A few years ago I read someplace about a woman who would make character judgements of her dates when she would visit their apartments by peeking into their medicine chests. Then I read another story about how someone had foiled snoops by filling her medicine cabinet with marbles so they would tumble out noisily and let the world know that the bathroom user wasn't minding their own business. I though this was very funny, but I blushed, too, because I have, on rare occasions, opened someone else's cabinet.

Anyway, knowing this, I decided to remove any embarrasing items from my guest bathroom and outfit it in style. I just decided to re-visit mine and this is what I found:

A can of Evian spray
Keri Lotion
witch hazel
a plastic hotel shower cap
A tube of Doctor Burt's Lavender Mint Toothpaste (vile)
various foil packets of creams (store giveaways)
A good size sample of Darphin sun screen
travel size Scope mouth wash
travel size Pepto Bismol
1/3 of a HUGE bottle of Santa Maria Novella Acqual Soave that I thought had gone bad but looked pretty
1/3 of a small bottle of AG Gardenia Passion - a gift I never liked

I was impressed. I could pass the marble test. I also decided that, turned or not, I still liked the Sta Maria Novell and carted it back to my bathroom. And the Gardenia Passion smelled a lot better than I remembered and I took it back, too.

Will you confess honestly? Have you ever peeked into someone else's medicine chest? (family doesn't count) Could you pass the marble test? Did you find anything shocking? Did you form any opinions about the person based on the contents or state of disarry/neatness?

Never think of looking.

I know you said that family doesn't count, but I remember looking for something in my dad and step mum's bedroom and opened a drawer, only to find a packet of condoms....LOL!

Knowing me, I'm sure I have looked, although I can't remember any occasion when I actually did it. Guess I never found anything interesting.

What's in mine?

BHA skin lotion
Sunscreen
Aspirin
Peppermint oil gelcaps (tummy remedy)
Homeopathic poison ivy drops
Bach Rescue Remedy drops
A full bottle of Darvocet (Got 'em after a root canal; they made me deathly ill. Should throw those out)
A couple of items of a *ahem* personal nature


So, I'm a vain, dyspepetic, narced-up, health-nut sex fiend. Guess I won't get many second dates.

Lol, BitterGrace! :P

Mine is stuffed:
Thermometer- old-fashioned and digital
Band-aids
Bactine
Antibiotic ointment
Hydrocortisone cream
Crest Vivid White
Tylenol
Pepto-Bismol
Glide dental floss
Rosebud salve
Nail polish remover
Clearasil
Hydrogen Peroxide
Rubbing alcohol
Q-tips
Razor
Razor blade refills
Styptic (spelling?) pencil
Facial masks
Hand cream
Olay Facial moisturizer
Nivea body lotion
Mouthwash
Tweezers
Airborne throat lozenges
Shaving cream
After Bite
Some sort of homeopathic Ginger tummy tablets
Calamine lotion
Coricidin
Visine
Saline Nasal Spray

Mine is very neat, but very full! I confess...I love to open up someone's cabinet and peek inside. I remember a movie where someone was looking in the medicine cabinet and the mirror fell off and broke or something....

Rosebud, this did happen to me. I was visiting my SIL and opened her medicine cabinet to peek inside and the whole thing fell down right out of the wall on top of me! She was very gracious about it. It turned out it wasn't my fault but it had come loose.

In mine, everything but medicine:

Jason Healthy Mouth toothpaste
Dental floss
A little antique apothecary glass with a bouquet of a few q-tips and toothpicks
Band-aids
Orange flower water
Rosewater
A small stack of cotton puffs to use with the above to cleanse my face
A few hair clips
Hair-trimming scissors
5 of my total 6 lipsticks (6th is in purse)
Minis or purse sprays of frequently worn perfumes to grab them quickly to carry if I change scents
A water sprayer for hair adjustment and for spot "ironing" any creases noticed in the clothes I put on

I used to keep aspirin in there as my all-purpose security-blanket drug but ever since last year when they created ringing in my ears I don't and now I have no drugs at all.

