This may come as a shock so please prepare yourselves.
You may want to sit down if you're not already.
But seeing you are reading this through a computer you probably already are.
Unless you have one of those data plans and you are somewhere on your phone.
THEN you'll want to sit down.
I do not have a data plan because I am cheap.
I digress.
So here it is...
Opps!
I had to stop and run out back because I could hear sawing outside on the deck stairs.
My kids are outside.
Sawing noises are alarming when they are only 2/4/6.
SO
You may not know...
I have some issues.
WOW, you say, you made me sit down for that?
You are thinking, I've known that for ages.
But for those of you who may not know me well, you'll be glad you sat down.
Right?
Some of my issues result from the aforementioned cheapness and we will now address that here.
This is my eyeliner.
What you may not be able to tell is they are just barely longer than my thumb nail. They are so short that to sharpen them I have to use tweezers to grasp them in the small holed sharpener or swirl them around in the large holed sharpener. Pliers would work well to grasp them by but I don't typically have pliers in my bathroom.
This is my lipstick.
See the brush in the background?
I use that brush to carve out every last bit of lipstick from the container until it is desert dry.
Here is my lip gloss.
When I cannot use the wand to reach the gloss anymore it annoys the pants off me that I still have at least a 1/4 inch of good gloss in the bottom of the tube. When you pay $14 for gloss you sort of want to get your money out of it, right? In those cases I resort to cutting open containers to extract the last bits of product.
I think I used a utility knife to cut through this one, lip gloss tubes are pretty thick. I remember distinctly thinking that if I cut my finger off opening this up it would go over real well with Erik.
Scissors are very helpful for lotion bottles. See all the lotion that gets stuck to the sides? All that would have been wasted but by cutting it open I am able to scoop out the last bits.
So that it doesn't dry out I just slip the top over the bottom half after I've scooped out the goods from the top, see...
When I cannot use the wand to reach the gloss anymore it annoys the pants off me that I still have at least a 1/4 inch of good gloss in the bottom of the tube. When you pay $14 for gloss you sort of want to get your money out of it, right? In those cases I resort to cutting open containers to extract the last bits of product.
I think I used a utility knife to cut through this one, lip gloss tubes are pretty thick. I remember distinctly thinking that if I cut my finger off opening this up it would go over real well with Erik.
So that it doesn't dry out I just slip the top over the bottom half after I've scooped out the goods from the top, see...
I cut open our Aveeno lotion (they are very thick and it takes a bit to get the initial snip to go through), we get a good weeks worth of lotion from the time the pump stops pumping lotion and I open it up. I've even got Erik trained so it's not always me cutting open our Aveeno bottles.
I can't figure out how to pry open my foundation to get the remaining mineral powder out. I can see probably a good weeks worth in there, if I could just get that top part to pop off. I haven't been able to force it open by hand or with scissors.
It will probably take pliers.
Maybe I should keep pliers in my bathroom after all?
