August 28, 2026 • 15 mins
What shouldn't be stored in a bathroom medicine cabinet.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy, Sam, and Jody After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Really, I'm not trying to get you to rearrange your
whole bathroom life. Really not. You especially, Murphy. You know,
we share a bathroom, except we sort of don't. We
have one of those bathrooms where I have my own
sink and vanity, thank goodness. And he has his own sink.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
With no vanity. Thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, but— That's why I use the top of the toilet.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's why I'm always moving stuff off the top of
the toilet and just trying to put like one little
cute little bowl looking thing with a spray. Whatever. I know.
I know you don't have a lot of space and
I'm sorry. It's not what this is about.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's okay. Look, you are always worth the sacrifices. You
know that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, how am I supposed to come back from that?
Thank you. That's sweet. I do need more space than you.
I have a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But you have the medicine cabinet above the toilet. You
have a big medicine cabinet, and it is full of medicine.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's full of stuff. You can imagine Murphy. He has
backups of everything. If there's something you need to take,
he's got it.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We got it.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He's like a pharmacy in there. So one of the
stories in Three Things to Know Today blew my mind,
and it's that A lot of things that's not a
good idea to store in a bathroom because of the
moisture and humidity. Think of where your medicine cabinet is
and where we take showers, just right next to your
medicine cabinet. And the steam that comes out, it gets
(01:30):
into that. And apparently the number one thing that it's
not a good idea to store in a bathroom is
medicine because the humidity can break down the medicine over time.
And it's got to get into the bottle. To do that.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And how much is over time? Because, you know, prescriptions
are good for 30 days, 90 days.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But haven't you taken things that were in there from
six months ago?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Maybe they're referring to things like your bottles of aspirin
or things that you wind up holding on to for years.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah. Because you do hold on to those things. They're
not cheap. You do hold on to them.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We've taken Advil around here that's expired.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And we've been told by our pediatrician. He was like,
that stuff, you can take it. I wouldn't take antibiotics old,
but you can take headache medicine old. Yeah. That's what
he said anyway. Okay. So the other thing.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
He said that off the record, by the way.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh, yeah. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, guess what? It's on the record now.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Vitamins, makeup. That's where we store them. I keep my
makeup in the bathroom on my big vanity.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So vitamins and supplements, I didn't even think about that
because those do. I tend to buy the big bottles
of those.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Murphy's got a lot of those, too. A lot of
the wild ones.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Wild ones?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, just supplements I've never heard of. Like, what's this?
Then you ask him. He's like, yeah, I'm taking it
from my memory and my focus. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
She says that as though it doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
No, I didn't say that. You just take a lot
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
There's a lot of stuff. Well, okay. Because so many
people who listen know the type 1 history and all that,
I want to put everybody at ease to understand.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Type 1 diabetic.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yes, type 1 diabetic. That I'm not rogue with supplements.
Everything that I take that's a supplement is proven and
or safe. And there are certain supplements that you don't.
Mix with certain medicines. And I know those do that, too.
But I mean, so Jody's right. I mean, I know
(03:28):
this is not the path we're going down. I have
one there. I take one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
There are about 12 supplements I take a day, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And it takes a long time.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, so his medicine cabinet is stacked up.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That counts for the youthful look, can't you tell?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And the great memory.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The other stuff that is supposedly not a great idea
to keep in a bathroom near a lot of steam
and or moisture, retinol creams, ladies. Because it can break
it down. Teeth wipe.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Even inside of a bottle that's closed?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Supposedly it can get to it. It's just, they just say,
It should be stored in a cool, dry place. We've
always heard that.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, you're right. It actually says that on the bottle,
doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And do you know where I keep my few things
that I take?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Where?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
In the top drawer of my lingerie cabinet. So that's
where my medicine is and my vitamins.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
In the bedroom?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, well, it's actually in my closet. Away from the steam.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
See, Murphy, even if it's sealed in a glass, you know,
the retinol, it's still the room temperature is going to
get hot.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Whichever's inside could sweat, I guess, huh?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Probably. Yeah. Temperature changes the composition of things.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's why they put the silica gel, you know, things
inside of most of these supplements, though, to keep them
from sticking together.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And I don't remove those whenever I'm taking the supplements.
