Throw out 3/4 bottle shampoo?

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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!

Agreed. One neighbor posted a half-eaten smoked ham on our local page, and it was promptly requested.

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

+1.

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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!

Agreed. One neighbor posted a half-eaten smoked ham on our local page, and it was promptly requested.

Yep have definitely posted half used beauty products in Buy Nothing and people were happy to snap it up.

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Anonymous wrote:I have sympathy for your daughter. I have curly hair and just not everything works well in my hair. and what works well in the winter may not work well in the summer. I do not always finish a bottle or use it if I know I don't need my hair to look good. Encourage samples until she figures out what works for her.

You're an adult and haven't found a shampoo and conditioner that works for you? After all these years?

Well, to be fair, you’re an adult and you don’t know that this is something that happens regularly to many people with curly or textured hair? Humidity, weather, hormones, the way my hair changes after repeated blow outs / silk presses versus wearing it curly for months…the list goes on. If I’m wearing my hair straight - I need a whole different set of products versus wearing it curly. It is sometimes hard to get travel or sample sizes for curly products so I do end up buying a regular sized bottle to try it.

OP - maybe you could set a budget for hair products or say that she can only purchase 1 hair product every x weeks or whatever. Google or search TikTok to find ideas for what to do with barely used hair products. I have seen this topic covered on blogs etc.

It’s also something that happens to some people who are neurodivergent (shopping a lot, object impermanence etc).

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

+1.

Not OP - but is there absolutely NOTHING you do on a regular basis that contributes to environmental waste? Your hypocrisy and narrow mindedness is astounding.

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Anonymous wrote:

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

+100

Spoiled rotten.

Stop running the planet OP and Offer it on buy nothing.

How many of you complaining about OP's daughter's shampoo bottles flew on an airplane recently?

Right?? Such a bunch of jerks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have sympathy for your daughter. I have curly hair and just not everything works well in my hair. and what works well in the winter may not work well in the summer. I do not always finish a bottle or use it if I know I don't need my hair to look good. Encourage samples until she figures out what works for her.

You're an adult and haven't found a shampoo and conditioner that works for you? After all these years?

NP. I also have curly hair and it’s very different than having wash and go normal hair.

+1 from a different NP.

The snarky PP carping about "you're an adult and haven't found one that works after all these years?" must have easy-care hair or hair that didn't change at all with age. How fortunate for that person, but the smugness and judgement are not a good look, no matter how perfect the hair might be.

The smugness and judgment is unreal. It also reeks of privilege because the stores aren’t filled with hair products that work well for all hair types.

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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!

This. My hair dried out s oI got a bunch of conditioners that we were too much for my hair. All used once or twice. All gone in minutes. Sometimes it's people who want to do the same and sometimes it's just frugal people. It amazes me too. And the ppl who take people's lefterover food. That I don't get at all.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

+1 This would not fly at our house either. It’s about all the waste.

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You can use it to wash clothes. Especiallyl delicates

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Make her pay for it. Problem solved. If she does pay for it, it’s not your problem except you’re raising a stupid teen.