Vintage Shampoo...and also, My Husband was right

Ok, question for you all. Does anybody remember Ivory Shampoo?

They stopped making it several years back, but I clearly remember it from when I was younger. Every so often my mom would make us lie down on the kitchen counter with our head at the edge of the sink and she would give our hair a good scrubbing. And she used Ivory Shampoo, which had a completely unique scent which I can still almost smell to this day.

When they discontinued it, I didn't really notice. I had moved on to other more sophisticated brands like Salon Selectives and White Rain. Oh, and Outrageous, which at the time I thought was the best ever because it smelled so divine.

When I married Ricardo and moved all of my stuff in and basically took over the cabinet space in his bathroom, I discovered in the very back of the bottom cabinet a small stash of Ivory Shampoo. Brand new, never used, four bottles. I asked him about it, and he told me that he had grabbed the last few bottles that he could find right around the time that they stopped making it, and was hanging on to them in the hopes that he could someday sell them and make some big bucks off of them. Every once in awhile he would grab one of the bottles, open it and pass it slowly under his nose, savoring the scent of a great payoff down the road.

I am a little ashamed to admit that I scoffed at the idea. They only cost maybe $2 at the time, so I didn't figure anyone would fork out much more than that for them.

But he was so sure that this shampoo he had been hoarding for years was worth something. He did some googling and found some website where people were posting on message boards, begging the Ivory execs to bring back the shampoo. And, oh the excitement.

"Look!" He would tell me. "Here's a guy that says he has one bottle left and only uses it for special occasions! See?? People love this stuff!"

He finally convinced me to put a bottle on Ebay, and I did so, confident in the fact that it was a huge waste of the listing fee that they charged us.

Imagine my surprise when it actually sold. And further, imagine my shock when someone paid twenty dollars for it. Ok, so maybe it's not a fortune, but it's still a pretty good return on $2. The man who bought it was thrilled to pieces that he had discovered his favorite shampoo again after lo these many years, and emailed me to tell me that he thought he would never see it again. He asked if we had any more.

Why, yes, as a matter of fact. We did.

We ended up selling all four of them for $20 a pop, which is still hard for me to believe, considering that Ricardo had at the most $6 invested in them (one he found at his mom's house, so it was free to us).

Now he is trying to convince me to put up for auction an old tin of Nesquick Strawberry Mix. He says they do not make the old metal tins anymore, which I think is true - everything is plastic now. He is pretty convinced that some collector out there would just love it.

I know better than to scoff anymore, even though I sort of still want to. Like they say...there is a buyer for everything.

So...what would you pay good money for if you could only find it again?