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.......after reading Annabel's post I am off to the bathroom cabinets to check on out of date medications......

Don't feel too bad about it Shirley, I am sure if we cleared out cupboards there would be out of date packets and stuff in there......

When Mum passed, my Sis and I were helping Dad clear cupboards, and we joked with him for ages about the ancient tins and packets they had stored........luckily they had only moved into their bungalow 8 years before.....

My mum couldn't see very well and one day she got out a plastic tub of brown flour. I asked her if it was wholemeal and she looked surprised and said, no, it was white flour. One closer examination I saw it was full of jumping things; alive it was! Good job she hadn't just made us a cake.

After she died I cleared out her kitchen cupboards and had to smile at what I found.

One item was a packet of jelly that was out of date years before she lived in the flat! It had turned to liquid (not that I opened it).

Cleared my bathroom cupboard among the things I found

Tinya foot powder use by 1992, had belonged to a guest
6 shampoo bottles with just a little in
3 roll on deodorants a little stiff to roll
4 bottles of body wash again with just a little in
tubes of antiseptic years out of date


cheers Annabel

HI
Well i found items with old prices on like 29p that would now cost over a £ plus some with very old items that were way out of date like use before OCT 1999!! I didnt think i was a hoarder but guess I am
Very liberating though to have a cupboard with only the items you now use
I chucked out things like essences and food colourings cos just dont do that type of cooking anymore

Horrid job Shirley. I found something lurking in the cupboard just before Christmas - an unopened custard powder tin. Best before Jun 2004!

Don't even know why it was there as we never have custard!

LOL

Jill

WELL been stocking up on groceries cos OH is getting a bit frail and didnt want to drive in the snow.We did manage to get out last week and did a bit of stock up but then didnt have the room to put in the food cupboard, I thought we had in the cupboard anything that was wanted but decided it need a clean and weed out!! OH MY what an eye opener its was very dirty shelves once was cleared and lots of out of date items consigned to the bin. I was able to do a clean and then refill but an a bit ashamed on what crap what being hoarded!! i dint think I was a hoarder