Throw out 3/4 bottle shampoo?

[Anonymous]

DD teen is Notorious for trying shampoos, lotions, makeup snd discovering after a couple uses, she doesn’t like them.., can you donate them somewhere? I have half to 3/4 bottles in our house.

I use a different type of hair product and we don’t host guests in our house.

[Anonymous]

Leaving aside why you allow this practice, yes, you can donate to homeless shelters, battered women's shelters. Use your head. If it were my neighborhood, I would just put a notice on my listserv that I have half a dozen bottles of quality shampoo that are mostly unused and I'd get several people that would take them.

[Anonymous]

No you cannot donate open partially used shampoo or conditioner bottles. They will go in the bin.

[Anonymous]

You can put them on Buy Nothing. I guarantee someone will want them. I personally wouldn’t take used/opened products, but I am always amazed what people will not only take, but they’ll leave messages like “next” or “please consider me” or “let me know if you have something similar.” People are all about free stuff!

[Anonymous]

Why don’t you stop buying more and more hair products for your daughter until she finishes one? It’s so wasteful and contributing to global warming and climate change! How much more stuff do you send to the landfill already?!?

[Anonymous]

It's hard to find a use for makeup. But you can use shampoo as body wash and conditioner makes a good skin mask in the shower.

[Anonymous]

Unless she's allergic to a product, stop allowing this practice! Make her finish a product before purchasing a different one. Unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Your teen is disgusting for being so wasteful, and you are even more so for allowing it.

[Anonymous]

That wouldn't fly in our house. It's not the money. It's the plastic waste, the production waste, etc. My husband would take it upon himself to finish every shampoo bottle and then lecture his teen on not buying anymore. He would urge the household (regardless of gender) to finish up everything.

Can she find mini sizes if she wants to try something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can put them on Buy Nothing. I guarantee someone will want them. I personally wouldn’t take used/opened products, but I am always amazed what people will not only take, but they’ll leave messages like “next” or “please consider me” or “let me know if you have something similar.” People are all about free stuff!

+1. Those go on our Buy Nothing group.

[Anonymous]

How many more bottles will it take before she realizes that the beauty industry is a total scam?

[Anonymous]

If you're the one purchasing all these products, stop. I get annoyed when people say "....back when I was a kid....", but in this case it's appropriate. Back when I was a kid, and probably you as well, you used what you had. You got a new bottle when the current one was empty, and that was that. There was no discussion about it, or even the notion that you would have multiple different products lying around that all do the same job. Stop creating a monster OP. Help her understand the "value of a dollar", and also the environmental impact. Shameful and wasteful.

[Anonymous]

This is so gross OP. Set some boundaries in your house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No you cannot donate open partially used shampoo or conditioner bottles. They will go in the bin.

[Anonymous]

I have been using a mostly unused bottle of shampoo to hand wash my bras. It smells great but didn’t agree with my hair.