Bulk shopping, hair care

[rebeccmeister]

I have strong opinions on the subject of bulk shopping. I generally dislike the style that involves going to Costco and buying a pound of cinnamon. Unless a person makes cinnamon rolls every single day, I have a hard time imagining a scenario where a person would be able to use up a pound of cinnamon before it loses its wonderful flavor. Plus, you're still left with an empty plastic container at the end, and now you have to get rid of it somehow. Downcycling isn't quite the same as recycling either.

Shampoo and conditioner have been a slightly different story. I know I've written about that before, specifically because I know annikusrex made a good conditioner recommendation to me, but Goog seems incapable of pulling up the old entry, sigh. Lame. Regardless! I can now tell you that it takes me ~3 years to use up a one-gallon jug of shampoo, and the shampoo remains perfectly good up until the end. And so, today, I had the joy of ordering a fresh one-gallon jug of shampoo, along with a one-gallon jug of conditioner. Here's to the next three years of hair-washing!

This reminds me of two other things I've pondered recently. Have you heard about the trend of coloring armpit hair? I think it's hilariously fun. Why not? It celebrates the fact that women have armpit hair.

I still shave my armpit hair. By this point, it just feels better to me. But I go through periods where I stop shaving my leg hairs because it's an annoying costly chore and my skin doesn't like it. That got me to thinking about what it would be like to live in a culture/place where people don't have strange notions about body hair modifications (think about threading as another instance). What "manufactured needs" do we accept, and where do we draw the line for personal/aesthetic/financial reasons?

Comments

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

skazat easily eats enough cinnamon in his oatmeal to go through a pound of cinnamon in 3 months.

And I don't shave my legs in the winter. I think lots of women as they get older just don't care anymore.

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

Every once in a while I find myself inside of a Costco-like store, and they almost never fail to make me depressed and very much uninterested in buying anything. Would it be worth it to go to Costco just to pick up that one pound of cinnamon? I suppose he probably eats a corresponding amount of oats at the same time, so perhaps! scrottie eats enough black beans and rice to completely justify bulk purchases of them and of cumin.