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So, here's a question for the great minds of The Lounge.

I have a selection of bottles of perfume that I don't use anymore, either because they were gifts and I never really liked them, or because I went off them. They're all nice brands, but I don't feel like I could give them away, because about the first 10mls has been used. Also, they're old, maybe about five years old, so I don't know if they will have gone off.


So, what's the best thing to do? Just throw them out or empty them down the drain and recycle the bottles (is the environmental impact of ditching 500mls of perfume down the sink offset by recycling the bottles?) Or is there a clever third option I haven't thought of?

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If you have an older petrol-driven motorcar, you could use them as a fuel additive - they're mostly ethanol based (100ml per full tank should be ok).


Alternatively, they could be mixed with an equal volume of water and used as screen wash.


Or, they can be used neat as windscreen de-icer.

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HAL9000 Wrote:

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> If you have an older petrol-driven motorcar, you

> could use them as a fuel additive - they're mostly

> ethanol based (100ml per full tank should be ok).

>

> Alternatively, they could be mixed with an equal

> volume of water and used as screen wash.

>

> Or, they can be used neat as windscreen de-icer.



Well that's novel and practical!


annaj, I know you said:


"... but I don't feel like I could give them away, because about the first 10mls has been used. Also, they're old, maybe about five years old, so I don't know if they will have gone off.",


but I'm sure that if you offered them for free in the "for sale..." section stating this, you would have no shortage of takers...try it...and see...otherwise, the cheap petrol thing sounds like a good idea!

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Top the bottles up with a little water and get the Big Fiver to flog them from a cardboard box on Oxford Street.


Either that or play department stores: panel your face in make up and put a massive blow heater above the inside of your front door. Move your dressing table to the hall and put a white uniform on. Then every time someone comes to visit offer them a free sample in a tone that combines contempt, boredom and aggression.

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They haven't been in sunlight. They weren't in their original boxes, but they have been stashed in a box, because I don't use them. I took them outside and tested them all earlier and they smell ok I think - the thing is, I'm not a big perfume fan (which is why I have so much of it unused) but they smelt, well, perfume-y to me.
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