The only time I have ever looked around in any one's bathroom is when I was caught short on t.p....and then I changed the roll for them. (I do not mind doing housework.)

Otherwise I do not give a care (a local expression I never heard until I crossed the Mason-Dixon line).

My own medicine chest and bathroom linen closet are cluttered and I have no idea what is in them...I am going to clean them in the next weeks and hope I find some long lost treasures. Like a bottle of forgotten Chanel No. 5 or my diamond ring my oldest niece misplaced when she was a little tike. It could happen.

Click to view attachmentI don't look, because I can tell before looking, what I'm likely to find. What I do in my own cabinets, is one of two things: if I think the guests are snoops, I'll fix it so that something will fall and break on the floor, once the cabinet opens. I try always to find something that will stain clothing, shoes, etc. Like a big, bottle of ink. Otherwise, I take another route: I deliberately fill the chest with 'embarrassing' items . . . suppositories, condoms, hemorrhoidal wipes, jock itch spray, that stuff women use for itchy vaginas, etc. That way, they'll get their wish, when they open the cabinet door, to snoop.

Actually, this discussion reveals that I don't mind if someone looks in my medicine cabinet. In fact I think one of the reasons I keep it so neat with pleasant items in it is in case someone does, I could be proud of having a neat and attractive display of useful stuff with nothing extraneous.

How many here mind if someone looks in their medicine chest and how many don't mind?

I don't mind if anyone looks . . . but certainly I don't want them to find just a nice, tidy little cabinet, minus any naughty or provocative furnishings.

I do not care...except that I consider it lacking in civility and I like civility in my home. My bathroom is not organized, but my mind is. I am grateful for that but I am still working on organizing the rest of my life.

LOL!

I must say, this is the hardest I have laughed all day!

I wish Armanis would stop suggesting things , he is such a bad influence to this former marble type :) , not that I mind them looking , I just want to raise nosey parker's eyebrows a bit.

Now what the heck is in it at the moment ???


yes , had a look and nothing too exciting :
4 different toothepastes
dental floss
2 nail brushes
tiny jar of vaseline
tine jar of noxema
packet of got2be facial scrub
biore facial scrub
biore clay mask
jasmine oil
some lavender scented feminine products (bought only for the scent go figure)

Of course I peek! ;D

Although I once was at a dinner party at someone's house, and while in the restroom, I peeked... to find that every shelf in the medicine chest was full of...
SEX TOYS.

I got back to the dinner table laughing my head off and admitting to the host: "Got me!" which he thought was really funny because he'd notice other people coming back bright red and looking down but not admitting anything.

In the master bedroom chest:

Vitamins
Advil
lip balm
deodorant
toothpaste
floss
hydrocortisone cream
benadryl cream
mosquito bite stuff

In the guest bathroom chest:

Similar array, plus feminine products in case a guest needs it

In the kids bathroom chest:

Good god, ya don't wanna know!

Oh my gosh - you guys are NEAT. I was talking about my "DISPLAY" medicine chest in the other bathroom. I could never begin to itemize the crap in my "REAL" bathroom (that I USE). It was an added on room so it has drawers and lots of space, but no medicine chest.


If I thought that someone might poke around there, I'd stock it with something that would make snoopers sit up and take notice. I like some of Armanis' ideas. Maybe add a coiled up bullwhip or a riding crop. And lots of bottles of beano. That'll make 'em wonder.

I've never thought to look, really...unless the home-owner sends me to the cabinet to fetch something.

I don't have medicine cabinets in my bathroom.
Oh, you'll find all sorts of stuff in the vanity cabinets, but no actual 'medicine cabinets' or medicine in those rooms.
I keep all of my meds in the kitchen, in a cabinet that is high enough that if little ones visit...they can't get into any of them.

