April 22, 2010
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Earth Day Observance
Today was the fortieth annual Earth Day observance, and I marked the occasion by cleaning my bathroom. I’m not talking about routine cleaning, like scouring the toilet and mopping the floor. I’m talking about deep cleaning that involved unscrewing a soap dish and a toothbrush holder to soak them in cleaning solution and then going after both with steel wool. I tried to buy replacement fixtures, but, after they told me at the fourth store I went to that they really don’t make wall mounted soap dishes and toothbrush holders anymore, I gave up and cleaned the old ones. Incidentally, the handles on today’s toothbrushes are too thick to fit into my toothbrush holder anyway.
I have a cabinet in my bathroom that measures 18″ x 24″ x 9″. You can cram a lot of stuff in something that big, and I had it loaded. I had an empty can of shaving cream, a couple of half-used tubes of toothpaste, a partial bottle of mouthwash that I haven’t touched in well over a year, two packages of stuff to glue dental crowns back on, and several empty prescription bottles. My favorite discovery was a tube of some kind of skin medication that the dermatologist had given me as a sample. I checked the expiration date to see if it was still good, and it had expired in 1990. I might not have had much of an impact on global ecological issues, but at least my bathroom is clean.
ED
Comments (1)
I usually do an Earth Day post every year but didn’t have a chance to this year. Wow, skin medication that expired in 1990, that broke my record of recently finding baking soda that expired in 1996. I think I still have some of my dad’s booze even though he has been dead since 1980. Of course, booze doesn’t expire but instead some booze gets better with age.