finish off a bottle of lotion before buying any more

You and all your smells and creams and addictiveness. I swear, this is my family’s standby Christmas gift every year, so we all have more than any human would know what to do with. So I’ve started applying lotion all over every night before bed and every morning post-shower. Two bottles gone, two more soon to go.

My gawd…finally. I lotioned every five minutes literally at the pool yesterday. I’m moisturized out. But I might do this again sometime. I need to get rid of all this excess body product that I seem to accumulate.

(Ironically, I bought two bottles of sunblock the other day, and because of my scrupulous use thereof, I’ve almost used one up. But that doesn’t count.)

To show the utter ridiculousness of my lotion collection, I’m going to list all that I have here:

The Healing Garden, Lavendertherapy Relaxation, 1.8 oz, half full
Bath and Body Works, White Tea and Ginger, 2 oz, a third full
Me Me Me, Extra Special, 6 oz, two-thirds full
Bath and Body Works, Cotton Blossom, 4 oz, two-thirds full
Bath and Body Works, Rice Flower and Shea, 8 oz, almost completely full
Bath and Both Works, Summer Fruit and Jasmine, 8 oz, almost completely full
Bath and Body Works, Honeysuckle, 12 oz, completely full
Bath and Body Works, Strawberry Swirl, 10 oz, two-thirds full
J. Crew, Classic, 8 oz, two-thirds full
Addidas, Moves, 6.7 oz, two-thirds full
Bare Foot Peppermint and Plum, 5.3 oz, two-thirds full

(I think the problem is that my relatives don’t know a thing about me, and so in order to purchase holiday gifts for me, they give me lotion, because every girl loves lotion, right? Wrong. Get me an Amazon gift card or something. Or buy me some frequent flyer miles. Hell, I’d even like it better if it were sunblock lotion. Damn.)

At any rate, I’m moisturizing up a storm. And I’m going to throw away an empty bottle by the end of the week.

Wow. I need to do this soooo bad. I have a bad habit of going to a store, thinking “Yum, this lotion smells soooo good.” And then buying it, even though I have like, four half full bottles left at home.

Halfway done…actually over halfway done. But the bottle is a teeny-size travel bottle. Shit!

Halfway done with a travel-size bottle of White Tea and Ginger. It’s going to be a long time before I get through any one of the big ones.

However, my skin is nice and soft, and rarely greasy. Which is nice.

Yeah, I definitely have way too much of this shit. About four full-size bottles in the bathroom, plus some in the box of extra bathroom supplies in my closet, plus a few tiny travel-size bottles. My relatives give them to me for holiday gifts…does this mean I smell? ;-)

And plus, we can always use more moisture in our lives.