Treat Yourself

This old gal…

Loves lilacs…had a bumper crop this year…in the back yard of Old Pink…so pretty…smelled divine…it was flower heaven…

Back in the day…when old fashion influencer Teen Magazine promoted expensive shampoos and body lotions…twenty year old me scoffed…declaring she would never…ever…ever…pay 5 dollars for shampoo or body lotion…

Then there it was…several years later…15 dollar hand cream…beckoning…in some fancy boutique…dainty packaging…delightfully smelling…of lilac…challenging frugal me saying…you can’t resist this…it’s your favorite…smell…of all time…

And resist…afraid not…homed that beauty on my school desk…and for 20 years…used it several times a day…

Kids would inhale…when they entered the classroom…say it smelled good…would hold my hand…say I smelled good…and once even…little eyes looked up…and whispered…you smell…just like my grandma…

Got a lot of mileage…out of that 15 dollar bottle of hand cream…my last year of teaching…had to cut the bottle in half…to rescue the remnants the pump wouldn’t reach…

But…the disadvantage of long lasting hand cream…is that there’s no way to order a second bottle…it only comes in a tube now…and it’s not the same…

There’s no pump pushing delight…the tube isn’t dainty…and it sprung a leak…in my purse…but the smell is the same…and is still lilacily divine…and now…best of all…I really DO smell like…someone’s grandma…
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And those grandkids of ours…agree…