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Apr 04 2008

Day 216: Towels, Make-up, Lotion, and Groceries

Published by Suburban Wife under hba, home, food, Daily $$'s

Bed, Bath & Beyond — ($3.23)
I had to return/exchange one of the six towels I purchased last week (one of the side seams came loose in the wash and there was major fraying going on there). I also returned one of the two bathmats I purchased and bought a different style in it’s stead.

The exchange went smoothly and, except for the one flawed towel, I’m very happy with these towels so far. I’ll give a more thorough review in another couple of weeks after I’ve had a chance to use them and wash them several times — really put them through the ringer, so to speak

This afternoon I picked The Daughter up from school and then we hit the up-scale mall before heading home.

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Origins — $25.31
The Daughter needed to replenish her make-up supply. I bought a box which contains a plastic covered dish which contains a powered substance referred to as “silk screen(tm) — refining powder makeup.”

The Daughter is, in my eyes at least, flawlessly beautiful with clear china skin and amazingly clear stunningly blue eyes (well, okay everyone comments on the eyes so that’s not just me). Why she chooses to cover her face with this expensive powder substance, I really don’t understand. I blame the media, which, believe you me, I’ve done my best to innoculate her against. What does mom know, right?

In her defense, The Daughter really does use very little makeup and has a pretty good sense of self-worth and positive body image. We are who we are and I love her despite, and maybe a little because, she’s chosen to reject my rejection of the bill-of-goods sold to women about beauty and femininity.

Aveda — $30.00
Ironically, this purchase was for me. Years and years ago I bought a bottle travel-sized of Aveda’s Hydrating lotion. I use it very sparingly but it’s the only lotion that I can stand to apply to my face. Between the harsh, super-dryness of our winter air and the nightly use of a CPAP mask, every once in a while my face gets super dry. Or more accurately, my face gets super dry patches (my forehead, the bridge of my nose, my upper lip — all places where my mask rubs against my face). The Aveda lotion is amazingly light and effective — not heavy or oily like most lotions, nor overly perfumed.

The clerk informed me that the lotion only has a shelf life of two years — I hope that’s not really true because this bottle (the smallest bottle they had) is about twice the size of my old supply and that bottle lasted, um, maybe 8 years? Maybe I’ll have to make an effort to use it more often.

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While at the mall, we also stopped in at Crabtree & Evelyn and The Art of Shaving stores to check out what they had to offer in the way of shaving supplies for men. The Son has the most adorable fuzzy little caterpillar living over his top lip. And yesterday, while giving him his annual kick-off-baseball-season short haircut, I also took the opportunity to trim some of the long, scraggly, wiry hairs growing out of his chin. I’m thinking that shaving is around the corner for him. Being that he’s a serious creature of habit, I’d like to introduce him to the concepts of wet shaving and double-edge safety razors before he settles on, and gets used to, canned shaving cream and disposable blades. I didn’t make any purchases because I’m still in the research phase but The Daughter declared The Art of Shaving’s Sandalwood scent the winner in the “clean and manly” sniff test. We both hated Crabtree & Evelyn’s Sandalwood and found their Normad line pleasantly masculine, we both agree that the scent was too strong. I’m sure I’ll be reporting some shaving equipment purchases over the next few months.

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Kroger — $72.26 (shopped with The Son and The Husband in tow):