13. In My Bag

Day 13: In My Bag

ChapStick - my ultimate addiction.  

I will accidently leave my phone at home, or sometimes even my entire purse, but I will never walk out the door without my ChapStick, preferably cherry or strawberry flavored.  I use the stuff probably 10-20 times per day, and when I don't have it with me I tend to panic.  I start to think my lips are going to get too dry and then I keep licking them which just make them chapped and sore, and I cannot relax or focus on anything else until I get some sweet, sweet ChapStick.

Don’t ever offer me a sticky lip gloss as a substitute.  Please know that your lip gloss does not hold a candle to ChapStick.  It’s just offensive.  No one wants that stuff.

I have lost my ChapStick a few times, but that's no big deal - I have a stash of them at home under the bathroom sink.  I have a year's supply just waiting to be put to good use.  If I'm out and I run out of ChapStick - no fear - I keep an extra tube in the car.  If the tube in the car is gone, no worries - I probably have one in my pocket.  If not, I'll just stop and buy more.  

I keep a tube of the good stuff in my nightstand, in the coffee table in the living room, in a drawer in the kitchen, in my desk at work...pretty much anywhere I spend a good amount of time you can find a tube of ChapStick.  It's seriously like I’m an alcoholic hiding my stash around the house for "just in case use."  

People have told me that I only need the lip balm because I use it so much.  Brian says the more you use it the worse off your lips are – like the ChapStick company puts something in their product that makes your lips MORE dry if you aren’t wearing it.  But to that I say who cares!? I love applying the gooey goodness and feeling the immediate calming and smooth sensation.  No chapped lips for this girl :)

Just out of curiosity I Googled “ChapStick addiction” since I often joke that I suffer from the disease, and unbeknownst to me, it may be a real thing…

http://www.chapstickaddiction.org/

Uh oh…

Oh well, even if I truly do have an addition it doesn’t hurt anyone and doesn’t affect my relationships with family and friends.  So even though I won’t be needing an intervention, I do think that maybe, just maaaybe, I should…no, never mind. I’m definitely not cutting back.

I LOVE CHAPSTICK!