Was this Target return in poor taste?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe next time, instead of being cheap about $15 (when you have the money to travel), you could take the leftover supplies to a women's shelter or some other donation location?

Nope. I'm getting my money back. Try and shame someone else.

Aren’t you the one who asked if it was in poor taste? Yes, being a cheapskate over $15 of items that will get thrown out instead of used by someone in need is in poor taste.

[Anonymous]

The reply should be "I didn't know that, and will be more careful in the future".

We are a very frugal household that hates waste, so usually we manage to use up our stuff. My husband is very good at doing that. He will literally shower with all the various shampoos and soaps DD tries that she doesn't like. He will finish any leftovers as long as they're not running away on newly evolved legs. Stomach of iron, that one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe next time, instead of being cheap about $15 (when you have the money to travel), you could take the leftover supplies to a women's shelter or some other donation location?

Nope. I'm getting my money back. Try and shame someone else.

Aren’t you the one who asked if it was in poor taste? Yes, being a cheapskate over $15 of items that will get thrown out instead of used by someone in need is in poor taste.

OP here and that wasn’t me responding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe next time, instead of being cheap about $15 (when you have the money to travel), you could take the leftover supplies to a women's shelter or some other donation location?

Nope. I'm getting my money back. Try and shame someone else.

I got the same treatment from a Costco rep when returning cauliflower based pasta that tasted like @ss. I really wanted to respond that I pay $120 per year for the privilege of your return policy. If you want to refund me that, we can talk about a different return policy.

[Anonymous]

Yeah you were wrong. You bought too much, didn't think about it, and to save a measly $15 you basically ordered this woman to throw it all out.

Next time be more thoughtful about what you buy.

[Anonymous]

I once was out to dinner and the waiter scoffed at my friend who didn’t eat her hamburger bun. He lectured her on how wasteful that was and she should have told him beforehand to hold the bun. Same thing, RUDE

[Anonymous]

She was rude.
And also, now you know, so donate them next time - way better than getting them thrown out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I once was out to dinner and the waiter scoffed at my friend who didn’t eat her hamburger bun. He lectured her on how wasteful that was and she should have told him beforehand to hold the bun. Same thing, RUDE

Rude, but not wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe next time, instead of being cheap about $15 (when you have the money to travel), you could take the leftover supplies to a women's shelter or some other donation location?

+1
I'd never return this stuff. Donate it! I keep a box of stuff like this and when it's full I take it to the shelter. We all use electric toothbrushes so all the ones we get from the dentist end up there- 8 per year. Sometimes I over buy socks or underpants for the kids and they outgrow it before it's ever opened. Those make it to the box too.

[Anonymous]

She was rude and if Target thinks it’s an issue then they shouldn’t accept those returns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She was rude and if Target thinks it’s an issue then they shouldn’t accept those returns.

But then some Karen will whine about that. Just be less wasteful and think abotu someone besides yourself for once in awhile. That woman was slightly rude, but you're an adult—get over it, and stop shopping like a pig.

[Anonymous]

It is kind of odd that you could not figure out how many you needed before you bought them or did not just save the extras. But you did not know they would throw them out. Now that you know, yes, it is in bad taste to return them in the future. Just figure out what you need.

[Anonymous]

OP how would you feel knowing that the stuff you bought from Target was someone else’s return? What if had been opened, used, and returned?
Now Target has to assume the products you returned were used and must throw them away. That’s wasteful.

[Anonymous]

We all should do more not to waste. You wasted time picking them out, taking them home, bringing them back, and now having to think about it all because of the comment. Oh, and now on DCUM.
There's a book I read that describes all the effort we put into things. It's like part time job. I cut my spending down about 70%. Life got so much easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She was rude.
And also, now you know, so donate them next time - way better than getting them thrown out.

Why can’t Target donate them?