2023-02-13
16 分钟Hotel guests adore those cute little soaps, but is it just a one-night stand? In our fourth episode of "The Economics of Everyday Things," Zachary Crockett discovers what happens to those soaps when we love ’em and leave ’em.
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Back in 2009, Sean Seipler asked himself a question that has occurred to pretty much everyone who's ever stayed at a hotel.
At the time, Seipler was a bit of a road dog.
As a tech executive in sales, he spent around half his week traveling across the US, Minneapolis, La, St.
Louis, all over.
This is a guy who racked up a lot of nights in hotel rooms.
And on one of those trips, something caught his attention.
That little bar of soap in the hotel bathroom.
There'S a natural I don't want to waste things in me.
And as I would use a bar of soap one time, there was always a little nag inside of me that I'm leaving it here.
So in that hotel room in Minneapolis, after a couple cocktails, that nag led to asking the question.
I called the front desk and asked, what happens to the soap when I'm done with it?
From the freakonomics radio network, this is the economics of everyday things.
I'm Zachary Crockett.
Today used hotel soaps.