Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Name That Obsession...

Sun ripened Raspberry, Coconut Lime Verbana, Amber Romance, Vanilla Bean, Twisted Peppermint, Brown Sugar and Fig, Candy Apple, Coco Cabana Cool Citrus Basil Cotton Blossom Country Apple Creamy Coconut Exotic Coconut Flowering Herbs Green Clover & Aloe
Green Tea & Cucumber Juniper Breeze Lemongrass Sage Night Blooming Jasmine Pearberry Plumeria Rice Flower & Shea Seaspray Sheer Freesia Strawberry Lemonade Sun-Ripened Raspberry Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin Water Blossom Ivy ...
Give up??
Lotion! And at one time in my life (roughly age 12 to age 25) I had a major unquenchable obsession with it. I hoarded it. I just had to have every 'flavor'. I have come to terms with it and can now admit i was out of control. Case in point: I had a large rubbermaid bin thingy and it was completely full, plus I had many other lotions that wouldn't fit in there.
So today due to depression of somesort and an overwhelming need to occupy my brain, I decided to clean out my lotion stash. And that is what I did. In fact I pretty much purged it all. You may think it crazy to throw out perfectly good lotion, but let me make something clear. A bottle of gray lotion that is 15 years old and used to be pink, is pretty much disgusting and will never be used for anything. (maybe I should have kept it as fingerpaint for my kids??) I couldn't quite fathom getting rid of all of it... so I did allow myself 15 bottles. How many does that mean are in the garbage? I counted. 124. Wow. Now what should I keep in the rubbermaid bin??

4 comments:

Sam said...

Yay, i was hoping you would talk about all those lotions in that bin when i gave you that topic. Woot! You should give the bin to Oaklee for Christmas. It might be her favorite toy. I'll get crackin on that feather topic

Anonymous said...

Wow!!! Good for you for purging. That would definitely have been hard for me to do.

cari said...

I love lotin! But your right old lotion really has no value. Although, did it still smell good? No forget I said that, cleaning out old things is good for you. to declutter cleans your brain out as well. That's how it feels anyway.

Rachel Banks said...

Hilarious!