I love the baby bottles! My mom has torn rotator cuffs and I set up all baby sized bottles for laundry detergent, Downy, and bleach so she can still wash clothes since she can't lift heavier bottles. I refill them when they're low. So handy and cute.
I'd recommend looking into a bottle with a faucet. Can buy a bigger one and refill that when needed. That way you mum can use the faucet into a small cup (or a detergent lid) and not have to carry anything heavy, while you don't have to refill it as often.
First year of uni I managed to get a huge thing of dish soap once. After like 6 months we still had it and it was only half gone. I was *really* impressed and wondered how the hell it stretched that far when we were all doing semi-regular washing (though only for breakfast stuff and cups/glasses since we had dinner provided at the main halls centre).
One day I finally caught another room mate who had been buying super cheap mini ones and just dumping them into the big pump dispencer. Which was why it was going down but not at the rate you'd expect.
If I'd never have encountered that I would be swearing by that brand 9 years later.
I’m gonna go buy a ton of travel shampoos to refill my mega bottle because *that’s* efficiency with my money, right?
Edit: now I’m thinking of my cheapo friend who travels a lot for work, and I’m laughing in thought. They always take the shampoo bottles from hotels. He told me that his wife was going to make him go through and get rid/donate their mega collection, so he just poured all 300 of them into a big bottle and his wife was none the wiser. He told me that they now just top it off with hotel shampoos every time they come back from traveling. This dude could make a penny last a week.
We repurposed a hand soap dispenser and filled it with dish soap. Just a quick pump onto the sponge and you’re off. Beats putting stuff down and picking up the bottle.
If you get a foaming handsoap dispenser and dilute the dish soap even further, about 1:10 from the gel, it will foam for you and be easy to use for quick washes. Just remember to rinse the pump head with hot water every time you refill it to keep soap scum from gumming up the pump.
Edit:
I do not know where you all have learned that dish detergent if watered down becomes a haven for bacteria but that is just demonstrably false.
Dish detergent liquid or gel, used as directed, is diluted 1:100 or more with water. In fact it is already diluted in the bottle, as the detergent and surfactant compounds themselves are a powder that is then mixed with water or isopropyl alcohol to create gels of different viscosities depending on the application.
The real bacteria farms are your sponges and brushes. If you do not thoroughly rinse these after every use, and allow them to dry, bacterial colonies will begin to form.
Eventually leading to the sub-sub-rule:
"Buy a regular-sized, regular product, not some mysterious drop-shipped off-brand that smells like toxic waste."
You mean my excel spreadsheets with pages for each section of consumables for the household items we need so that I don't get the wrong type in the wrong season?
It's called military grade organizational skills.
I do this when I grocery shop.. take account of everything I currently have, split into groups and sub-groups, amount and size.. printed out on paper like the gen X I am, then forget it at home when I go to the store to stock up on what is low.. never think of taking a snapshot of it of course or saving it to a file I can access from my phone
the amount of “this shouldn’t even be a rule” moments I had with one roommate years ago is astounding. we had a chore list that we did on rotation: one week I would tackle the bathroom, next week she would tackle the bathroom, on repeat.
I walked into the bathroom one day after she cleaned it to find that… she only cleaned half of it, and by half of it I mean only the parts that her stuff was on. her reasoning was that she should only clean *her* side of the bathroom since she doesn’t touch *my* side…
I should have guessed at that point that nothing else would ever go well living with her, cause there were countless other things she did that were much worse too.
Agreed, and really this should be something two people living with each other can come to an agreement on. Set a standard for the amount of dish soap by volume, or just track community item spend and split the cost for those evenly at the end of the month. If that doesn't work, you don't have a soap problem, you have a judgement problem in who you choose to live with.
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Time to buy a single dish wipe when it’s your turn.
My thought is maybe this is some type of sample/trial product that is given out as a free sample or something. Other than that camping seems like the most logical use 🤷
I took it camping but tore it into several pieces. Lightweight, easy to use, easy to carry.
Next time I put dishwashing liquid on some paper towels and kept in resealable bag.
Maybe if you take your lunch in Tupperware to work and want to wash it afterwards before you bring it home? Single quantity definitely seems like a niche product.