I just make sure I don't take them.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I know what that is. Make sure you don't take one.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So retinol serums, teeth whitening products, jewelry. Jewelry. I know
that because I'm a jewelry person. I knew not to.
I like, you're supposed to store jewelry everywhere. away not
not out in the open just because if I lay
my jewelry on my vanity and then I'm doing dry
shampoo and all this stuff it that those particles fall
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onto your jewelry and just not it's not good for
it so you really are supposed to keep jewelry in
a drawer like in a jewelry box box or pack
you know I try to do that not always perfect
about at it but.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well but you mean the thing is your side of
the bathroom is not where the steam is anyway I
know yeah Still.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It gets steamy in there. It makes its way. It
makes its way to my vanity.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I mean, are you going to move your stuff because
of this? Because, I mean, I keep my prescriptions and
supplements in the bathroom, too.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Everybody does.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'm not moving them.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I'm just curious. Are you going to be worried about
them now?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Good.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
No, I mean, the reason I don't, I mean, so
there are some really old houses, and when I say
really old, I mean like houses built in the 30s, 40s,
and 50s, that if they were never retrofitted with air conditioning,
and there's no actual central air vent in the bathroom,
I think that probably makes those bathrooms worse and probably
more susceptible to heat. But, you know, I mean, any
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house built after 1960 is pretty well going to have
a vent in the bathroom. And even though it steams
up while we're there, the steam's gone in two seconds,
you know, so it's not like.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It builds up.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So no, I don't think I want to move it.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Some of the people who are, these reports are from
experts who say that the moisture breaks down the effectiveness
of medicine, vitamins, whitening products, can spoil cosmetics and skincare formulas.
And I believe that. I keep those tight, like, you know,
put away, but it's under my sink. They can tarnish jewelry.
(06:43):
It can weaken sunscreen. I've heard that. And the The
trick about sunscreen is another place that I like to
keep it is I always keep it in my car. No,
I keep it in the car.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Well, that's probably even worse.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And it gets hot, so that's not smart, but that's
where I go to grab it. And I also keep
some at my desk here at work, so that's good.
That's probably the best place because it's a cool, dry place.
It's too cold, actually. And it just encourages. They even say, ooh,
this is gross. We didn't touch on this in three things,
but for retainers, people who have mouth dentist stuff. Yeah.
(07:15):
That if you keep it near a moist and steamy area,
it can increase and encourage mold growth. You don't want that.
So those should also be stored in a cool, dry place.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You should also be cleaning that, too.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You should also be cleaning it and letting it dry.
But when you store it away, it needs to be
in a cool, dry place.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I mean, look, it makes sense to me. You probably
need to be cautious. It's probably more important to make
sure that your medicine isn't in direct sunlight through a window.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You know, things like that that absolutely will immediately begin
to deteriorate it, especially anything. That's why you see, you know,
supplements and other things in amber-colored glass bottles is because
they're very susceptible to breaking down with ultraviolet light.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You'd see Murphy would know that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And that's only because I take so much medicine, which
is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You do need to know that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
For all the type 1 diabetes stuff. I'm so grateful
for all of the things, but.
