No buying toiletries in February challenge!

lynzpower

Done quite well this morning:

Sunsilk Straight conditioner ( purple bottle) : WIBA 1000% YES! Love the silky feel of this and the smell is great- worth waiting till you get a big one for £1 though, the small ones last about 3 days.

Finished a shampoo mini that I got from a hotel as shower gel. Remarkably pampering ( too stripping on the hair) and is delaying the need for me to use the dove wash as this is the last proper s gel Ive got. So another mini dug out of the crate to use later.

Noticed no bubble bath out as the lemon M&S one finished- I've dug out M&S pomegranate for tonight's pamper sesh.

Hope all are well today, and hugs to anyone who might want one. MWAH xx

RebeccaBloomwood

Mags30 wrote: »

Rebecca Bloomwood has been thanking my posts too. @Rebecca do post and say hello:hello:

OK, OK, I'll come out and talk to you guys!

I was sort of considering posting "in character" but I know not all of you have read/seen the shopaholic books/film so not everyone would get the joke and just think I'm awful!

I'm only half-heartedly taking part in this challenge, although this thread is the first thing I go to after switching my computer on! I don't really have much of a stash, probably because I'm too young (20) to have accumulated much.

However, reading this thread has encouraged me to actually use the products I do have more often. My body butter is doing me no good sitting on the shelf!

One thing I have done is I've put all of my January Lush purchases in a shoebox and wrapped it up. I'm going to open it on my birthday in three weeks and use the stuff then. So I've got three weeks left to use up my boring shampoo and body wash and then I get a treat!

freyasmum

RebeccaBloomwood wrote: »

One thing I have done is I've put all of my January Lush purchases in a shoebox and wrapped it up. I'm going to open it on my birthday in three weeks and use the stuff then. So I've got three weeks left to use up my boring shampoo and body wash and then I get a treat!

Hi Rebecca :hello:

I love lush stuff - the candy bath melt is my absolute favourite :j It's so much fun having regular pamper sessions - and my skin looks and feels 100% better

I put a pearl drops liquid calcium toothpaste in the bin today. It's so much hard work to get the blooming stuff out of the tube! Totally hopeless, and it tastes vile - would be better just brushing my teeth with value toothpaste and bicarb!

I feel like I'm dying; was in the garden after work, moving loads of rubbish (and heavy stuff at that). Then my sister came round and we went a run. Every part of me aches and I'm feeling muscles I didn't even know I had :rotfl: :rotfl:

Yorkielass

Hi Rebecca :wave:

Someone posted (sorry I can't remember who :oops:) that they were wondering how people used so much up. I know when I did this last year I had lots of minis and half used things so I was using something up every day or so, a mini showergel from a hotel here, a bubble bath with a drip in the bottom there etc.

Now I've used up/sold all the random stuff, but I still seem to have 3 face masks on the go, several different bubble baths open and the same for moisturiser and hand cream too, sometimes it's because I use different things e.g. I like to alernate between calm one calm all from S&G and lush bath bombs/bubble bath bars when having a bath. but it would take up less space if I concentrated on finishing somethings off before continuing with others so that shall be my mission for Feb!

joesaunt

Nothing used up, but ladies, I must declare I am in love!:j

tara747

My skin is definitely looking better ladies, and I have had a few compliments so this challenge is definitely doing me good!

To clarify my rules for the savings pot:
I put in money for anytime I use up a product, or anytime I am seriously tempted but resist!
I move money back to the current a/c to pay for any product that I do buy.
The aim is to have the total going up, not seesawing!

RebeccaBloomwood wrote: »

OK, OK, I'll come out and talk to you guys!

I was sort of considering posting "in character" but I know not all of you have read/seen the shopaholic books/film so not everyone would get the joke and just think I'm awful!

I'm only half-heartedly taking part in this challenge, although this thread is the first thing I go to after switching my computer on! I don't really have much of a stash, probably because I'm too young (20) to have accumulated much.

However, reading this thread has encouraged me to actually use the products I do have more often. My body butter is doing me no good sitting on the shelf!

One thing I have done is I've put all of my January Lush purchases in a shoebox and wrapped it up. I'm going to open it on my birthday in three weeks and use the stuff then. So I've got three weeks left to use up my boring shampoo and body wash and then I get a treat!

Hi Rebecca, and what a great idea about the shoebox!!! :T

freyasmum wrote: »

I feel like I'm dying; was in the garden after work, moving loads of rubbish (and heavy stuff at that). Then my sister came round and we went a run. Every part of me aches and I'm feeling muscles I didn't even know I had :rotfl: :rotfl:

Well done you! :j

joesaunt wrote: »

Nothing used up, but ladies, I must declare I am in love!:j

Tell us more!!!!!! :A Is it a man or a new product? :rotfl:

joesaunt

tara747 wrote: »

My skin is definitely looking better ladies, and I have had a few compliments so this challenge is definitely doing me good!

To clarify my rules for the savings pot:
I put in money for anytime I use up a product, or anytime I am seriously tempted but resist!
I move money back to the current a/c to pay for any product that I do buy.
The aim is to have the total going up, not seesawing!



Hi Rebecca, and what a great idea about the shoebox!!! :T


Well done you! :j



Tell us more!!!!!! :A Is it a man or a new product? :rotfl:

It is a man :T he is so nice and normal it is untrue. He is debt free and not at all materialistic like the ex husband, I don't feel I have to be "up with it" all the time. He likes me for who I am not like the ex who tried to "mold" me, almost destroying the person I was. I am so happy today I could sing, but best not I am tone deaf!

Yorkielass

CompletelyLost wrote: »

That was me, I think Makes sense if they are minis that they'll be used quickly, but a lot of what I'm seeing are fullsize products!

Sorry - I don't know about others but it was things like a bottle of radox with 1 baths worth left in it, 3 tubes of facemask etc with 1 application left in etc that I finished on my last challenge as well as all the minis.

I now am completely on S&G shower gel in pumped bottles which lasts forever so won't be getting through much of that any time soon.

Time for my product inventory I think this weekend, think I'll add it to list of things to do!

topbargainhunter

trudij wrote: »

:rotfl: know that feeling well....




Decant the mini's into your other bottles - then you need a stash in case there is a nuclear war or we all get snowed in again.... simples !!!!


Good idea! Although I have planned to keep them for my weekend bag anyway, they don't last long. I have to admit, I gave in resisting last night and ordered the stuff. I promise not to start on it til my other in the shower is gone though. I'm not usually a hoarder of this stuff anyway, just the more luxurious things that we never seem to use.:rotfl:

freyasmum

joesaunt wrote: »

It is a man :T he is so nice and normal it is untrue. He is debt free and not at all materialistic like the ex husband, I don't feel I have to be "up with it" all the time. He likes me for who I am not like the ex who tried to "mold" me, almost destroying the person I was. I am so happy today I could sing, but best not I am tone deaf!

That's so fab! :j

Makes such a difference when you find someone nice, doesn't it. Makes you want to walk around like this - :D:D - all day :T

tara747 wrote: »

Well done you! :j

Doesn't feel it :rotfl: But thank you

CompletelyLost wrote: »

That was me, I think Makes sense if they are minis that they'll be used quickly, but a lot of what I'm seeing are fullsize products!

I'm horrendous; I have so many (of the same) products open at the same time. I'll be halfway through something and buy a new product. I'll then leave the old one to try the new one... ad infinitum