Waste not want not!

I do it with ketchup and shampoo and conditioner. For things that are scraped out such as mayonnaise, jam, peanut butter, I just get as much as I can out of the jar with a knife.

hi humbug25...i just added some water to the soap pump. i was only getting bubbles out for soap and i knew there was still some soap clinging inside the bottle so i helped to "release it." and a few days ago i did that with the noxema bottle. get your money's worth.

Lol, I do exactly all those things. Even to adding a little water to my dish detergent to make it last longer. Especially the ajax brand because it's already thick so adding water to it won't make it so watery and still soaps up well. I also turn all my shampoo bottles upside down and use every last bit. Some people might think that's a little desperate but I'm one who likes to use every penny I've paid for my stuff. Don't care what anyone thinks, I paid for it so that's how I will use it:)

That's the only way I know how! Do that for detergent, anything really. Well I guess not mayonnaise but I don't mess with that enough to do it in the first place.

i don't add water but i do turn them upside down. as for a tube such as lotion i cut them in to where you can get it all. you'd be surprise how much will be left in a tube.

Hiya Humbug, I never do it..shame on me. Just something I never think to do. The only product I do do it with is shampoo and even that one is down to my daughters efforts not mine, she's the one that turns them upside down to get the maximine out..I will hold my hands up it's her not me...it doesn't bother me enough to do it but it does my daughter she always trys to get every last bit out of ketchup because she's the one that uses it the most.

With any thing that comes in a squeeze bottle with a small neck i always store up side down because the ketsup or mustard some times separates as it sets. It keeps the first squeeze from becoming separated and watery. I don't use the squeeze bottle of mayo because it is so hard for me to squeeze them I also store the salad dressing up side down as the get down to about the last bit. As for the tubes products I have some of those things that you slid on the tube and push the tooth past up as it is empties. When I get to the very top I cut it open to get the last bit. Back when the tooth past came in metal tubes it was easier to get most of it out.

I am just as frugal as you are. I even keep the ketchup bottle with the little remains on the bottom, till I make spagetti sauce and then I add some water to the ketchup bottle and I mix it really good and use it in my sauce. I don't waste any of it at all. I do the same with my barbeque sauce and hp sauce or anything like it. My mayo jars are scraped clean before I wash them and use them around the kitchen. I rarely through one out. When it comes to washing soaps I add water to the bottle to get all of it out. I do that with dishwasher soap and laundry soap and dish soap and shampoo and cream rinse, anything that I can. When it comes to my tube of toothpaste I hold it down on the sink top and squeeze every bit out I can with my toothbrush. I don't waste anything. Yesterday I took in all of my empties that we get money back for, and I got $24.40. I was in heaven. So yes, I do whatever I can to save some money and I don't waste a thing. Alrighty then, talk to you later my friend, Have a good mylotting day, Chris

I also do humbug, why waste the bit at the bottom haha. We are a family of five so the bottle going nowhere, so lets get every bit hey!

This must be telepathy. I have just struggled to get the last quarter of inch out of a squeezy tomato sauce bottle. I cut the end off and knifed it out!

I dont use ketsup but they mayo or mustard i have rubber spatulas which a use to get the stuff out scraping side as i go. For soaps the last bit i do add little water to get the last drop.

Hello humbug25! I am sorry it took me so long to reply here. Well, honestly i didn't do it but my sisters did..hehehe..I even told her, why would you put water there, the taste might change. She just laughed and me and continue doing it.

well....yes we kinda have this habit,.....in fact, my mom does this....so, do we...ha ha. have a nice day

We do exactly the same at home, turning the bottle upside down. but what exactly do you add water to? wouldn't it taste funny?

I do same with catsup and other bottled products. I always make it a point to use up all the contents of the container. I also do that with toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner and all other products we use. I am usually the one who does that in my home.

Yes we do that 'cause every bit of everything has to go as far as possible, and this year we're saving the bottles so that we can make our own ketchup ^_^

When I am running low I open the new bottle and then I sit the old bottle upside down on the new one and let it sit for a bit. Then the old stuff slowly settles on top of the new stuff and I can toss the old bottle. This way I also use the old stuff first. It has worked so far.

I do the same thing with ketchup, mustard, mayo, dishsoap, shampoo, conditioner, body wash...all kinds of things. I figure I paid for it all...I'm gonna get it all LOL [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]

I also turned the bottle upside down to get the last drop of ketchup or mayonnaise. I always do this at home. Love to scrape to the last drop LOLS:) and if i can't get it i use straw.

YEP, I do it too. I turn the bottle upside down with the openin of the old bottle aligned with a new bottle so the remaining of the ketchup, syrup and the such can run from on bottle into the other. I add water to my shampoo and conditioner too. I don't waste a drop. My husband laughs at me, but I don't care. I'm the one that has to stretch the grocery budget so I'll do whatever it takes to use every drop of my products. I will scrape every drop of peanut butter out of the jar. How about toilet paper? My downs syndrom sister in law lives with us and it kills me that she replaces the toilet paper roll when there's still some paper on it. I use it to the very last sheet.