Price Increase Alert: Clorox, Glad, Hidden Valley, etc.

[BamaLady]

Don't know if this has already been posted, if so, sorry for the duplication.

Clorox set to raise prices to offset costs - The Boston Globe

Stock up NOW. Clorox will keep for at least six months. You can buy the pool tabs for long term storage, if necessary. Break off a bit, mix in water and make your own fresh "clorox".

Anything made from plastic, or packaged in plastic is going up. Plastic is made from crude oil byproducts.

Garbage bags, you can never have too many. I would keep a years worth of several sizes. In fact, I do.

As each manufacturer raises prices, others will join in. Voila! Inflation. Anything you can get now will put you ahead of the game!

I just bought a big box of glad flap bags, I bought this 90 ct box for years. Well, the box is the same size but it rattles around like it is half empty, right? Actually about a third empty, now contains only 64 bags! How deceptive! I am so annoyed by this I might email them about it. I opened the box and it is partly empty, what a ripoff.

[skooterblenny]

Always divide the cost of the box by the number of bags you get inside (and only compare 13 gal to 13 gal, 30 gal to 30 gal, etc). I won't pay more than 8c/bag.

Last week they were B1g1 at Wags, with ESR to make them FREE!!! :D The best kind of deal!

[XUfan]

When trash bag prices started rising about 6 months ago, I called the family together for a "Trash bag meeting and in-service". I was on a mission to stop spending money on something that you buy...with the purpose of throwing it away!

At that time, we were using approx 3-4 trash bags (30 gallon, because they're stronger than the kitchen bags) each week. This was mostly because "smelly stuff" (meat wrappers, dirty napkins, chicken bones, etc) were being put into the kitchen trash can. It would start smelling bad, so someone would take it outside to the can, even if it wasn't full.

NOW....we keep a small bag (plastic grocery bag) on the counter. Anything that might smell is put in there, and taken to the outside can for disposal. We recycle all glass, plastic, metal and paper, so very little actually goes into our kitchen can. We only empty it once every 2 weeks now!! So, a box of 30 trash bags wll last me a year!!!

[latte]

add us in as chronic recyclers! i currently am recycling pop cans, soup cans, newspaper, cardboard, and i need 2 more buckets before i can start plastics and glass.........the problem is that everyone else in my house doesnt always implement it, so we still end up with recyleables in the garbage----but if they are on top i will snag them and put them in the proper place

as for clorox raising their prices, EVERYTHING is raising, but i dont buy too many clorox or lysol wipes because if we have them, i will use a canister a week, when i have cleaning supplies and rags and they do the same thing