Issues

After last weeks post on Toothpaste

Yall aren't going to believe the

issues I have with SOAP!

But first let me give you the

frugal tip I learned from my mama.

~HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA!~

(today's her birthday)

When you bring your soap home

from the store the first thing

you need to do is take it out

of the packages.

This way it will dry out and get really hard. Next time you open a new bar of soap, stick your finger nail in it and you will see how soft a new bar is. Then when you use it, it just starts melting. And if by chance one of the little ones drops it in the water and you can't find it for awhile it really gets soft. If you will let your soap dry out for several weeks, even months, it will last twice as long.

Don't believe me, just try it then. A bar of soap that has dried out will be hard to stick your finger nail into. Saves you money on soap.

That's my Frugal Tuesday tip!

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Now last week when I wrote about the Toothpaste, these are the comments that my parents left for me.

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Mama said:

You get that from your Daddy - - and maybe a little from me and your grandpa Padgett. But in all this I'm thinking SOAP, instead of toothpaste (which I have gone as far as sucking it out of the tube.).

Starting with Grandpa, When we owned the oceanfront motor court at Jax Beach, we never threw the soap away that was left in the cottages and rooms. It was brought back to the laundry room and when enough had accumulated Grandpa would boil it down for the family years supply. The boiling took care of germs if there were any on that caustic lye stuff.

Now from that education -- I would never throw a sliver of soap away and I put it back for hard times. Your daddy goes a step further than me and one less than Grandpa -- He makes sure it - the sliver is real moist and soggy and bonds it to the new bar - waits for it to dry out & adhere real tight and keeps on bathing with it!I might add - that we have our own bars of soap - me three/four different brands in use at a time and Daddy two. Plus the liquid hand soap at the bathroom & kitchen sinks.You could say that is the far side of c r a z y, I think.

But you dear daughter are frugal and smart and beautiful inside and out. You know who you are and you like it!!!XXXOOOXXXOOOXXXOOO, mama

Daddy said:

President Kimble said to.. "Fix it up, paint up, use it up."

Yes, I use up that thin sliver of soap, soften it up, attach it to the new bar and it's used completely up. It made be mad to see what the Dial company did to the bath soap, cut it down in size and shape and still charge the same.

I also recycle cans, paper, card board, plastic bottles, jugs, what ever they take. Helps in the preservation of this good earth we live in.

Call me crazy or frugal, but that's what I am.

Love you,

Daddy

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Don't you think that just a little rubbed off on me :)