Pickles by Brian Crane for January 24, 2017

Makes me wonder if Earl and Opal grew up as children/teenagers in the Depression those approbate 80 years ago.

I just add the sliver to a new bar of soap and never waste any.

“Frankensoap”.

I remember my mother doing this in the 60s. She even had a soap press.

It is depressing when you have to resort to that.

Me too. Stick the sliver on top of a new bar at the end of a shower… by the next one it’s dry and stuck. No problem.

Of course, my parents taught me that… and they were teenagers in the depression…

born about a hundred years ago.

Frankenstein Soap!?!? Earl, you da MAN!

I keep a small cup with the small slivers in it and put a little water in it so they all mush together.

I agree with Earl—when I started reading this I thought she must be in Great Depression-mode.

Should have just called it Frankensoap.

You can buy mesh bags in the drugstore just for soap slivers. I’ve used them for years and I never have to throw soap away.

A more palatable way to do it is to pour boiling water over a bunch of soap scraps and put them into a pump bottle to use as liquid soap.

I take home the little bar of soap I used from hotels and add it to the current soap. Otherwise it gets thrown out.

waste not want not

My dad actually used to do that. He had a soap mold. He’d take the leftover bits of soap and then soften them in hot water then mold them into a circular bar of soap.

Life is too short to worry about a tiny sliver of soap. Sheesh!

When you have little money and also an ethic of thriftiness, you don’t waste any.

There’s nothing so crazy about saving the last sliver of soap. I don’t actually use bar soap anymore. I use liquid soap. But when I did use bar soap, I did like others here and stuck the sliver to the new bar. I also make sure I get every last little bit of toothpaste out of the tube and I even pick up pennies I find on the ground. Sometimes the “penny” turns out to be a dime! I made over $40 each of the past 2 years picking up coins that people dropped.

People might not agree but I think some people go too overboard with re-using.

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I too, used to do this when I used bar soap. I use soft soap now, so it is no longer necessary.

If you’re been there, then you’ve done that.

Thank god you folks bathe and use soap….Seems a lot of “Scody”(old navy term) cruds still don’t…Why I use the quick check out line at the supermarket…Hey lady that “splash” doesn’t keep you from smelling like a sandhog in July….

I haven’t used bar soap for quite a few years. I use liquid soap. But I will upend the old bottle on top of the new bottle (lids off) to make sure nothing is wasted. Same thing, I guess.