The only thing I don't keep in the bathroom, but
there's not enough room for it, are the pump supplies,
the tubing, the cannula, the syringes, everything I use to
fill it with. Insulin, obviously. Stays in the fridge. But,
you know, there's just not enough room.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, you have a whole, like, shelf in the closet
that's just diabetic supplies. He has a big square that's
just diabetic stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So what is funny about what you are describing, I
never thought about this, honestly, Jodi. I'm serious. I never
thought about this.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's why I wanted to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well, not that. There's some new thing that's come out
of this that I just realized because the house that
we're in has– so our house is a little bit
odd because it's been added on to and the previous
owners expanded and made the bathroom larger, which is why
Jody has a separate vanity and sitting area. And so
(08:59):
the area that I've been relegated to— Over by the toilet.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
is the— The stand-up sink.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
what you would call the old bathroom.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So that's where the classic sink would be. This house
was built in 1960, so the medicine cabinet was literally
that one thing in the wall that wouldn't hold much
of anything today. And then what's above the toilet, in theory,
would be where you keep everything else, including towels and
other things. That's not– the entire thing is my medicine cabinet.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And colognes and things like that too.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, yeah. Guys get to smell good.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Some of your vanity in there too.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right. So there's no way that what we have could
sit in a traditional in the wall with the mirror
on it or whatever you want to call it, kind
of old school medicine cabinet. I guess– I'm assuming new
homes aren't built with those that way today. They're probably
much larger than that.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
There's so much better storage.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
When you guys take showers, how long do you spend?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
because I'm just thinking this is all about the steam
and the heat I mean if you're taking a five
minute shower you're in and out.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I take quick showers and long baths Murphy takes uh
showers and Murphy takes Murphy pushes it with a shower.
You like being in there.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, but it will depend. Not Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
No, not in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And it takes a minute for the water to heat up,
so you've got to, I guess, account for the steam
for there. But no, I'm a 90-second shower taker Monday
through Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
In the morning, yeah. But at night sometimes, I know
you're in there a nice amount of time, which is good.
The other thing, though, about this, the other idea is cool,
dry place. Bedroom drawer, closet, linen closet, dresser. Dresser is
where my medicine is. That's just because of convenience for
me because I don't want my vanity to look like
(10:47):
a drugstore. I want it to look pretty.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And it is.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It has makeup and just pretty things.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
The thing about the medicine cabinet is it's one of
those that you eventually get to a place where you go, okay,
I got to clean this thing out. It's time to
go through and do inventory and make sure that I don't.
Because things tend to collect over time. The different aspirin
bottles or the things. you know, you wind up with
two Tylenol bottles. For some reason, you know, things wind
up and everything piles up. And so the, you know,
(11:16):
there are times where I jokingly tell Jodi, my medicine
cabinet looks like this, like, what kind of psycho lives
in this house? There are so many bottles and things
in there.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Like, tell me something I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But it's usually just because of the, you know, you
get your renewals, you get all the other things.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Why do we have six bottles of vitamin E? Like,
you know, things like that. Oh, you're like, oh, subscribe
and save.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
It's an Amazon problem.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's true. The other thing here, this reminds me, number one,
do you guys realize that Apparently, supposedly, people, when they
visit your home, they can't help but look in the
medicine cabinet if you have an old one. Like it's
a human nature thing that people can't resist peeking in there.
(12:01):
Just FYI.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, you know, that probably is not a great idea. No,
it's not. Because one day you'll be at the house
with somebody that's got one of those little alarm things
and you pull it and it starts.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Or something falls and breaks. Yeah. Yes!
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yes!
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And then you're picking it up to put it back
and more stuff falls.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I will tell you this.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Or if it's over the toilet, you open it up
and it falls in the toilet.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Then what are you going to do? Put it back
and not say anything?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That could be a problem.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Why are my pills all wet?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh, gross. The other thing, I will tell you this.
I don't know if you guys ever did anything like this,
but when I was a little girl, it was one
of my favorite things in the world when I stayed
with either one of my grandmothers. And I would take
a bath. in the bathroom and have my privacy and
close the door. I loved to look through the cabinet
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of her stuff. Like that was the first time I
ever opened up a Pond's cold cream container and smelled it.
