I Need to Jar Some Soy Sauce

@porwest (85053)
United States
July 9, 2024 10:15am CST
Buy soy sauce? What? Are you nuts? Not in our house! After all, whenever we order Chinese food, and we often do, they chuck handfuls of those little soy sauce packets into the bag with the food. So, from time to time when I need soy sauce, I just rip open the packets and pour them into a jar or bottle through a funnel. And yes. I can fill an entire jar or bottle with them. Hey, it's not going to make me that much richer, but at the same time what's a bottle of soy sauce these days? Around $2? And if I can save $2, that's $2, and I think it's worth the little extra time it takes me to do this. Which doesn't really take me that much time at all.
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@NJChicaa (118479)
• United States
9 Jul
You are so cheap.
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@porwest (85053)
• United States
9 Jul
Damn right. And thus...I have money in the bank as a result.
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@NJChicaa (118479)
• United States
9 Jul
@porwest Yup. And you still serve your wife slop casseroles.
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@porwest (85053)
• United States
9 Jul
@NJChicaa Hey, you'd have to go back and visit @LindaOHio and read my comments on her daily dinner posts. I haven't even MADE a casserole of any kind in months and months, and I'd say 90% of those meals I did make would at least MODERATELY meet your palate's interests.
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@LindaOHio (170715)
• United States
10 Jul
You are definitely frugal. Have a good day.
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@LindaOHio (170715)
• United States
11 Jul
@porwest Before all this with the rehab facility we were starting to be more free with our money. We're not taking it with us; and there's no one that we want to leave it to...other than some to our housekeeper (hubby's 3rd cousin).
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@porwest (85053)
• United States
10 Jul
Waste not, want not, right? lol. If you can save on the things you need you can better afford the things you want. Ideally.
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@porwest (85053)
• United States
11 Jul
@LindaOHio That's always the hard thing about decisions like this that have to be made. It's not the thing you want to spend the money on. By the way, if you are looking for an heir, I might be available.
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@May2k8 (18258)
• Indonesia
10 Jul
I remember when I was a kid I always finished one sachet of soy sauce every day, I can't count how much I have spent on it until now.
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@porwest (85053)
• United States
13 Aug
I use it quite a bit, but I have never just had it by itself.
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@Fleura (29677)
• United Kingdom
9 Jul
Glad they don't go to waste. But we easily save more than $2 by not buying takeaways in the first place!
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@porwest (85053)
• United States
9 Jul
If it is any consolation, I don't technically pay for the "takeaways." The stock market does. lol
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