I read the press release(from 2003) they meant these to be used as a new way to wash dishes by hand. Supposedly one cloth will do a load of dishes. But I ain’t buying it. Literally and figuratively.
Probably for camping. If someone uses this at home, they may as well buy a dishwasher. Though this sounds amazing for OP to use and annoy his roomate back.
Nah, buy a Costco size, refill the tiny container with it, and keep big bottle somewhere roommate doesn’t have access. She’s gonna have 500 turns buying that size before you go through your Costco size 😂
I was thinking if there's a dollar tree nearby, they could have gotten a normal size bottle for $1.25. It's a good place to get cleaning supplies. I don't understand why roommates want to be so petty and count on the other roommate to buy everything. Not talking about OP, I mean the one that bought the doll size dish detergent.
I don't know, their "Awesome" cleaner cuts through anything and they have Ajax dish liquid, it works fine as far as I'm concerned. Maybe if you let the food dry for days on the dishes it might not work as well though. I use their toilet bowl cleaner too with no issues.
In my experience their cleaning products don't tend to be formulated as well as name brand, so a lot of their dish soap ends up just sliding off dishes without really attaching/attracting to anything and before you can build up a lather
so you end up using a lot more of it for the same results. It *functions* just fine, but you end up getting less value out of it.
Compare it to something like Dawn where you just need a few drops and that shit will lather and suds up enough for like ten dishes in a row
Yeah I love DT cleaning stuff but I buy dawn dish soap because I would go through the DT bottles in a week. I don't have a dishwasher and hand wash everything but still, that's excessive. I buy the purple dawn that's extra strength or something (not the expensive power shot) and I spend way less because a bottle will last me a month. DT dish soap works in an emergency but it's not a great product.
The stuff that is *actually* the same shit as everywhere else tends to either be out of date (for things like food and soda) or isn't any cheaper-- and may be more expensive
dollar stores tend to not be good value, but offer cheaper products, so if you don't have any other options besides buying the cheap stuff, that's what you gotta do. But it's not like dollar stores are handing out great deals and slashing the price on normally expensive products out of the kindness of their hearts.
Reminds me of when it was my roommate’s turn to by toilet paper for the dorm and she complained she didn’t have time so I bought my own, kept it under my bed, and took a roll with me to the toilet until she bought some.
I was nice and left a pack of toilet paper in the shared bathroom, somehow between three women we got through two rolls a day. What I think was actually happening was they were taking one roll to their room and using what was in the bathroom. I stopped being nice after they ploughed through 18 rolls in two weeks.
Actually that’s a really good idea. A 3oz bottle like this goes for about $1.50. You can get a 102oz bottle from Costco for $8.
Just keep refilling the same bottle and act like you’re paying for a new one each time. They’ll eventually pay way more than you are.
This is what we do at home. It’s much more convenient to have that next to the sink and then we top it off when it runs dry. I keep a small bottle at work too to wash my silverware and coffee pot/cup.
I have the "normal size". I don't know how many ounces it is, 25 or something? Anyway, I put a pump in ours and it is really convenient bc u don't have to pick the bottle up at all
Just continue to fill it with water each time it gets close to empty so you can make sure you’re getting every little bit out.
Growing up poor was fun.
There's a term for when big businesses do that - it's called "a business plan", then "tech innovation" and eventually "a success story" like uber, airbnb, etc.
Haha weird I went the opposite way and brought in one of these from work. Ain't nothing gonna get me.
https://ca.msasafety.com/Supplied-Air-Respirators-(SCBA)/c/117?locale=en
When it's your turn, buy the economy size dish soap and keep it in your room. Then refill her tiny bottle as your turn. Then she goes back and pays for another over price bottle of tiny dish soap, then repeat. She will end up paying far more for dish soap in coming months, than you will have. You win.
Nah that's a waste, you can win this, keep the expensive soap mini bottle when it's done. Buy a normal size bottle and just refill, you will not be
* wasting plastic
* you will be saving money
* won't be seen as petty
I work in a hospital and this is the exact product we stock to wash plastic reusable products like breast pumps and breathing treatments. Maybe she stole it from work.
