What have you never bought or no longer buy because you think it's a waste of money?

[Zipps]

Dog accessories - they have a coat for the depths of winter but that's it.
Bath bombs - completely pointless.
Many kitchen gadgets.
Clothes/shoes that aren't a perfect fit.

We stopped buying newspapers about ten years ago.

Although I hate using paper that just gets thrown away, I totally agree with you. I always wipe greasy pans with paper. DH sometimes puts them in the sink to soak and everything gets covered in fat. And so the bowl has to be wiped with paper!

@TheEyesOfLucyJordon 😂

We never had a cup. We used to drink out of rolled up newspaper.

Best we could manage was to suck on a piece o' damp cloth.

Same energy!

I buy cheap porridge oats for absorbing oil. Sprinkle a thin layer into the pan, leave for a few minutes to absorb the oil and then scrape them into the bin. Cheaper and more environmentally friendly.

fabric conditioner
small bags of rice
frozen butter nut squash

Kitchen roll isn't any easier than grabbing a cloth 😕

Celebrity perfumes. In fact, paying £70 for any type of perfume.
Re bath bombs, you can make your own (recipes online). Cheap, easy (once you get the mix right) and you can scent with eg rose oil and use food colouring.

oh yes a newspaper
last time was when i got it free in Waitrose

I don’t get the ‘cleaning the pan with kitchen roll’.
How much fat do you use when cooking that you will need to pour the oil out if you don’t use kitchen roll?

For the poster who said she can’t use newspaper to clean her window because she doesn’t buy them. I simply take a free newspaper when doing my shopping at LIdl.

pink lady apples
iceberg lettuce

If that's how you feel about bath bombs, then you don't need to make your own, in the first place.

Surely you can do without them entirely?

DH cooked sausages in the oven last night and there was about an inch of fat left in the baking dish.

Admittedly, you could use a scraper thing to get rid of it. But you'd still have to wash that. Paper is easier.

i put the roasting tin on the stove with bicarb soda or whatever its called, and water, and boil.

@00100001 The trouble with that is that cloths covered in cat wee, etc, have to be washed pronto, and I might not be ready to put some washing on for one cloth.

Kitchen roll for the win.🥇

Magazines, years ago now, after actually counting up the percentage of pages taken up with ads - over 70%.

Never wanted a big, expensive, space-hogging coffee machine - a cafetière is fine.

What do you do with what is left? The residue, poured down the drain, will still clog.

Ooh these are good apart from the house insurance one!
I'm using up paper napkins left over from a party three years ago instead of kitchen roll at the moment. So that's another thing - party napkins.
Also stopped Christmas and birthday cards except for elderly relatives.

That fat gets solid when you leave it to cool down. I just scrap it into the bin?

There not actually quite the same, even if the ingredient list sounds similar.

I remember watching a documentary about it a few years back, and seen articles saying the same.
They may be made in the same factory and on the same machines.

However, the cheaper home brands often are made with a cheaper cut of meat, cheaper oils, inferior herbs, spices and vegetables, etc.
Whereas the branded one will often use a more expensive, higher quality version of the same ingredient.

The same machinery may be used but is completely cleaned down between the different batches and production runs, each going into their separated packaging.

This is usually the same principle with branded clothing - higher quality material usually used for higher quality brands, etc.

Well lucky for me I don't have any shirts 😂. I also don't sort the laundry out into different colours and whites. Just stick it all in. No ones died yet.

And no one will ever die if you don't separate the colours of your laundry, but there's a good reason that people do it.

Which you're obviously aware of, so I don't understand your sentiment here? 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Supersimkin2
what products do u use on your handbags ?

Magazines.

I've yet to find the reason because everything stays the colour it's meant to so why would I go through the hassle of separating. And the sentiment being that it's something else I do to save time..