# What's in your medicine cabinet?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-medicine-cabinet/9730>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 20, 1999, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-medicine-cabinet/9730 "1999-10-20T23:22:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-medicine-cabinet/9730/21 "1999-10-22T05:57:00Z")

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Well let’s see, I’ve got my Glocks, my starlight scope, an infra-red sight for my vintage M3 carbine, a silver-plated Colt Buntline, a $25,000 Holland & Holland elephant gun, and a 16-gauge for ducks.

Oh, you said _medicine_ cabinet. I thought you said something else.

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**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-medicine-cabinet/9730/22 "1999-10-22T05:59:00Z")

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Oh, wait a minute here, folks. You said the medicine cabinet. I didn’t count the three shelves that face my old tub. Hmmm… hang on a mo, let me go count just the number of shampoo bottles… seven. Add that same number of conditioner bottles. Then add about ten for the various “body washes”.

Girly girl that I am!

I don’t do any hard drugs or do make up or hair things but I apparently have an obsession about getting my hair and body clean! All I can say in my own defense (as the prosecutors line up before the Howitzer) is that I can’t use the same shampoo everyday. My hair is very long and very fine. EVERY shampoo builds up on it. I use a different one everyday of the week.

Hey, at least I don’t have a SHOE thing!

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The moon looks on many flowers, the flowers on but one moon.

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-medicine-cabinet/9730/23 "2019-04-24T06:44:53Z")

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Anything disturbingly old [like this thread] found in the back of your medicine cabinet? I just found some Vicks VapoRub ointment manufactured December 1994, some gauze pads expired 1994, and a half-full bottle of tincture of iodine from the early 1980s. It all looks fine, too, except maybe I wouldn’t take my chances that the gauze is still sterile.

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