And what's this? And, you know, women, a lot of
women like me, not all, but a lot of women
like me enjoy and love cosmetics. And I'm fascinated and
I can remember spending a lot of time in there.
My grandma would, sugar, are you, are you done yet?
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And I'd be like, yes, ma'am, I'm just drying off.
And I would have been, I was looking through the,
her makeup and, you know, vanishing cream and like, what's this?
And all those things. And I would even ask questions later, like,
what's this? She'll go, I'll tell you about that later
when you grow up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I would look through my parents' closet in the, in
their bathroom, you know, cause we had a tub in
our bath, me and my brother. But every now and then,
it's like, can I take a shower in your bathroom?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So you look through there, and I was amazed at
how many fragrances my mom and dad had.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
It's like, is this what you have to do when
you're an adult is get a lot of scents?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Right. You must. Isn't that funny that when you're a kid,
you're taking all this stuff in visually. You are forming
opinions about what it must be to be an adult.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah. Yeah. I was always told not to touch the
green pills.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Okay. Yeah. green pills yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Actually I found out later that the green pills were
a sort I'm not going to remember the pharmacy name
for this because I think it's really an old sedative
or something like that that my grandmother had it's not
like she took it every day or whatever It was
for stomach upset or something like that. But apparently, I mean,
she was doing what she should be, right? Which is like,
you know.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Taking care of business.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's not candy. And honestly, it looked like.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It looked like candy.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It looked like good and plenty. Oh, lordy.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Lordy, lordy.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Anyway, it's just information. And the reason I brought it
into three things and brought it into the show is
because that fascinates me for all of us. Everybody keeps
all that stuff in the bathroom, mostly. And it's not
something we've ever thought about, the steam coming. It can
change the composition of things over time. Just something to
(14:53):
think about.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It seems like if you have an overly steamy bathroom
and it doesn't really clear out on you, then that
would be a concern. Otherwise, you know, you're probably okay.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Or if you have the psycho medicine cabinet like Murphy.
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Speaker 1 (15:06):
Get it all on the Murphy, Sam & Jodi podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy, Sam, and Jody After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Really, I'm not trying to get you to rearrange your
whole bathroom life. Really not. You especially, Murphy. You know,
we share a bathroom, except we sort of don't. We
have one of those bathrooms where I have my own
sink and vanity, thank goodness. And he has his own sink.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
With no vanity. Thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, but— That's why I use the top of the toilet.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's why I'm always moving stuff off the top of
the toilet and just trying to put like one little
cute little bowl looking thing with a spray. Whatever. I know.
I know you don't have a lot of space and
I'm sorry. It's not what this is about.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's okay. Look, you are always worth the sacrifices. You
know that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, how am I supposed to come back from that?
Thank you. That's sweet. I do need more space than you.
I have a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But you have the medicine cabinet above the toilet. You
have a big medicine cabinet, and it is full of medicine.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's full of stuff. You can imagine Murphy. He has
backups of everything. If there's something you need to take,
he's got it.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We got it.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He's like a pharmacy in there. So one of the
stories in Three Things to Know Today blew my mind,
and it's that A lot of things that's not a
good idea to store in a bathroom because of the
moisture and humidity. Think of where your medicine cabinet is
and where we take showers, just right next to your
medicine cabinet. And the steam that comes out, it gets
(01:30):
into that. And apparently the number one thing that it's
not a good idea to store in a bathroom is
medicine because the humidity can break down the medicine over time.
And it's got to get into the bottle. To do that.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And how much is over time? Because, you know, prescriptions
are good for 30 days, 90 days.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But haven't you taken things that were in there from
six months ago?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Maybe they're referring to things like your bottles of aspirin
or things that you wind up holding on to for years.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah. Because you do hold on to those things. They're
not cheap. You do hold on to them.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We've taken Advil around here that's expired.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And we've been told by our pediatrician. He was like,
that stuff, you can take it. I wouldn't take antibiotics old,
but you can take headache medicine old. Yeah. That's what
he said anyway. Okay. So the other thing.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
He said that off the record, by the way.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh, yeah. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, guess what? It's on the record now.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Vitamins, makeup. That's where we store them. I keep my
makeup in the bathroom on my big vanity.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So vitamins and supplements, I didn't even think about that
because those do. I tend to buy the big bottles
of those.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Murphy's got a lot of those, too. A lot of
the wild ones.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Wild ones?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, just supplements I've never heard of. Like, what's this?
