Pack rat – Part 2
In the first episode of my pack rat series, I mentioned that I would one day get rid of my collection of hotel soaps. Since we finished renovating the bathroom floor last week, today seemed like a good time to do it.
I’ve mentioned before that I take the soaps from hotels, but can you believe I’ve amassed this much? I mean, who takes baths on vacations, right? (Just kidding)
There are soaps and shampoos from California, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Washington DC, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, many from Disney World and Disney Cruise Lines and even a bar from an Amtrak train! In the next few months, I plan to add soap from Tennessee, Colorado, and Louisiana.
When I was younger and would go on school or church trips, I would make sure I was first into the hotel room so that I could swipe the soap before anyone noticed. And if someone would call the front desk to report the missing soap and request more, I would swipe that too!
I have enough soaps and shampoos to mask the odor of several bodies for a very long time. This isn’t even all of it! After taking those photos, of course I found more hotel soap that had wandered away from my main stash. And this doesn’t include all of the bars that I’ve used since I decided to stop collecting it and start using it. (No, we aren’t throwing it out.) We won’t have to buy soap or shampoo again for a VERY long time!
June 13th, 2010 at 9:27 am
[...] most of the stuff, but then some of it we don’t need, especially the soaps and shampoos, as evidenced in this previous post. I don’t even know why I do it. Maybe I’m addicted? The razors in the center [...]