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• The Happiness Project
  Written by by Gretchen Rubin
• Posted by BOOK MAMA
• Tagged in: For Moms

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So today I’m putting on make-up…fumbling in the drawer for mascara.  I pick up the “old” mascara that is basically empty—say ‘oops’, toss it back in the drawer and grab the new one.  I’ve had the “new” one for a year probably.  For the record, there is a trash can maybe 6 inches from my right foot.  It occurs to me that it might be time to clean out my make-up drawer.  I do it.  It takes me all of about 7 minutes, but the extraordinary high I get from throwing some congealing lipsticks away is beyond the pale.  This rush spurs me on to more.  I quickly—without ruminating etc.—clean the rest of my bathroom drawers.  I toss about 4 hair products that failed me in my quest to have slick, silky hair like Reese Witherspoon’s.  I do keep most of the wrinkle creams, but toss the ones that give me zits.  I toss free floating Q-tips and old...

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