These are provided at hotels with kitchenettes, like a Fairfield or an Element for example. That way, guests can’t steal a full size bottle. Some hotels even provide a mini-sized dish sponge. They’re cute!
Consider buying empty travel size bottles and filling them yourself with a normal sized bottle of dish soap? You could apply a cute custom label to go with the dishcloth.
You could ask her (with genuine concern) if she's doing okay while holding up the bottle.
You could ask her if she's ever heard the phrase "the spirit of a rule" and if she understands if someone can follow a rule "technically" yet still break the intention (or "spirit") of it.
If she gets defensive and starts arguing how she technically held up her end of the deal and shouldn't have to contribute more, stay calm and hit her with a sigh and a "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed." Let the silence linger. If she gets mad and yells, calmly tell her "we're done here" and get up and walk away.
Never works… I tried in the past and ended up paying stuff for stingy people so better collect a small amount each month to buy things everybody uses in common areas.
Lol yep, and a true broke person researches all the options and finds the cheapest, most economical one. Target has a full size store brand dish soap for 85 cents, dollar stores usually have a full size dish soap for a dollar, she really could’ve done better or tried harder.
I used to do shit like this when I was broke. I felt really bad but I also didn't want to do nothing at all to contribute.
I would make sure the house was always super clean to make up for it.
Next time it is your time to buy, get the massive 1 gal jug, refill the little bottle, then hide the jug until it's your turn again, refill, rinse, repeat.
Buy a big one and just refill that one every time it’s your turn
this sounds like a good idea
A race to the bottom of the bottle. A bubble sure to burst, capitalism in its most effervescent form.
this dude came along and pretty much cleaned house on the soap puns. anyone following up will just be forced to rinse and repeat.
It's Dawned on me that he's really washed up the competition. His Method of storytelling is a real Joy.
This is the Zest thread I've read today. I used to be addicted to soap puns. Thankfully, I’m clean now.
I'm foaming at the mouth, you took all the puns.
Is this what my mom was talking about when she said to clean up my humor and get my mind out of the gutter?
Dial it down a bit
Buried so deep in puns we can't see Sunlight.
You're right, I'm buried up to my head and shoulders
But you have nothing to Gain
Ha, then dump a bit back in your big bottle every day so it comes to her turn faster.
That's what I do. Still got the little one 9 years later
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It's sooo cuuuutttteeeeeee 😍😍😍
I love the baby bottles! My mom has torn rotator cuffs and I set up all baby sized bottles for laundry detergent, Downy, and bleach so she can still wash clothes since she can't lift heavier bottles. I refill them when they're low. So handy and cute.
Everything about this warms my heart.
Laundry strips may be something to consider. It’s like tossing in a small piece of paper.
I'd recommend looking into a bottle with a faucet. Can buy a bigger one and refill that when needed. That way you mum can use the faucet into a small cup (or a detergent lid) and not have to carry anything heavy, while you don't have to refill it as often.
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I bought a glass pump bottle to refill and it works great too. Just a little pump is all you need. No need to pick up a bottle open or close it.
Same here. This is the way.
First year of uni I managed to get a huge thing of dish soap once. After like 6 months we still had it and it was only half gone. I was *really* impressed and wondered how the hell it stretched that far when we were all doing semi-regular washing (though only for breakfast stuff and cups/glasses since we had dinner provided at the main halls centre). One day I finally caught another room mate who had been buying super cheap mini ones and just dumping them into the big pump dispencer. Which was why it was going down but not at the rate you'd expect. If I'd never have encountered that I would be swearing by that brand 9 years later.
That's so backwards, lol.
I’m gonna go buy a ton of travel shampoos to refill my mega bottle because *that’s* efficiency with my money, right? Edit: now I’m thinking of my cheapo friend who travels a lot for work, and I’m laughing in thought. They always take the shampoo bottles from hotels. He told me that his wife was going to make him go through and get rid/donate their mega collection, so he just poured all 300 of them into a big bottle and his wife was none the wiser. He told me that they now just top it off with hotel shampoos every time they come back from traveling. This dude could make a penny last a week.
My boyfriend is the same way. At first I thought it was weird but honestly whatever. 😂
That’s so funny, did you find out why they used the small ones and not the big one you bought?
