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04-07-2016
, 12:56 PM
04-07-2016
, 01:23 PM
04-07-2016
, 02:55 PM
I feel like men grossly over exaggerate the time difference, especially if you considered the hourly rate of return in shopping the sales and endcaps, and you're a bulk shopper...the extra 30 minutes is often worth $30+ in my monthly trip.
Blue are the uncarpeted super aisles, red are the sales, yellow is the stuff on your list, black is the general merchandise lay-out of the Target in my area.
Average woman's trip in purple:
Average man's trip:
Blue are the uncarpeted super aisles, red are the sales, yellow is the stuff on your list, black is the general merchandise lay-out of the Target in my area.
Average woman's trip in purple:
Average man's trip:
04-07-2016
, 03:10 PM
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Shopping for groceries at Target seems like a good way to do the opposite of save $$$.
Although I guess based on the name of your baseball stadium, maybe they just have a monopoly on everything in your state.
I am a thorough grocery shopper. Everything else? Not so much.
Although I guess based on the name of your baseball stadium, maybe they just have a monopoly on everything in your state.
I am a thorough grocery shopper. Everything else? Not so much.
I never said groceries? If you buy diapers, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, feminine supplies, general family medicine, personal products, paper towel, kleenex, animal supplies, at your grocery store you are probably pissing away money, tho...
Trust me...I actually pull out my calculator before I decide which size of TP to buy and calculate cost per sheet.
04-07-2016
, 03:20 PM
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I never said groceries? If you buy diapers, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, feminine supplies, general family medicine, personal products, paper towel, kleenex, animal supplies, at your grocery store you are probably pissing away money, tho...
Trust me...I actually pull out my calculator before I decide which size of TP to buy and calculate cost per sheet.
Trust me...I actually pull out my calculator before I decide which size of TP to buy and calculate cost per sheet.
Grocery store sales on a lot of those things are usually fine when combined with couponing, but yeah, the best deals on those things are often at Walgreens/CVS/Target.
Once you have 2 people working full time+ & 2 kids, though, there gets to be a lot less time for some of that stuff & you do end up paying only somewhat sale prices & not always the lowest possible price.
I pretty much refuse to go to Target with my wife, though, what with all the distracting clothes.
04-07-2016
, 04:13 PM
04-07-2016
, 04:25 PM
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Around six months ago I realized that I had never thought about soap ever. I knew the whole axe phylum was lame, but I'd been using the same bar soap for my whole life and wondered if I could do better. Results:
TOP SHELF
--gum thingy, unused just like everybody else's gum thingy
--toothbrush, toothpaste. Different topic.
--standard Dove: what I've used my whole life, neutral, sturdy
--Agg-Tval Eggwhite Soap: smells like a mcmuffin but cleaner, and I wanted a face soap for girl guests.
--Coco CHANEL body soap: luxury item, smells simultaneously like victory and the opposite of napalm
MIDDLE SHELF
--background minibottle, DR BRONNER'S peppermint: certainly tingly
--foreground minibottle, Bath & Body Works Oak Signature: This soap had super high reviews but was discontinued, and every available 10oz bottle sells for $40 to $100 online. But I found one overmatched private seller in the backwaters of Amazon who, on account of the five typos in his listing, had fourteen bottles left for $6.50 each. I bought all fourteen, soap unseen. Results? Eh, it's just above average. But it's a hot market and I am the last tycoon.
--Sappo Hill Oatmeal: underdog champion of the oatmeal bracket, it's an honest oatmeal smell, reminds me of spilling maypo on the box scores before 5th grade, but, critically, it also works as a soap.
--L'OCCITANE VERBENA: I could use this everyday for eight years and it would still be the same brave brick. Indestructable and lemony.
BOTTOM ROW
--Caswell-Massey Sandalwood Woodgrain Soap: looks like a pinewood derby car & smells like bubblegum, but is also masculine and is also exotic. "The palm tree at the end of the mind / Beyond the last thought / Rises in the bronze decor," in soap form.
--Tanner Goods WILDWOOD It took me a goddamn long time to find a good forest soap. BOOM.
DISCUSSION
In the end I tried fifty soaps and those were the survivors. Please don't insult them by asking if they make good suds or if they leave a film. They make incredible suds. They don't leave any film. I tried fifty ****ing soaps and made a spreadsheet and trust me guys these are all phenomenal soaps.
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If you like coconut, the most evocative coconut out there is The Body Shop Coconut Soap. I would use it all the time but it leaves a clammy cobweb on my balls.
By far the most interesting soap I tried was Caswell-Massey Number Six. This is a soap designed in 1780 and was the favorite soap of President George Washington. It's interesting because it has five pungent smells that not only overwhelm you but are all 100% unidentifiable. It got to the point where I was taking this soap around to dinner parties trying to get help in figuring out the smells, but nobody ever solved it. Washington the inscrutable! I liked it a ton but it got banned from the showcase rack because it overpowers every noun in the room and anything it touches turns orange. RECOMMENDED.
