packrat's rationalizations: reuse items

As I declutter and try to clear space and try to let go of things, I ask myself why I have kept all these stuff for the past years. For the empty plastic bottles, I believe it's because these are still quite useful. I have kept these things in case I would be going out of town and I'd be needing smaller containers for shampoo, liquid soap and conditioner. And I have used an old spray atomizer for alcohol and old sample bottles for my other kikay stuff.

In my head, I was being environmentally friendly: my operative word was RE-USE. However, I had so much of these empty bottles, I no longer had any opportunity to re-use. In fact, I think I have two sets of toiletries already. One in the office and one for an over night bag.

Even if these items are still useful, if you won't be using it anytime then there is really no need to keep them as it just takes so much space.