Well, I started out to write today with good intentions.
Until I walked into the kids’ bathroom.
Three hours later…..
I must have removed eleven empty bottles, and for the life of me, I can’t understand how it is that they can’t throw away an empty bottle into the trashcan that is only two feet from the tub!!
Two. Feet.
Honestly, if I could adhere the trashcan to the tub, I would.
Hope y’all have a wonderful afternoon. I’m off to ventilate the toxic fumes š
Sithy Things 
January 11th, 2013 at 1:38 PM
If it makes you feel better, my bathroom (it’s in the basement. I built, plumbed, powered, drywalled and linoleumated it. It’s mine) is immaculate. The shower looks like it was installed yesterday, there’s no toothpaste on the mirror and the toilet’s sparkling. Having said that, there’s a line of discarded razor cartridges in the medicine cabinet, an empty shaving cream can beside the vanity and three or four empty soap boxes on the towel rack.
Hey, the garbage can’s like six feet away! On the other side of the washer and dryer! Way to take control of the situation though, Aggie. I’m not gonna point any finger at The Wife, but I know some women who would just spend the rest of their lives bitching about it.
January 11th, 2013 at 1:44 PM
Nice no finger pointing… š
And six feet?? SERIOUSLY?? Sheesh….
January 11th, 2013 at 3:49 PM
Maybe seven.
January 11th, 2013 at 2:04 PM
It won’t make you feel better, but you are not alone. Only one person uses Buttercup’s bathroom and I am amazed at the empties that can collect in there….
January 11th, 2013 at 2:10 PM
If it’s not genetic, and not learned, then WHY??? š
January 11th, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Why not?
January 11th, 2013 at 2:52 PM
Answer mine first š
January 11th, 2013 at 2:34 PM
That being said, son is supposed to bring in the empty trashcans on trash day, which he walks by when returning from school and must be “reminded” to go back out and bring them in.
January 11th, 2013 at 2:52 PM
Must be a male thing š
January 11th, 2013 at 5:13 PM
I have a shampoo and conditioner graveyard at the corner of my tub too, so I will not comment.
January 11th, 2013 at 6:27 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
January 11th, 2013 at 8:01 PM
This blog sure comes in handy. You’ve just reminded me to clean out my shampoo bottle graveyard, LC. Thanks! š
January 11th, 2013 at 9:10 PM
Oh, so it’s not just a female thing, then?? š
January 12th, 2013 at 8:28 AM
The one kid still at home felt compelled by equality to not have a segregated graveyard…his also contains empty cardboard soapboxes.
January 12th, 2013 at 8:33 AM
Well, at least the girls didn’t go THAT far š
January 12th, 2013 at 11:13 AM
That frog…has been IN MY HOUSE?!?!?!?!
January 12th, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Grenouille is all knowing;)
January 12th, 2013 at 11:18 AM
What did you expect walking into a bathroom mainly used by kids?
And even my 21-year-old daughter still has issues understanding what a trash can is used for, let alone emptying it more than once every two years.
January 12th, 2013 at 11:24 AM
I just don’t get it. It never happened when I was growing up at home, and there were FOUR GIRLS using one bathroom then!
January 12th, 2013 at 11:20 AM
My Ex was the worst when it came to bottle graveyards but in her case, she never actually Emptied them, so there would be 40 bottles of shampoo and conditioner lined up, each with a few drops left in them.
One day I’d had enough and tossed 80% of them away (brought the total down to a dozen) and she bitched about it for Hours. Go figger. One of many reasons she is now my Ex. LOL
January 12th, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Well, she did have long hair!
Still, nothing more annoying than taking a shower and hitting one empty bottle and causing a massive domino effect while you have soap in your eyes š
January 13th, 2013 at 9:11 AM
There was a time when I had the same collection in my bathroom. But I did not view it as “clutter” or “empties” or even :gasp: “trash”. No, it was my fleet! Meticulously collected over the years, I had fleets of “good” (ie, white) battleships, destroyers, a couple of submarines (those heavier plastic bottles that float lower in the water and just beg to be filled, so they can retreat to the comfort of the depths), and one huge Sams-Club aircraft carrier. I had a fleet of “bad” (black, or darker colored) ships, with an assortment of guided missile cruisers, a heavy battleship, and a smaller fast-carrier which lacked the armament and/or defensive capabilities of the White Fleet’s carrier, but was much more maneuverable. There were even a couple of “alien” or “spy” ships (those were the red bottles). Alas, the fleets languished due to lack of Congressional support (…..I got married).
January 13th, 2013 at 9:15 AM
A grown man with a “fleet”….
Some dreams never die š
January 13th, 2013 at 12:01 PM
But….it was for the good of the free world! Well…control of the deep end of the tub, anyway.
January 13th, 2013 at 2:55 PM
I am so glad I’m not the only one that knows there’s a deep end to the bathtub š
January 14th, 2013 at 9:51 AM
You get a much better splash on that end when you enter using the “cannonball” method. Just watch out for the spigot. Those things are devious. Took me months before I was singing tenor (badly) again.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:01 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
And, oy!
January 20th, 2013 at 5:18 AM
Daughter and son-in-law borrowed my car for a trip to FL.
When they got back I found trash in the floorboard of the passenger side.
Right next to the (empty) plastic bag hanging off the gearshift lever for the trash.
My kids are pigs.
January 20th, 2013 at 9:50 AM
You let them borrow the Mustang???
You are a saint.