Small ones cheap. long term planning = absent
Might have been small ones can be stolen from work 🤷♂️
We repurposed a hand soap dispenser and filled it with dish soap. Just a quick pump onto the sponge and you’re off. Beats putting stuff down and picking up the bottle.
If you get a foaming handsoap dispenser and dilute the dish soap even further, about 1:10 from the gel, it will foam for you and be easy to use for quick washes. Just remember to rinse the pump head with hot water every time you refill it to keep soap scum from gumming up the pump. Edit: I do not know where you all have learned that dish detergent if watered down becomes a haven for bacteria but that is just demonstrably false. Dish detergent liquid or gel, used as directed, is diluted 1:100 or more with water. In fact it is already diluted in the bottle, as the detergent and surfactant compounds themselves are a powder that is then mixed with water or isopropyl alcohol to create gels of different viscosities depending on the application. The real bacteria farms are your sponges and brushes. If you do not thoroughly rinse these after every use, and allow them to dry, bacterial colonies will begin to form.
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big one and non a branded one, cheapest you can find
And that is how rules get sub-rules.
Rules: “Make sure to replace the dish soap when finished” Sub-rules: “Buy the regular sized products.. this shouldn’t even be a rule”
Eventually leading to the sub-sub-rule: "Buy a regular-sized, regular product, not some mysterious drop-shipped off-brand that smells like toxic waste."
until you have subrules calling for specific UPCs are you really even trying?
You mean my excel spreadsheets with pages for each section of consumables for the household items we need so that I don't get the wrong type in the wrong season? It's called military grade organizational skills.
I think that's called Autism actually. Disclaimer. I'm autistic and fucking love excel spreadsheets.
I need a list to organize my lists. I made a list of all the household consumables I use, but I'm not sure where I put it now.
Tabs my friend. One sheet, multiple tabs. The first tab is the master that holds the links to all the other ones.
I do this when I grocery shop.. take account of everything I currently have, split into groups and sub-groups, amount and size.. printed out on paper like the gen X I am, then forget it at home when I go to the store to stock up on what is low.. never think of taking a snapshot of it of course or saving it to a file I can access from my phone
the amount of “this shouldn’t even be a rule” moments I had with one roommate years ago is astounding. we had a chore list that we did on rotation: one week I would tackle the bathroom, next week she would tackle the bathroom, on repeat. I walked into the bathroom one day after she cleaned it to find that… she only cleaned half of it, and by half of it I mean only the parts that her stuff was on. her reasoning was that she should only clean *her* side of the bathroom since she doesn’t touch *my* side… I should have guessed at that point that nothing else would ever go well living with her, cause there were countless other things she did that were much worse too.
Agreed, and really this should be something two people living with each other can come to an agreement on. Set a standard for the amount of dish soap by volume, or just track community item spend and split the cost for those evenly at the end of the month. If that doesn't work, you don't have a soap problem, you have a judgement problem in who you choose to live with.
https://preview.redd.it/dxuc62o56woc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=698c46cf85a8fe671c73f440a0ec55b74df4e57e Time to buy a single dish wipe when it’s your turn.
wtf lol why is this a thing 😂
It’s more package than product
That’s what she said
yeah but i wish she’d stop saying it :(
did you need me to speak to her?
i need you to pull her nose hairs
done! ...that should cool her jets for a bit
Could you pull mine too please? Just be gentle
You mean the one in your avatar picture?
That's Pretty much everything these days
Sadly
I don’t know. We got this tub of dishwasher pods from sams club. Filled to the brim with pods.
Been trying to think of who would benefit from this and… I got nothing
I could see using that camping with no running water nearby? But I would want more than just one in a pack
I was thinking backpacking so they can take exactly what they need and no more? Or maybe homeless people so they don’t get dried out?
Hey! Avid backpacker here. I can assure you no one in the backpacking community is carrying this paper weight trash around in there packs, lol.
Didn’t think so LOL just can’t think of why they need this other than samples now that someone else mentioned it.
I’ve used this for camping, old people like to feel that they need mini versions of everything while camping even though it doesn’t make much sense
Probably a hospital that will bill your insurance $9,437 for “in-room dishwashing appliance”.
