I'm in Purge-a-tory. Won't You Join Me?

No doubt my blog entries for the foreseeable future will largely focus on my upcoming PCS move. Oh, lucky you.... Currently, I find myself in the Purge-a-tory stage. It's not much fun. I'll be dragging you along for the train wreck, too. Let's both just try and make the most of it, shall we?

This week's installment of Purge-a-tory follows:

I love to keep a nice little basket of things in my guest bath for overnight guests. If you stay overnight with me and forgot a toiletry, there is no need to fret. No need at all. I've got just about anything you might need all in your very own private grab bag of toiletries. Soap (in many manly and not-so-manly varieties), razors, shaving creme, toothbrushes, night cream, bath bombs, towelettes, dental floss, curling iron, mints (yes, mints) bubble bath... You name it, it's there.

I always thought this was such a cute little individual-sized mouthwash for guests who feel the need to freshen their breath, or kill that nasty gingivitis that is known to attack the mouth late at night.

I've had three in the basket for a long time now. Hum, wonder why nobody took the bait. I mean, really, who wouldn't want to travel with this fresh little fella? 

Mystery Solved! Expired in 2006....

And I just know when a guest pulls or strains a muscle while reaching across the dinner table for something scrumptious I've made (don't say it AWTM), or participating in all the fun activities I've planned for them, this will make them feel better.

Or not:

Another mystery solved. Yeah.

I'm thinking I must have been in a fog in 2006. My apologies to guests who have stayed with me since.

Now if you'll excuse me, I must check all labels for expiration dates. Do toothbrushes ever expire? More to follow (I'm sure). Purge-a-tory ain't all it's cracked up to be, folks...... Remove the "e" and there you have it....

Comments

[Sly2017]

Bath bombs?

Must.Resist....
Must....Resist......

Nope, sorry, no-can-do.
The only "bath bombs" I know of I would NOT want hanging around in the bathroom for years on end, much less deliberately setting one off in the bathroom with me.

So, are your "bath bombs" pre-made gas bubbles in case your, um....*cooking* hasn't created the requisite amount?
How did you pre-make them?
How do you keep them from dissipating during their apparently lengthy tenure?
Do they have expiration dates, too?
And if so, wouldn't *bad* bombs be a good thing?

Inquiring minds (ok, maybe just mine) want to know these things. I have guests coming sometime soon.....
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[Andi]

I knew it was coming...

As for the bath bombs, given my demonstrated failure to notice expiry dates, I'm quite sure that the sizzle has fizzled so I should just, well, toss those bombs....

I'll leave the rest alone for now :)

[wifeunit]

When my friend came up to help me with the baby she instigated a trip to pure-a-tory in our kitchen. Not due to an upcoming pcs but a recent move in. Apparently spices have expiration dates too. I was holding on to early 2000 spices. And she convinced me to see the logic in feng shui-ing some of our sets of measuring cups into the trash. Because apparently 6 sets really isn't necessary.

I am scared to start the purge process of the glasses without my husband's ok. But it is on my to do when he gets back list.

[Erin]

I did the same thing with my bathroom supplies just this last weekend! It was time to get rid of full bottles of Shampoo that I haven't been motivated to use in YEARS and therefore there was no use in holding onto them!

[Tressa]

Purge-a-tory. I love it! I am there with you. I may or may not be moving, but I decided to be prepared. The kids really don't like this. :)

[A Soldier's Wife]

I am on the same schedule with you, I think, our report date keeps getting tossed up in the air like a birdie in a really high powered badmitten tournament, eh, either way, I go through this stuff and I know I just did it 22 months ago but its like this stuff climbed out of some outdated box from the twillight zone and landed in my cabinet, does soap expire? The kind in a bottle? Cause some of it I have, well it smells funky, so I chucked it....and I have determined I have way too much crap.....I guess I have 40 years of it, and it's been moved 5 times in 6 years......why does the Army continue to waste it's money on moving us so many times, I say ask me where I want to be, find him a job there and just move us there, end of story and spending good money after bad......I mean come on, we wasted our VA loan on a house we lived in for 343 days.....oops sorry kind of got off topic there, back to the bathroom.....ugh.

ASW

[Andi]

Wifeunit - I know about those spices. I carried a rack of them with me for ten years before finally tossing the whole thing!

ASW - It's a maddening cycle. I thought I just did this stuff, too. Either I didn't and I thought I did, or I did and just didn't do it to well. Not good either way. I'm beginning to worry about myself....

[Sly2017]

Maybe it's fumes from the bath bombs.....
Oh, I know! Ya got the *vay-pahs*.
*snort*
Oh wait, better not do that.
*snicker*
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