I know you are glad this isn’t a “scratch ‘n sniff” blog!
While sorting in the bathroom, I came across a box filled with lotions and potions. They were expensive beauty products I had bought (I probably enough on them to run a small country for a year), but they had gotten shoved to the back of the cabinet and I had forgotten I had them.
Some of them were creams that promised to smooth my wrinkles and make me look like a teenager again. I was dumb enough (or desperate enough) to believe those claims. Others were skin creams with such heavenly scents that I couldn’t leave them on the store shelves. All of them were more than two years old.
Everything I have read by the “experts of organization” in the last months has told me to grit my teeth and toss old beauty products in the trash can. But, I kept saying, “Not this one. NO, not THAT one!”
I put them back in the box and rationalized to myself, “I’m going to use them! What do those ‘experts’ know anyway? They are probably just making it up as they go along.”
To prove it, I opened my bottle of “Sandalwood Amber Milk.” Oh, it always was my favorite! It has such a lovely aroma. Now, it’s true that the lotion looked darker than I remembered, but it still smelled alright – sort of. So, I slathered it all over my arms and legs.
That lasted almost ten minutes before I had to hop in the shower to get that junk off of me! The smell of that aged lotion was atrocious! In the bottle, it was difficult to tell that the lotion had turned rancid, but when the lotion hit my skin – OOOOOEEEE! After a few minutes of breathing it, I wanted to gag! It smelled like a Witch’s Brew. It felt sticky and icky and just plain awful.
After my shower, I dumped all the lotions in the box into the garbage can without any regrets at all. They don’t call those organizers “experts” for nothing.
This journey began on a separate blog (you can click here to read About Out Of Chaos), but that wasn’t really simplifying was it? I moved all of the posts to This Eclectic Life under the category Out Of Chaos. I’ll be adding more from time to time. I hope you join me.
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