Painful lesson for the forgetful me

I'm not only growing old, but also getting really forgetful.

I was going through my stash in my designated wardrobe (yes, Daniel actually assigned me one wardrobe so that Hurricane Isabelle would not devastate his personal area, but alas... the damage is still done, and I have also taken over some parts of his wardrobe)...

... and I found so many new stuff that I do not remember having bought before.

*sheepish face*

I suspect that it must have been because I succumbed to my frequent bouts of stress-induced shopping therapy, and I conveniently stashed them quietly in my corner and forgot about them.

I have become so good at hiding my purchases that I, myself, forget that I even bought them.

Anyway.

I saw my collection of skincare/makeup products that look so foreign to me, and some of them are even unopened!

The Biotherm AquaSource product above is one such example. Sigh.

Unsealed, untouched, unused.

I tried looking for the expiry date but I saw a foreign-looking batch code staring back at me.

This is the time that Google is the most useful tool on Earth. I frantically typed in "how to read expiry date for biotherm product singapore" and I got this website.

Apparently, the product was manufactured in 2009 (!) and as all skincare/make up products go, the effective use date is 3 years... which means, it's expired!!!

I tried another website to confirm this heart-breaking news and unfortunately, the bad news remain.

I recently discovered a whole box (at least 20cm length x 20cm length) worth of products that I had to throw away - actually Daniel had to pull it away from me and insisted that I just got rid of them as the expiry date was 2009... and I have to go through this trauma again, today!

I really hate throwing things away. Yes, I'm a compulsive hoarder, and one day when I grow old, I think I may just accidentally set a fire to my stash of belongings and die and noone will even know!

I don't think anyone should go through this pain of throwing expensive skincare/make up products away because they have expired after being left forgotten at the back of the wardrobe... so I decided to start using those that have yet to expire (at least 2 more years to go, which means my last cosmetics major shopping haul happened in 2012, during one of my bad days... ).

The website links to check the expiry dates of your products are here, in case the links above fail...

1 .Cosmetic Calculator (http://checkcosmetic.net/)
2. Cosmetics Wizard (http://cosmeticswizard.net/)

Many companies do not provide in a straightforward manner of "Best Before Dates", so it's more important to check, especially for face products.

Sigh,
Belle