No Buying Toiletries in February Challenge

bargainbetty

Absinthe_Fairy wrote: »

Also, one of my friends got me a 'survival kit' for moving to London, including ibuprofen and plasters (she knows me so well!) as well as a Montagne Junesse (sp?) face mask and some foot scrub & moisturiser sachets!

Which side of town are you moving to? I'm down in the South East, but work in Central, so if you are new in town I'd be happy to recommend places/stuff!

If you've been here a thousand times, I'll slink back under my rock and carry on exfoiliating madly.....

Absinthe_Fairy

juliebunny wrote: »

Oh good luck for your move to the big smoke - you will notice the difference in how dirty your skin gets, esp on the underground, blah. Good excuse for loads of nice cleansers

Thanks! Ah, I don't need an excuse to buy toiletries but will keeep an eye out here for cleanser recommendations!;)

bargainbetty wrote: »

Which side of town are you moving to? I'm down in the South East, but work in Central, so if you are new in town I'd be happy to recommend places/stuff!

If you've been here a thousand times, I'll slink back under my rock and carry on exfoiliating madly.....

Lol, I have been to London lots (and have friends who've been here for ages) but always happy to have recommendations! I'm moving to the West but I do have a friend in Forest Hill!

mcculloch29

Mingle wrote: »

Just a quick question- when you cut something open, what do you use? I use a stanley knife, but I stabbed myself in the leg (my word, IT HURT!) nothing major, no arteries severed, but still if I can avoid it

OMG!! :eek: Mingle!! :eek:
Normally it's my pound shop kitchen scissors. Seldom defeated.

If packaging is REALLY tough, I have a splendid set of kitchen shears, they look like something you should use in the garden. They are brilliant for jointing chickens, removing the skin from ham hocks - and opening those horrible thick plastic packs with cardboard inner that so much seems to come in now.

mcculloch29

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I've always been a bit suspicious of gift sets - I consider them a rip-off, generally. I give my daughter full sizes of all her toiletry gifts and always put them in a re-usable bag. Not a paper gift bag or a plastic bag but usually a jute or cotton shopper. I posted about this on another thread around Christmas time and it seemed to go down well.
Of course, I am a bit of a bag hound, not handbags, but nice shoppers. My son keeps putting them in the outhouse where I can't get to them easily. Thus I have to buy more.
Fairtrade Fortnight is coming up at the end of the month and Tesco do a very nice Fairtrade cotton shopper with soft padded handles. They also did a lovely Orla Kiely bag in autumny colours around Christmas. Wasn't Fairtrade though.

juliebunny wrote: »

Yes, but do you reallllly need another shopping bag? I also stash these. The last one IN was the big S&G tote shopper. I use them when I go to our local summer car boot. I have to stop buying them now because I a) have loads b) never remember to take them out anyway and b) can't top the S&G one, it's huge.

Um, no, I don't need another bag, but many of my bog standard shoppers are full of files, papers and bits and pieces that I use for teaching in the community. It really is the easiest way to store them - different bags for different subjects /classes. Once my son decided to amalgamate a couple of bags for me and I ended up discovering this as I was leaving the house to catch my bus to work. I was struggling like a pack horse that day.

Plus I'm going cold turkey with the toiletries. I need something. I haven't bought a bag for about a fortnight, incidentally. That's quite good for me. I bought the Fairtrade one a while ago, I am very keen on Fairtrade, sadly I don't have a good Co-Op handy as they are the best source though Sainsbury's are catching up and Aldi do Fairtrade coffee and chocolate now.

I have been cured of another addiction though. Mugs. They were stashed here and there in the kitchen. Well, the new cleaner got me well and truly sorted and well, ahem. there were dozens.
I've taken 8 that don't have any sort of sentimental value (many were presents) and put them aside to take into work. We were really short of mugs so I took 9 in a few weeks ago and was under the impression that had de-cluttered me,,,

InaPickle

One small UU: Botanics shower/bath gel (50ml).

WIBA? Theoretically, yes: it was a little bit creamy (but not too much), felt nice on the skin and smelled nice, too.

However, I have far too much to be using to purchase more.

Alton_Towers

sofababe wrote: »

Do u mean this?

http://www.asos.com/Soap-Glory/Soap-Glory-Glad-Hair-Day-Conditioner-250Ml/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=1319538&cid=10593&sh=0&pge=1&pgesize=20&sort=-1&clr=Conditioner

and free delivery

Ooooh! Am now tempted!

