Pluggers by Rick McKee for October 26, 2022

just be careful not to massively squirt it onto your dress/blouse, shirt… yourself.

For salad dressing I put a few tbsps of vinegar into the bottle and shake it. Maybe I’ll try that in the body lotion.

Scored some major points with a Granddaughter when she was about 6 by swinging the ranch dressing bottle to force what was left in the bottle toward the cap. She looked at me with such awe and admiration and gushed, “Grandpa making more ranch dressing!” Tru story!

Take off the cap. Or if it’s a weird shape, cut it in half and scoop out the contents. This works especially well for pump-type bottles — you can get 1/4 of the bottle out after the pump says there’s no more (lying SOB’s).

Eh we bearly wastes anything.

Good to the last drop !

Because opening a new bottle can be such a pain for arthritic, joint-impaired pluggers.

I’d like to meet the garbonzo who thought it was a good idea to put heavy lotions in pump bottles.

… or toothpaste from the tube.

and we use our teabags at least twice

… or the last drop of ANYthing.

Especially if they were raised by parents that grew up during and grandparents that lived during the depression

When ‘apparently’ empty, I turn the bottle upside down and let sit for the very last bit of contents.

Real pluggers realize that inflation is a fairly normal part of our economic cycle and they also remember when it was in double digits. When we bought our first house (1978), the rate was around 10%. It had been climbing since the mid-1960s and reached more than 14% in 1980. The rate eventually declined and stabilized around 3.5% in the latter half of the 1980s.