One of
the necessities that we all share, no matter our living arrangements is that we
all need to see to personal hygiene.
This includes
washing or some form of showering and yes, will include the use of shampoo. I am
no different. No matter what form of bath I use: shower, jug shower, or
bachelor’s bath, I will use shampoo.
One of
the challenges of this lifestyle is that since I drag my house around behind me
wherever I go, that things in cupboards tend to shift in transit.
This in
and of itself is not really a problem but what is the problem is things falling
out at you when you open that cupboard. This happened last night, prompting a
reminiscent situation.
I opened
my bathroom upper cupboard and out fell my shampoo bottle, aiming for my head. It
bounced off of me and hit a sharp corner of my bathroom sink counter.
This poked
a hole in the bottle, near the bottom of the bottle, of course. Oddly, enough
this was not the first time that this had happened to me.
This has
happened before and about a year ago, when I bought my last bottle of shampoo
(I don’t have that much hair) the pump in it was cracked.
I
thought about returning it to the store, but given the fact that the store
would write off the bottle and toss it out, I didn’t.
That seemed
like a waste as the shampoo was fine, just the bottle itself was damaged. Knowing
that all I needed was a new bottle, a sturdier bottle, I got to thinking.
I realized
that a good bottle was a plastic soda bottle. Since my shampoo bottle was one
litre in size all I had to do was buy a one litre bottle of soda and drink its
contents.
After doing
that, and washing the bottle out I ended up with something looking like this.
That tasty
looking concoction is my shampoo poured into that same soda bottle. I got exactly
two showers out of the actual proper shampoo bottle before having to go back to
this one.
Ah well,
it works, it is sturdy and as I said before, there is nothing wrong with the
shampoo itself, just the shampoo bottle.
This is
yet another example of the creative solutions that I am forced to find to
situations that most people don’t come across.
If you
do find yourself with a damaged bottle of something, don’t toss it out, just
find a new container.
As always:
Keep your head up, your attitude positive and keep moving forward!
Did anything ever come of that possible opportunity to park at a business that you mentioned a while back?
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