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From Marketwatch - Ways that you are probably wasting money
I do a lot of laundry. All too often, I go downstairs to find the laundry pile leaning like the Tower of Pisa. I also don’t have a lot of time. So because I’m lazy, and in an effort to save time, I end up just dumping laundry detergent into the washer willy-nilly — no measuring. I’ve told myself that I’m the one really special person on the planet that can accurately eyeball the amount of laundry detergent that needs to go into each load.
But sadly, I’m not. That’s just my inflated ego talking, trying to justify being lazy.
I don’t know how much laundry detergent I’ve wasted over the years by “eyeballing”, but I’m sure it’s a lot. And laundry detergent is expensive. Especially if you buy the fancy stuff like TidePG, +0.35% I don’t buy Tide (because I’d like to retire someday), but even the cheap laundry detergent is expensive. Don’t be like me — measure your detergent.
2. Throwing away bottles/tubes without getting the last bit of product out
You know what I’m talking about, right? Those squeeze tubes of lotion that no amount of squeezing will get that last little bit out of. Or those bottles of cleaning spray that never have an internal sprayer tube long enough to get the last few drops out of the bottom of the bottle.
Doesn’t that just fry your egg? There has to be a better design to allow you to use 100% of a product that you paid good money for. I think these manufacturers do it on purpose because they know suckers like me exist in the world.
Yep, suckers like me who will just throw the bottle of shampoo in the trash rather than try to squeeze it to death in the middle of my shower. That’s the old me, though. Nowadays, I cut, rip, squeeze, unscrew, and shake as much as I need to get every last drop out of those bottles. Sucker no more.
3. Throwing away leftover food
My husband and I have a tendency to forget leftovers are in the refrigerator. I also like to make lots of different meals during the week because I get sick of eating the same food every day. Combined, these two things make for a high risk of food waste because I either don’t feel like eating it or I forget it even exists.
This is something that I’m still working on. We throw away way too much food. I’m definitely a food lover (Food Network is my jam), so it’s hard for me to just view food as a fuel source and eat whatever is in the fridge if I don’t actually want to eat it. Our grocery bill is way outrageous right now, so I’m really going to have to work harder on this. It’s just food, right?
4. Using too many paper towels
This is more of a convenience thing. Also a laziness thing, which seems to be a recurring theme in this list.
Lately, I have started grabbing an actual towel in the morning and using it to clean up messes throughout the day. This is the alternative to using a new paper towel each time one of my kids spills milk, water, or whatever else he may be eating/drinking at the time. It all seems to end up on the floor eventually. Using a towel has worked out really well for me because it cleans and absorbs a lot better than some flimsy piece of dead tree. I’m not sure why doing this didn’t occur to me sooner. Habit, I guess? (Saves money and the environment)
5. Forgetting to return items that don’t fit or don’t work
Here’s a perfect example of this. I bought a pair of short
