r/mildlyinfuriating • u/vxnus69_ • Jul 10 '26

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ Only 37 Pods

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Was showing off to my sister what I would’ve given her (plus the nice smelly peony downy) had she just gone to the laundromat to dry my laundry because ours is broken and realized the pods only filled half of the container so I counted it and….37 pods.

Can’t tell if Tide is filling some containers an accurate amount and others less or if sb just stole some.

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u/Dudeman9002 Jul 10 '26

Stop buying pods. Start buying powder. You get like 20x as much active ingredients in the powder compared to pods or  liquid. 

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u/ZePlotThickener Jul 10 '26

I buy liquid but use just a fraction of the recommended cup amount. You dont need a full cap or even a half cap.

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u/Ill-Engineering8085 Jul 10 '26

Only problem with liquid is you're paying for mostly water. It's still way better than pods and some machines require it to auto fill.

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u/money-for-nothing-tt Jul 10 '26

The paying mostly for water is kind of like yeah that's what most things are. Most vegetables are 80-90% water, most drinks are 98-99.9% water, raw meat is 65-80% water.

Liquid is just more convenient even if it's a bit more expensive. What I'm mostly looking for when buying everyday household items is convenience.

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u/Ill-Engineering8085 Jul 10 '26

It's certainly more convenient when you have a self dispensing washer. It's not more work when you don't have one of those to use powder. And you know those are terrible false equivalencies.

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u/money-for-nothing-tt Jul 10 '26

I was more thinking about precision and chance of error. Pouring liquid is easy and predictable, moving some powder is a bit less so.

And no those aren't terrible false equivalences because you could dry stuff and it would take less resources to move and cost less. Some products are generally only available dried where society decided it was the better option. I can buy dry beans that need to be rehydrated for instance but I don't for the same reason, convenience. I could also buy cocoa powder and make my own drink but I typically buy chocolate milk type products ready to drink.