As you can see, I have a LOT of products (that’s only a very small fraction of what I have knocking about here - don’t even inquire about all the stuff I still have left in London). I get many, many samples for this blog, and it is scarce that I really need to purchase something for myself.

In fact, I panic a little when I start to get low on a certain product and don’t have a full back-up waiting. For example: I have a bottle of shampoo in each of my two showers, and both bottles are getting low. I have approximately 60 miniature bottles of shampoo - from hotels - in my travel

supply stash. But I’m not going to use those at home.

So I went out today and bought one new bottle of shampoo (thank you, TJ Maxx). Only now do I realize that I should have purchased two. Or - God forbid - used up all the little travel bottles, since I acquire new ones by the dozen almost monthly.

I’ve thought hard, and can’t recollect the last time I used a product up completely. Even with toothpaste, I leave some in the tube and take it with me when I travel. (God, I love busting open a new tube of toothpaste. Sad but true.)

What’s the last product you used up? Did you replace it with more of the same? Do you use those travel toiletries at home, or on the road only?

Original post by Jackie Danicki