Move along, Sam. This post won’t interest you at all – it’s part of my memory archives.
It’s been nagging at me for quite a while how many bottles and tubes of junk I have in my bathroom cupboard. I think it was the hairspray post that made me think that maybe it was time to do something about it. For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to whittle away at all those extra things and use them up, and I thought about taking a picture of them all before I started. I really wish I had, because here is a mid-way picture, and it’s so embarrassing. Tiny half-empty bottles of shampoo that I can’t bear to leave at hotels because they’ll just throw them away; little samples of lotion and conditioner, ‘miracle’ lotions that I tried a few times and stopped using; many, many kinds of hairspray; and TWO kinds of nail polish remover. I don’t even paint my nails! The truly awful part is this isn’t even all of it. I have a stash of large-bottle shampoos and I didn’t show all the stuff that I use on a daily basis, or the stuff in my travel bag. Or the teacher-gift lotions/bath stuff in the downstairs bathroom! (I clean the toilets with the shower gel, though, so at least that gets used up.) Arrrgh!!!
Some eco-freak I turned out to be. This is ridiculous.