This morning as I was pounding on the bottom of the empty moisturizer bottle to force out just enough to cover my face post-shower, I got to thinking... why do I DO this? I use the same moisturizer that I have bought for and encouraged my 11-year old daughter to use, so there is a brand new, already opened and in use bottle right next to the one that belongs in the trash on the bathroom sink. But for more than a week now, I've been picking up the old one every morning, pounding it onto the palm of my hand, pulling the pump out and sliding my finger along it's shaft to get the residue there, and moisturizing my face. And I know, you may say, you do it BECAUSE youv'e been doing it for a week and there's still some there, but I still ask--in the presence of a brand new bottle, one which I encourage my daughter to use--why am I bound and determined to force out the dregs?
It's more though. I bought a new bottle of shampoo, and used it to refill the larger bottle in the shower. Then saved the bottle I poured from and fill it with a little water each morning and shake it around to use that. I'm perfectly satisfied with the lastlastlast tiny squeeze of toothpaste, because, as my friend Randy says, "there's always one more".
So I wonder to myself, why can't' I just let go of the old one and move on to new, fresh, better things, especially when they are sitting right on the counter be used by others, at my bidding?
Just wondering....
