are you one of those people who starts a new jar/tub before the old one is finished?

[Orang Utan]

Do you shake pasta round a jar of pesto to get the last bits out?

yeah, and with butter too

 

[tarannau]

Frankly you're all as weird and unbalanced as each other*. If someone's opened an additional packet/jar/tin open I'll just eat both without the histrionics and deep concerns <shrugs>

* Mr 9 open toothpastes excepted

 

[Orang Utan]

Frankly you're all as weird and unbalanced as each other*. If someone's opened an additional packet/jar/tin open I'll just eat both without the histrionics and deep concerns <shrugs>

* Mr 9 open toothpastes excepted

my fridge is too full - we need space!

 

[sheothebudworths]

Do you shake pasta round a jar of pesto to get the last bits out?

Oh yes!

Same goes for mayo - dump whatever potato/salad/pasta you're attempting to coat in it into the jar and give it a quick swill!

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

yeah, and with butter too

What?

You shake bits of pasta round a tub of butter? Or bits of toast? Or what?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Frankly you're all as weird and unbalanced as each other*. If someone's opened an additional packet/jar/tin open I'll just eat both without the histrionics and deep concerns <shrugs>

* Mr 9 open toothpastes excepted

I'll bet you're the type of person who leaves empty milk cartons in the fridge as well! *shakes fist*

 

[kyser_soze]

I have to be careful of eating too much glass in my attempts to get the last out of a jar.

This thread is actually offensive in it's suggestion there are people (other than vintage paw) who do this regularly.

 

[sheothebudworths]

I'm never, ever speaking to Vintage Paw again.

 

[gentlegreen]

My dad used to put stale cornflakes on a tray in a low oven.

My big dilemma is tahini - I end up hoarding "empty" jars - with the intention of coming up with some way of consolidating the remnants - but I always end up putting them outside and let the slugs clean them out before I put them in the recycling.

 

[kyser_soze]

Drowning kittens in a sack is less offensive than this kind of behaviour.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I've just squeezed and squeezed and squeezed the last squirt of toothpaste out of the tube despite a new one sitting there looking temptingly new and waiting to be used.I insist on using all the little tiny bits of broken soap as well

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

my flatmate does this and it REALLY fucks me off. he's currently got 3 bottles of ketchup in the fridge on rotation.


thank fuck im moving out soon.

 

[Badgers]

Never, it is shameful.

 

[kyser_soze]

my flatmate does this and it REALLY fucks me off. he's currently got 3 bottles of ketchup in the fridge on rotation.


thank fuck im moving out soon.

You know you have to empty all three onto him/his possession/his bed/his girlfriend before you leave, don't you?

 

[idioteque]

Heavens, no.

 

[Orang Utan]

What?

You shake bits of pasta round a tub of butter? Or bits of toast? Or what?

pasta - if it just needs a bit of butter adding to it, i swirl it round the tub first for a light coating

 

[gentlegreen]

.. or baked potato

 

[Idaho]

Ms Idaho is a shocker for opening new things. It's pretty much restricted to toothpaste, shampoo and jams/pickles though.

I finish old things, not out of frugality, but out of an obsessive need to 'complete' the old thing before moving on.

 

[mrsfran]

I save the paper from pats of butter to grease tins, but that's it. I really don't care about having to use the last of the jar. So what? You're saving a few pence, maximum. Over a year it might add up to, ooooh, £5. I'll take that hit.

 

[Biddlybee]

I hold my hands up, I do it out of frugality... I've paid for it I'm gonna finish it!

 

[Orang Utan]

I save the paper from pats of butter to grease tins, but that's it. I really don't care about having to use the last of the jar. So what? You're saving a few pence, maximum. Over a year it might add up to, ooooh, £5. I'll take that hit.

what paper from pats of butter?
i don't do it to save money. i do it because it has never occurred to me not to use all i can. when i've finished a tub, i go and buy another.

 

[tarannau]

I get pats, but what are these tubs of butter everyone's on about? My butter comes wrapped in paper like?

 

[Orang Utan]

i use anchor spreadable for pasta and toast

 

[Orang Utan]

I get pats, but what are these tubs of butter everyone's on about? My butter comes wrapped in paper like?

what's a pat?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Ms Idaho is a shocker for opening new things. It's pretty much restricted to toothpaste, shampoo and jams/pickles though.

Understandable if they're all different, but if they're all the same make....

 

[Vintage Paw]

my flatmate does this and it REALLY fucks me off. he's currently got 3 bottles of ketchup in the fridge on rotation.


thank fuck im moving out soon.

I think I've only got 2 ketchups on the go at the moment. 2 squeezy mayos too. Oh, and 2 nutellas. And the 2 loo rolls I mentioned earlier - although Mr Paw has just been to the loo, so depending on what he had to do one may be gone now.

 

[Orang Utan]

what did he do? tell him the internet wants to know

 

[mrsfran]

The paper wrapping from a block of butter. When butter does not come in a tub, it comes wrapped in paper. That paper. I save it. It is useful for greasing pans.

 

[Orang Utan]

ah right, thought you meant those weeny things you get in hotels

 

[mrsfran]

You could use those too, for ramekins.

Shower caps from hotels are also useful for covering a bowl in which bread is proving. Hotels: a source of culinary usefulness.