Briva wrote:
I have always diluted my dish soap, half and half with water. I fill a little tub with the sudsy water and wash my dishes. It seems like it takes for ever to go through my Palmolive.
My mom had a bad habit of using up paper towels. Where a roll would last me just over a week, she'd go through one in a day and a half. It was a habit of grabbing them to wipe her hands, or two or three to wipe off the counter. I keep kitchen towels to dry hands and smaller wash clothes to wipe counters, they are reusable. Kleenex was another thing. She also left them everywhere.
I don't actually dilute the dish soap but i use the tiniest drop i can get out of the bottle and it lasts me forever, too. I do use more water, tho'. I can't imagine the erasing dish soap lasting longer.
I think people like my mom and your mom probably got used to doing what was the least work and didn't worry so much about the cost. Mine uses a big squeeze of dish soap, even in a small pan. She doesn't use the paper towels much, tho'. THAT would be my dh. Our "nanny" had the philosophy that "if a little is good, a lot must be great!". Lotsa soaps and bleach and pine smelling stuff was gone thru!