Spring Cleaning...Again

I'm lagging behind again. I had great visions of having all my spring housecleaning done before it was nice enough to go outside to do the yard clean-up for the year. But once again I have missed the mark and now will have to jump from one job to another and feel like everything is half-done.

One accomplishment was cleaning out the old, unused, out-of-date prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, health food supplements and the like. How they build up over the year.

Why do we try to keep these things forever? They have an expiration date, but it must be some 'hourding syndrome' that just doesn't allow us to toss those last remnants of bottles away.

I found 2 bottles of aspirin that had been lurking in the back of the medicine cabinet forever. They left.

I also have hung onto half-empty bottles of Vitamin E, Chondroitin Sulfate, Glucosamine Sulfate and Bee Pollen, of all things, for years.

I think the Vitamin E was probably supposed to help dry hair and skin, and the next two were probably supposed to help arthritis. I can't even remember what the Bee Pollen was for.

I am not good at taking pills, hence, half taken, they just sit taking up space.

They have now departed.

I also finally decided I was never going to use those last few drops of hand lotion in four large bottles. They'd only been moved from spot to spot for about 5 years, maybe that was long enough. They, also, are now in lotion heaven.

And let us not forget those old sticky bandaids. I always think that I should have bandaids in the house, just in case....but after a short time the adhesive is so gummy they are useless. I have decided that I will just have to do without bandaids forevermore. I have thrown out the last box I'm ever going to buy.

But my best find was an old roll-on deodorant that I didn't like but couldn't bear to throw away. I cringe to say how long that's been pushed around and moved from spot to spot. But it left this year.

I can't believe how much room there is now.....but I'm sure by next year I'll be back to another cleanout.