What's My "Shelf Life"?

I'm seeing, as I've gotten older, that more and more of the things I love, are "discontinued".  My favorite shade of lipstick - the one I've used for 10 years - is no longer available.  The brand of my make-up?  Same deal.  

And the colognes of my high school years..."Ambush"?  "Emeraude"?  They've been relegated to Drugstore.com and probably wouldn't smell the same as they did those many years ago, anyway.

The days of equating the smell of a shampoo with pleasant memories of our younger days are obviously over, too.  Remember Prell, that thick, green shampoo concoction? Or Adorn hairspray?    Now, the formulas of everything we use are "new" or "improved" upon so often, who can zoom in on a favorite?   Or connect it to a memory?

There's a lot to be said for longevity so I should probably be grateful that I'm outliving all the products of my past.  Maybe I just need to be "new" and keep on "improving", too,  But I sure wish they'd let some of those old favorites hang around just little while longer...  Don't you?