I have a pretty big accomplishment to share with you guys.
Ready?
I’m currently holding an empty tube of ChapStick in my hand right now.
Great news if you thought finishing a tube of ChapStick was an impossible feat, because it’s totally do-able! Tubes of ChapStick are like hair ties and bobby pins. They always go missing. There are countless memes on the Internet about how seemingly rare it is to finish a tube of ChapStick.
But, there’s totally a trick to finishing a tube of ChapStick.
Ready?
You just have to buy multiples, and then strategically place a tube in every location you would usually access it.
So easy, right? If you’re not transferring your tube from your night stand to your coffee table to your purse to your car* to your desk, it’s a lot harder to lose, which means it’s way easier to actually finish it.
*Just… make sure you don’t leave a tube in your car when it’s hot outside.
It took me more than two decades to realize that I’m the kind of person who needs to keep a tube of ChapStick within arm’s reach of me at all times. I have a tube in my wallet, one in my purse, one on my desk at work, one on my coffee table, one in my coat pocket and several by my bed.
I also have a giant vase of ChapStick in my bathroom, because I kid you not, I am obsessed.
I mean, ChapStick is more than 100 years old… so it’s clearly doing something right.
I already had a massive collection of ChapStick to my name, so when the ChapStick asked if they could send me some samples, it was an easy yes.
Sure, ChapStick, I’ll dump those samples right on in the jar with the dozen tubes I just bought on sale for $1 a piece at Walgreens.
The Spearmint is my favorite flavor bc who doesn’t love a good lip moisturizer that also hides your coffee breath, but I also like the Medicated stuff in the winter, and the Sun Defense (SPF 25!) during the summer, bc what redhead doesn’t love a little extra sun protection.
Anyway- all this to say, I finished a tube of ChapStick. What a dang accomplishment!
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I seriously need to get more Chapstick. Whenever I wake up, my lips are always SUPER cracked. Having them on the bedside table is a great idea! Now i just need to get Stanley and Val to stop knocking them around and eating them.
Haha, unfortunately I don’t have any advice for that. 🙁 #nopets #lonelyexistence
I love that you made a post about Chapstick sound so fun! I am the absolute worst at finishing lip balms, so maybe stocking up is the key. I’ll always find tubes of Chapstick in the most random places around my room, no wonder I can’t keep track of them. Also, I love your nail polish color in these pics, your nails are always on point!
Colleen | Buckeye Bliss
Thanks Colleen! I do still occasionally find one under my bed, but I think I’m much more adept at finishing tubes now. Maybe I should run a study, or something.
There’s a whole other universe somewhere of lost chapstick tubes, bobby pins, hair ties, and earring backs :P. Surrounding yourself with multiples does seem the way to go!
Right?! Sometimes I feel like I leave a trail of easily-losable items in my wake everywhere I go.