Project use-it-up

I love bath and body products.  Really love them.  But my rate of use seems inversely proportional to the amount left in the bottle.  Here’s the body lotion situation under my bathroom sink, with the two largest bottles containing no more than 10% of their original volume:

That doesn’t include the bottles that I stuck in my gym bag in hopes of using them up.  And let’s not even talk about the perfume situation, or the hair product situation, because I really like trying a variety of those things, too.  To be fair, though, the hair product situation is usually worsened by running out of my products of choice, not finding them at the store, and having to substitute with something that ends up being kind of crappy but not necessarily awful, and therefore really difficult to use up.  But now I order my mousse by the economy pack (see left side of picture), because just when I find something that really works, they stop selling it in any brick and mortar store and I have to hoard it by the case via Amazon.

Now that I’m looking at that picture, I’m pretty sure a couple of those items are probably close to ten years old.  Once in a while the whole ‘products’ thing just gets so out of control that I purge anything I know I’ll never use, but apparently I am in denial about some things.  I’m really sick of looking at this motley collection of lotions, so I am currently sporting the most thoroughly moisturized skin in Houston.  Darn it, I am determined to get through these stupid lotions…so I can try some new lotions.