WHEN THINGS EXPLODE

First we will state that Ger is doing Great so it is not Ger who has exploded !

For the past week or so I have noticed an "odd" smell coming from under the bathroom sinks.  (my nose works much better than my ears so I usually am found walking around "sniffing" for the odd smell or two.)  Finally I decided to take the afternoon to attack the smell and the mess under the sinks and it has turned into a 2 hour project.

Bathroom sink cabinets are not a priority to me as they are:
1. In the bathroom (yuck!)
2. Under the BATHROOM sink (again, yuck!)
3. Out of the general path of every day life.

It's not like under the kitchen sink where you are looking a couple of times a day for the sponge, the dish detergent, the garbage bags, etc. This cabinet is in the bathroom where business is taken care of and we are not lingering for more than the necessary time. (Unless of course you are the mother of a 2 year old and then you may spend a lot of time in the bathroom because it is the room in the house with a door that locks !)

That not being the case my bathroom cabinets go for quite some time before I feel the need to clean or reorganize them. Today was that day and things were looking pretty good under Ger's sink. I took all 42 razors out and re stashed them in a plastic basket. The 3 bottles of mouth wash got condensed into one and the 14 half tubes of tooth paste were thrown back in cause you just can't condense tooth paste.

Moving on to my side of the cabinet things looked pretty good, 8 containers of body powder, 47 bottles of nail polish, of which I am sure 46 are totally dried up but that is a project for another day. Then I found "IT" . . .  THE SMELL . . .  At some point in time a tube of hair gel had exploded in a plastic basket and covered EVERYTHING in the basket in a gooey, sticky mess that I can not, for the life of me, get off anything. (And I put this crap in my hair?) The contents of the basket were varied and disposable. The deodorant was save able because of its cap but pretty much every thing else is trashed. I have the basket soaking in the sink and the goo just won't dissolve.

Maybe I should wash it with shampoo !

Mean while the smell is gone but a huge mess remains in my bathroom because until the basket is clean I can't refill it with new junk so everything is scattered all over the bathroom floor. Why do I get into these projects any way?