My mum has thrown away over £150 worth of makeup and medication

Wait, you mean he WASN'T an ex at the time of the incident?! I was sat here assuming he did it as some sort of parting revenge act. Absolutely a divorceable offence!

That’s nice for you. Lots of people drive without a seatbelt and don’t die in car accidents. It doesn’t make it sensible. 🙄

It’s not about the product itself, it’s about the growth of bacteria that’s introduced by contact with your mouth/eyes. In an ideal world no, it would be considerably shorter than 12 months before you replace things, but 12 months is the point where most products are probably incubating something less than savoury.

I use mine for about 10 years’ and have lived to tell the tale

Is that strictly true, though? I often wonder - for all kinds of products - isn't it amazingly coincidental how so many of them are fine for 1 year exactly but not more?! Why do you see so few products that are fine for 10, 14 or 19 months?

Especially considering they sell mineral water that's 'filtered through pure mountain rocks for millions of years' and honey that never goes off, and it still has a 'best before' or even 'use by' date!

Daddy blondes is the best dad

he wouldn’t take no for an answer and kept getting up from the chair that I sat him in

ex didn’t give a toss and since splitting I’ve realised how selfish he is

and why I’m now divorced from him

I would hunt him down and cover him from head to toe in rotten fish juice. Your poor Dad.

Just so you know - lip products have a shelf life of no longer than 12 months once they’ve been used. Eye make up too.

Because it’s MN. Many on here really enjoy the ‘nest of vipers’ bullshit and take it very seriously. They HAVE to argue against the OP at all costs, no matter what the OP says.

OP could have told us she’d just rescued a bag of kittens from drowning and people would find a way to berate her for it. Nobody in real life thinks like this. I dunno if they think they are being clever or are just grumpy in general but it really irks me!

Amazed by all the people who think this stuff will be perfectly fine and usable if it’s dug out of the bin. It’s been low to mid 30s for a week, even if bin juice hasnt got into the cosmetics, lipsticks and lip liners are made out of oils and waxes, they’ll have melted into sad puddles after a few days in a black bin.

Yep I think this is what I find so strange.

I feel relatively sure that if the mum had posted

“My adult daughter came round on Thursday. I had Hayfever so she passed me a pouch she keeps medication and make up in so I could find an antihistamine. She left it behind and as she hadn’t mentioned it in the 48 hours afterwards I assumed she didn’t want it and binned it. Now she’s messaged asking for it back. AIBU to tell her it’s her own fault for being so stupid and careless?”

The replies would rightfully be horrified, asking OP why she is so intolerant towards her own daughter making a simple mistake, why she didn’t text her about it asking if she wanted it back, and saying her daughter probably only left it behind in the first place because she’d removed it from her bag to give her medicine and help her out.

Not sure why the other way round is resulting in far more mixed responses!

I raise you 2 freezers of stinking fish bait /guts for fishing

ex turned them off in the shed maybe 6mths previously /around Xmas time and when discovered said it wasn’t his problem as he had moved out . Coz he is a selfish prick

this happened last summer when we had that other heatwave and temps up to 35/40 in southeast

sorting that out was hideous. So much gagging and the juice that escaped into the patio

and bless my dad. He was over and helped. I told him not to as a man in his 80’s / but he insisted and said that what dads do

i was seriously 🤮🤮🤮 with masks gloves and wipes /bags

so a bag of bbq chicken pieces /bones a few days old like op had really wasn’t that bad imo

all she had to do was to open another bin bag and carefully rip the old one on top of it and look through it

would take maybe 10 mins to find the bag

saying it took her 2hrs is such an exaggeration

They’re all different - some liners, some lip contours, lip stick, a stain, oil, a couple of lip balms. It’s my hand bag, it fits in a small bag, so if I want to carry that I can?

It does make me laugh that 9 lip products worth £150 have apparently attracted so much envy. Yes there are a couple of Charlotte tilbury products, but there’s also a lot of boots own brand in there! That’s besides the point though, as the issue is she binned it!

I’ve found it. After the most disgusting experience of my life 🤢 it’s covered in liquid, which has soaked through the zip and collected in the pouch. It’s all ruined.

I didn't say she deserved it. But if £100+ of my stuff was accidentally (or even purposely) but in the bin I would be looking for it, not "oh no my mum should because it's more her fault than mine". Well her mum was never going to was she!

If you read the thread you will see that the OP did rifle through 3 day old bin waste, found the pouch, and it was as expected, ruined. The OP's mother found it amusing.

Just so you know - lip products have a shelf life of no longer than 12 months once they’ve been used. Eye make up too.