No Buying Toiletries in February Challenge

Jacks_xxx

SJP wrote: »

:A:A Jacks How do you do it???? Thats fab.....

Fiasco55 wrote: »

Well done Jacks - Think you could offer some online tutorials to show us how to......

:rotfl: at the online tutorial idea. It would have me wagging my finger at myself in the mirror, saying "No!" very firmly and if necessary slapping my own hand!

It's basically just saying no to myself. No matter what. No matter how much of a bargain something is.

It's very simple - but far from easy! :eek:

Weirdly it's not my HG's that I find hardest to resist. Special offers come round a few times a year so I know that if I miss one now there'll be another one later on.

It's the new things that I fancy trying that I find hardest to resist. :D

Mineallmine's list really inspired me. If I have more than years supply of something - then I really don't need to buy any at all now, no matter how bargainous it is.

A spare of my HGs bought at a good price is one thing, but I don't like having a big stash of things to use up. I find it a burden and hate the clutter. It breaks my heart if something goes off.

On another topic....

My daughter and her friends have been having problems in Superdrug again. When they go and test the products using the testers the sale assistants have been very aggressive and rude towards them, just because they are teenage girls.

I think this is crazy because teenage girls buy more Barry M and MUA etc than anybody!

Anyway, I took a bunch of 18 ladies and girls in there after school today and we all made each other up completely (eyes lips and cheeks) from the testers and left without buying a thing.

As we walked out each teenage girl left a complaint letter on the counter which contained a printed photo of her make up collection - Superdrug brands to the fore, plus a superdrug carrier bag full of perfume, toiletries and cosmetics receipts. (We'd spent the weekend going through every bag and coat to find them!)

I get that some teenage girls are troublesome, but they need to find a better way of dealing with the situation.

:heartpuls:heartpuls:heartpuls Sorry for being a bit awol. It's lovely to have been missed Kaz! This is such a great thread that I like to sit down with a :coffee: and read it properly, but if I leave it too long it kind of gets away from me and it's too late to reply to things from a week ago!

vivh

vivh wrote: »

Judging by all the posts on here about lush stuff I'm glad my nearest shop is miles away. That said I did once buy something called Buffy something or other, it left my skin feeling nice but lasted about 5 minutes and was expensive imo. How do you ladies cope with the smell of the place, very overpowering, do you just get used to it?

Sorry, when I asked this i meant the smell of the shop not individual products, it's very strong and gave me a headache when I went in:(.

trudij

It can be very strong - you certainally know when you have one in your highstreet !!! Im similar with the Yankee Candle shop in Poole - I cant stay in there any longer than a minute without feeling very sick and getting a headache - not too bad with lush though that could be because I dont live very far away from the factories,so get regular wafts coming over !!!

mcculloch29

Jacks_xxx wrote: »

On another topic....

My daughter and her friends have been having problems in Superdrug again. When they go and test the products using the testers the sale assistants have been very aggressive and rude towards them, just because they are teenage girls.

I think this is crazy because teenage girls buy more Barry M and MUA etc than anybody!

Anyway, I took a bunch of 18 ladies and girls in there after school today and we all made each other up completely (eyes lips and cheeks) from the testers and left without buying a thing.

As we walked out each teenage girl left a complaint letter on the counter which contained a printed photo of her make up collection - Superdrug brands to the fore, plus a superdrug carrier bag full of perfume, toiletries and cosmetics receipts. (We'd spent the weekend going through every bag and coat to find them!)

I get that some teenage girls are troublesome, but they need to find a better way of dealing with the situation.

Are you thinking of going national with this if you don't get a response?

Yes, some young teens can be a pain but SD need to find ways of engaging with those that aren't. And the ones that aren't are still, robustly, the majority, despite what some sectors of the tabloid press would have you believe.

I'm almost certain that no other nation demonises its young people the way that we do.

sofababe

I'm not convinced that its a teenage thing, I think its a Superdrug thing. I have this problem with them and I'm 40. As much as I'd like to think I could pass for a teenager :rotfl: Whenever I'm in my local SD the SAs are constantly watching me in a suspicious manner. Its not me being paranoid either, I don't feel this way in any other shop, ever. I was looking at the make-up last week, needed a new powder and was just browsing the different brands, as u do and no less than 4 different SAs asked me if I needed any help. No thank you. I said, I'm just having a think if that's alright. Apparently that wasn't alright as I got the same routine again in the body butter area, and again in hair dye. Now I admit to wearing a parka with several pockets but that surely doesn't make me a shoplifter does it? I'm shopping less and less in SD and more often in our minuscule Boots where the SAs are somewhat haughty, but don't follow u around the shop waiting to pounce

postingalwaysposting

Sorry I have been awol for a while but I haven't bought anything and as I have used uup all my half bottles my UU's have been reduced this past month. But today I have had some UU's

Wicci massage bar, wiba, maybe. Its ok foor what it does and the bars do last forever. I do have a whole and mini one in my stash though

Boots camomile and lemon shampoo, wiba, no. It was reduced so I bought it, It has done nothing for my hair and I much prefer my HG.

