MoonzieStar

….I was duped!!! A/C guy said he was on the way and then didn’t show. I called him and he said the wrong part was ordered by the warranty company. “Why do simple things have to be so difficult?” This quote sums it up perfectly! And to think this song was in my head…I’ll have to find an angry one to sum up my irritation if I have to go a weekend with 90 degree temps!!!

By “they” I mean the people that design packaging and by “it” I mean create packages that keep you from being able to actually consume all of the product you purchase. 

Take into consideration laundry soap.  With a family of 6 you can bet that I do more laundry than most.  With the constantly increasing cost of living, I’m being a lot smarter with my money.  I buy the cheaper brand of laundry soap because I go through more of it.

You’d think this was a smart move.  Look at the cost of Tide and look the cost of it’s generic buddies and you’ll more than likely buy the cheap brand too.

The only problem is that nearly every cheap brand I purchase has a flaw in their packaging.  The flaw is that it with the awesome pouring spout that makes distribution of soap easier, it comes with a lip in the lid (for lack of a better word) that causes some of the soap to remain stuck in the bottle.

All of the turning upside down – quickly, slowly, rapidly, whatever; doesn’t help.  Banging it against the inside of the washer machine doesn’t work either.  Banging it against my head really doesn’t work. Why don’t I just remove the spout you ask?  Because I TRIED and that little sucker is practically welded to the bottle.

Being that I’m trying to economize, I set aside the bottle hoping that some day I’ll figure out how to get the damn soap out.  What that leaves me with is a dryer top full of nearly empty laundry soap bottles that if you combine the contents into one, you might be able to wash a large load of clothes with.  But hey, it’s the principal dammit!

See all of that soap just waiting to be let out? It has a duty to my clothes that it cannot fulfill because of the “design flaw”.

Is it really that hard to turn the “open” sign off when you close down?  This store is a repeat offender.  I see an “Americas dumbest criminal” episode here waiting to happen.