Then you ask him. He's like, yeah, I'm taking it
from my memory and my focus. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
She says that as though it doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
No, I didn't say that. You just take a lot
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
There's a lot of stuff. Well, okay. Because so many
people who listen know the type 1 history and all that,
I want to put everybody at ease to understand.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Type 1 diabetic.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yes, type 1 diabetic. That I'm not rogue with supplements.
Everything that I take that's a supplement is proven and
or safe. And there are certain supplements that you don't.
Mix with certain medicines. And I know those do that, too.
But I mean, so Jody's right. I mean, I know
(03:28):
this is not the path we're going down. I have
one there. I take one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
There are about 12 supplements I take a day, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And it takes a long time.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, so his medicine cabinet is stacked up.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That counts for the youthful look, can't you tell?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And the great memory.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The other stuff that is supposedly not a great idea
to keep in a bathroom near a lot of steam
and or moisture, retinol creams, ladies. Because it can break
it down. Teeth wipe.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Even inside of a bottle that's closed?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Supposedly it can get to it. It's just, they just say,
It should be stored in a cool, dry place. We've
always heard that.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, you're right. It actually says that on the bottle,
doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And do you know where I keep my few things
that I take?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Where?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
In the top drawer of my lingerie cabinet. So that's
where my medicine is and my vitamins.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
In the bedroom?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, well, it's actually in my closet. Away from the steam.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
See, Murphy, even if it's sealed in a glass, you know,
the retinol, it's still the room temperature is going to
get hot.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Whichever's inside could sweat, I guess, huh?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Probably. Yeah. Temperature changes the composition of things.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's why they put the silica gel, you know, things
inside of most of these supplements, though, to keep them
from sticking together.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And I don't remove those whenever I'm taking the supplements.
I just make sure I don't take them.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I know what that is. Make sure you don't take one.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So retinol serums, teeth whitening products, jewelry. Jewelry. I know
that because I'm a jewelry person. I knew not to.
I like, you're supposed to store jewelry everywhere. away not
not out in the open just because if I lay
my jewelry on my vanity and then I'm doing dry
shampoo and all this stuff it that those particles fall
(05:12):
onto your jewelry and just not it's not good for
it so you really are supposed to keep jewelry in
a drawer like in a jewelry box box or pack
you know I try to do that not always perfect
about at it but.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well but you mean the thing is your side of
the bathroom is not where the steam is anyway I
know yeah Still.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It gets steamy in there. It makes its way. It
makes its way to my vanity.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I mean, are you going to move your stuff because
of this? Because, I mean, I keep my prescriptions and
supplements in the bathroom, too.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Everybody does.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'm not moving them.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I'm just curious. Are you going to be worried about
them now?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Good.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
No, I mean, the reason I don't, I mean, so
there are some really old houses, and when I say
really old, I mean like houses built in the 30s, 40s,
and 50s, that if they were never retrofitted with air conditioning,
and there's no actual central air vent in the bathroom,
I think that probably makes those bathrooms worse and probably
more susceptible to heat. But, you know, I mean, any
(06:09):
house built after 1960 is pretty well going to have
a vent in the bathroom. And even though it steams
up while we're there, the steam's gone in two seconds,
you know, so it's not like.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It builds up.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So no, I don't think I want to move it.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Some of the people who are, these reports are from
experts who say that the moisture breaks down the effectiveness
of medicine, vitamins, whitening products, can spoil cosmetics and skincare formulas.
