The Half Rule

A great rule.

(tip of the cap to J at Budgets Are Sexy for re-publishing the post on his site, which is how I found it)

“The Half Rule” – A Frugal Hack I Live By [Frugal Confessions] – “I started playing around with this over a decade ago. and I can’t tell you how much money it’s saved me (without having to buy generics or go without).

You see, I’m going out on a limb here, but I think we all use too much product.”

We discover this a lot whenever a dispenser is involved… do you really have to push it all the way down? With shampoo, and my short hair, I get by with about a dime’s worth of shampoo. If I pushed the plunger all the way down, I’d probably get 3x more than I need (and I can tell because I’m washing out shampoo for much longer).

Half rule is a good rule.

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Jim Wang was born and raised in New York and founded Wallet Hacks in 2015 and Bargaineering in 2004. As a long-time fan of the personal finance community, he felt the absence of a strong content curation service and sought to build Apex Money to fill that void.

J.D. Roth was born and raised in Oregon and founded Get Rich Slowly in 2006. JD loves to write, and it shines in his work on Get Rich Slowly, but he also loves to read. As the chief content curator of Apex Money, it’s this love that shines through in the content we share.