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[–] 50 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Don't get me started on toilet paper

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    I used to justify buying the cheapest brand possible because it's just to wipe shit on then throw away.

    my wife says I'm not wrong but...

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    And matches are a thing you buy just to have go up in flames.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Not 'just' throw away. They provide a very nice convenience of bundling a bunch of trash together and make it all easier to transport to the bin.

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    [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That's not true! I also buy condoms

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That's the magic of plastic: Producing more of it is cheaper and easier than producing less.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    That reminds me of a Lily Tomlin joke: "The other day I bought a little wastebasket and brought it home in a paper bag. Then I crumpled up the paper bag and put it in the wastebasket." A lot of her stand-up act was just making little ironic observations like that.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Someone’s never made themselves a poncho

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    I buy food just to shit it out of my body, its the biggest scam

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Not really. You buy them as a container to keep your trash. So they serve a time limited purpose like pretty much any other product.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    As well as hide what's inside. For privacy reasons.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Food packaging also really irks me. Technically, it has a use beyond being thrown away, but there's just so much of it. You can readily find products in the shops that should be advertised as "plastic trash" and they just stuck a bit of food inside to keep it in shape...

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Worse, you have to throw away the container the bags come in... in the bags! :)

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    And, you never have to clean your dish soap.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Sadly there’s way more like that. Mostly plastic related.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Buying firewood is burning your money.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    And you buy drinking water just to flush down the toilet.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    They also are used to ball up you clothing to toss in the car when you move...then in the trash can to then throw out. Yeah, you win this one.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I used to get them for free from the grocery store, and then dumbasses banned them, now for the first time in my life I need to purchase them separately to use once instead of twice.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    That was a Johnny Carson joke, from about 55 years ago....

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Wish I could upvote twice for the real shower thought

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Children are just things you make that will eventually die, some ending up killing themselves because of you constantly telling them how much a disappointment they are, because you are also fucked up from your parent's doing the same thing.

    And then we're extinct.

    Happily ever after.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Some of us just buy dirt to throw on the ground outside our house too.

    We really pay to just move stuff around a lot.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    poop bags to. I used to sorta hate using them as I use the grocery bags for it along as little trash bags (although they get tied up and thrown into a bigger trash back when full). The poop bag rolls are just to good to make sure you never are without a bag (you need to have two attached to your leash sho you can refill one after its out while useing the other). Could say cat litter although you could debate you use it for a purpose first but then again you can say that about poop bags and ultimately trash bags. Its purpose being collecting the trash in one location before disposal.

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