Bwahahaha!!! ;D

Let's see... Things to put in a bathroom, just in case people snoop:

-13 different kinds of personal lubricant
-10 boxes of Gas-Ex
-10 bottles of ExLax
-Handcuffs
-12 bottles of Fleet enema
-Rubber gloves
-gag ball

All displayed prominently on the counter, of course because the medicine chest would have a lock on it. Hehe.

(Sorry... my friend Lianne is here and she's making those suggestions, of course I had to post them!)

Hmmm... these posts are giving me ideas. I think I'll put a Pokémon in there...

Very funny. I would LOVE to do it - nothing too studied, just something to raise an eyebrow of a visiting priss.

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'I'm a little worried . . . '

'Allison?'

'I found some cigarettes, hidden inside her medicine cabinet . . . '

'Allison, smoking?'

'Imagine. It's those girls, at school . . . that Betty Anderson. I don't like that way she talks about men. And, sex!'

I did it. I put a Pokémon in my medicine chest--Meowth with its spiky hair and a little switch you can click to make it say: "Meowth--and just remember, I'm the top cat--Meowth--that's right!" Now that should entertain my guests! Thanks for the inspiration!

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Shamefully, I do this and sniff the perfumes, I have to restrain myself from trying them on. They would probably recognize me wearing their Cinnabar!

Oddly enough, if someone looks in my medicine cabinet they'll find..... medicine.

Band-aids, ointment, kid's cough syrup, aspirin, calamine lotion. Plus a dozen miniature perfumes.

Whoop.

Oh yes, the guests are deeply shocked...

I never look in people medicine cabinets. Never even had the slightest desire to look. TOTALLY boring.

Of course, I look in other people's medicine cabinets!

most of my guests use the downstairs bathroom, and in the medicine cabinet there is an assortment of over the counter stuff I have collected in my travels. I pick them up at little variety stores around the country..some of the stuff is from voodoo stores, some from creepy old pharmacies, some just odd. I have bottles of Save The Baby, Dr Campions Nit Creme, Pluto Water, Come Here Lover!! spray, Little Liver Pills, Miss Annes tonic for tired housewives. I also have some bottles of perfume that are pretty, and some violet scented soap.

That sounds like an interesting cabinet. Maybe I'll revise my no-peek policy! There's absolutely nothing but the practicalities in mine.

Yes, I do look- hate to admit it, but it's true.
We don't have a medicine cabinet, but there are several drawers and cabinets- and guests will definitely have to stuff to talk or ponder about if they go searching in there, depending on how deep they delve!

Aspirin

Aleve

Depakote

Zoloft

Seroquel

Some filched Xanaxes and Klonapin

toothbrush

lemon gel toothpaste

green and yellow cosmetic concealers

Fanci-Full Ultra White Minx hair rinse

A decant of MESSE DE MINUIT

Wahl electric hair clipper set

Band-Aids

Styptic Pencils (I'm almost haemophiliac... if I cut myself, I'll bleed for two or three hours)

Tweezers

Cuticle scissors

Big toenail clippers

Fructise scented green butch wax

Pepto-Bismol

Bain De Soleil self-tanner

Clinique bronzing gel

Pantene shampoo and conditioner for Silver Hair

Box of MAJA soaps

Listerine

Peach-scented rubbing alcohol

Dental Floss

Tiger Balm Red Ointment

Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque

Toilet Tissue







I don't suppose these are too revealing..... are they?

In my medicine cabinet right now:
deodorant
toothbrush
toothpaste
dental floss
moisturizer
coconut oil
contacts
contact solution
razor

And no, I do not look in other people's medicine cabinets. I am not the slightest bit interested.

We don't have any medicine cabinets.

But we do have drawers in the bureau under the sink upstairs. I put prophylactic devices on top of everything in the top drawer, front and center. I figure that'll satisfy their lurid curiosity quicker than anything else and keep them from snooping further and finding things like, oh, Q-tips and emory boards.

I don't usually look in anybody else's medicine cabinets. I'm most interested in their perfume collections, and these are usually located somewhere else.

