(no subject)

[ursamajor]

i never want to receive another bar of soap for a present, ever again.

i don't mean this in any sort of ungrateful way, or to sound utterly spoiled or anything like that. it's just that i haven't bought *myself* a bar of soap in over two and a half years, because i tend to like the body washes better and they tend to moisturize my poor dry skin a lot more effectively. (on average, i go through a bottle of body wash every 2 months or so, and i shower on a regular basis.)

yet, somehow?

i spent a good portion of this afternoon being resolute in my decluttering (cleaning out under my bed); so far gone entirely through one chest of drawers and two large boxes. i also cleaned out under the bathroom and kitchen sinks, because those were getting cluttery as well and trying to find the disinfecting cloths took entirely too long, as they were in the far back of the kitchen cabinet.

how many bars of soap did i find in my travails? how many? FOURTEEN.

i will not go through fourteen bars of soap before i move out of here; i will probably not go through fourteen bars of soap before i get *married*, and i'm not even dating anybody at the moment. i can only use so many as drawer-scenters. what the hell do i do with 14 bars of soap?!

(on a related note, i also found five extra sticks of deoderant, three of which were apparently on sale in a three-pack at star market awhile back.)

so, um, if you for whatever reason find yourself needing to buy me a present? do me a favor and go buy me a cute pair of chopsticks instead! because i like my chopsticks. and i'm using them to eat my pasketti dinner, which is culturally off but who cares, they're pretty and they dress up a crappy-ass meal.

on a not-so-related note, i love that more of you are checking off heehee, she said blow instead of any other option. i love my pervo smartarse friends. ;)

6/13/23: Apparently, my 14 bars of soap would pale in comparison to the HUNDRED AND FORTY ODD BARS OF SOAP hyounpark had stocked up on at some point before we started dating later this year, ROFL.

Comments

[pthalo]

Give 'em all away as Christmas presents next year!

[ursamajor]

*ggl* had i been sensible and started working on this organizing before christmas? you bet they'd be gone like STAT.

*waves pretty purple-and-jade-colored flowery chopsticks around in the air* see? pretty. non-drying. makes mouths happy. and cheaper than soap!

[thesunshine.livejournal.com]

Just make sure you don't regift a bar to the person who originally gifted it. That's happened to me a couple of times.

[ursamajor]

heh, oh dear. *g* i will be careful about that!

[deslea.livejournal.com]

Hee! Dude, when Nanna died, we found about seventy soaps she'd been given and never used. Some of them were beautiful designer-perfume soaps - Elizabeth Arden, etc. I'll use those when I really want to feel pampered. But the others are in drawers and all sorts of places! I only like plain unperfumed soap, for the most part.

[deslea.livejournal.com]

Oh - and if you want a birdseye view of how silly I can be? Originally, I accidentally posted this reply to someone else's post about circumcision. *headdesk*

[andrewshead.livejournal.com]

This comment made me laugh out loud:)

[ursamajor]

*ggl* ohhhhh, dear. but they need soap too! ;)

[anirt.livejournal.com]

If the soaps are all still in their packages, you could give them to a homeless/domestic violence shelter. Those places are always looking for stuff like that -- we always bring the collection from hotel rooms to those drives.

[ursamajor]

ooh, that's an awesome idea. some of them aren't, but most of them are. i'll look around for somewhere appropriate to drop off. thank you!

*looks in particular at the pink foot-shaped peppermint-scented soap and chuckles*