Kaz2904

No ins or outs for me. Lol at the other addictions which come out in this thread! Shopping bags etc. I think that decluttering the toiletries does gradually creep accross all areas of life. As we start to use up our lovely products in pampering ourselves we are creating space. The other thing that happens is that we may be lying in the bath soaking away and the bathroom is really cluttered. So you end up clearing it out because it's not restful and you don't enjoy your pampering then. So that's one room sorted.
Once the bathroom stash is under control, you find yourself wondering why on earth you have toiletries stashed all around the house so you start to move them bit by bit into the bathroom. That creates more space in the rest of the house.
Only, you've got so much stuff stashed everywhere that you have to dig out a cupboard full of tat to get to your pretties. So you end up decluttering that too. And so on!
This making ourselves feel better about our toiletries addiction is going to spread into us having lovely homes .

If you are going for a full on house declutter though, please be very careful. I appear to have decluttered a Pandora bead which I was given for Christmas. I can't find the damn thing anywhere. I have just bought a bracelet and spacer to go with it as I didn't actually have a pandora bracelet and now can't find the bead to go with it. These are really expensive and I'm so gutted. Hoping to be able to find it at the weekend but I'm sure I got rid of a hideous necklace which I was given at Christmas (blue jewellery box) which I found when looking for the bead (blue jewellery box).
Mind you, it's also a reminder to gifters, MiL bought me a bead when I didn't actually have a bracelet to wear it on. She didn't tell DH that she was getting it or he could have got me the bracelet. If I'd had the bracelet already, the bead wouldn't get lost as it would have been put with the bracelet in a large jewellery box instead of a tiny squashed box.
So let's all think about what we give people as gifts because they aren't always well recieved (I did love it though). SiL also got a bead and doesn't have a bracelet. Maybe she'll let me have hers :rotfl:?
Anyhoo, enough waffling. I need to go and get tea on. I shall have a nice bath tonight before work and try to decide what to do this weekend. Decluttering stylee......

sofababe

A couple of little INs today- Nivea Q10 Hand Cream. Its a little one for my handbag, the one I have in there at the mo is Neutrogena, and its spluttering but its so hard to squeeze the tube when it gets to that stage, so that one will be cut open (WITH SCISSORS!!!!!!!) and put by the kitchen sink.

- Batiste Dry Shampoo. Just a mini to try as u lot all recommend it and now I have red hair I want to try to wash it less to avoid fading so quickly......

and on that subject, a UU, one of the boxes of Schwartzkopf dye in Ruby Red that I bought yesterday. Its VERY red, but I love it

On the topic of other things we stash, my cleaning product stash is back!! I had got rid of it all but thanks to Asda I now have 9 spray bottles of Flash in various flavours. They are £2.02 each or 3 for £2:beer: so 3 costs less than just 1. Also got floor cleaner £1 for enormous bottle and £2 for 27 washes Daz liquid. All brands I use anyway but at those prices it'd be sinful to leave them on the shelf!! And don't even ask about my cloth stash :eek::eek::eek:

lilly1972

Evening Ladies i have some ins to report but i did confess to them when i joined so planned sort of they were only 75p each it would of been rude not to.

Ins

Superdrug Shampoo x2 Brunette
Superdrug Conditioner x2 Brunette

Superdrug Shampoo Blonde
Superdrug Conditioner Blonde

the Blonde ones are for mum for mothers day to go with the Body Shop Rose Bath crystal things in the ceramic jar and pj's and am i going to get her some flowers as well.

Also ins not planned but no money spent

Olay 3 point serum 7ml x2
Olay Regenerist cream x1

had a bath earlier and thought i would add a couple of bath rocks to the bath so i picked up the box held my hand out and slowly tipped the box and 6 fell straight in the bath (mega fail) well that's one way to use them up but i wanted the same scent never mind it did smell rather nice. no use ups today but i think next wash and my aldi shampoo will be no more.

going to watch Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior hope its as good as Criminal minds not happy that AJ Cook left and now Paget Brewster is going as well there will be nobody left before long. anyway have a good night ladies.

mcculloch29

I quite like cleaning products too - not going as far as 9 bottles of Flash though! My Mum was a Vim and bleach woman all the way, can't really remember her using much else apart from Sunlight soap and hot water. Polish was that great standby, elbow grease. How times change.
Back to topic, no UU's but my Total Effects with sunless tanner is really spluttering. Mind you, with Olay, that's usually another fortnight once you cut the tube open. Similar thing with Neutrogena as Sofababe said, so small an amount needed, and so much staying in the tube.