Why Can't I Just Throw It Away
As I was getting ready for work the other morning, my husband, in a supportive and loving way — really it was — commented that maybe I could find room for one more bottle of shampoo in the shower. I tossed an endearing gesture back at him and continued my morning rituals.
It wasn’t until I was in the shower, looking at 6 bottles of shampoo and conditioner, that it hit me in the face — Why for the love of Pete, can’t I throw things away. Yes, I had just brought home some heavenly lavender/mint shampoo from my beautician, and yes, I still had a some in the old bottles I brought home last time — some citrus bouquet I think. But then I noticed I still had dregs in the shampoo and conditioner from the time before last.
I don’t consider myself a packrat, nor living in an episode of hoarders, but I this morning the light went on and I knew that in every drawer and closet I would find almost empty bottles, boxes, makeup containers that I knew I would use up in an emergency. Not only would I find these products, but under my sink I stashed hand and dish soap containers with just enough to cover the bottom of the bottle.
Is it because I was a baby boomer growing up thinking there would be a nuclear winter and I would need all the shampoo and makeup I could find? Or maybe because I was raised by parents of the Great Depression where butter tubs and bread sacks would save us from starvation? Or could it be that I really just like the experience of opening something new — a new fragrance, a new color — and with one little whiff all of my good intentions of finishing the old things up, I mentally have moved on.
I have no idea why I do this, it pains me however, to throw away anything that is not completely gone — so I guess my solution is just to hide them under the sink until one day my children have to clean it out and put it on a hay rack at our estate auction.
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