CONCLUSION
I know way more about soap than I did six months ago. I am a straight single guy, but I'm gonna smell how I want, and it turns out that what I want depends on my changing moods. Note that before the soap project I'm not even sure I knew I had moods. And btw, once guests get over the initial shock, they are completely gung-ho. The project was a success. If your favorite bar soap was not shown, feel free to mention it and I'll check my spreadsheet and see if I rated it.
Spoiler:
TOP SHELF
--gum thingy, unused just like everybody else's gum thingy
--toothbrush, toothpaste. Different topic.
--standard Dove: what I've used my whole life, neutral, sturdy
--Agg-Tval Eggwhite Soap: smells like a mcmuffin but cleaner, and I wanted a face soap for girl guests.
--Coco CHANEL body soap: luxury item, smells simultaneously like victory and the opposite of napalm
MIDDLE SHELF
--background minibottle, DR BRONNER'S peppermint: certainly tingly
--foreground minibottle, Bath & Body Works Oak Signature: This soap had super high reviews but was discontinued, and every available 10oz bottle sells for $40 to $100 online. But I found one overmatched private seller in the backwaters of Amazon who, on account of the five typos in his listing, had fourteen bottles left for $6.50 each. I bought all fourteen, soap unseen. Results? Eh, it's just above average. But it's a hot market and I am the last tycoon.
--Sappo Hill Oatmeal: underdog champion of the oatmeal bracket, it's an honest oatmeal smell, reminds me of spilling maypo on the box scores before 5th grade, but, critically, it also works as a soap.
--L'OCCITANE VERBENA: I could use this everyday for eight years and it would still be the same brave brick. Indestructable and lemony.
BOTTOM ROW
--Caswell-Massey Sandalwood Woodgrain Soap: looks like a pinewood derby car & smells like bubblegum, but is also masculine and is also exotic. "The palm tree at the end of the mind / Beyond the last thought / Rises in the bronze decor," in soap form.
--Tanner Goods WILDWOOD It took me a goddamn long time to find a good forest soap. BOOM.
DISCUSSION
In the end I tried fifty soaps and those were the survivors. Please don't insult them by asking if they make good suds or if they leave a film. They make incredible suds. They don't leave any film. I tried fifty ****ing soaps and made a spreadsheet and trust me guys these are all phenomenal soaps.
not shown
If you like coconut, the most evocative coconut out there is The Body Shop Coconut Soap. I would use it all the time but it leaves a clammy cobweb on my balls.
By far the most interesting soap I tried was Caswell-Massey Number Six. This is a soap designed in 1780 and was the favorite soap of President George Washington. It's interesting because it has five pungent smells that not only overwhelm you but are all 100% unidentifiable. It got to the point where I was taking this soap around to dinner parties trying to get help in figuring out the smells, but nobody ever solved it. Washington the inscrutable! I liked it a ton but it got banned from the showcase rack because it overpowers every noun in the room and anything it touches turns orange. RECOMMENDED.
CONCLUSION
I know way more about soap than I did six months ago. I am a straight single guy, but I'm gonna smell how I want, and it turns out that what I want depends on my changing moods. Note that before the soap project I'm not even sure I knew I had moods. And btw, once guests get over the initial shock, they are completely gung-ho. The project was a success. If your favorite bar soap was not shown, feel free to mention it and I'll check my spreadsheet and see if I rated it.
04-07-2016
, 04:30 PM
04-07-2016
, 04:30 PM
My camera is still broken...here is a blurry photograph of the oldest piece of clothing I still have in circulation. From 1989. "Don't W
rry Be H
ppy in Florida"
It's been down-graded to pajamas, but oldest top that I still wear out of the house is from when I was 12. A dark blue ribbed sweater that is currently in the wash.
rry Be Hppy in Florida"Spoiler:
It's been down-graded to pajamas, but oldest top that I still wear out of the house is from when I was 12. A dark blue ribbed sweater that is currently in the wash.
04-07-2016
, 04:52 PM
04-07-2016
, 04:58 PM
Quote:
My camera is still broken...here is a blurry photograph of the oldest piece of clothing I still have in circulation. From 1989. "Don't Wrry Be Hppy in Florida"
It's been down-graded to pajamas, but oldest top that I still wear out of the house is from when I was 12. A dark blue ribbed sweater that is currently in the wash.
rry Be Hppy in Florida"Spoiler:
It's been down-graded to pajamas, but oldest top that I still wear out of the house is from when I was 12. A dark blue ribbed sweater that is currently in the wash.
I was born in 1989, lol.
04-07-2016
, 04:59 PM
04-07-2016
, 05:01 PM
04-07-2016
, 05:19 PM