And I believe that. I keep those tight, like, you know,
put away, but it's under my sink. They can tarnish jewelry.
(06:43):
It can weaken sunscreen. I've heard that. And the The
trick about sunscreen is another place that I like to
keep it is I always keep it in my car. No,
I keep it in the car.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Well, that's probably even worse.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And it gets hot, so that's not smart, but that's
where I go to grab it. And I also keep
some at my desk here at work, so that's good.
That's probably the best place because it's a cool, dry place.
It's too cold, actually. And it just encourages. They even say, ooh,
this is gross. We didn't touch on this in three things,
but for retainers, people who have mouth dentist stuff. Yeah.
(07:15):
That if you keep it near a moist and steamy area,
it can increase and encourage mold growth. You don't want that.
So those should also be stored in a cool, dry place.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You should also be cleaning that, too.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You should also be cleaning it and letting it dry.
But when you store it away, it needs to be
in a cool, dry place.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I mean, look, it makes sense to me. You probably
need to be cautious. It's probably more important to make
sure that your medicine isn't in direct sunlight through a window.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You know, things like that that absolutely will immediately begin
to deteriorate it, especially anything. That's why you see, you know,
supplements and other things in amber-colored glass bottles is because
they're very susceptible to breaking down with ultraviolet light.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You'd see Murphy would know that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And that's only because I take so much medicine, which
is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You do need to know that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
For all the type 1 diabetes stuff. I'm so grateful
for all of the things, but.
The only thing I don't keep in the bathroom, but
there's not enough room for it, are the pump supplies,
the tubing, the cannula, the syringes, everything I use to
fill it with. Insulin, obviously. Stays in the fridge. But,
you know, there's just not enough room.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, you have a whole, like, shelf in the closet
that's just diabetic supplies. He has a big square that's
just diabetic stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So what is funny about what you are describing, I
never thought about this, honestly, Jodi. I'm serious. I never
thought about this.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's why I wanted to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well, not that. There's some new thing that's come out
of this that I just realized because the house that
we're in has– so our house is a little bit
odd because it's been added on to and the previous
owners expanded and made the bathroom larger, which is why
Jody has a separate vanity and sitting area. And so
(08:59):
the area that I've been relegated to— Over by the toilet.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
is the— The stand-up sink.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
what you would call the old bathroom.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So that's where the classic sink would be. This house
was built in 1960, so the medicine cabinet was literally
that one thing in the wall that wouldn't hold much
of anything today. And then what's above the toilet, in theory,
would be where you keep everything else, including towels and
other things. That's not– the entire thing is my medicine cabinet.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And colognes and things like that too.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, yeah. Guys get to smell good.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Some of your vanity in there too.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right. So there's no way that what we have could
sit in a traditional in the wall with the mirror
on it or whatever you want to call it, kind
of old school medicine cabinet. I guess– I'm assuming new
homes aren't built with those that way today. They're probably
much larger than that.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
There's so much better storage.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
When you guys take showers, how long do you spend?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
because I'm just thinking this is all about the steam
and the heat I mean if you're taking a five
minute shower you're in and out.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I take quick showers and long baths Murphy takes uh
showers and Murphy takes Murphy pushes it with a shower.
You like being in there.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, but it will depend. Not Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
No, not in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And it takes a minute for the water to heat up,
so you've got to, I guess, account for the steam
for there. But no, I'm a 90-second shower taker Monday
through Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
In the morning, yeah. But at night sometimes, I know
you're in there a nice amount of time, which is good.
The other thing, though, about this, the other idea is cool,
dry place. Bedroom drawer, closet, linen closet, dresser. Dresser is
where my medicine is. That's just because of convenience for
me because I don't want my vanity to look like
(10:47):
a drugstore. I want it to look pretty.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And it is.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It has makeup and just pretty things.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
The thing about the medicine cabinet is it's one of
those that you eventually get to a place where you go, okay,
I got to clean this thing out. It's time to
go through and do inventory and make sure that I don't.
