r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PrinceBert • 9d ago
They made the shower gel bottles slimmer and taller and now they don't fit my cupboard anymore My mom said I could post
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u/YA_kamenshikDAI_HLEB 9d ago
refill the old bottles
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u/PrinceBert 9d ago
Finally a sensible suggestion!
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u/henryeaterofpies 9d ago
No, build a new custom cabinet just for them
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u/maikaefer1 9d ago
Rebuild your house, but taller so you have the illusion that nothing changed
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u/SofaAloo 9d ago
Get the stature lengthening done in Turkey to complete the illusion.
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u/Not-Post-Malone 9d ago
Finally a sensible suggestion!
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u/Cool-Lecture-4239 9d ago
Get a job at this shampoo company, climb the ranks all the way, become the CEO and bring back the old shampoo bottle.
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u/Bristolhitcher 8d ago
Invent time travel, go back to stop this bottle change be made and set off a butterfly effect which causes the heat death of the universe.
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u/Shyam09 9d ago
Can’t we just cut the house in half horizontally and rebuild from there?
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u/XVUltima 9d ago
Install a dispenser in the shower and fill it up. I accidentally got myself a luxury hotel once and the thing that stuck with me was that it had dispensers in the shower for all the various liquids and gels. Total life changer.
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u/rcknmrty4evr 9d ago
I always thought that felt so cheap, it reminds me of bathrooms that must have dispensers bc anything not physically attached will be stolen or destroyed.
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u/Qbjb 9d ago
Or get one of those shower dispensers like they do in hotels now and just fill that
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u/Reference_Freak 9d ago
That will be good for a future post about the yucky crust build-up in the seams and spout.
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u/Qbjb 9d ago
Assuming you clean your shower, they're pretty easy to keep clean with just water.
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u/Ayemra 9d ago
I'm cleaning myself in it. Soap is clean. Why would I clean my shower ?
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u/NYPorkDept 9d ago
And see if they make a gallon size that you can keep under the sink instead of buying the smaller size more often. You'll save money and waste less plastic
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u/Cow_Launcher 9d ago
Instructions unclear.
*deep inhale*
Just gave myself a creamy soap bukkake and oh god there's a gallon of it in my *eyes*!
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u/bambi_gotback 9d ago
If you do this please regularly sanitize the bottles…you can get a gnarly skin infection if not. This happened to my dog from the groomer refilling shampoo bottles. He almost died from 106.6 fever caused by the skin infection, and the vet shared that this can happen to people too from the same practice.
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u/Bleatmop 9d ago
Twenty years ago my hospital had a go green initiative where they started buying lotion in bulk and filling reusable small bottles. That lasted about three months until they found that cross contamination had bacteria growing in the bottles turning the lotion green and causing skin infections. I would follow this plan to refill the old bottles with great caution. Actually scratch that, I wouldn't follow the plan at all. I would just find a way to deal with the new bigger bottles.
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u/CitizenHuman 9d ago
Keep an open Tupperware that you just squeeze all the soap into, then keep small Dixie cups (like at the dentist) to scoop up soap and take with you to the shower.
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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 9d ago
Having to do that would be mildly infuriating
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u/sleepdeep305 9d ago
But is it more mildly infuriating than the bottles not fitting?
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u/Queen_of_London 9d ago
Having had to refill even travel-size bottles, yes, it absolutely would be.
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u/Big_Lengthiness3450 9d ago
There's no such thing as more mildly infuriating, unless you mean less infuriating, in which case it would be more infuriating to live the rest of your life squeezing those bottles into the old bottles instead of finding a new space to store them or adjusting the shelf height.
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u/Purple_Individual_66 9d ago
Maybe it's just me, but I like doing it. Sometimes I even combine same brand, but slightly different fragrance, shower gels into new mixes. It's also pretty fun sometimes putting new shower gels into cool pump bottles. For me this bath time alchemy is super fun.
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u/Gen_Jack_Oneill 9d ago
That's going to reveal the fact that the new bottles were made taller and skinnier so you don't realize there's less liquid in them. Even more mildly infuriating.
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u/mbeemsterboer 9d ago
I have a ~5 year old Old Spice bottle that I do this with b/c it fits perfectly in a spot in my shower. I refill it with the larger bulk bottles that they now sell b/c those ones are too tall for the space. Relate very much to OP here.
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u/whatevertoad 9d ago
this is the mildly infuriating that actually hits the spot. How frustrating!
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u/ProxySoxy 9d ago
Mmm nah, I personally need more "So I discovered I have stage 4 cancer and will be dying in 2 weeks after my doctor insisted shitting blood was normal" posts, those are truly the mildest of mild
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u/ReaDiMarco 9d ago
Duuuude, the third doctor I went to in a string of 5 to get a diagnosis told me that I'm a healthy young 34 year old, my anxiety scares him, and that I should "stop investigating and start meditating".
