Does anyone else do this?
1. Get some toiletry e.g. shower gel/moisturiser/shampoo.
2. Use until about a centimeter remains at the base, then go round the shops to get a replacement.
3. Prefer the new shower gel because you're bored of the old scent; use new bottle instead of finishing up old one.
4. Repeat ad nauseum
5. End up with 10 or 20 different bottles of shower gel with 1cm of soap at the bottom.

I currently have 7 shower gels, 3 bath soaps and about 20 different moisturisers in a box- not enough soap in any of them for a proper wash, mind, but too much for me to justify chucking them. Occasionally I try to use them up and end up smelling of weird combinations e.g. tea tree, rose, lavender and chocolate.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 May 2012, 23:01, 16 replies)

If you keep them upside down when they're down to the last little bit, you can finish them without any trouble.
The only time this won't work is if the product uses a pump dispenser.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 3 May 2012, 23:19, closed)

I don't have trouble using the last bit
it's just I can't bring myself to do it. :P
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 May 2012, 23:21, closed)

Regarding the odd combinations
I once used up a chocolate one and an orange one at the same time. I guess I smelt like a jaffa cake?
(icassu, Fri 4 May 2012, 0:44, closed)

Is your name Terry?

(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Fri 4 May 2012, 10:06, closed)

yes, my wife does this and it's really fucking annoying.
I have one bottle shampoo, one bottle conditioner, one bar of soap. Only when they run out does a fresh one come from the cupboard. But every morning it's the same stupid knocking over the hundreds of partly empty bottles of greasy, dry, frizzy and whatever other options of hair there may be along with all the moisturisers and cleansing scrubs and washes for each limb and body part while I try to find my single items that always seem to get moved from day to day. Sometimes I can't be bothered having a shower, it's too much annoyance.

It's the only "girly" thing she does, yet it's still enough to drive me batshit insane.
( ferret -> twitter.com/syfyautocorrect <-, Fri 4 May 2012, 4:37, closed)

As a bloke
I pour them all into one bottle, usually creaking a murky brown mix which our 10 year old daughter uses, shes quite happy to smell like a tarts handbag.
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Fri 4 May 2012, 8:08, closed)

As a bloke of Scottish descent...
my mum taught me to but a small amount of water in said bottle and shake, thus making the last half inch come out the bottle easily.
My wife thinks this is tight-fisted, I see it as being less wasteful.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 4 May 2012, 8:38, closed)

has to be done with the fairy liquid too.

( bane, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:37, closed)

No, it's just you.
You are mentally unstable.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 4 May 2012, 8:39, closed)

ummm
All women do this.
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Fri 4 May 2012, 13:44, closed)

Don't you worry, son
I also do this with booze and other cupboard ingredients.
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:53, closed)

Mrs Duck does this
drives me nuts
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 4 May 2012, 15:59, closed)

I've never done this.
but I have kept a shower-gel thing purely because it had a 'game' on the front of the plastic box in which you used little blasts of air to maneouvre balls through little hoops.
( Funkenschlag still likes dogs more than cats, Fri 4 May 2012, 17:38, closed)

My teen does this. My fault, I'm afraid. Genes and all.
I sort of do this. Only I may use the first cm and leave the rest. So does my mum.

We have sensitivities to the scent and so forth, and when manufacturers change something, we may end up with a nearly-full bottle of stuff because we find we can't tolerate the scent or feel of it. My husband or teen ends up with it, but my teen will save every bottle.

She went on holiday with her school group, and I cleaned out 2 dozen partial containers from her bath. When she got home, I told her to sort it, so we are down to 20. Success!
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sat 5 May 2012, 21:13, closed)

Take them all and
mix the lot!!

Others in the thread agree. Take every cm of gel you have and mix it! Take every bit of soap sliver and melt it down in a pan into a large heavy sheet you can cut into new bars.
(LakAttack, Mon 7 May 2012, 8:43, closed)

I must confess to doing this too
Not to mention the endless supply of used-once hair products from short-lived hairstyles
( useful_idiot, Tue 8 May 2012, 16:36, closed)