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Need advice from notoriously thrifty New Englander

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Pet peev: Wasting bar soap. I like to use a fresh bar of soap in my shower (<span style="font-style: italic">As Good As It Gets</span> .. Neutrogena soap, remember that one? I use Dial. <span style="font-size: 8pt">"Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did?" </span>), not quite that bad, but what do you do with the 25% leftover bars that are just too small to handle in a slippery shower? I thought some of you New Englanders, known to be <span style="text-decoration: line-through">cheap</span> thrifty, would have an answer. Have tried the soap bag, where all the chips go in a sack, but don't like it. Any way to reconstitute bar soap, maybe blend it or melt it, and pour into a mold?

Hey, I am <span style="text-decoration: line-through">Syrian</span> serious!
 
I'm sure there are New Englanders who are more thrifty than me (not many tho ...) -

Here's what we do: when the bar of soap gets thin, you take a *new* bar of soap and squeeze the two together when they're both warm and wet and soapy.

Voila! a bigger bar of soap, that's easier to handle, and you just keep using it. When the "reconstituted" bar gets small - repeat the procedure.

Tom in Connecticut
a/k/a Frugal Zealot
 
I use Lava, doing the same thing Tom does. "Melt" the thin bit to the new bar.

Lava soap is getting difficult to find. Same with Boraxo.
 
DrEntropy said:
I use Lava, doing the same thing Tom does. "Melt" the thin bit to the new bar.

Lava soap is getting difficult to find. Same with Boraxo.
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Hummmmm.... me thinks S'mits has been leaving you hints doc.......
 

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NO help to the conversation, but, have been in a hotel all week and every day they throw out the old soap and bring in new - really bugs me!
 
HIDE it under the mattress in a zip-lock baggie!!!

Every day they leave a new one, hide it as well. At the end of the stay put the pile on the dresser...

That should drive 'em nuts. :wink:
 
JPSmit said:
NO help to the conversation, but, have been in a hotel all week and every day they throw out the old soap and bring in new - really bugs me!
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I was out in Chicago last month on a job search... the hotel I stayed at had two separate dispensers for the shampoo/soap and one for conditioner fixed to the shower wall.
Makes a lot of sense to me... use what you need and not throw the leftover soap out.
 
Gliderman8 said:
JPSmit said:
NO help to the conversation, but, have been in a hotel all week and every day they throw out the old soap and bring in new - really bugs me!
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I was out in Chicago last month on a job search...
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Oh sure....come to town and don't even say "Hi!" :nonono:

Any luck on the search? :smile:
 
Peter... check your PM
 
A while back I saw a plastic netted bag that they sold for that-
put your old soap bars in & use.

- Doug
 
TR6BILL said:
Pet peev: Wasting bar soap. I like to use a fresh bar of soap in my shower (<span style="font-style: italic">As Good As It Gets</span> .. Neutrogena soap, remember that one? I use Dial. <span style="font-size: 8pt">"Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did?" </span>), not quite that bad, but what do you do with the 25% leftover bars that are just too small to handle in a slippery shower? I thought some of you New Englanders, known to be <span style="text-decoration: line-through">cheap</span> thrifty, would have an answer. Have tried the soap bag, where all the chips go in a sack, but don't like it. Any way to reconstitute bar soap, maybe blend it or melt it, and pour into a mold?

Hey, I am <span style="text-decoration: line-through">Syrian</span> serious!
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Have you retired? Can't you just charge more for fillings? :devilgrin:
 
That's why I don't use bar soap,cept on vacation
 
:lol:you guys are killing me....what's next..how many times can you reuse a tea bag, coffee grounds, sheets of toilet tissue..what about your deoderant stick, can you meld the little bit left on the new one...

BASIL A NEW FORUM...BCF's HOUSEHOLD TIPS AND TRICKS!!

...sorry had to poke some fun at ya!!! :lol:
 
TR6BILL said:
ah-HAH!

I knew I would find it....

www.metacafe.com/watch/2355526/how_to_turn_soap_slivers_into_a_new_bar_of_soap/
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Bill - glad you found it. But not many frugal Yankees would go to all that trouble.

Cutting up leftover soap, adding water, soaking, stirring, boiling, adding oatmeal, oil and citrus zest, pouring into greased molds ... Yikes!

I'll think I'll just take the old bits and "stick to sticking".

Onward through the fog!

Tom
PS - Just realized it's the first week of the month. Time for a bath.
 
BIBBER said:
:lol:you guys are killing me....what's next..how many times can you reuse a tea bag, coffee grounds, sheets of toilet tissue :lol: what about your deoderant stick, can't you meld the little bit left on the new one... :lol:I'm cryin' :lol:

BASIL A NEW FORUM...BCF's HOUSEHOLD TIPS AND TRICKS!!

...sorry had to poke at ya!!! :lol:
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Maybe in Nebraska, soap is free. What would Dorothy think..
 
DNK said:
Whose Dorthy?
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We're off to see the Wizard......the wonderful Wizard of OZ. :banana:
 
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