Comments on: Halve It!

By: Andreas Cavezon

Andreas Cavezon — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:06:46 +0000

Even though I found this particular write-up really helpful, I couldn’t help but to contemplate whether the stats you utilized are legitimate. That statement seems rather weird to me. Any ideas whether or not it is genuinely true?

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:59:27 +0000

When I was young, the instructions on bottles of hair conditioner said to add a capful to a cup of water. By the time I was an adult, the advertising proclaimed that we were no longer required to dilute the conditioner, how wonderful. Of course, all that meant was that we used twice as much as before.

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:31:22 +0000

This is especially true for products that you have to purchase repeatedly – things like laundry and dishwasher soap for example. The manufacturer’s desire to have you purchase as much of the product as possible is built into their “recommendations” for use. With a lot of them, even a quarter of the suggested amount is plenty to do the job.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:02:08 +0000

I find this particularly useful if you’re the sort of person for whom things get much more appealing the minute they’re forbidden. Trying to cut out packaged snack foods entirely makes me Crave Crunchy Snack Foods All The Time, when normally I might have some nuts or chips two or three times a week. But just trying to eat less packaged snacks is fine, because I know they’re there should I really want them.

By: valereee

valereee — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:02:34 +0000

I use half the ground meat/diced chicken called for in recipes on a regular basis and no one even seems to notice. I usually just add more veggies to make it up — in a baked chicken casserole last night that served six, I diced a breast, thigh, and wing and doubled the amount of sauteed celery and onions.

By: hick chick

hick chick — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:20:22 +0000

So I guess that means I really can ‘halve it all’, perhaps that should be the NEW american dream! (Or perhaps a new challenge?)
Kris

By: Mark N

Mark N — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:28:08 +0000

Cutting your own hair is not that hard for us guys. You just take the clippers, set it on the closest setting, hold a mirror in your hand as you look in the bathroom mirror, and bzzzzzzzz…done.

By: John Andersen

John Andersen — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:55:11 +0000

As a professional carpet cleaner, I’ve found by using a powerful vacuum, and a pile lifter first, you can almost eliminate the use of cleaning chemicals. The final step in most cases is just steam. Plus, with all of that prep ahead of time
you use less water.

So many procedures can be improved this way if we just think them through.

By: kerrie

kerrie — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:20:20 +0000

i was wondering this a.m., as i ran water into the soap bottle, if i was going to make us all sick by having not-so-clean dishes. i’ve been doing this for about 6 months and no one has died yet, but still. glad to hear it officially sanctioned! as far as the t.v., i was hoping you’d say i could chop it in half. it is my husband’s and i despise it.

By: jenn

jenn — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:25:46 +0000

When I saw the subject line, I immediately flashed on a memory of my grandmother cutting paper napkins in half, folding them into rectangles and putting them in the napkin holder on the table.

My stepdad always insisted on watering down dish soap – and this is actually better because it emulsifies the soap and makes it more effective.

I usually will cut any sort of fruit juice beverage (like the Izze sodas or italian sodas from Whole Foods) with water or sparkling water… and usually water down my sparkling water by 50% with tap water.