remember that one!
 
Why? I blame the Great Depression.

Both of my parents were profoundly impacted by the Great Depression. My mom lived in absolute poverty.

Their habits got passed down to me.

Ok, sorry for the serious break. Back to frivolity.
 
In spite of “making it” financially, I still empty vessels and tubes to the last drop. Old habits and enjoying hotel oils and creams! Reusing paper towels!
 
i have a Soap Saver Bag Exfoliating thingy. When soap gets slivery , add to other slivers of soap. Works great !!!!!!
 
Coming late to this thread. This sort of thing drives me crazy. Where we live the garbage web site will tell you what to put in each container. Paper of most kinds go into the big blue container. There is the (small for us) garbage container. Should I use plastic bags? Or maybe paper bags?

Tissues can go in the yard waste one along with actual plants and such. So can table scraps which is a field all it's own. They give us a little plastic box for kitchen waste. You can even put in bones. How much should I deal with this mess?

Now you guys come up with saving small soaps. What a guilt trip.
:facepalm::blush::rant:
 
GamblingMan said:
You guys and your fancy $2 bars of soap. My bars tend to break in half, near end-of-life. One more shower each half and that's it.
I do remember slivering Irish Springs, back when I didn't have to buy it myself.
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Uh, $2 bars of soap are now just the large bar of regular soap after recent inflation.

See Dial at Amazon.

 
JoeWras said:
Why? I blame the Great Depression.
Both of my parents were profoundly impacted by the Great Depression. My mom lived in absolute poverty.
Their habits got passed down to me.

I grew up around my great grandparents and grandparents, both living thru the depression. They never talked about it as poverty, it was just life and you managed the best you could... I grew up in what most folks would call impoverished conditions, but still had a great life......
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Yeah, old medic, my mom never said she grew up in poverty.

I say it. I saw the pictures of her and my aunt in home-made clothes. She described her childhood as happy, but obviously with little means. (Lived on a rented farm, made their own clothes, tried to sustain themselves as much as possible from the garden and chicken coop.)
 
We have a retired NFL linebacker on our sports radio show who sometimes talks about making his own soap and using slivers. One of the other hosts interrupts him and saying "We are DONE talking about soap! No wonder you are single..." funny....
 
GamblingMan said:
You guys and your fancy $2 bars of soap. My bars tend to break in half, near end-of-life. One more shower each half and that's it.
I do remember slivering Irish Springs, back when I didn't have to buy it myself.
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My soap supply comes from multiple sources- leftover bars from hotel stays (I'm actually glad they're using pumps now- less wasteful), bars of the fancier stuff from Marshall's, and a few from my travels. An interesting one that I bought in a large, inactive salt mine in Bulgaria (?) had salt crystals imbedded in it.
 
I have switched to bar soap shampoo and conditioner because of all the plastic generated by bottles. We still use some liquid soap in parts of the house (DH hasn't made the switch). They are all sold in paper packaging. I'm going to look into Sisal bags. The shampoo tends to disintegrate more quickly than soap or conditioner.
 
marko said:
They sell these things where you put the tube in a sort of roller and it squishes the last few drops out. $5 on Amazon.
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What is the breakeven on that investment? Bear in mind you could invest that $5. Would you ever get $5+growth in toothpaste savings?
 
Koolau said:
We always donated those hotel soap bars, shampoo bottles, razors, tooth brush/tooth paste to the Women's shelter. They were really appreciated as there was a significant turn-over of clientele and providing fresh products to ladies in stress was expensive for these wonderful organizations.
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That's great but I wonder what they do with the slivers?
 
Montecfo said:
That's great but I wonder what they do with the slivers?
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They throw them away. Sounds like Koolau was donating wrapped mini bars, not slivers. Wrapped minis are good to donate.

I just spent the last few days at the nonprofit throwing away 10 cubic yards of donations. A full dumpster.

Not soap, mind you, but other stuff like broken down equipment. We get a lot of donations of broken equipment. "Hey, we broke the pressure washer. Let's donate it to the nonprofit. We can take a full value tax deduction and maybe the nonprofit can fix it and use it."

News flash: the nonprofit doesn't have the the resources to fix stuff. Nobody does. Labor is tight. You couldn't find anyone to fix it, why do you think the nonprofit does? And now you want a full rax deduction. Your ethics are sketchy.

People: don't donate broken crap. Don't donate heavily used clothes. Don't donate used soap. These items are a burden.

Do donate wrapped hotel soap, full hotel shampoo bottles, new or extremely gently used clothes, equipment that works, and so on.

Heavily used clothes end up on a beach in Africa or a desert in South American Andes. No joke, look it up.

Broken equipment languishes until someone can drag it to the dump.

Throe the usef
 
Growing up in the housing projects, my mother would save those scraps & sivers of soap for months; thinking she would combine them into another bar of soap. Now that I'm an adult and soap being less than a $1 a bar, I gladly throw the tiny slivers away. In some small way it makes me feel wealthy.
 
Palmtree said:
Growing up in the housing projects, my mother would save those scraps & sivers of soap for months; thinking she would combine them into another bar of soap. Now that I'm an adult and soap being less than a $1 a bar, I gladly throw the tiny slivers away. In some small way it makes me feel wealthy.
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We seem to either adopt or totally reject our parents idiosyncratic behaviors. My older sister always thought we grew up poor (I guess we did) and she has rejected the behaviors my parents exhibited. Behaviors like stretching, reusing, passing on, accepting hand me downs - all to help meet our family's needs by saving on what they had control over.

I have no need for such behaviors but have still adopted many of the frugal ways of my parents. I see little downside. The feeling of rejecting waste is a positive for me. It's not for everyone so YMMV.
 
JoeWras said:
Why? I blame the Great Depression.

Both of my parents were profoundly impacted by the Great Depression. My mom lived in absolute poverty.

Their habits got passed down to me.

Ok, sorry for the serious break. Back to frivolity.
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Same here. My parents were greatly impacted and their frugality was hammered into us kids
 
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