I was reminded this morning again to always scrape the container clean. You paid for that stuff after all.
Did you know that a lip balm has more usable product in it than can be easily used? When you can no longer twist up the lip balm, take a nail file (you need the narrow, pointy tip) and scrape all the remaining lip balm into another container. You apply it with your finger to your lips. There's days of usage left.
This is true of virtually every product. Rinse those ketchup and barbecue sauce bottles. Get that rubber scraper and scrape those bottles clean. Add water to shampoo or conditioner and use every drop. Press the toothpaste tube ($16 a tube for my prescription toothpaste) flat with the back of a comb, pressing up the toothpaste. When you can't get any more out, cut the tube open and get the last smidgeon.
I will never forget watching a dear friend throw away a mostly empty jar of applesauce because she didn't want to bother scraping out the last 1/4 cup of applesauce she paid for.
Thoroughly emptying containers is so minor but it reminds you to be mindful about bigger ways to save.
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Always scrape the container clean
Date: 2025-07-04 07:53 pm (UTC)You paid for that stuff after all.
Did you know that a lip balm has more usable product in it than can be easily used? When you can no longer twist up the lip balm, take a nail file (you need the narrow, pointy tip) and scrape all the remaining lip balm into another container. You apply it with your finger to your lips. There's days of usage left.
This is true of virtually every product.
Rinse those ketchup and barbecue sauce bottles.
Get that rubber scraper and scrape those bottles clean.
Add water to shampoo or conditioner and use every drop.
Press the toothpaste tube ($16 a tube for my prescription toothpaste) flat with the back of a comb, pressing up the toothpaste. When you can't get any more out, cut the tube open and get the last smidgeon.
I will never forget watching a dear friend throw away a mostly empty jar of applesauce because she didn't want to bother scraping out the last 1/4 cup of applesauce she paid for.
Thoroughly emptying containers is so minor but it reminds you to be mindful about bigger ways to save.