You cheap bastard!

[Queen Michael]

This christmas my grandmother prepared an meal for all of us,
the dessert was ice cream, as i sprayed whipped cream on my ice cream it came out sloggy,
at the moment i didn't think about it because it had an christmas action sticker on it.
While eating it i found out it tasted horrible and found blue and green bits, after doing this i splurted out my ice cream and looked at the bottle, the ice cream was ONE YEAR old.
I told my grandmother about it and she told me it was perfectly fine and i got another bowl of ice cream with new whipped cream. (she ate the old one while lecturing me about how she is 85 and still alive while eating this stuff).

Afterwards i looked back to my youth when when my parents still had a bakery, i was at her house after school and ate there everyday when i was too young to care for myself!

Welcome to the Escapist! On topic, blue and green bits? Is she insane? Of course she's still alive eating that stuff, anybody who can live to be 85 is definitely tough enough to survive blue and green bits.

 

[Radiationsickman]

This christmas my grandmother prepared an meal for all of us,
the dessert was ice cream, as i sprayed whipped cream on my ice cream it came out sloggy,
at the moment i didn't think about it because it had an christmas action sticker on it.
While eating it i found out it tasted horrible and found blue and green bits, after doing this i splurted out my ice cream and looked at the bottle, the ice cream was ONE YEAR old.
I told my grandmother about it and she told me it was perfectly fine and i got another bowl of ice cream with new whipped cream. (she ate the old one while lecturing me about how she is 85 and still alive while eating this stuff).

Afterwards i looked back to my youth when when my parents still had a bakery, i was at her house after school and ate there everyday when i was too young to care for myself!

Welcome to the Escapist! On topic, blue and green bits? Is she insane? Of course she's still alive eating that stuff, anybody who can live to be 85 is definitely tough enough to survive blue and green bits.

Thanks for the welcome i have been lurking for years here(Since Yahtzee moved here from YouTube).
And she definitely is(survived three cancers and only has one sister left.)
She is always like that and the whole family knows it.

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

Let me put it this way. Do you throw away the candy bar wrapper when you buy a Snickers bar? Why? Aren't you going to save it and get your money's worth?

Thats not the same thing. You throw away a shampoo bottle after its empty because, like a sweat wrapper, it was simply the packaging of the product you bought. To throw away a shampoo bottle before its empty is actually like throwing away you're Snickers bar after you've eaten only half of it.

 

[Queen Michael]

Who pays for these products?, I can stretch out a bottle of hair gel for about six months since having to pay for everything myself now.

Only in America folks!

Couldnt have put it better myself.

I'd rather not agree with awful generalisations.

No ones forcing you too.

Just like no ones forcing those fat, lazy, homophobic, christian americans.

That, sir, was a Crowning Moment of Funny. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny?from=Main.CrowningMomentOfFunny]

 

[Jayjay34]

I fail to see why fully utilizing the product which you paid for is somehow cheap.

When it gets to the point of spending two minutes or more straining a bottle or tube, despite having a new one on the counter right in front of you, that's what i'd consider cheap. You're stressing out over forcing a tiny bit of the item onto your food, brush etc. Ever tried to squirt ketchup on chips, but had the thing scattershot all over the plat and yourself because there is no actual ketchip in it, just the dried up manky bits at the top that splatter all ov er the place from the air you compress out when you squeeze it? That's what i mean.

Edit: In relation to your response to Queen Michael, consider this; say you buy a ketchup bottle that runs out of ketchup. Do you save all the little ketchup packets you get from fast food establishments to squeeze out and hoard into that bottle you paid for to 'get your money's worth'? After all, the stuff is free as opposed to buying a new bottle...

My Grandmother used to do this actually, but i think it was from the old WW2 mentality of having to save every little thing and make it last.

I hate to sound like a jerk, but if you really have a problem with it, just buy your own shampoo/ketchup/toothpaste. Then label them so everyone knows they are your's. Then, you can throw them away whenever you want. Problem solved.

 

[Jayjay34]

cheap people annoy me you only live once why horde away all your spare cash it's stupid buy something and enjoy yourself.

If you only live once, why not save money for fun things to help you enjoy your one life? Get the most out of what you have while you can.

 

[Embz]

Im a student Im not 'cheap' I just cant afford to buy a new bottle of ketchup or toothpaste every week. Try paying £290 a month in rent and then put utilities and food on top of that, when you have a yearly loan of £4000 and see how much you use out of a ketchup bottle before you throw it out.

 

[Jayjay34]

Let me put it this way. Do you throw away the candy bar wrapper when you buy a Snickers bar? Why? Aren't you going to save it and get your money's worth?

Thats not the same thing. You throw away a shampoo bottle after its empty because, like a sweat wrapper, it was simply the packaging of the product you bought. To throw away a shampoo bottle before its empty is actually like throwing away you're Snickers bar after you've eaten only half of it.

Very well put.

 

[Queen Michael]

The way I see it, the companies don't expect you to use the very last part of the toothpaste, ketchup etc. They just put it in there because otherwise they'd get accused of being stingy. To me, using the very last drop of toothpaste so I'll get my money's worth is like reading the copyright page in a novel just not to be wasteful. It's nobody's intention that you should make use of everything, they just haven't found a way to make oackages and tubes that don't let anything go to waste.

Im a student Im not 'cheap' I just cant afford to buy a new bottle of ketchup or toothpaste every week. Try paying £290 a month in rent and then put utilities and food on top of that, when you have a yearly loan of £4000 and see how much you use out of a ketchup bottle before you throw it out.

I would probably skip an unnecessary luxury item like ketchup.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Both. i'll only buy certin products because they're a few cents cheaper than the competitor, but will not blink at spending an extra $10 on a "special edition" book or movie.

 

[Jark212]

I'm pretty cheap, I'll squeeze out the last drop of toothpaste and scrape out the last bit of Peanut Butter...

 

[fenderstrat]

i hate wasting stuff. why would i buy stuff and then throw it away?

 

[spartan231490]

in between, but closer to the cheap side. I'll work to get the whatever it is, out of it's container. However, I won't work all that hard at it. I don't like throwing away something i've paid for, but I wont spend 15 minutes trying to avoid it.

 

[jultub]

I see no point in throwing away the tube while there's still toothpaste in it

 

[Snor]

0.o don't let my grandma hear, she'll kill you by talking about the war for hours

actually lets turn this around: people who waste stuff when not needed are annoying

 

[Milo Windby]

It all depends on the product. Toothpast I will use to the very last drop, why? Why not?
Why not try and get all the toothpaste out and be able to use every bit of it?

If I am able to get as much out of the product as I can then I feel like I have paid good money for it.