At a lot of the boy scout camps ,or at least the ones I've been to. This is what is used to hold the soap. It seems to be pretty effective.

superbryant88

Does anyone still wear pantyhose? There is just something icky about stealing some from grandma to wash your hands...

Crystal

@Crystal:

Judging by the photos I see plastered all over the Internet, it appears that Hooters servers wear pantyhose.

Oh, I just take the slivers from the bath bar and put then in the soap dish by the sink.

Deprong Mori

If you just stick the sliver from the old bar to the new bar, you won't have this problem. Not only does it use up every last bit of soap, but you also don't feel the need to save little slivers that you *might* use up at another time.

darklazarus

Just make sure it doesn't rip like it did for Martin Short in the Three Fugitives.

n/a

Top tip: wear pantyhose over your head and face when going to the bank -- you'll get much faster service.

jarmod

If you ever need to catch a bat without harming it you can put a piece of gravel in it and sling it up into the air. The bat will mistake the gravel for a bug and get tangled up in the pantyhose.

Pzler

Sorry, all my pantyhose are being used to store onions in a cool dry closet.

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jorsch

I dunno Parvax, freshly laundered garments are probably more hygienic than 99.9% of all surfaces and items in your kitchen. Assuming you don't use fabric softener, of course.

Deprong Mori

Am I the only one that finds something kind of gross about essentially using old socks to store food?!

parvax

There are still women who wear them. I know my wife does for work & church. They are the most wasteful things ever. It seems like they tear every day and new ones are needed. At least now I know there are some uses for them and I don't feel like I'm totally wasting the money.

I'm going to make my millions by inventing some that are indestructible - maybe made out of kevlar or something.

gforster

Um, why not just throw those slivers away? I hate when my husband saves them forever. They're slimy and they stick to the shower shelves. :P

Beki

dang everyone is bashing this idea its really great......i think it helps you lather better it keeps the soap from slipping out of your hands..lol

superbryant88

Ooo, classy. Nothing like going to wash your hands while visiting a friend and finding an old pantyhose full of slimy, mismatched soap chunks by the sink.

What are your first thoughts? "How frugal! My friends are thrifty and wise!" or "Run awaaaaaaay!"

infopubs

Second DarkLazarus. Just smash the old sliver onto the new bar (after the new bar is wet).

Personally the idea of little backwashes of soap in used pantyhose is not my idea of sanitation OR frugality. It's just gross.

Kaffinator

Cool tip, though I find if you just wet the scrap piece of soap and put in on top of a new bar they stick together and you use it all up nicely.

cdn204

The fact that if I saw this in somebody's bathroom I would probably puke in their sink probably contradicts the idea of general hygiene.

faust1200

Better than pantyhose: Sew up three sides of a facecloth, and put your soap in there. I have a string on mine, but that is optional.

Also, I don't just put scraps in there; my soap is always there. It is less messy, less soap scum, and because I use straight glycerin soap which 'melts' very fast, it lasts a lot longer, saving me $$. There is not a loose bar of soap in the house for the last 6 years.

Cornflower

Clip a coupon, buy another bar of soap. Make your own soap.

Just don't use pantyhose to save slivers of soap. That's just a slippery slope that leads to being found dead among huge piles of old newspaper and other clutter.

If you really feel desperate about the soap slivers, fill a bucket with really hot water, toss the soap slivers in, and clean something.

noasalira

@infopubs: Haha. You hit the nail right on the head.

This tip is kind of ghetto.

Dirk

I'm going to go ask one of my co-workers tomorrow for a used pair of her pantyhose - so I can save my soap chips, you know? I bet she'll be amazed at my thrift.

PS I'm middle-aged and not married.

vesuvian

I buy my brand-name bar soap in packages of 8 at a discount store. I pay $1+tax for two packages (16 bars). That works out to be about 7 CENTS a bar.

I probably wash my face and hands a little too often, getting my skin all dry and such... but those two packages last me at least three months. That's 48 bars a year.

Finally, I do a pretty good job of using the bars. I'm gentle with them and I'd guess I get 90-95% before they break up into tiny little fragments and get stuck in my drains. For the purposes of this comment... I'll say 85%, because that works out to about 1 CENT a bar, given my costs.

So... presuming that maybe I'm saving 1 CENT worth of soap every time I shove a sliver into a piece of old sock... and presuming I'll do it once for every single bar of soap that I consume in a year...

I'll have saved 48 cents over the course of a year. WOO HOO!

I can't imagine how nasty panty-hose and soap will get over the course of a few weeks. It'll stay wet... it may even develop a mold or a fungus. YUCK

guardianfox

Wow, this is a gross idea. Just throw the soap slivers away, people.

MonkeySeeMonkeyDo

Slightly more attractive idea: Go to Wal-Mart, back in the craft/sewing section. Look for the bridal decor aisle. There will be small gauzy bags for use in holding rice to throw at the bridal couple. Buy a handful of these -- they've very cheap.

Put your soap in one of these and tie the bag closed with its ribbon closure. Use any extra bags for potpourri to put in your dresser drawers.

cbahm

My Grandam had this thing for soap slivers. It was a box about the size of a soap bar, it had a bottom and a top. you would put the slivers in there, close the lid and tighten this screw on the top. It would fuse the soap slivers in a bar.

alienhead

A slightly Less gross idea is to chuck the slithers into your laundry basket. The normally smelly basket has a soapy clean smell!

DarrenL