• golden_zealot@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Television. It’s like paying to see ads.

    Hand soap. Dish soap works better and you can use it on dishes in addition to your hands.

    A dining table. I eat at my desk or standing at a counter. I was pressured into buying one by family because it was apparently bizarre to them I did not have one. Got the cheapest one I could find to appease them. I have now owned it for 4 years and it has never been used once, it just takes up space.

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      Hand soap. Dish soap works better and you can use it on dishes in addition to your hands.

      I was always told it would fuck up your hands. Does it?

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        In my personal experience, it absolutely does. Only time I’ve ever had seriously painful dry skin on my hands was when I was out of hand soap for a week. But I do wash my hands frequently.

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        Not in my experience. I guess it might depend on the brand or affect individuals differently, but I’ve been using grocery store off-brand dish soap for this for like 10 years and never had a problem.

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      Just wanted to add that dish soap is actually very strong and removes all the natrual oils from your skin. If you are prone to sensitive skin it’s a bad habit to regularly use dish soap as it can aggrivate it. Every now and then isn’t going to hurt though.

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        True enough. I haven’t had any problems in using it myself but I supposed you could ratio it with some water or something to make it not as intense for hands.

        It’s a lot cheaper than hand soap too so in doing this you could probably get a tonne of hand washes out of it for really cheap.

        The primary downside to it for me is that it lasts ages and I get kind of tired of the smell.

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      Television. It’s like paying to see ads.

      +. And the only couple of local channels I’d even consider watching can be viewed online for free anyway.