What is Splitty?
It’s about SHARING!
Splitty is a simple online collaboration tool that helps you and your tribe make plans to split and share items or experiences BEFORE they are purchased.
It is about getting commitments to share items ahead of time, so that once purchased, the items can be perfectly and completely divided and shared, with no leftovers or waste!
What can be shared? Just about anything you can think of or imagine!
Items: You can ‘splitty’ and share ANY items of choice (retail, wholesale, or club warehouse).
They can be grouped together with a theme in mind, if you wish (i.e., a dish or recipe).
Salad with Walnuts & Feta Cheese
They can be your homemade creation or grown in your yard.
Experiences:You can ‘splitty’ experiences that YOU package together
or that someone else does.
The Benefits?
Get just the amounts you need
No leftovers or waste
Cost savings
Connect and share with friends and family
Feel supported in life!
How does it work?
Collaboration happens within a certain window of time — a Splitty Session.
BEFORE the Splitty Session begins, one person acts as Host and will decide what items to offer in the Session. Then, he/she will invite friends to participate.
DURING the Session, participants claim ‘splits’ of items they desire.
AFTER the Session ends, Splitty will email lists to the Host so he/she can purchase,
split, and distribute.
Reimbursement happens outside of Splitty by whatever means best suites the tribe.
Founding Story
It all started with a 2 pound bag of peeled garlic from Costco. I was attracted to it because it was peeled, and I hate peeling garlic. I was curious as to why garlic cloves would ever be sold in such massive quantity. I mean really, what average family or household would ever cook enough food to use up the entire bag all by themselves? Just out of curiosity, and despite my better judgment, I purchased it, used only 10 out of the more than 200 cloves over the next two weeks, and then tossed the rest in the trash after it had gone bad. What a waste! I later thought, “Why didn’t I just do the smart thing in the first place and share the bag with neighbors or friends who I knew also used garlic in their cooking?”
Hawaii is a very expensive place to live. It boasts one of the highest average cost of living in the United States. It is not uncommon to find multi-generational households there, with grandparents, children, and grandchildren living together in one house. That was my situation starting in 2001. I lived in a household of three generations, consisting of me and my husband, our three sons, my parents, and my sister. There were eight of us in total. And of course with such a large family to feed, I had to cook BIG and needed to find ways to save money doing it. It meant that for many years I shopped weekly at warehouse clubs like Costco and Sams Club for my ingredients. But when I think of all the spoiled products that I trashed over the years, did I really save money? What percentage of my purchases did I waste?