Have I ever told you?

I stockpile cosmetics and bathroom/body products (you know...hair products, shampoo's, lotions, bath products, face washes, face masks, pedicure products). COMPLETELY. ADDICTED. I have so many and I keep buying more. I can't stop. "Hi, my name is Ginger and I am addicted to yummy smelling lotions. And lip gloss. And face moisturizers. And..." It's like I am afraid that the world will collapse and my biggest worry won't be finding a job, it won't be keeping my family alive, it won't be finding food to eat or clean water to drink. I stockpile body products like my biggest worry, if I had to face Armageddon, would be that I wouldn't be able to find Satsuma Body Butter from The Body Shop anywhere!

I currently have 6, yes I said 6, different types of face wash in my shower. And I have extra bottles of 3 of those 6 types (you know if case of emergency or in case they stop making it or something!). I actually have 3 bottles of one of the face washes, but that's only because I have one for my shower, one for near my sink and I just bought another bottle because it was on sale. I also have 3 different smells of body wash, 2 different types of shampoo and condition a body scrub and 2 different smells of shaving gel. I have about 7 different types of face moisturizer and countless bottles of body lotion lying around my house. And by countless I mean I have 3 large tubs of Almond Body Butter from the Body Shop, a few Strawberry ones, a few Satsuma ones, some Aveeno lotion, some Jafra Royal Almond Body Oil, some Burt's Bee's Carrot After Sun stuff, some Q-10 'supposed to help my cellulite' lotion, some Jason's Natural Lavender lotion, some Jergen's 'self tan as you moisturize' lotion...shall I go on, because I could? And if you notice, not a lot of this stuff is cheap K-Mart brand stuff. Most of my products are either more expensive brand cosmetics or Organic/Natural products which are just as expensive. I have a fortune worth of lotion sitting in my bathroom! It's too bad you can't invest bubble bath into your 401K, or pay your mortgage with chapstick.

I've recently starting buying stuff from Sephora. I mainly buy stuff online because they give you free shipping if you purchase $75.00 or more worth of stuff, and if you know anything about buying stuff from Sephora, you know you ALWAYS spend more than $75.00. Plus if you search the Internet for Sephora promo codes you come across valid codes for everything from a fashion jewel ring filled with lip gloss to a cell phone mirror to the more recent, a goodie bag of like 10 different samples. Plus if you join their stupid little club you always get a shitload of free samples, and the more money you spend, the bigger the samples get. Speaking of, I got my most recent order from them today. I actually got a free 3 oz sample of some body butter thing. It's awesome. Plus their little 'free 10 sample goodie bag' actually has more like 20 things in it because half of the samples have samples inside them (there's one that is a 'sample' but inside a little envelope there are sample sizes for 4 different types of products). It was awesome!

I also have a serious addiction to buying travel size products. I have about 5 half empty bottles of Alba's Very Emollient Body Lotion because I love the lotion and got so excited when I first saw it in travel size that I bought tons of them. I always figure I can put them in my purse, or in my car, or at work. Only I already have a travel size lotion in my purse, and in my car, and a few at work. I also have half a dozen travel sized body washes, shaving gels and shampoo & conditioners. I also hoard hotel bathroom products. Because you know you can always use them in the future for traveling...only I already have the travel sized ones at home, so you'd think my mind would tell me to step away from the mini soap, mini face moisturizer and mini lotion. But at is turns out, that is not how my mind works. In fact I've been known to steal extra's from the maid's cart while I am walking down the hallway. I have shoe boxes full of this shit underneath my sink. Right next to my back up bottles of shampoo, conditioner and body wash.

One of my (secret...so I can't believe I am telling you this) New Year's resolutions was to not buy ANY BODY PRODUCTS until I have completely used my back up supplies of everything. I've successfully gone 6 months without buying shampoo or conditioner. I could probably go another six.

Wanna guess what I bought this weekend? Almond Body Butter from The Body Shop...2 tubs of it. What? It was on sale! HALF PRICE. I just could not pass it up!