Today I helped my elderly next door neighbors pack up their house. They are going to a three room apartment.
The amount of stuff I helped her clean out of the bathroom cabinets was astounding. There was so much stuff she couldn’t let go of. Multiple tubes and bottles of creams, lipsticks and so on.
So this evening I started on the under sink areas. Two done, two to go. Expired items and some I haven’t used in years gone.
Getting a toolbox ready for my niece.
I remember from a recent skimming of a “clean out your house “type book that the author recommended to get rid of everything in the bathroom. all those tubes of creams and lotions and etc., etc. just need to be pitched. He recommends getting rid of the medication’s responsibly, of course, but the rest, unless it’s your current every day medication’s, pitch at all and that’s because no matter what it is so old anyway you probably should not be ingested.Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere
that may seem pretty radical, but I can see Her overall points.
With medications, I would just go by the expiration dates.
When Steve passed, and I was asked to move in, his caretaker, cleaned out his medicine cabinet.
Nope, she used a linen closet as his medicine cabinet, and had "no idea" that medicine cabinet in the bathroom was one, or things were LONG expired. I cleaned that one out and she was shocked to find out it was in the bathroom.
I know that a lot of online resellers say they check out the bathroom first during estate sales, because things like old discontinued fragrance and body powders can be really valuable. There is currently Jean Nate' powder on eBay being offered for $98.
We don't have clutter in the bathroom. There isn't enough space for it!
we don’t have clutter in our bathrooms either, mainly because I just don’t use lotions and powders and etc., etc. Even in our old house where we had the typical double sink bathroom with a tub and a shower, we didn’t have that much stuff, it was easy to clean out.
That is so weird. I have never heard of a estate sales people going into the bathroom to see what they could get there that’s valuable. I just assumed everything there was not valuable.
I’ll bet that our bathrooms are even smaller than yours! They are tiny bungalow bathrooms with one sink and just the basics.
I used to go to estate sales in Michigan and buy things like aluminum foil rolls for a quarter. The open bottles of things were too creepy.
We only have one bathroom. It is 64" by 67".
I love how practical and frugal that is! And I bet if no one had purchased them, they would have simply been tossed into the garbage!
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