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Old Product:  Keep it or toss it?

8/26/2014

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Is it just me or do you, too, feel a bit annoyed at having to use up the last of a product before you can start on a new and improved one? What do you do? Keep using it or toss it out?

Let's say you've been using a products for awhile and you decide it isn't working like you had hoped anymore. Or maybe you've found another, better product that promises to be even more effective (for some reason - any reason). So you purchase the new and improved product to have on hand before you run out of the other. Now what do you do?

Why do I think it is a chore to have to use up the rest of the product when I've made the decision that something else is much better? Whether it is a new toothpaste, shampoo, dish soap, or make-up, I feel the same way - I just can't wait to jump in and use the new one. I feel like I have to suffer through the last quarter of the old product (when at one time THAT was the new and improved product).

Isn't that interesting? Is that our human nature - wanting to look forward to the next best thing? I've been trying to analyze that and realized that 'out with the old, in with the new' attitude sometimes gets applied toward cars, houses, relationships, and marriages, too. 

About the using up of an old product, some people I ask tell me that they throw the old product away. It makes sense that once the product is inferior, why use it? But that seems to go against the wish to be frugal. What do you?

I have a difficult time being content with the 'old' product when the new seems to be calling my name. I've been trying to change the way I feel about it. I found a quote on Pinterest that I like and printed it out so that I see it regularly.   It is:  Use it up, Wear it out, make it do, or do without.

I'm working on it.


About the image. I had done this sketch as colored pencil cross hatching. When it was scanned, it seems to blend together as blobs of color. I can't seem to crisp it up. Maybe I'll keep working on it in Photoshop.
4 Comments
Terri
8/26/2014 06:21:54 am

I like it the way it is. I use up the old unless it is a really bad product.

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Ann GR
8/27/2014 03:10:31 pm

Thanks for commenting!

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Ivana
9/4/2014 02:09:58 am

I sometimes start the new one too and use them both intermittently until the old one runs out. Especially when it comes to toothpaste. They have different flavors, so I use the one I'm in the mood for that particular time. It adds variety, so I don't feel like I'm depriving myself of the new thing, yet the old one gets used up. And when you do it like that, very soon both are used and equally desirable.

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LeahLW
9/4/2014 08:15:43 am

I like to think of it sort of as a new gift I get to look forward to, like Christmas. That makes me enjoy the last of the old product as I know that on its tail will come the new "surprise!" Unless of course the old is really hideous or has gone bad. :)

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