Mission Monday: it's medical
Hi there. How's it going for you?
Can you believe it's another Monday already? Me neither. Now I KNOW I'm getting old...
Your Mission for this week is to clean.
Oh, quit it. Stop groaning. It's not a large job, not like cleaning out your car from a few weeks ago. This week, let's take a look at the medicine cabinet. I actually have a closet in the hall, and that's where we keep the meds. I have several plastic buckets on the shelves, and they are labeled, "Asthma", "Cough and Cold", "Bandages", "Pain Relief and Thermometers", and then there are two that are just miscellaneous. I spent about an hour in there today, cleaning each bucket out.
Hmm, why did we have tylenol with codeine from 2002? And three different bottles of eardrops from Emma's surgery, four years ago? And WHY, oh WHY, are there 48,372 empty band-aid wrappers, and only two penny size bandaids in the bucket?
Toss the expired Dimetapp, the 90% empty pain relievers, and the infant nasal syringes you last used on your now high school aged child.
I have a prize to give away with this one, and it's a beaut.
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Now, clean out those medicine cabinets! And, if you are so inclined, come visit me over at The Elff Diet - I'm pretty lonely over there.
I'm leaving a comment between the designated hours!!! :) Love your blog!
Posted by: Melissa McCormick | July 22, 2007 at 11:10 PM
I did this when we last moved and was sad to see that I was *still* holding on to those stool softeners they gave me when my daughter was born....4 years ago. Was I afraid there would be a stool softener shortage and I'd need them? Dunno, but they got tossed. I need to do this again.
Posted by: Heather | July 22, 2007 at 11:14 PM
oooh sign me up :) ah, i suppose i could clean out my medicine cabinet, it really needs it!!
Posted by: Crissi | July 23, 2007 at 03:55 AM
Yay! I just did this last week. My medicine cabinet is a very small cupboard in one of the bathrooms, though...small job because we don't take much medicine. I DO, however, have another cupboard FULL of, well...everything from extra toilet paper to old razors to a pile of those travel size bottles of shampoo you get in hotel rooms. Maybe I should clean that out instead... :-)
Posted by: Mariah | July 23, 2007 at 04:28 AM
Ugh...okay I will do it, it wont be enjoyable but I was just looking at it the other day thinking I so needed to do it.
Posted by: Kelli | July 23, 2007 at 06:18 AM
I love it when your Mission coincides with my plans for the day! It happens more often than one might think.
We were camping over the weekend, and I always pack just about everything in my medicine cabinet. Today, I'll put it away plus do some additional straightening/cleaning to kill two birds, as they say.
Posted by: Diane | July 23, 2007 at 09:11 AM
I need to do this. None of the stuff should be outdated but somehow we have like 10 boxes of band-aids that always attack me when I open the door to get the extra strength Tylenol.
Posted by: Katie | July 23, 2007 at 09:12 AM
I need to clean out my medicine cabinet. I try to do it every summer after everyone has made the rounds with all the usual winter illnesses.
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Posted by: Jodi | July 23, 2007 at 11:27 AM
I just did this recently. We too, keep our meds in the closet and a cool tip I'd gotten (I think from BH & G) was to use the spinning spice rack to put things on. Now, this works for us becasue we don't have as many meds as you--but I thought I'd share. I was able to group similar medicines together and then they are easy to find, plus uses the space better.
Posted by: Tina (4 Miles) | July 23, 2007 at 01:24 PM
I am super anal about expired meds. Comes from my many years of slavery/working in a pharmacy.
I find empty bandaid rappers laying on the floor of the boys bathroom often. How is it they can not hit the trashcan that is 3 ft away?
Posted by: Jess | July 23, 2007 at 02:01 PM
I need to clean out the medicine cabinet in the master bathroom. I've got pain meds in there that are from my car accident two years ago. Our kids are grown and out on their own, so I guess I just don't bother with it anymore.
Thanks for the reminder.
P.S. Jess...my husband can't seem to make the trashcan either. He'll attempt to throw Q-tips or cotton balls in there and they just land on the floor, where they stay until "I" pick them up! Men! Gah!
Posted by: Les~ | July 23, 2007 at 02:35 PM
This is a great one, mostly because I just did it last night so I'm already done!! :) We're getting ready for a move and I figured that it doesn't make sense to tote like five plastic baskets of meds around.
Just a few days ago I was looking for hydrocortisone cream and of course couldn't find any and now I see that all together we have three tubes! Ugh!
Btw, congrats on winning the sk*rt contest!
Posted by: Sarah | July 23, 2007 at 03:36 PM
Do I have to throw out the EPT test stick from when I got pregnant with my daughter...in 2002?
Posted by: Becki | July 23, 2007 at 04:46 PM
I just did this yesterday! Yay, I am ahead. In my head I do this every year and throw out every single expired thing, but I know I am wrong, as I always find things that are 2-3 years old. I also replaced my old mercury thermometers a few years back. At that time my pharmacy was taking the old ones, I'm not sure what you'd do with them otherwise.
Posted by: Elizabeth | July 23, 2007 at 08:31 PM
I cleaned my medicine "tupperware" and found laxatives in with the immodium!!! We would have been in deep, literal, sh*t if THAT got mixed up!!!!
Posted by: Beth | July 23, 2007 at 10:06 PM
First off I would be glad to take a couple of those boxes of band aids off Diane. I've got three grands here for the summer and all I keep finding is empty wrappers. I KNOW there are band aids somewhere in this house or how else would they keep leaving empty wrappers around, but I'll be damned if I can find them.
Last time I cleaned it all out I found stool softeners and laxatives. I'm thinking they cancel each other out, but who am I to question the inner workings of these people's bodies. God Forbid I ever did that!!
I also made a very neatly printed list of all the first aid supplies that were needed in anticipation of the grands' visit and put it somewhere safe. It's safe alright because I've never seen it again!! LMAO
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