!! What is all this crap!

[bunn]

Finally having Something Done about the ancient underpowered shower that very occasionally decides to cascade water into the kitchen ceiling below, and is surmounted by the ancient extractor fan that wheezes, groans and hiccups.  I mean, it all works, more or less.  But this state of affairs seems unlikely to continue indefinitely.   Anyway, in pursuit of this goal, I had to clear out the cupboard in the shower room.  I have always thought 'what a good idea to have such a generously sized cupboard in here!'  But now I am thinking : excessive bathroom storage : it just SUCKS IN CRUD!


So many sad, cracked forgotten, almost-scentless soaps! An absurd number of headless razors!  Medication marked 'do not consume after 2003'. Did I really need such a wide variety of metallic nailvarnishes?  There is no way I am putting my fingers into the reeking pot of nail varnish remover, which seems to have brewed itself into something much more potent with age.    An unpleasantly dusty cluster of ancient tampon boxes, long rendered redundant by the mooncup.  FOUR forgotten hairbrushes, quite apart from the hairbrush that I usually use.  An absurd number of pink hairbands, remnants of collections of multicoloured hairbands of which the pink ones have been spurned (can you dye hairbands, I wonder?)

Ancient, nostalgic Body Shop Dewberry talc, discoloured but still with a little smell to it.   An almost untouched huge pot of sparkling 'body gloss'.  The time has definitely come to admit that's not going to get used...

Jars and pots containing hair... things.  Some of them are hair things that I had completely forgotten, that look terrifyingly complex, presumably for creating long-forgotten forms of Nineties (possibly even Eighties) Hair.

I have filled a binbag. Goodbye, dusty vanities! I wonder if I should just get that cupboard replaced with a larger bin...

Comments

[ideserveyou.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing this - I am sitting here with tears of laughter running down my face because it is such an uncannily accurate description of the contents of the bathroom cupboard I cleared out just before our recent move! Ahhh, Body Shop Dewberry talc, those were the days... the days before I forgot what those Eighties hair thingies were supposed to do...

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I am glad it amused you! Eighties Hair was before the digital camera age too, so I don't even have photos of the mysterious gadgets in use. Having to pay per photo processed certainly focussed the mind more on what you snap!

[chainmailmaiden]

Last time I was up at my Mum's I was trying to persuade her to throw out all the old half used boxes of tampons on the grounds I've had a mooncup for years. She was very reluctant but hates waste and was only convinced when I said I'd go into Carlisle & buy a new mooncup if necessary rather than go back to tampons :-)

I've also just cleared out a whole load of old nail varnishes tonight while looking for some pale gold nail varnish. It appears I'd already cleared that out though unfortunately. I have gone for pale metallic caramel instead :-) I like tidying out, especially when it's an excuse to buy new nail varnish to replace missing colours :-)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I used to enjoy tidying, but I think we've been here too long now - tidying places that have been pre-tidied too many times is so dull. Or maybe I am just becoming even more slobbish as I get older.

[seasight.livejournal.com]

And now I'm battling the urge to go through my bathroom cupboards. I've been cleaning all day so I should probably quit while I'm ahead.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

*quails in terror before efficient cleaning-person*

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Huh, I've thrown out a similar collection of tat from the shelves on my dressing table in the not too recent past!

Slightly TMI possibly but I have mooncup envy, damn me and my inconvenient biology, I wish I could use one :(

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Ah, I wibbled over the TMI thing and then I thought, soddit these are perfectly normal functional objects, self-censoring would be daft!

Mooncups are such nifty objects: I can definitely see why having incompatible biology would be annoying.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Or you could rip out the old shower and merge it with the cupboard to make a bigger better shower (handy for when dogs roll in horseshit) that doesn't leak and saves crap accumulating.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Ripping out the old shower is a given (and has in fact now happened! ) But the only way to use the space where the cupboard was for showering would involve truly impressive gymnastics. Probably with one foot balanced on the loo and the other waving perilously in the air. :-D