[piskov]

> the empty Nutella jars were washed, kept and used as glasses for drinking - because buying new glasses was hard or expensive.

You do understand that sand is one of the most common things on earth (hence the glass is dirt-cheap).

Just as an example of those mentioned faceted glasses: their price was 7 or 14 copecks (good thing every one of them had the price stamped on the bottom). It’s less than the price of bread.

The only thing I could imagine about those Nutella being used as glasses is common “this is a thing from the coveted west”.

[kube-system]

> You do understand that sand is one of the most common things on earth (hence the glass is dirt-cheap).

If only it worked this way I could finally afford a 4090

[DiggyJohnson]

There's almost never a reason to start your comment with "You do understand..."?

There's a lot that goes into the cost of a good rather than the value of the raw ingredients.

[vwelling]

Well actually...

We're doing a pretty good job of making it a lot less common: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/problem-our-dwin...

There's even such a thing as Sand Theft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_theft

[bombcar]

Nice beach sand and glass-making sand are quite different; glass-making sand doesn't have to be nice and smooth.

[TeMPOraL]

Concrete-making sand on the other hand...