Glow by Lady E

  Decades ago, before I even started blogging, it was natural for me to finish a product that I bought.  It was common sense.  Before Project Pan or Empties was a thing, I’ve been quietly finishing products.  A quick tour in my archives will reveal plenty of products that I’ve used and loved through the years.  There’s something very satisfying about finishing a product down to the last drop.  Like some sort of accomplishment.  I feel like I got my money’s worth.  I didn’t love the products above.  They were okay.  They served their function. But they will never enter my space again.  This last one isn’t the exact product I used up.  I used up the blue variant, but forgot to take a photo before throwing it in the recyclables bin.  I couldn’t find one in my archives, too.  So this will have to do.  This was more used to the last pad than drop.  These are Mumuso nail polish remover wipes.  I love them....

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what stays.  Choosing beauty.  I said that I no longer let things stay that are not aligned with the life I’m building now.  That’s somewhat easier to say about non-tangible things. But what if it’s something - a product, an item, that I just bought? How do I deal with that? Do I throw it away or give it away immediately? What I’m learning in this journey is that I need to let different aspects of my being decide.  With product, of course my body decides.  No matter how much I like something, if my body says no, I stop. Like the lotion above.  The scent lingered too loudly on my skin.  I kept coughing.  But I had just bought it.  And I didn’t quite want to let go of it yet.  So I waited a few days and tried to think of something to do with it.    If my body says a loud no to some products, she also says a loud yes to some.  Like this soap. I didn’t think much of it.  I just saw the big...