Yuck! Actually I’m probably worse when it comes to holding onto food items then my mom is. My wife gets all worried about eating baked beans out of a can marked Best by Aug. 2006, and I try to convince her that cans are good FOR EVER! (She isn’t convinced! Smart gal I suppose.)
Although some of the stuff in mom’s medicine cabinet is pretty old - I think I used some Vick’s Vaperub to clear up my sinuses the last time I was there - the date on it was from the sixties.
I did just talk to my mom an hour ago and asked her what the cleanser was called. “Oh I don’t know - I just always called it Carbon Tet. And boy did it smell bad! But they don’t sell it anymore - did you spill something on your carpet?” LOL!
Ah very cute and sweet!
Well your mom probably used all kinds of stuff that's banned now and has made it to her 90's. Among other hazards growing up and as an adult, my dad used to wear asbestos fire suits in the military. He can remember being covered in asbestos dust. He's 81. Oh well, I'm not going to worry about what's gonna get me anymore. Just going to figure I'm made of the same tough fiber as my ancestors.
I don’t like to eat things that are too much over the Best by date (a year is about my limit) but most of it is just because of taste and not that it’s going to kill you. I have noticed that some of the Campbell soup’s get pretty funky looking around their best buy date, so I usually throw those out just going by appearance.