Why do I have this stuff?

[Spiky Bugger]

I’m SURE all of this stuff is “expired.” I need adult supervision to throw it all out.

 

[southernlady]

First off, anything with an expiration date, out it goes. Yes, I am aware much labeled with dates don’t actually expire but it’s a good way to start.
Next, anything in a busted package, out.
After that, it starts to get harder.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

First off, anything with an expiration date, out it goes. Yes, I am aware much labeled with dates don’t actually expire but it’s a good way to start.
Next, anything in a busted package, out.
After that, it starts to get harder.

How long until you get here?

 

[southernlady]

How long until you get here?

Too long

 

[Munchkin]

Most of us have this stuff. Well, maybe not if they have moved recently. I recently threw out some mascara that I am sure I bought during the Nixon administration.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Most of us have this stuff. Well, maybe not if they have moved recently. I recently threw out some mascara that I am sure I bought during the Nixon administration.

You know why I know I’m at least that crazy?

I sit here complaining about dry skin…old people dry skin, DS not absorbing oil dry skin, winter heater dry skin, summer AC dry skin…and have bottle after jar after tube of moisturizer aging in my bathroom.

 

[JackieOnLine]

I have way too much stuff, too, and I keep relocating so imagine if I settled in one place and it really accumulated!

I recently threw out some mascara that I am sure I bought during the Nixon administration.

it's funny, but I buy new makeup when I get the urge and then the next time I get the urge, I often throw it out and start over. because it really does go bad. and decades go by.

 

[southernlady]

I have way too much stuff, too, and I keep relocating so imagine if I settled in one place and it really accumulated!




it's funny, but I buy new makeup when I get the urge and then the next time I get the urge, I often throw it out and start over. because it really does go bad. and decades go by.

That’s one thing I don’t have to worry over. Last time I wore makeup was my wedding and I had it done professionally, using their’s not mine. That was over 25 years ago. At most, I put lotion on my face but nothing else. What you see is me.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

That’s one thing I don’t have to worry over. Last time I wore makeup was my wedding and I had it done professionally, using their’s not mine. That was over 25 years ago. At most, I put lotion on my face but nothing else. What you see is me.

Generally, that’s me, too. My sister was the one in beauty contests. I was the one in glasses, braces and muumuus. They only kept me around so I could bail them out with last-minute term papers. (I never wrote/submitted my own. Go figure.)

My sister does the makeup thing all the time. She REALLY CARES about how she looks. Last year, after being married to me for 48 years, MrSue was in shock when he saw my sister wearing GLASSES! She ALWAYS wears make-up and NEVER wears glasses, just her contacts. Forty-eight years and he’d never “caught her” in glasses and without her makeup!

But yesterday and today, I did the “do your face“ thing…to see how much of this stuff I “should” keep and use. Cleanser and toner and some weird Korean stuff that’s pink and foundation and things to make my cheeks a different color and eye goo and lipstick. My sister does this all the time. I don’t get it. The TIME it takes is oppressive. And then you have to worry about getting that stuff on your shirt or on a pillow if you decide to nap. And if you DO nap, the eye stuff gets smeared. Oh! And lipstick gets all over your tortilla. Who knew?!?

Men don’t do this. Why do women think they have to?

 

[southernlady]

My sister was the one in beauty contests.

Of the four of us, two made the effort to do the makeup. I’m number one, number two was like your sister, number three was like me, number four like number two. I think the makeup gene totally skipped two of us completely.

 

[DianaCox]

A few months ago, my daughter had surgery for endometriosis, fibroid morcellation, and repair of umbilical hernia. Her navel incision got a bit infected afterwards, and I suggested she apply some topical antibiotic ointment. She said she didn’t have any. I was totally surprised by this, at least because her husband is an EMT (now an OSHA safety engineer for a huge construction company), and he has all that stuff. She laughed and said when they had the home study for fostering (they will probably adopt at some point), they had to rid the house of all expired meds. Who otherwise throws out old antibiotic ointment??

I have at least 3 tubes of that ointment (and every other type of OTC medication), not one of them less than 10 years old. And makeup I almost never wear. I have determined that I will do a major cleanup and purge when we get home and start packing up to do a renovation on our house. Wish me luck - I may need a dumpster.

 

[JackieOnLine]

I have determined that I will do a major cleanup and purge when we get home and start packing up to do a renovation on our house. Wish me luck - I may need a dumpster.

don't forget you can hire someone to help with that - if it's hard (and it is, isn't it?) they can really get you going so might be worth it to get a professional.

 

[JackieOnLine]

I don’t get it. The TIME it takes is oppressive. And then you have to worry about getting that stuff on your shirt or on a pillow if you decide to nap. And if you DO nap, the eye stuff gets smeared. Oh! And lipstick gets all over your tortilla.

it can be inconvenient, dunno about my tortilla. there was a time I really enjoyed makeup - it was FUN! but only the choosing it and putting it on and wearing it - I hated taking it off!

 

[k9ophile]

LOL I have boxes I haven't opened. We moved here in 1997. I am thinking about looking into someone to hire and take it all away. I can think of maybe about a dozen things that I'd want to keep.