At 25 I lived in a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom house with 13 people in a beach town and chuckled to myself about how people waste so much money on having a house all to their own when they could be having so much fun, surrounded by friends every day. Sorry 25 year old me… I enjoy quiet, peeing indoors and not fighting over power usage and who left their dishes laying around.
If you are into peeing a lot of free content
I own a house, car, etc and I still make sure that I get every last drop of shampoo out of the bottle. Not saying that is how you save enough for down payment but just that they aren’t mutually exclusive.
The only thing that it indicates is that you’re not wasteful.
But i’m thinking if you cry about it, the meaning is pretty clear.
I’m even designing a 3D printed jig so I can securely connect any two bottles and let gravity do the work overnight.
“Own” is a very tricky word, when paired with “Down Payment”
Same. I still believe “if you take care of the pennies the dollars take care of themselves” of course, that implies the ownership of dollars, which some do not have, so this wisdom does not always translate completely.
My friend, Target has a knockoff Dove body wash for $2. Tell them to go fuck themselves.
$5.49, but who’s counting?
I stopped using soap at 13 and I’m a trillionaire.
Trickle some of that down please
Sounds like the only thing he’s trickling down is mucus
What exactly is that poorly drawn mouse-like creature actually doing, and why?
Running a small amount of water into a nearly empty bottle of shampoo (or body wash, etc.) allows you to get the last little bit out of the bottle. It’s basically an austerity measure, a sign that a person is stretching every dollar.
That’s Jerry from Tom and Jerry
Why would you become a cartoon mouse at 25?
puberty
At least I have chicken.
God dammit leroy
It’s not my fault!
Oh yes the American way of throwing away that last 2-3% of soap to feel rich
I just can’t figure out why top opening or pump based soaps can’t just have a bottom opening spout instead. simple design issue resolves waste, good for everyone involved.
Flip the bottle upside down in the shower caddy.
I do, but even then if you’ve got a pump bodywash you have to deal with unscrewing the shit and waiting. it’s a shit design.
If this doesn’t work. Close the lid, and throw it at the ground but don’t let go.
All the liquid will “throw” itself at the cap inside the bottle. Works for everything thinner than toothpaste.
Because that would mean less money for the brand
I once read (ages ago, can’t find the source now) that it is deliberate - because with mass produced consumer goods such as shower gel or body lotion etc. if you throw away the last 2-3 uses because they are too hard to get out of the bottle, you will buy earlier and hence more of their product. They give you effectively less than you pay for, and it adds up for them. And they get away with it because it’s your choice to rather buy a new bottle for convenience. So of course, it’s again because corporations are only interested in cutting corners to give you the minimum viable product possible.
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Get a decent refillable pump and buy soap refills instead of dispensers. Problem solved
Aesthetics I guess
lol no, those decisions are 100% profit driven.
Yep
Tbf, it’s entirely possible you’re both right and the reason is “this bottle sells better because it looks nice”
right, but “looks nice” only becomes a consideration when you’re trying to sell a brand, rather then provide a good product. If they were trying to sell a good product, they would definitely put a pump at the bottom so that you can get all of the product out with ease to use the example from th thread, but they don’t not because of how it looks (even if it was a barrier, they would just engineer it to look more “appealing” like they do everything else), but because they want it to be hard to get all of the product out, so that you buy a new one without having used it all. Because profit.
Ding, ding and another ding. I am shocked that people give corps still the benefit of doubt, and assume it’s because of “nicer looks”.
The point I was trying to make was “because profit”. I was just trying to say it was plausible that some asshat in marketing said that design would sell better for appearance reasons as well. That’s not benefit of the doubt, that’s just a different way of being profit over product.
Edit - top opening bottles tend to be taller and thinner than bottom opening for balance reasons. A certain subset of consumers are gonna assume taller bottle means more product and buy it. So there you go-a possible profit driven aesthetic reason. There was literally a post here the other day with Coke cans doing essentially the same fucking thing.
My favorite was that time I was making enough to afford the payments on a mortgage but they wouldn’t give me a mortgage because my credit score wasn’t good enough and they were worried I couldn’t make the payments even though I provided the income information that showed I could totally make the payments because fuck me for being young I guess.
So instead I spent years paying way more to rent, preventing me from saving up enough to buy much of anything.
