Okay so not this past Saturday but the Saturday before that, before Halloween, Andrew and I were at Whole Foods. I needed some of the fabulous rice cheese that has provided a ray of hope in my dairyless world.
As Andrew was perusing ales, I went to the bath and body section and lo and behold there was...
A new Burt Bees Lip Balm...I have regular and pomegranate and now there was...Honey.
Dum da dum!
I snatched it and bought it and put it in my purse.
When we got into the car I wanted to try my new lip balm but couldn't find it in any of my pockets as I had already forgot that I had put it in my purse.
So as I was driving to the gas station I asked Andrew to look for my lip balm in my purse because I wanted to try it RIGHT NOW. Only to realize too late my dreadful mistake.
"Is this it?"
"No, that's Kiss My Face Vanilla Honey."
"Is this it?"
"No, that's Naked Bee honey."
"Wait a minute...Julie how many lip balms do you have in here?"
"uh..."
"Four...Five!"
"I could collect coach purses instead honey."
"Seven! Julie you have 7 lip things in here."
"Their average cost is about 3 bucks...less than a pack of cigarettes."
"Average cost? Average cost? What's the most lip balm you have ever bought...oh God I don't want to know."
"The most expensive lip balm my sweet, is the one I bought at Traverse City, it is excpetional a 10.00--which is just the cost of three lip balms...on average."
After we left the gas station Andrew said.
"Hey...I know you have lip balms in the bathroom door...like five right."
I wisely don't say anything.
"And you have a bunch in that little longaberger basket on the kitchen counter."
Silence seems safest.
"And what about all your coat pockets. Jesus Julie, you've got like what 25 lip balms."
"I don't have that many."
But Andrew got me thinking and one day before we left for Chicago I did a sweep for all my lip balms. And here they are.
There are 24...but I couldn't find my old almond oil one from CO Bigelow...and I'm not sure the two Burt's bees lip shimmers should count, or the tinted CO Bigelow...but Tweek is showing off what I currently can find/use.
So if you average the cost of each lip balm at 3 bucks a pop you are looking at 75 dollars worth of lip balm.
I think it's appropriate that Sarah Palin is in the background on CNN. That chick spend more than 150K on clothes on the RNC's dime...so I like to think she lends some perspective to the shot.
What do you think? Do I have a lip balm problem or a harmless and quaint collection of girly items? I expect comments...and now you all know what to get me for Christmas...
6 comments:
I love it! I love reading the crazy about a person :) I am a big chap sticker, but only have a couple. I use one up until it dies and then move on - like shoes.
Jules, no issues here at all. Maybe it is just a girl thing. ;-) I'm not sure I have that many lip balms but combine them with lip gloss, lipstick, etc... I'm sure I have that many or more. And I'm not even counting my daughters and we share. My son... one Burt Bee's lip balm, plain. And that's because I bought it for him.
that's a lot of lip balm. :D I *only* have 10 (mostly because I keep taking them from the basket I keep them in and putting them in my pocket/purse/backpack/losing them.
<3 the BB Honey, the mintyness of regular is ouchy, not soothing, on chapped lips.
lol, its cheaper than a lot of collections I can think of
Being in the lip balm business...I think you could use a few more...
Jules, add Jenna and I to the membership for Lip Balmers Anonymous. When Jenna was into the Bonne Bell Lipsmackers phase I used to joke that she could use a different lip smacker every day for about 6 months and not have to repeat using any. Just yesterday she informed me that we needed to run to Target to get more lipbalm because she was running low. I determined that I had two of them in my purse, one in the car, found 2 downstairs, etc. etc. so no trip to Target in the near future as far as I am concerned. My personal favorite lip balm? Besides a small jar of Vaseline I always carry a container of Bigelow's "My favorite lip balm" with me AT ALL TIMES.
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