September 26, 2009

clean out your medicine cabinets!

this morning, my mom decided that she needed to clean the cabinets next to and over the fridge out. i was assigned to help her and as we were cleaning out the medicine cabinet, i started looking at expiration dates and pitching the ones that had expired in a plastic bad to pour down the toilet. turns out that 7/8 of the cabinet was expired prescription and over-the-counter drugs. the oldest one i found was from 8-1999. ten years ago! we've moved twice in those ten years and never once has my mother even thought to throw them out.

i looked at her and said "mom, you realize that this expired like ten years ago, right?"
she responded with "just throw it out." and an eye roll.

i guess old habits die hard.

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