There is no secret that there is some neurotic tendencies towards getting the last out of “everything” in my home, work and play! I often try to instill habits of conservation into the minds of my wife and children as well. As important as it is for coffee to be as the old commercials used to say, “Good ‘til the last drop!”, it is just as important to make sure you are getting the last drop out of everything you use!
Taking my own advice to lotion my Winter hands from my previous blog,” Cold and Dry”, my wife happened to prove to me that I wasn’t getting all that I had paid for out of our lotion tube. As I sat there and beat the closed container against my hand to get the last of the lotion in the tube to fall towards the opening on the bottom, she asked me for it with scissors in-hand. She then proceeded to cut the top off of the package and scoop out what was easily 2-3 more days worth of lotion from a container that otherwise would have been thrown away in the trash or recycling bin. I don’t know about you, but I would rather get all of the excess lotion out using this method than have to throw a single cent of my hard earned money away like refuse! I know I can’t be the only one out there doing stuff like this, right?
Not that the extra money I save doing this will earn me enough to put down on a retirement home in Ft. Lauderdale, but waste across a wide variety of products such as this on an annual basis could definitely add up, both individually and on a larger social scale. When looking at it in a different light, making sure you get the last out of everything can be important in just about any kind of packaged good available today, since most are packaged by weight and volume. So as you squeeze your next grease tube, hair gel tube, or even bottle of ketchup, be sure to get all that you pay for and help make your dollar stretch as far as possible! After all, life ain’t cheap out there on the road!