Excess Everything
I've made a few more decisions related to NSFY.
Decision #1: Target is not safe for me. I will have to do all my Target shopping online because I just am not strong enough to walk into Target with a list of things and walk out with only items on the list.
Decision #2: No more products! I'm going to use up all the hundreds of different-scented lotions, body washes, and shampoos that are taking up an insane amount of space in my bathroom. If you've been around me in the last few days you might have noticed I smell like a spring lilly. That would be because I'm trying to use up all the horrible scents I thought, at one point, I needed. Starting with a spring lilly scent I bought last summer because it was on sale.
"Why not just throw them away?" My dad asked today at lunch.
Because! Because! That's the whole point: excess consumption brought me to this place where I had enough clothing items to fill entire houses and an unbelievable array of perfumes and lotions. It's like this is the only way to make that craziness a bit more sane: the crazy act of sanely using all that I bought. Or maybe it's a small punishment that will force me to rethink the next time I'm faced with a bottle of marked-down "Japanese Cherry Blossom." Maybe, just maybe, my thoughts would return to this time when I smell of all kinds of horrible high school scents and I'll be inspired to put the bottle down. Walk away from the bottle. Go buy Johnson & Johnson.
So I suppose this means my NSFY has crept from the closet to the bathroom. No more new bottles of lotion/body wash/shampoo until the bottles I have are empty. Will be interesting to see how long this will go. Months? The full year?
One thing I refuse to add to the NSFY adventure: books. I'm taking my spring-lilly smelling self on down to Barnes and Noble just so I can visit a cash register.
Decision #1: Target is not safe for me. I will have to do all my Target shopping online because I just am not strong enough to walk into Target with a list of things and walk out with only items on the list.
Decision #2: No more products! I'm going to use up all the hundreds of different-scented lotions, body washes, and shampoos that are taking up an insane amount of space in my bathroom. If you've been around me in the last few days you might have noticed I smell like a spring lilly. That would be because I'm trying to use up all the horrible scents I thought, at one point, I needed. Starting with a spring lilly scent I bought last summer because it was on sale.
"Why not just throw them away?" My dad asked today at lunch.
Because! Because! That's the whole point: excess consumption brought me to this place where I had enough clothing items to fill entire houses and an unbelievable array of perfumes and lotions. It's like this is the only way to make that craziness a bit more sane: the crazy act of sanely using all that I bought. Or maybe it's a small punishment that will force me to rethink the next time I'm faced with a bottle of marked-down "Japanese Cherry Blossom." Maybe, just maybe, my thoughts would return to this time when I smell of all kinds of horrible high school scents and I'll be inspired to put the bottle down. Walk away from the bottle. Go buy Johnson & Johnson.
So I suppose this means my NSFY has crept from the closet to the bathroom. No more new bottles of lotion/body wash/shampoo until the bottles I have are empty. Will be interesting to see how long this will go. Months? The full year?
One thing I refuse to add to the NSFY adventure: books. I'm taking my spring-lilly smelling self on down to Barnes and Noble just so I can visit a cash register.
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