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Do you ever dilute things to make them stretch that bit further? When I've used about a third of my shampoo bottle I fill it with water to the top and give it a good shake. Nobody's complained yet.
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I have been doing that trick with the shampoo for years greenmachine. I thought that I invented it...I don't believe I have actually ever told anyone about it. Maybe we all do it. I do the same with dish washing liquid (like Joy).
I have always extended the life of ketchup a bit longer by adding a bit of vinegar to get a few more shakes out of it. My mother always did this and I just figured that everyone else did it too.
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I'll be trying the ketchup one, micharch. With mustard bottles I'll add a little warm water towards the end of it to get that couple of extra squeezes. I didn't think about ketchup.
How much do you dilute the Joy with? Good thread, greenmachine. :)
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You can dilute conditioner the same as you would shampoo. I like the watered down version better. It doesn't make my hair too flat like it does when I use conditioner full strength. Thanks for the other tips! :)
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I have done this with juice from concentrate and the kids never seemed to notice,also have done this just a tad with soup,,too mch and its noticeable but just alittle,like to get a extra bowl from it,,worked fine for us.
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I saw a good one on the page Donna linked to about the laundry soap. It was for diluting fabric softener. It sounds like it would last forever!
Container of Name Brand Fabric Softener
4 Inexpensive sponges, cut in half
Pour entire container of softener into a 5 gallon bucket. Fill empty softener container with water twice. (2 parts water to 1 part softener) Add sponges to softener/water mixture. When ready to use wring out extra mixture from one sponge and add to the dryer as you would a dryer sheet.
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I have done this with juice from concentrate and the kids never seemed to notice,also have done this just a tad with soup,,too mch and its noticeable but just alittle,like to get a extra bowl from it,,worked fine for us.
Dilute with milk when you're diluting it for anything like cream of mushroom or cream of chicken. It's not as noticeable as water in any "cream of" soups and you can get away with adding more. I love milk in cream of tomato soup.
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I saw a good one on the page Donna linked to about the laundry soap. It was for diluting fabric softener. It sounds like it would last forever!
Container of Name Brand Fabric Softener
4 Inexpensive sponges, cut in half
Pour entire container of softener into a 5 gallon bucket. Fill empty softener container with water twice. (2 parts water to 1 part softener) Add sponges to softener/water mixture. When ready to use wring out extra mixture from one sponge and add to the dryer as you would a dryer sheet.
That's got to work out cheaper than buying the dryer sheets. Well spotted, cookiefan. :)
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I do the same with dish washing liquid (like Joy).
I'm even more frugal than that with dish detergent, micharch. ;) I rinse off all the sticky stuff that accumulates around the neck of it with hot water into the basin. It works just as well as if I'd squeezed it in. :)
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I have done this with juice from concentrate and the kids never seemed to notice,also have done this just a tad with soup,,too mch and its noticeable but just alittle,like to get a extra bowl from it,,worked fine for us.
I do that with juice from concentrate too. It's got to be better for their teeth as well as my pocket. My mom used to dilute milk to make it go further when she was cooking or use dried milk instead.
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I like the foam soap and it's kinda expensive and you go through it quickly so I found out that if you save the foam containers like from Bath and Body Works and find and kind of good hand soap and dilute it about 50% it will foam too! Has to be diluted or it won't foam.
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That's a great tip. I've not bought the foaming soap much because it was too expensive. The cost gets diluted too when I can do that. Thank you BB2010. Welcome to savingtools!
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I bought a refurbished carpet shampooer and am diluting the shampoo by about a third. It appears to be cleaning it just fine!
I do that with glass cleaner for the windows. I haven't noticed it being any less effective. I wait until it's about three quarters of the way down before diluting. I hate the smell too. A weaker version's not so obnoxious.