Because things tend to collect over time. The different aspirin
bottles or the things. you know, you wind up with
two Tylenol bottles. For some reason, you know, things wind
up and everything piles up. And so the, you know,
(11:16):
there are times where I jokingly tell Jodi, my medicine
cabinet looks like this, like, what kind of psycho lives
in this house? There are so many bottles and things
in there.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Like, tell me something I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But it's usually just because of the, you know, you
get your renewals, you get all the other things.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Why do we have six bottles of vitamin E? Like,
you know, things like that. Oh, you're like, oh, subscribe
and save.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
It's an Amazon problem.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's true. The other thing here, this reminds me, number one,
do you guys realize that Apparently, supposedly, people, when they
visit your home, they can't help but look in the
medicine cabinet if you have an old one. Like it's
a human nature thing that people can't resist peeking in there.
(12:01):
Just FYI.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, you know, that probably is not a great idea. No,
it's not. Because one day you'll be at the house
with somebody that's got one of those little alarm things
and you pull it and it starts.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Or something falls and breaks. Yeah. Yes!
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yes!
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And then you're picking it up to put it back
and more stuff falls.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I will tell you this.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Or if it's over the toilet, you open it up
and it falls in the toilet.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Then what are you going to do? Put it back
and not say anything?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That could be a problem.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Why are my pills all wet?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh, gross. The other thing, I will tell you this.
I don't know if you guys ever did anything like this,
but when I was a little girl, it was one
of my favorite things in the world when I stayed
with either one of my grandmothers. And I would take
a bath. in the bathroom and have my privacy and
close the door. I loved to look through the cabinet
(12:49):
of her stuff. Like that was the first time I
ever opened up a Pond's cold cream container and smelled it.
And what's this? And, you know, women, a lot of
women like me, not all, but a lot of women
like me enjoy and love cosmetics. And I'm fascinated and
I can remember spending a lot of time in there.
My grandma would, sugar, are you, are you done yet?
(13:13):
And I'd be like, yes, ma'am, I'm just drying off.
And I would have been, I was looking through the,
her makeup and, you know, vanishing cream and like, what's this?
And all those things. And I would even ask questions later, like,
what's this? She'll go, I'll tell you about that later
when you grow up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I would look through my parents' closet in the, in
their bathroom, you know, cause we had a tub in
our bath, me and my brother. But every now and then,
it's like, can I take a shower in your bathroom?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So you look through there, and I was amazed at
how many fragrances my mom and dad had.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
It's like, is this what you have to do when
you're an adult is get a lot of scents?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Right. You must. Isn't that funny that when you're a kid,
you're taking all this stuff in visually. You are forming
opinions about what it must be to be an adult.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah. Yeah. I was always told not to touch the
green pills.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Okay. Yeah. green pills yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Actually I found out later that the green pills were
a sort I'm not going to remember the pharmacy name
for this because I think it's really an old sedative
or something like that that my grandmother had it's not
like she took it every day or whatever It was
for stomach upset or something like that. But apparently, I mean,
she was doing what she should be, right? Which is like,
you know.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Taking care of business.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's not candy. And honestly, it looked like.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It looked like candy.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It looked like good and plenty. Oh, lordy.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Lordy, lordy.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Anyway, it's just information. And the reason I brought it
into three things and brought it into the show is
because that fascinates me for all of us. Everybody keeps
all that stuff in the bathroom, mostly. And it's not
something we've ever thought about, the steam coming. It can
change the composition of things over time. Just something to
(14:53):
think about.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
It seems like if you have an overly steamy bathroom
and it doesn't really clear out on you, then that
would be a concern. Otherwise, you know, you're probably okay.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Or if you have the psycho medicine cabinet like Murphy.
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Speaker 1 (15:06):
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