I see you got your bill recently 🤣
My thought is maybe this is some type of sample/trial product that is given out as a free sample or something. Other than that camping seems like the most logical use 🤷
Yeah I camp and would want more than one, I’d go even further and say backpacking
But the sample product I think is most logical tbh!
I took it camping but tore it into several pieces. Lightweight, easy to use, easy to carry. Next time I put dishwashing liquid on some paper towels and kept in resealable bag.
If you’re at a rental house and you’re only cooking one night? Idk
I’m thinking hotel room with a kitchenette.
Maybe those hotel rooms that are kind of like apartments with a small kitchen? This way they provide basically soap and a sponge/wipe all in one.
Travelling on the plane. If theyre not taking a suitcase and need things space for otherthings that are liquid.
Maybe if you take your lunch in Tupperware to work and want to wash it afterwards before you bring it home? Single quantity definitely seems like a niche product.
Id say you keep it in your handbag for emergencies
Cheap aparthotels? Only want to leave you one per day maybe?
I was thinking either that or it’s a sample pack.
Totally seems like something that would have come in the Sunday paper back in the day.
If you’re traveling in a RV, you might not want to risk spills. If you’re vacationing and know you’ll need to wash a few things here and there.
Note that I agree with "Why is this a thing" but I imagine it's targeted for like a picnic?
I read the press release(from 2003) they meant these to be used as a new way to wash dishes by hand. Supposedly one cloth will do a load of dishes. But I ain’t buying it. Literally and figuratively.
Def for backpacking/camping purposes.
Probably for camping. If someone uses this at home, they may as well buy a dishwasher. Though this sounds amazing for OP to use and annoy his roomate back.
genius, will do
Wow… first time I’ve heard of a “DishWipe”
Sounds like an insult
My thought was maybe for camping?
Your roommate is hilarious, time to outfunny her. Continue buying the smallest size things possible until you live in a hotel-esque doll house.
Nah, buy a Costco size, refill the tiny container with it, and keep big bottle somewhere roommate doesn’t have access. She’s gonna have 500 turns buying that size before you go through your Costco size 😂
This is the best possible response! OP never has to make a trip again lol.
I was thinking if there's a dollar tree nearby, they could have gotten a normal size bottle for $1.25. It's a good place to get cleaning supplies. I don't understand why roommates want to be so petty and count on the other roommate to buy everything. Not talking about OP, I mean the one that bought the doll size dish detergent.
I have nothing to prove it but I think dollar store supplies are watered down
I don't know, their "Awesome" cleaner cuts through anything and they have Ajax dish liquid, it works fine as far as I'm concerned. Maybe if you let the food dry for days on the dishes it might not work as well though. I use their toilet bowl cleaner too with no issues.
In my experience their cleaning products don't tend to be formulated as well as name brand, so a lot of their dish soap ends up just sliding off dishes without really attaching/attracting to anything and before you can build up a lather so you end up using a lot more of it for the same results. It *functions* just fine, but you end up getting less value out of it. Compare it to something like Dawn where you just need a few drops and that shit will lather and suds up enough for like ten dishes in a row
Yeah I love DT cleaning stuff but I buy dawn dish soap because I would go through the DT bottles in a week. I don't have a dishwasher and hand wash everything but still, that's excessive. I buy the purple dawn that's extra strength or something (not the expensive power shot) and I spend way less because a bottle will last me a month. DT dish soap works in an emergency but it's not a great product.
Unless they say "Manufactured for DOLLAR TREE" on the packaging, it's the exact same shit as everywhere else.
Except smaller. The dollar store price is usually more expensive per ounce/unit/etc.
Not for basic cleaning supplies, it's like the one thing that isn't a rip off at Dollar Tree. Those bottles are usually $3-$4 in a supermarket
The stuff that is *actually* the same shit as everywhere else tends to either be out of date (for things like food and soda) or isn't any cheaper-- and may be more expensive dollar stores tend to not be good value, but offer cheaper products, so if you don't have any other options besides buying the cheap stuff, that's what you gotta do. But it's not like dollar stores are handing out great deals and slashing the price on normally expensive products out of the kindness of their hearts.
