The Most Boring Blog Post Ever: My Medicine Cabinet
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I take full responsibility for this month’s topic: medicine cabinets. And I’m giving you a heads up right now – prepare to be underwhelmed. By MINE. I’m not speaking for anyone else. But I do not have an interesting, pretty, organized medicine cabinet and I don’t think there are any fun stories to tell you either. And I have stories for just about EVERYTHING.
This is a sad day, indeed.
I DO have a “favorite medicine cabinet” from the plethora of places I’ve lived, but still, I beg of you, keep your expectations low.
Here she is, in all her “I can’t reach the cobwebs in the bathroom window (that’s a lie, I’m just too lazy) and the landscaper blows dirt in every week and it sticks to said cobwebs and mounds up on top of the medicine cabinet and rains down little dirt showers into the sink when I open the medicine cabinet door” glory:
Wow. Okay. I’m really doing that. Well now you know. I am a disgusting individual.
Moving on.
There is no rhyme or reason to how anything is arranged. And by that I mean, nothing is arranged. Things go where they fit. I do keep the daily meds/vitamins on the bottom shelf: the welbutrin and vitamin B12. Those are my dailies. Beyond that it’s just your basic, standard stuff: acetominophen, ibuprofen, Hello Kitty band-aids, Mucinex, “drowsy” allergy relief that I used to take daily to help me sleep, cough drops, inhaler for the occasional bout of asthma, etc.
It’s just a small, basic, old school medicine cabinet with a mirror.
I DID at one time have a very charming medicine cabinet. And I just KNOW I took a picture of it in 2004 right before I started the bathroom remodel at my little house in Islip. And why I cannot immediately put my fingers on a picture I took 19 years ago is beyond me…but you’re just going to have to take my word for it. It was original to the 1907 Craftsman style bungalow, though a little more Victorian in detail.
Sadly, this is the only picture I can find of it! It’s probably on a floppy disc in a landfill somewhere. But it was a wooden cabinet with a real key lock and that charming flowy ribbon escutchon detail. Where the mirror should have been, was nothing. Ha ha. The door was pointless. You could just reach right in and take anything out. It was quite large – like tall. Until the bathroom remodel, it was a wondefully quirky shade of Pepto Bismol pink. I was actually pretty sad to paint over that but…the new bathroom was so pretty with white woodwork with soft robin’s egg blue walls and nickel hardware, that I said goodbye to pink and hello to pretty (NOT in pink).
Every medicine cabinet since then has been basic and boring. And the current one is rusty and dirty as well, so. Good times.
And that, my friends, is all I have to say on the subject of my medicine cabinet.
Hopefully my friends’ cabinets are more organized, or aesthetically pleasing…or even just CLEAN.
Daenel at Living Outside the Stacks
Em at Dust and Doghair
Iris at Iris’ Original Ramblings
Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style
Leslie at Once Upon a Time Happily Ever After
Sally at Within a World of My Own
Iris
Bettye, I always enjoy reading your posts. There aren’t many people who can make a medicane cabinet interesting. But you managed it. Thanks, made my morning.
Iris
bettyewp
I don’t know how interesting it is, but…I guess it’s different.
And by “different” I mean dirty.
Sally in St Paul
That is a seriously OLD SCHOOL medicine cabinet. The dirt/cobwebs do give it some personality š
bettyewp
That’s it – that’s why I keep them: PERSONALITY.
jodie
Well, I’d like to say that I’m entirely relieved to hear you have a medicine cabinet in the bathroom. After reading Em’s and Sally’s posts, my brain was spinning.
Which goes to show this was a good topic to cover. I feel like I just learned so much, hahaha.
XOOX
Jodie
bettyewp
You mean my dirt cabinet?? Ha ha.
Yeah. I’m also surprised at how many homes seem to not have medicince cabinets in the bathroom? I thought that was just standard.
Em Dirt
Happy May 15, 2 days ADD!!! šš
Leave it to you to make a fun read from what you thought would be an uneventful post. Although I am the landscaper with the blower at our house, and therefore do not blow dirt into the house, I DO have more than my share of cobwebs (surprise), and feel very happy to be in such a good company.
I suspect you covered it once before, but of course, my eyes were drawn to the little classically Bettye figurine on your soapdish, which I have decided is either a kangaroo or a rabbit.
And now I have to askāsince your preface to this post was less than enthusiasticāwhat inspired you to come up with it? I am finally making the rounds and Iām finding the posts to be fun so Iām glad you did, but was wondering if you did so as a challenge to the writers or perhaps some other inspiration,
Inquiring mindsā¦
bettyewp
Who knows? Remember the “what’s in my bag” trend?? I think I just ran with that – what’s in my bag/medicine cabinet/glove compartment, etc. I THOUGHT it could be interesting but…ha ha ha. Maybe I thought wrong on that one. Do we even HAVE “what’s in my bag” on the WBL list? If not, we should add it. Keep this thing going OMG FOREVER ha ha ha.
It’s a rabbit. It used to have a horse and German Shepherd friend, but they must have run off together. There used to be a whole JAR of small plastic animals and I have no clue where they all went. Rabbit will be coming with me as the Seoul Survivor.
Em Dirt
āEm Dirtā was a prophetic typo. I think it fits me and i might just keep it forever.
bettyewp
EM DIRT!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA I love that.
Leslie Susan Clingan
Love how you can take something as commonplace as a medicine cabinet and make it fun. And your description of the former medicine cabinet that you could just reach into was crystal clear. I could see me…or YOU? reaching right through where the mirror should have been. Might have been.