Kim and I had a nice day together yesterday. We always have such fun together. We met for breakfast and then headed over to Mom's, after stopping for latte's.
Kim started cleaning the bathroom and I started on the kitchen. We decided that we'd each take one room. We threw out all the food items and most of mom's cosmetics that we didn't want ourselves. I don't know if I'd mentioned that my mom had been a beautician and owned her own shop at one time. Well, I don't know if that is partially what fueled her love of cosmetics, face creams, various hair restorers and the like, but I'm telling you the woman must have spent a small fortune on stuff to make herself look and smell good!
We threw out a full garbage can of jars, bottles, cans and tubes of partially used creams and other beauty aids. She had every major and expensive brand of eye and wrinkle cream that is on the market. Some we kept and some we tossed.
She seemed obsessed with her hair too. She used AVACOR which is a spendy little treatment for people with thinning hair - my mother did not have thin hair! I wonder if she thought it would thicken it to the shiny mass that she once had?
There was stuff that fixed splint ends, stuff that made hair shiny, stuff that conditioned, stuff that stipped other stuff from the hair......the list goes on and on. I was shocked by the mass quantities that she had in her bathroom and some had even spilled over to a cabinet in her kitchen!
My mom always kept her perfumes (real and otherwise) in her fridge. Sounds odd, but if perfume is kept in a dark cold place it will last forever and won't go rancid. So her perfumes are still in the fridge. We won't throw any of those out, because mom only used the best!
My mother, the Jackie Kennedy Onassis wanna-be. God love her!
Even though she was in her 80's when she died, she was still tryng her best to look beautiful and younger. I'll always remember the day not so long ago when she asked me, "Do you know how much I weigh?" When I admitted that I didn't, she said proudly: "108 pounds!" (my mom was 5'6" tall) And then added: "That's what I weighed on my honeymoon!"
What a woman!
3 comments:
You made a sad story sound so lovely. I could just picture your sweet mom. You're lucky you had her till her 80s. And it's so nice to have a sister too. I have two brothers (much older than I) and wanted a sister so badly. Luckily, I have a best friend who is like a sister.
PS. I think Mom would have wanted you to wear that perfume. Put some on and do a little dance for her. ; )
Your Mom sounds like wonderful lady. Isn't nice the memories we are able to carry around with us and pull up whenever we need to relive a special moment.
Oh what a glorious women your mother was. How great that must have been. I recently lost a box full of makeup to the humidity and i got a new batch on the way from the home shopping network..in the fridge it's going..and so will my perfume after reading your entry. Thanks for the tip!
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