- Pepto-Bismal chewables (expired 2/07, although I swear I bought them in 4/07 for a trip to India...)
- Sudafed Sinus Headache (2 boxes, both expired 8/06)
- CVS cold & cough liquid gelcaps (expired 9/06)
- Sudafed Sinus Nighttime (expired 11/06)
- Chloraseptic (expired 9/07
- Maalox Anti-Gas (expired 11/02)
- Zantac 75 (expired 12/03)
- Immodium AD (expired 2/08 - not bad given the other expirations)
- NyQuil (2 bottles, both open, neither expired, although on Sunday I threw out a 3rd bottle that was also half used that expired in 2007)
- Vicks Formula 44 (not expired!)
- Sudafed Cold & Allergy (2 boxes, both open, neither expired)
I cannot believe that nearly every single box of OTC meds that we had in our medicine cabinet expired. This is only slightly less horrifying than the boxes of tea that I chucked on Monday. The Wild Berry Zinger expired in June 1997; I'd had it since college. The Cinnamon Apple expired in December 1998. The Iced Tea expired in December 1999.
I sort of wish I kept the Wild Berry Zinger as a relic. Ah, nostalgia.
heheh. sounds like my cupboards.
ReplyDeletepretty sure i should toss the tea i bought on my 2003 trip to london that's sitting on top of the back of my microwave.
Tea expires? Really?
ReplyDeleteI think I have equally as many expired products. I think I am still using contact solution that expired in 99. Whatever... It still works in my eyes. No pun intended.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree w/ sassymonkey... tea expires??? Since when?
Eh, if it's within five years of the present date, I assume it's still good enough.
ReplyDeleteWell, CUSSers live on the edge! Take a Sudafed and see if it makes your head tingle.
ReplyDeleteToo bad you don't have some Xanex or Valium up in there. I asked my husband if he thought our doctor would give them to me on account of my Sarah Palin panic attacks. One glimpse of her waiting-for-Jesus-to-return-tomorrow face and I'm breathing in a brown sack.
Who knows though how long the Pepto sat on the shelf at the pharmacy. I just found a stash of baby food in my cabinet. I thought I'd give it to Sally HP but then realized it expired in 2007.
ReplyDeleteAnd now you know what it's like to be my mom! (Thankfully you don't insist that things actually aren't expired when they clearly are.)
ReplyDeleteAw, the tea could have been used.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought at first, but I was very wrong.
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