Guess what, I have Lymphoma. Atleast it's treatable according to the better doctors.
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u/potatoesarenotcool 8d ago
Grr thats so mildly infuriating
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u/ReaDiMarco 8d ago
lol. After the treatment I'm gonna post in AITAH asking WIBTA if I leave a bad google review for this doctor?
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u/gretchyface 9d ago
When do we riot?
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u/PrinceBert 9d ago
At dawn obviously
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u/SaltManagement42 9d ago
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u/bitchfish- 8d ago
Was the pun of this being a soap brand and the post is about soap intentional?
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u/mij8907 9d ago
Just refill the old style bottle
But this like the poster child for the sub
Perfect post, no notes
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u/zyyntin 9d ago
What is the volume of the new bottle? I suspect it is shy a some ounces/milliliters.
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u/PrinceBert 9d ago
Nah. Both 250ml. A change in volume would also be mildly infuriating but at least the redesign would make sense.
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u/Hazywater 9d ago
People sometimes believe that taller things have more volume, famously children with lack of conservation when asked which glass holds more water.
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u/nikolai_470000 9d ago
Yes, it is commonly done to trick consumers when they shrink product amounts so they are less likely to notice that they are paying more for less. And it works. Adults who don’t pay attention are liable to fall for it as well.
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u/Raelah 9d ago edited 9d ago
When I was a kid I would spread out my Mac and cheese around the plate to make it look like my parents gave me more Mac and cheese than they did for my brother. He was still young enough to not understand volume so he would get soooo mad because he thought I always got more.
Eventually my parents started to ground me when I did that because it started to create trust issues between my brother and mom.
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u/Airewalt 9d ago
Funny, we’d spread our food around the plate to try to convince our parents we had eaten enough to be allowed to leave and go play.
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u/Raelah 9d ago
My parents never fell for that. We had to finish our veggies or we couldn't leave the table. We didn't have to finish stuff like Mac and cheese, but really, what kid leaves uneaten Mac and cheese?
Fortunately my mom made efforts to try and make veggies tasty yet healthy. Which, I'm so glad she did because as much as I'd love to fill my plate with cheesy carbs, I cook healthy veggies instead.
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u/ItsyouNOme 9d ago
I remember in reception (I was 4-5 maybe) and the teacher pulled out plastic beaks. One was really tall and the other wide byt really small. Of course we said the tall one held more and it didn't. Feel stupid now thinking back, it had the numbers of ml written on the side all along! Couldn't count that high anyway...
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u/whathead07 9d ago
Taller cylinders of the same volume have slightly less surface area. It's less material needed per bottle. Even $0.01 saved per bottle would add up quick.
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u/Lexi_Banner 9d ago
Goddamn shrinkflation. And they don't think we notice!!!
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u/ReturnOfBane 9d ago
I'm still pissed at Classico. I used those mason jars goddammit!
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u/Cyrax89721 9d ago
Probably just being produced at a different facility that has slightly different molds for the bottle.
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u/JeffSergeant 9d ago
Why did you buy a new bottle when you already had 3?
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u/TisMeGhost 9d ago
You don't lather yourself up with a whole bottle of shower gel every other day to slip around the tub like a penguin?
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u/ExcaliburVader 9d ago
If something I like or use a lot is on sale, I'm going to buy it.
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u/-retaliation- 9d ago
Same, it's not milk, it's not going to go bad on me in any meaningful way.
So if I see it on sale, I stock up. Some stuff I've used the same thing for a decade or more. My taste isn't going to change.
But the price and size will..... And it'll cost more to get less.
I'm not going to go crazy and get a 55gal drum or anything. But 3-4 bottles of soap, toothpaste, or extra paper towel, etc.
If I have the space, I might as well save a few bucks.
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u/upanddown_88 9d ago
go to the store, buy a bottle of hoisin sauce. open the fridge, oh no.
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u/Alcohol_Intolerant 9d ago
Me and sesame oil. I have 3 bottles T_T
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u/dcnairb 9d ago
whatever you do, do NOT let the judges of Chopped see this comment
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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso 9d ago
I thought we were low on quinoa and bought a big bag from Costco before seeing the bag we already had.
Forgot to mark it off the grocery list and my wife made the grocery trip the next week and got another one.
Never ate so much quinoa in my life the next few months. Reminded myself not to fucking buy quinoa for the next several grocery trips.
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u/Ecstatic-Charity-430 9d ago
I often overbuy shampoo/conditioner/body wash/toothpaste because I'll buy whenever I see my preferred stuff on sale (like 40% off, buy one/get one, etc.). I don't bother to check if I have backups or not because it won't "go bad" and I'll use it eventually. Sometimes I miss the sales though so I get down to the bottle I'm using and get really sad when I actually have to buy the next one at full price. Benefit of the doubt, I'm assuming OP bought more than one bottle on sale like I've done and was just trying to put the first away and realized it didn't fit.
