I have just realized that I have a ridiculous vitamin hoarding problem! Seriously, there must be dozens upon dozens of bottles of vitamins in my cupboards. His and hers multivitamins, co-enzyme Q-10, vitamin D, calcium + D, zinc, echinacea, some kind of thyroid formula, greens + fibre, iron, ginko, ester C, Greens+ extra energy tablets, MSM, B12, some other kind of calcium…and that’s just the stuff in pill format. Don’t get me started on the powders and liquids.
Way, way too many vitamins. I think if I actually took them all, I would make myself sick; but here’s where my absentmindedness is actually good for my health. I buy vitamins impulsively after reading this or that about them in some kind of health news, take them for maybe 3 days, and then completely fall off the wagon. So for all of the vitamins in the cupboard, I end up just randomly taking one every once in a while when I remember they’re there. Yesterday, for example, I ate leftover birthday cake for breakfast, which prompted me to wash it down with a multivitamin. Because they totally cancel each other out…right? 
Anyway, my absentminded vitamin hoarding problem is probably a huge waste of money because I bet that many of them will expire before I get around to them. And maybe I’m missing out on some possible health benefits from taking some of them religiously…after all, that’s why I bought them in the first place. E.g., as a Canadian, and a depressed one at that, I should definitely be taking vitamin D more regularly. But the prospect of figuring exactly which ones I should be taking and when and with what and without what and how much and for how long…well…shit, I have no idea. So I’ll just keep taking a random one out of the collection when I remember, and try not to bring any more home. I like to think of vitamins as a stop-gap anyway…I should really be getting my vitamins from my diet in the first place!
