Soap scam exposed!!!!
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jlrhiner
US Veteran
Youse guys use SOAP!?!?
Smith357
US Veteran
Umm, Where do you think soap on a rope was invented??
thndrchiken
Member
My ex used to get so pissed at me for saving the sliver and moving it over to the sink for hand soap, she always wanted a full size bar in the tray. I would get pissed at her for wasting money.
Every thing you see in the stores are large packaged & smaller contents.There isn't a pound of coffee in a pound coffee can. Even our gasoline has 10% Ethanol in it. My reloads are even weaker.
smokey04
Member
Safeguard soap went to that "you can hold on to it better" shape about 10 years ago. I love the way they make you feel like they have your best interests at heart! Same same with the air injected Herseys. Nick
Absolutely, not only are the bars smaller, but they dissolve much faster.
We just buy liquid body wash stuff now.
CAJUNLAWYER
Member
Ain't just soap. I remember when a can of tuna fish weighed in at 7.5 oz. Last time I looked-same can same price 5 oz 
I tell my children that I'm so old I remember when 10 pounds of ice weighed 10 pounds. Now it weighs 4Kg if your lucky-lots of the 10 pound bags now weigh 7 pounds. And on top of that, it's rotten ice!!!
Hell, it's here in our sport too. I'll bet you all can remember when a case of shotgun shells was 20 boxes of 25 shells per box.
About the only thing that has not shrunk is the size of beers-biggest beer we had way back when was eithe a 12oz or a quart. Now we have 16's 24's 40's 44's-and instead of the 6 paks we grew up with we now have the handy 12 pack and cases (remember when if you bought a case of beer at one time you were either having a new years eve party, running a bar or the old drunk down the street
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But I digress-back to the soap.
I tell my children that I'm so old I remember when 10 pounds of ice weighed 10 pounds. Now it weighs 4Kg if your lucky-lots of the 10 pound bags now weigh 7 pounds. And on top of that, it's rotten ice!!!
Hell, it's here in our sport too. I'll bet you all can remember when a case of shotgun shells was 20 boxes of 25 shells per box.
About the only thing that has not shrunk is the size of beers-biggest beer we had way back when was eithe a 12oz or a quart. Now we have 16's 24's 40's 44's-and instead of the 6 paks we grew up with we now have the handy 12 pack and cases (remember when if you bought a case of beer at one time you were either having a new years eve party, running a bar or the old drunk down the street
)But I digress-back to the soap.
keith44spl
Member
Right thar ya go!
Soap on a rope every Saturday...Weather ya need it or not!
Last a long, long time!
Su Amigo,
Dave
bobsdad
US Veteran
"Now we have 16's 24's 40's 44's-and instead of the 6 paks we grew up with we now have the handy 12 pack and cases"
Ya think maybe that has something to do with why most people don't notice the shrinking soap and candy bars?
Ya think maybe that has something to do with why most people don't notice the shrinking soap and candy bars?
jlrhiner
US Veteran
Don't forget the handy thirty pack!
tork'd
Member
and i thought i have time on my hands....
OP
Just doin' what my predecessor curmudgeon Andy Rooney did, except he got paid megabucks for it. As a retiree, I have the time and can (and will) shaft and pillory any dumb-butt practice I want to; no extra charge for the favor.
As the immortal Duke put in in The Shootist: "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them."
The practice I've exposed here is both insulting to and wronging both you and me. It cries out to be exposed...
John
Ivory bar soap. Good clean soap and its cheap. If you use liquid soap get the hair AND body type. When it gets about 3/4 to 1/2 empty, put water in it and shake it up. Good to go for a looooong time. Still gets you clean regardless. Same for liquid shampoo.
GJH77
Member
Worse than soap is recently I was surprised to find that the national grocery store brand of toilet paper, which was exactly like Scott tissue, seemed small. I got a roll of Scott and found that the store brand was now 1/2 " shorter! Where will it end?
mooney1el
Member
A 20 lb bottle of propane is only 15-17 lbs if you buy it at the big box stores or the convenience stores. I buy local where I watch them fill up my bottles and get the real 20+ lbs and still pay less than I would at WallyWorld etc.
Did you actually unroll the entire length of two rolls to determine that one was only 1/2" shorter? Hardly seems to have been worth the trouble, much less remarking. Or did you mean 1/2" narrower? Now this would be a serious issue.
I think we all know where it will end --- at the cardboard tube.
jbcap
Member
It's like a one pound can of coffee, that now weighs 13oz!
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