For crying outloud! Nobody's going to keep their vi****** in the medicine cabinet!!! LOL! What the heck do you think you'll find there??? Asparin?

I look in my parents' medicine cabinet when I visit-- there are lots of old forgotten treasures there (including scents). That's really it, though-- just when I'm staying with family and trying to figure out where the cotton swabs are these days.

My side of the medicine cabinet has

a bottle of hydrogen peroxide
deodorant
sunscreen
liquid foundation (which might be shocking to friends, since I wear it about once a year)
a travel-size shampoo
bottle of B vitamins
emery boards
nail polish
travel sewing kit (the kind you get in hotels)
tweezers
lip balm
thermometer
a jar of homemade vapor rub
Dep molding clay

The Queen Helene mask and the other makeup I rarely wear are in a drawer down below, along with my spare glasses, bobby pins, replacement razor blades, and a bit of costume jewelry.

Rasputin, this medicine chest sounds like it's the walk-in variety!

Pieganjane, I love the idea of your guest medicine chest filled with all kinds of interesting items to entertain them.

Bergamot, I always used to love to look in my parents' medicine chest when visiting too. There remained in there until the day I had to clear it out to sell the house, such wonderful items as old bottles of Eau de Joy, Caswell-Massey Casma and a bottle of Hai Karate (all of which I have saved) and some odd hair pomade from the 1950s. My dad once bought this huge pomade jar and in over 30 years he never managed to use it up! LOL

I really don't mind if people look in my medicine chest. There's no medicine in there at all! But along with the Pokémon, which is still in there, I have added a mysterious blue bottle with a big label I made on the computer that says BRCW. I try to put things in there that will have peekers bursting at the seams to ask me questions about the contents.

P.S. I'm so glad this thread was resurrected because I love it!

If youhave a headache or a tummy problem, it is OK to look to see if you can find some aspirin or tagamets. But to rifle through a host's medicine chest just to be nosy is wrong. Anybody whp does such a thing ought to be ashamed. What's the point?

To me it's not so much to be nosy about the host's personal items as to see if there's anything interesting like perfume. But I agree, Morticia, it's not nice to look without asking so next time I'm tempted I think I'll ask if I can look. Thanks for the recall to good manners!

Naw... it's just all crammed into the cabinet willy-nilly...

Well I do have a look in other peoples yes.
The small cupboard in the bathroom has never had meds in it, too small for a start!!!! Hey I need a cupboard you know!!!

On top there are
PTR Cleanser
Eve Lom Cleanser
Elemis Face Wash
Clarins Gentle Toner
Elemis Lavender Repair Mask
Liz Earle Brightening Mask
Philosophy The Great One scrub
A hair band.

Next shelf
Avon deo
Keihls eye cream
NV Perricone sample eye serum
Kanebo Awakening Essence

Next shelf
various sample sachets
Neck cream Le Mirador
Kanebo face cream sample pot Sensi something.

Now open the mirrored door and on two shelves samples sizes of all sorts of things.
Decleor face masks
Face serums
Full size eye mask Decleor
Tweezerman tweezers
Liz Earle Spot On
Darphin samples oils in 5mls size, think there is five or six of those.
Givenchy face care samples

Now if you want to move to the bathroom window sill there are enough shampoos, conditioners and styling products to keep a small hairdresser going for a week. Plus Shiseido skincare samples, Avon bits and pieces hand creams, body scrubs.

Its a wonder I can fit into the bathroom to be honest!

Always leave something . . . provocative, inside your chest, for guests. You know . . . something they'll have really to THINK about, during dinner.

Another thing I like to do: place a bottle very close to the edge of a shelf . . . so that it will shatter and explode on your guest's shoe or trouser, etc. Ink, is always good . . . Iodine . . . something like that. This happened to ME once, when I opened a medicine chest INNOCENTLY, searching for . . . oh, I can't remember what: aspirin, or a hemorrhoidal wipe. I had to throw those pants, away.