No buying toiletries in February challenge!

tara747

Mags30 wrote: »

Missed it sorry,that thread was moving so fast I didn't read everything. PM me your address I'll send you a pair:)Keeping the other 2 though because I'm hoping to not be spending enough to have loads of snowie/skinnie vouchers from now on.

Oooh, thanks so much! :T I will send you something too to say thanks xoxo

rosemary54

spent 2 hours yesterday reading the toiletry and clothes threads and today found new toiletry thread,ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh will never get any work done!

forgot to watch LOTRs last night as called sister (for 1.5 hours!!!!) she is over the moon as just come off pills to stop cancer afetr 6 years especially as they said she had another year to go.now hopefully the excess weight,depression and other problems caused by the pills will go ......she is the one who sent me the email about the hunks in the car parks!!!
did use a scahet of melon and mint foot scrub so now have lovely soft feet,but just did a clear manicure as late and my aim on nails not great any way(more on fingers than nails some times!!!)

Bronnie

Hi girls :wave:

Great new thread everyone and hello to the newbies who've joined us and any lurkers who are thinking about it........do come and join us!!

Tried to get the Dove offer deodorants yesterday, but my poxy little Boots only had the large cans, so will try again in town later. Will also be taking back another foolish grabbit to M&S for £15 back on my card.

I flirted briefly with the Grabbit board at Xmas and was pitifully unsuccessful!
a. The despised M&S 3 for a fiver toiletries.
b. The La Redoute Christmas blanket fiasco
c. The very silly (alcohol-induced) M&S speculative "sofas" thread

Anyway, all it cost me was the £4.70 for the toiletries, but it was a lot of wasted time and aware of how easy it is to get sucked in! I will be more discerning in future!!

vwcampervan72 wrote: »

morning everyone thanks for the new Feb thread

Im determined not to buy in Feb apart from new toothbrushes for my daughters (16 and 13) going to get them with boots points, they know im doing this challenge and think theyre joining in aswell

Same here, although DD's not officially doing this and she controls her spending very well, she can be really wasteful with stuff. I noticed she too has rolled down her toothpaste tube and has a bulldog clip on it :rotfl:and hasn't started the new pump tube we bought a week ago. Also she has 2 large bottles of body lotion turned upside down ready to finish off and has volunteered to swap an unsuitable shampoo and conditioner of mine so :T. She also has resisted buying a new bronzer and has found soe in a palette she's using up!


Tara, well done on your ebay total. I love seeing other people's money plopping into my paypal account for stuff I've had hanging around the place. It doesn't seem so long ago when you were resisting the idea of ebay!! I bet you're glad you've started now!

fizzytrinket

i'm still in
very busy at work so no time to shop.
sold some stuff, gave some away and swapped some perfumes for a chloe bag :j
still using all my stuff and am very impressed at condition of my hair, hands, feet, nails and skin.
i've never been so exfoliated and moistureised

i'm buying nothing! no toiletries, washing detergents/fabric conditioners/ kitchen cleaners. i realise i'm attracted to the new fragrences they keep putting out and the bright colours.

Yorkielass

Ooh a new thread

Better post my pledge for Feb from the last one:

"I need to get some new facial moisturisers and face wipes but I have things to return to Boots so hopefully they'll even out otherwise this month I don't think I'm going to run out of anything and after buying all my new make up I'm going to aim for a £0.00 spend for Feb :eek:."

Nothing finished or bought here - but I have used my new make up and brushes this morning and feel really good.

Bronnie

fizzytrinket wrote: »

i'm still in
very busy at work so no time to shop.
sold some stuff, gave some away and swapped some perfumes for a chloe bag :j
still using all my stuff and am very impressed at condition of my hair, hands, feet, nails and skin.
i've never been so exfoliated and moistureised

i'm buying nothing! no toiletries, washing detergents/fabric conditioners/ kitchen cleaners. i realise i'm attracted to the new fragrences they keep putting out and the bright colours.[/QUOTE]

You're so right; what we are all trying to resist is the massive marketing machine, as well as the products themselves.

