No Buying Toiletries in May Challenge!!

purt

rosemary54 wrote: »

depends if you do PYNM!

What on earth is PYNM?

tara747 wrote: »

There is a 'minimum amount of toiletries' requirement to be allowed to participate... and no man would *ever* have that many! :rotfl: Just kidding!

Don't be too sure! Exclude make up and I'm sure I could rival a few of you ladies.

Though not Claire! :eek:

debidoodle

welcome :hello:culchied :wave: our 1st man

PYNM means paint your nails on Monday, WIBA would I buy again

claire that is an impressive stash :eek:

Used up the last of my Urban Retreat body exfoliator WIBA no much prefer the Sanctuary one and I have 2 in my stash

sonee2405

Just popping in to report May spend so far.

£1 on Bodyshop vitamin e wipes X2 (used telegraph vouchers hubby got me)
£8 28 in superdrug today on-
Collection 2000 eyeliner £2.99-An essential as I use this everyday
Superdrug nailpolish remover£.1.29-As sis stole mine and left it at friends
£4 -1 lippy, 2 nailpolishes and eyeliner from Mua superdrugs £1 range.I thought I would try out the items as the testers had a nice colour range.

Have a small list of products I want so will trying to up boots points to justify
Maxfactor-eyeshadows from the new brights range
SJP sex&city perfume-Tested it today and liked the smell
Lancome juicy tube-I have no lipgloss left and would like to try

trudij

culchied wrote: »

Are men allowed to participate in this challenge? :cool:

Oh yes.... are you single?? hello...... :A :beer:

rosemary54 wrote: »

all alone again:(,OH gone off to Denmark please all keep your fingers crossed he arrives back late tomorrow so we can go on holiday early wednesday!

just finished Aveeno cream WNBA(actually it was a freebie) no better than other butters.

joined half price beauty club so looking forward to some bargains:)

going to do pedicure whilst watching Lewis alone tonight,OH said when I told him why didnt you get the beautician at the club to do it?said lack of time so he suggested beautician at our hotel....ahhhhh he can be sweet:)

off to chatworth house for a flower day tomorrow so up at 5 a.m:eek::eek::eek:

hope he gets back in time !!! If you see a lanky bay thoroughbred in the region of Chatsworth, give him a pat for me - my horse is on loan up there!!!

mineallmine

Hi,

Lots of newbies and men joining the ranks here, yay! Welcome all. Hello again to regulars. A brilliant congrats to those reporting only small (essential) purchases of toothpaste and the like. The rest of us - pull our pants up time! I've done a stash check and although not as much as others, it's still too much for me, and much of it opened...:

5 x cleansers (1 unopened)
3 x toners
6 x moisturisers (2 unopened, so that's 4 opened!)
4 x eye creams/lotions
1 x hand cream
1 x body lotion (sample size)
1 x shower gel
2 x bubble bath

8 x shampoo and 9 x conditioner
5 x hair serums
3 x perfume

So make-up:
2 x liquid foundations, 5 x powder foundations, 2 x sample sachets
4 x concealers
8 x lipglosses/lipsticks
4 x eyeshadows
3 x mascaras
6 x eyeliners
5 x bronzers
5 x blushers

So stash problems are:
moisturiers, shampoo/conditioners
foundation, lipglosses, bronzers/blushers

So I'm going to:
- get into a more regular habit with eye creams applying morning and evening.
- mix face creams at night so if I think one is a bit weak, I'll mix it with another, especially for neck area.
- apply serum whenever I've washed my hair (honestly some of the packaging is looking so 20th century!)
- wash make up brushes with unloved shampoo - and donate some of the other unloved stash to local hospital or to charity shops
- place a bronzer/blusher and a brush in the car - and then another at work.

On the positive, I'm doing really well with perfume, body lotion and hand cream.:A

lin.c

Hey everybody :wave:

Can't say 'ladies' anymore - welcome culchied, and all the other newbies

I've not been keeping up for nearly a month and fell off the wagon several times over, but thought I'd drop in as your lovely banter is far too infectious

I wasn't too sure if I should consider myself still part of the challenge to be honest, so I'll be doing a complete overhaul of my expanded stash as listing it might work better in curbing my spending as my previous photos didn't do the job well enough

I'll still share my reviews of products used, as I find this the most helpful when reading others. I've used a fair few products over the month, and will post the list soon.

Good luck to you all

vatic

saverholic wrote: »

Well the sparkly moisturiser is no more :T

Isn't it amazing how fast something can be used up when you are determined to be rid of it! I now have very soft, glittery feet :rotfl:

Onwards to the next bottle of carp body moisturiser......

Oooh excellent idea! I got a free sample size of glittery moisturiser last year that smells gorgeous, but I'm not such a big fan of the shimmeriness of it. Thanks saverholic! :j

InaPickle

Wow, a man! That only took us four months...get your stash posted up on here ASAP, culchied!

And interesting name, BTW: anything to do with 'culchies', perchance?!

InaPickle

Blimey c l a i r e, that's one heck of a stash. Well done on getting to grips with it! :T

purt

InaPickle wrote: »

Wow a man! That only took us four months...get your stash posted up on here ASAP, culchied!

And interesting name, BTW: anything to do with 'culchies', perchance?!

Ha. You worded that in a way that suggests you don't meet men often! :rotfl:

trudij wrote: »

Oh yes.... are you single?? hello...... :A :beer:

Single yes, but by choice! Sorry!

I shall have a plunder through my vast store cupboard of toiletries and post a list soon.