What do you do with the last bit of soap?

[PTK]

Whenever I have a little piece of leftover soap, I take it down to the local foodbank. I used to donate it to Oxfam. I like helping charity. Every little bit helps make a better world.

 

[story]

Whenever I have a little piece of leftover soap, I take it down to the local foodbank. I used to donate it to Oxfam. I like helping charity. Every little bit helps make a better world.

Why do food banks or Oxfam want your old soap leftovers?



Eta

Aah, it’s a joke about the povs not having soap…. Gotcha.

 

[Spymaster]

Wet both bars of soap.

Try to make the old bar a bit squidgy

Use a nail brush or the edge of your thumb nail or something else to score lines in both bars of soap

Press the old bar against the flattest side of the new bar (Pears has a well in it, yeh? So I’d use that dip for this)

Use any loose soft soap to fill in the edges

Press any loose edges of the old soap against the new soap

Voila


It’s a bit like moulding with clay, a bit like filling with polyfilla


I’ve done that for years but right now I have a soap bag and just put all the soap into that, hang it up and let itndry between showers, wet it and the lather comes through the bag.

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Cheers

 

[PTK]

Why do food banks or Oxfam want your old soap leftovers?



Eta

Aah, it’s a joke about the povs not having soap…. Gotcha.

I am trying to satirise those patronising reprobates who think that people on low incomes should be grateful for any old rubbish that they "donate", and who bathe in a glow of satisfaction.

 

[story]

I am trying to satirise those patronising reprobates who think that people on low incomes should be grateful for any old rubbish that they "donate", and who bathe in a glow of satisfaction.

Do better then,

 

[Pickman's model]

Dissolve it in petrol to make improvised napalm.

it's that sort of practical advice which makes urban the wonderful place it is

 

[Siouxsie]

If you save a lot of the up and add them to glycerine and hot water, shake to mix well and put it into pump action bottles, it will keep for a couple of months without going mangy.....Voila! Home made liquid soap

I love Pears soap and use the Lemon flower extracts one in the green box, the smell is beautiful.

 

[story]

I am trying to satirise those patronising reprobates who think that people on low incomes should be grateful for any old rubbish that they "donate", and who bathe in a glow of satisfaction.

I’ve been in receipt of food bank food. There was plenty of good food in there, including basics and treats. I was sincerely, deeply, and humbly grateful for the donations made by those who had done so.

 

[PTK]

I’ve been in receipt of food bank food. There was plenty of good food in there, including basics and treats. I was sincerely, deeply, and humbly grateful for the donations made by those who had done so.

Yes, but there are people who donate all sorts of old rubbish to foodbanks and other charities, which the charities bin. These "doners" are outsourcing their rubbish disposal, but they think that they are doing something wonderful.

 

[story]

Yes, but there are people who donate all sorts of old rubbish to foodbanks and other charities, which the charities bin. These "doners" are outsourcing their rubbish disposal, but they think that they are doing something wonderful.

Yeh but yeh but…

Does it reassure you to know that none of these crappy old slivers of left over rubbish odds and sods ended up in my food donation? Perhaps you’ll be reassured to know that the people who work and volunteer at food banks go through everything to make sure only the good stuff end up in the donation boxes.


Your joke was shit.

If you want to make some kind of point about how buttons are put into collection trays and out of date food gets donated and how torn clobber is given to charity shops, go make a thread about it.

The mountains of stuff that gets donated after a disaster, plenty of that ends up in landfill. Lots of clothes donated end up in scrap bins or landfill.

It’s so well known that weeding that stuff out is part of the process. There’s plenty of systems dedicated to weeding out the rubbish. You carping about the drawbacks to charitable giving doesn’t make you the better person.

 

[andysays]

I thought this was going to be a teuchter thread, TBH.

Another vote for bin.

Urban75's lack of empathy for ordinary people who don't know what to do with the last bit of soap

(I chuck it down the toilet like xenon)

 

[ouirdeaux]

I manage to use it all. It's not really hard.

 

[Skinny Ethel]

And calm down.

 

[story]

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[kalidarkone]

When a bar of soap wears down to that useless small piece that you can't get to lather properly any more.

I use Pears soap which comes in boxes, so that last piece goes into the box that the new bar came out of and gets binned.

What do you do with it?

Shove it up my arse.

 

[Spymaster]

Shove it up my arse.

I've always had you down as that kinda girl, Kal

 

[kalidarkone]

I've always had you down as that kinda girl, Kal

 

[The39thStep]

Bin it

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Shove it up my arse.

Fragrant farts.

 

[VivaE]

I don't use bars of soap but if it's scented, it's good for keeping drawers smelling nice and fragrant. Just stick the leftover bits in a muslin/cotton bag.

 

[Duncan2]

Chuck it in the bin. My gran used to collect them and when she had enough squash them into a multi-coloured bar of soap.

My mother,94, still does this.i wonder if this practice began during a time of extreme shortages.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

My mother,94, still does this.i wonder if this practice began during a time of extreme shortages.

Almost certainly I'd guess. My gran was very frugal.

 

[maomao]

We have a stupid non draining soap tray that Mrs maomao won't get rid of because that would be like putting two quid in the bin or something. It does mean we never have this problem as the soap has invariably dissolved into the scummy mix at the bottom of the soap tray.

 

[nottsgirl]

I squish it onto the new bar? Easy. I do use the old soap right down to the end and use handmade soap so it’s quite squishy.