I was in Sainsbury's last night and all the shampoo and conditioner is half-price. There are massive signs everywhere starting with a weird photocopied sign on A4 paper they had stuck on the front door. The shampoos and conditioners spilled out of the aisles, on the aisle ends, extending right down into the food section; in your face every way you turned. Previously I would defo have stuck at least 2 sets in the trolley and probably bought some more expensive one too.

If you can, it's really helpful to stand back when you're there and look at what they're doing from a marketing man's point of view and decide you're not the one who's going to be swept along with it (because quite a few of those products, I'd seen cheaper elsewhere anyway!).

Look at it all through a different pair of eyes :cool: :cool: :cool: and it can be viewed as desperation on the supermarkets' part to lure you in to spend across the board , because there's so much competition between them and will continue to be so.

Was it Lynz who said earlier there'll always be an offer or a bargain? So true. Far better and more satisfying to resist their pressure and to buy it at a good price, when you actually need it.

debidoodle

Morning all

Salesaddict DD bought the Morrisons shampoo/conditioner that was bogof at the weekend, she has left it here for when she comes home at weekends; I used it today and have to agree it is lovely. For a shampoo free of SLS's & parabens it foams up beautifully and smells lovely.

Bronnie liking the idea of using up my soap with a scrubby wash cloth it is really good and I feel I no longer need to exfoliate as much.

4 sales on Ebay last night £22.40 every little helps.
19 items listed, 3 have bids & 8 have watchers.

Haven't finished anything up today, although I have sorted a few bits (unused) for when I visit my aunty tomorrow.

Need_a_break

Hi all, lovely to see you all doing so well, sold a few more bits on ebay and returned another elle bag and shock horror ive actually manged to remove an empty cardboard box from above one of the wardrobes, it was full of "bargains". So my house is actually looking less cluttered yeah. Plus it does help that i made a huge dent in the clothes folding last night too. Tackling some ironing in a bit, once the kids have finished their lunches.
Quick question pls, I have a boots gift card and wanted to order a specific toilet training seat from dot.com. Can i order instore and pay with the gift card? I would appreciate any help. Thanks folks.

See you later

Nab
xx

topbargainhunter

I've now done my list of stash and it's not quite as bad as I'd feared at first. A lot of it is deodorant, shower gels, things we use up quickly. I've sold about 15 items on Ebay so far, not for much money but they were GWP's mostly and I know I'll never use them.

I'm starting to use up the small stuff and half used stuff first so the clutter is reduced more quickly. I've got some Molton Brown shower gels that I got as a pressie 2 Christmases ago and I really don't know what the big deal is with them, ie why they're so expensive, they're no better than any basic shower gels I've had, so I wouldn't buy them myself.

I too love the Shopaholic series, they have you laughing out loud! I fancy reading them all again now you've started talking about them. It must be at least 5 years ago that I read the first one.

lostinrates

The clutter clearing is addictive isn't it? I've hauled a black bag of stuff we bundled out of my car when it died and I haven't used....there are bound to be some toiletries in there but also hats, gloves...paper, all sorts of stuff....it will be gone by this evening....


also, I'm glad I'm not the only person who struggles with addiction to laundry products: its part of the same thing I think. Luckily I often relly like the supermarket own ones....and I do notice the colour really influences my choice. I tend to like ''yellow'' smells, or green ones and dislike blue ones. (I know its crazy). When we need new stuff I try and get DH to come with me and I do a blind scent test so that I'm being less influenced by packaging. Yes, really, we do that. I'm a washoholic as it is, and a treat is an expensive washing powder (oh god, I'm sounding nuts to myself too now). I find scent really influences my mood and washing powder seems an obvious way to do this: but Bronnie is right: a lot of the influence on this is marketing...