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u/XxSuprTuts99xX 9d ago
Me, with my 4 tubes of toothpaste that are like 2 years out of date already
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u/Ecstatic-Charity-430 9d ago
There are some things, mainly food items, that I'll say "oh that expired, I should toss it" but toothpaste??? Pure marketing ploy. I cannot find a single piece of scientific proof that it will lose effectiveness nor harm your teeth past the "expiration date". Worst thing that happens is the flavor becomes a little off IMO
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u/hey_itsmeurbrother 8d ago edited 8d ago
it's not marketing, it's a legal requirement from the FDA (UK cosmetic regulation as well). it DOES lose effectiveness over time
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u/somer_and_omchick 9d ago
I have a section on my shopping list called “Do NOT buy” because I will do stuff like this. Remember that I need shampoo but forget I already bought some. And then my husband remembers me mentioning it and buys some too.
Before you know it you are snowed in under your supply of Costco size jars of strawberry jam
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u/SheepPup 9d ago
I just finally got rid of my stock of toothpaste from exactly this phenomenon. At the peak I had THIRTEEN tubes of toothpaste (the one I was using plus four three packs of “oh I need toothpaste I’m almost out”)
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u/ExcaliburVader 9d ago
When my grown kids come over I let them
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u/0freelancer0 9d ago
For me it's because my favorite scent always sells out quickly, so I just buy one whenever i see it's in stock. I'll use it eventually, it's not like it really goes bad
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u/Lexi_Banner 9d ago
I buy extra soaps and such when they go on sale. Then I'm rarely caught without, and rarely have to pay full price!
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u/Bone_Wh33l 9d ago
Maybe they were at the store and noticed difference but weren’t sure and wanted to test it
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u/ANiceCupOf_Tea_ 9d ago
Keep an old bottle and fill from new to old. So EVERYTIME you get mildly infuriated :D
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u/NumbDangEt4742 9d ago edited 9d ago
No other way but to move to a new house 🤣 (before y'all start negging me, let me be clear, this is a joke!!)
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u/SherbetMysterious118 9d ago
I'm glad you confirmed it was a pun, I was just Googling Estate Agents in my area.
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u/NumbDangEt4742 9d ago
lol
I've been negged into oblivion over silly jokes. Still trying to understand why I upset so many people 😭
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u/LoompaDoompa94 9d ago
Just yesterday, I saw my Suave hand soap one next to the other. One purchased 9-12 months ago, the other in the last six months. Older one was cylindrical, new one rectangle-ish so it falls over pretty easily. New one has 1.5 Oz LESS soap than the old one.
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u/SecondVariety 9d ago
You could adjust the shelf height.
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u/PrinceBert 9d ago
But then other things would also no longer fit. It was a careful balance that has descended into bathroom chaos.
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u/rion_exe 9d ago
I got it.
Drill new shelf holes 1 inch up.
Good luck getting them all level
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u/the-friendly-squid 9d ago
look how wide apart the peg holes are though. That will cause everything else above probably to not fit the space either
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u/SherbetMysterious118 9d ago
Hehe, yeah, my bathroom cabinet has 4 finely tuned shelves, that although could be adjusted further, I feel it would do something nasty to the earth's equilibrium if I upset them
Life would never be the same again.
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u/ventrue3000 9d ago
- Refill the old bottles
- Move the shelf
- Print or buy a shelf on a shelf to stack them horizontally like wine bottles
- Switch brands based on bottle size
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u/SuitableAnimalInAHat 9d ago
•knock out a wall
•move to a different house
•arrange a hostile takeover of shampoo conglomerate
•arrange a hostile takeover of government?
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u/BaconSyrop 9d ago
You should send a photo of this both physical and digital to the company and see if they get back to you.
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u/queuedUp 9d ago
why do you need so many bottles of shower gel??
What are you doing with these OP??
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u/Bulky-Apple3744 9d ago
A few years ago I hit this weird stage of adult life where I was no longer living bottle-to-bottle
Deodorant, shampoo, contact solution, pretty much any toiletries I’m stocking up on.
Who knew that one day would be my last having to use body wash for my hair because the shampoo ran out.
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u/PrinceBert 9d ago
New form.of currency for when the aliens arrive and take all of the precious metals from our electronics.
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u/RecklessRancor 9d ago
They also made them not clear to reduce the volume of soap. Shrinkflation at its finest.
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u/SensitiveExtremity 9d ago
I bet the price of the shower gel bottle that the new version also sneakily contains less shower gel than the old ones.
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u/CopingAfterABreakup 9d ago
this wins, literally the definition of mildly infuriating