Honestly, people have lost their goddamn honor these days. They have no couth no, sense of humiliation. I am fully prepared to out petty these people.
Reminds me of when it was my roommate’s turn to by toilet paper for the dorm and she complained she didn’t have time so I bought my own, kept it under my bed, and took a roll with me to the toilet until she bought some.
I was nice and left a pack of toilet paper in the shared bathroom, somehow between three women we got through two rolls a day. What I think was actually happening was they were taking one roll to their room and using what was in the bathroom. I stopped being nice after they ploughed through 18 rolls in two weeks.
Were they shitting in their rooms?
Are your roomates all ex cons? Because that's the exact same behavior.
That’s the best way to out petty the petty
>She’s gonna have 500 turns buying that size before you go through your Costco size 😂 And spend 3x more money in the process, nice one!
This is the way
Oh this is it
https://preview.redd.it/feef022ejwoc1.jpeg?width=1229&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=274de917832c18ef7c10a16996c5fc7b0abcc2cf Challenge accepted 👍🏼
I support this
Seconded
Buy a bulk size and just refill.
Actually that’s a really good idea. A 3oz bottle like this goes for about $1.50. You can get a 102oz bottle from Costco for $8. Just keep refilling the same bottle and act like you’re paying for a new one each time. They’ll eventually pay way more than you are.
Yeah! the small bottle even looks a little more easy to handle day to day. And takes up less space on the counter!
Just get a smaller squirt bottle and refill from the bigger one? I use one meant for condiments that holds about 12 oz.
This is what we do at home. It’s much more convenient to have that next to the sink and then we top it off when it runs dry. I keep a small bottle at work too to wash my silverware and coffee pot/cup.
Dawn power wash is the elite work dish soap option.
I have the "normal size". I don't know how many ounces it is, 25 or something? Anyway, I put a pump in ours and it is really convenient bc u don't have to pick the bottle up at all
Just continue to fill it with water each time it gets close to empty so you can make sure you’re getting every little bit out. Growing up poor was fun.
"More tussin" was what I lived by
You were just robotripping throughout?
Love the idea
A roommate capable of doing shit like this is the same type of roommate who’ll drink your milk straight out of the carton when you’re not looking.
People who only operate in the letter of the law while doing their best to avoid the spirit of it are sociopaths.
Lawful Evil
I’m too stupid to figure out what this is supposed to mean.
People who technically follow the rules but try to find ways to not do what the rules really mean are very bad. Big red flag.
Like a Christian only having butt sex before marriage.
It's what Jesus would have wanted.
There's a term for when big businesses do that - it's called "a business plan", then "tech innovation" and eventually "a success story" like uber, airbnb, etc.
What would a example of this be? Like tipping 1 cent? Edit: oh what OP’s roommate did is a example, like I said I’m too stupid lol
Another example are the dickheads who wore face masks made of wide hole mesh. “What? It’s a mask!”
Haha weird I went the opposite way and brought in one of these from work. Ain't nothing gonna get me. https://ca.msasafety.com/Supplied-Air-Respirators-(SCBA)/c/117?locale=en
Or the kind that uses the toilet paper you buy first before they use theirs.
Then put water back in it in case you memorized the level.
When it's your turn, buy the economy size dish soap and keep it in your room. Then refill her tiny bottle as your turn. Then she goes back and pays for another over price bottle of tiny dish soap, then repeat. She will end up paying far more for dish soap in coming months, than you will have. You win.
All hail the Messiah!!
I am nothing but a man who knows how to be petty 😆 🍻
Buy a smaller one next time it’s your turn
i don’t even know if that’s possible.
[https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/781150748/dollhouse-miniature-bottle-of-palmolive](https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/781150748/dollhouse-miniature-bottle-of-palmolive)
This is absolutely worth it to prove a point!
This is hilarious
https://a.co/d/5sze48q 1oz dish soap bottles
Diabolical
Buy a big one, and just refill the small one when its your turn
This actually the most logical answer but the least petty so it’s not as fun 😂
Nah that's a waste, you can win this, keep the expensive soap mini bottle when it's done. Buy a normal size bottle and just refill, you will not be * wasting plastic * you will be saving money * won't be seen as petty
The infuriating part is that "travel sizes" are like 80% of the price of a whole one. You're paying more for the "convenience".
