Saving shampoo, deodorant and toothpaste: TulaneLSU tips

For the cost conscience out there, you could save tens of dollars every year and thousands possibly over a lifetime by following these TulaneLSU patent pending tips.

Americans spend a little more than $3 billion each year on toothpaste. I buy the cheapest I can find at Walmart. Some will make their own with baking soda but I hate the yankee word soda — should be baking Coke — so I still buy mine. Nonetheless I believe the average American wastes far too much toothpaste annually. Watch a movie or tv show or commercial and they all do the same thing: layer the entire bristle row with paste. Why? Dentists only put a tiny dab of paste on their rotary tooth massagers. I do just fine tipping the tab with 10% coverage.

What about deodorant? $20 billion a year in America! It doesn’t take but one brush stroke of cheap deodorant unless you have hyperhidrosis. Again, our commercial world has shown a four stroke process, meaning most of you probably are buying four rolls to every one that is actually necessary.

And what about shampoo you say to me. Again, there’s no major difference between the cheapest and the most expensive except for labeling and marketing. Chemically, it’s a soap that breaks down fat and dirt. A 99 cent bottle last me a year. How? You don’t need a handful worth, even with the thickest of manes. Just a pinky finger tip dash will do. Lather and it will do all the cleaning you need.

I won’t even tell you how many tens of thousands the average American has spent on alcohol over the last decade (all the while raising their noses at smokers who have done the same with their equally dangerous poison). That’s for another time.

I hope you will consider saving your money with these rationing tips. Your excess can move from the pockets of greedy autocrats and multinational corporations and back in your pocket where, perhaps, you might be graced by God to be generous to others as God has been generous to you.

May your Friday be full of blessings and may you love one another just as God has loved you.