Good to the last drop – if you can get it out
Okay, I’m not the most frugal guy in the world. It’s mostly a time thing. Seems I’m also not the most patient guy in the world either. I generally don’t have the willpower to shop endlessly for the lowest price, wait until I see things on sale, or buy things and store them until I need them.
But I can relate to the subject of this video – getting that last little bit of stuff out of a package. It’s not so much that I want to economize to that degree by investing a lot of time getting the last drop out. It’s really more about the aggravation of the whole dispensing process slowing down to a crawl (or an “ooze” more accurately) just because of the limitations of modern packaging.
It kind of reminds me of something I read about airplanes. Their specifications show their fuel capacity as two separate figures — fuel capacity, and USEABLE fuel capacity. Seems that airplane fuel tanks, like toothpaste tubes and peanut-butter jars, have a certain amount of stuff that can’t be accessed.
Maybe we need to apply that principle to product labeling – list the net weight, and “useable weight,” or something like that?
Meanwhile, we’ll have to rely on handy tips like the tireless band of professional nerds at Consumer Reports offer here. Enjoy!
Toothpaste-tube photo by alles-schlumpf
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Patsy commented:
In the copmlicaetd world we live in, it's good to find simple solutions.
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