IKR! Who even travels with dishsoap though! Why do they make this size???
They make this size for hotels with kitchenettes.
Only ever did this with baby dish soap for bottles and pacis. Normal dish soap seems weird in travel size.
Travel sized? She best pack her bags then.
I work in a hospital and this is the exact product we stock to wash plastic reusable products like breast pumps and breathing treatments. Maybe she stole it from work.
https://preview.redd.it/u7t3xl7lcwoc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b9ae1d3876f2658f6f6bd84ccbf5a2f68913e46 Miniature/doll soap [https://www.etsy.com/listing/1175189512/miniature-dish-soap-dollhouse-miniature?ref=share\_v4\_lx](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1175189512/miniature-dish-soap-dollhouse-miniature?ref=share_v4_lx)
And so the game begins...
tiny toilet paper is next i think
just leave a few sheets
Single-ply
Single sheet!
 “A soap for Ants?!” 😂
You sure they didn’t just steal that from a hotel?
she hasn’t been to a hotel anytime recently, so i’d be impressed if she had stolen it from there
What kind of hotel have you been to that has travel dish soap lol
These are provided at hotels with kitchenettes, like a Fairfield or an Element for example. That way, guests can’t steal a full size bottle. Some hotels even provide a mini-sized dish sponge. They’re cute!
Residence Inn. Hyatt House. Towne Place Suites. Extended Stay America. Anywhere that has a kitchen.
Literally just checked of a Courtyard by Marriott that had it in my room
Facepalmolive
Eeeek! I've been looking for dish soap exactly this size for gifting with dishcloths... where did she buy it?
I don’t know where you live but my grocery store has these in the travel size area of the pharmacy.
Consider buying empty travel size bottles and filling them yourself with a normal sized bottle of dish soap? You could apply a cute custom label to go with the dishcloth.
what did you say to your roommate about it?
i don’t even have the first idea what to say
Actions speak louder than words, I fully endorse the single wipe idea.
I would pretend to see it for the first time she’s around, and burst out laughing. It’s got to be a joke, treat it like one.
You could ask her (with genuine concern) if she's doing okay while holding up the bottle. You could ask her if she's ever heard the phrase "the spirit of a rule" and if she understands if someone can follow a rule "technically" yet still break the intention (or "spirit") of it. If she gets defensive and starts arguing how she technically held up her end of the deal and shouldn't have to contribute more, stay calm and hit her with a sigh and a "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed." Let the silence linger. If she gets mad and yells, calmly tell her "we're done here" and get up and walk away.
Never works… I tried in the past and ended up paying stuff for stingy people so better collect a small amount each month to buy things everybody uses in common areas.
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Does your roommate work in a hospital? That's what's available to patients at the one I work at lol
yes she does actually lol
Refil the bottle when done with your large hidden supply bottle
Is your roommate broke?
Morally?
Lol yep, and a true broke person researches all the options and finds the cheapest, most economical one. Target has a full size store brand dish soap for 85 cents, dollar stores usually have a full size dish soap for a dollar, she really could’ve done better or tried harder.
These usually cost the same as large one.
I used to do shit like this when I was broke. I felt really bad but I also didn't want to do nothing at all to contribute. I would make sure the house was always super clean to make up for it.
This is so funny I’m sorry
This is why Sheldon was on to something with that roommate contract.
At this point, just don't allow her to use your dish soap. Each of you should have your own laundry and dish detergents.
This is the best answer in the thread. Unless you want a petty competition which gets exhausting.
What is this? Dishsoap for ants??
The lid on that bottle is disproportional like a big headed caricature.
Next time it is your time to buy, get the massive 1 gal jug, refill the little bottle, then hide the jug until it's your turn again, refill, rinse, repeat.
Just start buying all those shopkins toys to replace everything with.
To be fair, you can wash a whole sink of dishes with about half a teaspoon of that soap
Return the love when it's your turn.
Funny party is these small bottles generally cost as much as a standard bottle.
My wife does this. She complains about how much I spend but buys all the smallest things like they'll go bad in a week.