When your mum starts fantasizing about small, plastic bottles, you know you've got problems!
In order to keep weight down as much as possible, Mum had worked out that she needed 5 small plastic bottles for each week of the walk - 5 x 13 = 65 - shampoo, conditioner, radox (very important), all-purpose soap, moisturiser, and mouthwash.
Since they started planning 2 years ago, every time they went to a nice hotel, she defied the niceties of life and brought the bottles from the bathroom, home.
But where was she going to get the other 63?
The most economic buy in the principality of Bakewell, was £1.65 each!
You cannot imagine the euphoria when she found she could buy 20 x 60ml (perfect size) bottles for under a tenner. And as for the day they arrived...well words fail me.
Then she started filling them. Boots had to send for fresh supplies.
The observant ones amongst you, will have noticed that, even though she spent 40 years in banking, she still can't add up. Actually she needed 6 bottles every week, and needed 78 (ie 76). It was one thing compromising on 3 bottles of Radox, for after all, the incidence of a bath is not likely to be often, but not 16, that's asking too much. So... Back on the net for another pack... Disaster... Out of stock.
Do we save the empty bottles and carry them round with us (they're not going in MY rucksack, they're put enough in that already).
Essentially, it's do without, pay a fortune for more bottles, or hope that one of you has some inspiration................?!
Please keep spreading the word
M
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