Chunk snowcake soap, wiba, yes! I love this Luush soap and it my fave out of all the seasonal soaps. However no more until xmas now.

Strawberry kisses bubble bath wiba, yes but I can't it was a limited addiction in Asda ages ago

SJP

sawan82 wrote: »

Hi!

Just been introduced to this thread by the kind bev97, who saw my post regarding my piling up of bath ballistics (which is crazy tbh as I prefer bubble baths!)

Read the first post, but will no doubt forget some terms, so bear with me please! Anything else I need to know?

Welcome Sawan82 - you'll probably recognise a lot of us from the B**ts offer thread, we've fallen off the wagon spectacularly in February :rotfl::rotfl::D

I went to boots today with my skinnie and I bought................ nothing :A Dont see the point of the wipes, only 25 in a pack!! I was humming and ahhing over the skincare stuff so in the end I didn't bother...... a first for me :money:

But............. I am bidding on some body lotion on ebay, so might have another in to declare in the morning worth the naughty step though, as its L'Occitane....

Rosemary - I love Harrogate, i'm jealous of your break.....

I've just remembered OH bought me an evening at Titanic Spa for Christmas, going to have a look when my voucher expires

I can't warm to Superdrug, dont know what it is about the place, so unless i'm going to get something thats really cheap, I tend to avoid it like the plague....

Has anyone ever heard of Caritas????

LadyGooGoo_2

Jacks_xxx wrote: »

:rotfl: at the online tutorial idea. It would have me wagging my finger at myself in the mirror, saying "No!" very firmly and if necessary slapping my own hand!

It's basically just saying no to myself. No matter what. No matter how much of a bargain something is.

It's very simple - but far from easy! :eek:

Weirdly it's not my HG's that I find hardest to resist. Special offers come round a few times a year so I know that if I miss one now there'll be another one later on.

It's the new things that I fancy trying that I find hardest to resist. :D

Mineallmine's list really inspired me. If I have more than years supply of something - then I really don't need to buy any at all now, no matter how bargainous it is.

A spare of my HGs bought at a good price is one thing, but I don't like having a big stash of things to use up. I find it a burden and hate the clutter. It breaks my heart if something goes off.

On another topic....

My daughter and her friends have been having problems in Superdrug again. When they go and test the products using the testers the sale assistants have been very aggressive and rude towards them, just because they are teenage girls.

I think this is crazy because teenage girls buy more Barry M and MUA etc than anybody!

Anyway, I took a bunch of 18 ladies and girls in there after school today and we all made each other up completely (eyes lips and cheeks) from the testers and left without buying a thing.

As we walked out each teenage girl left a complaint letter on the counter which contained a printed photo of her make up collection - Superdrug brands to the fore, plus a superdrug carrier bag full of perfume, toiletries and cosmetics receipts. (We'd spent the weekend going through every bag and coat to find them!)

I get that some teenage girls are troublesome, but they need to find a better way of dealing with the situation.

:heartpuls:heartpuls:heartpuls Sorry for being a bit awol. It's lovely to have been missed Kaz! This is such a great thread that I like to sit down with a :coffee: and read it properly, but if I leave it too long it kind of gets away from me and it's too late to reply to things from a week ago!

Jacks xxx you totally rock! :T:T:T

mad_scientist

vivh wrote: »

Judging by all the posts on here about lush stuff I'm glad my nearest shop is miles away. That said I did once buy something called Buffy something or other, it left my skin feeling nice but lasted about 5 minutes and was expensive imo. How do you ladies cope with the smell of the place, very overpowering, do you just get used to it?

You can smell a Lush shop from miles away, I don't know how the shop assistants manage!!
Once when I worked in town I nipped into Lush at lunchtime for a browse as you do, and when I got back to my desk the guy sitting beside me said "you've been in that soap shop, I can smell it from here". Still there are worse things to smell of!

Another day closer to the weekend ladies!


Well done Jacks on your SD protest!! I do think they see teenagers and automatically think trouble. A make up counter sit in was a brilliant solution!

Yorkielass

Just catching up Jacks that's brilliant!

Lots of splutterers here, tried but failed to finish flake away and righteous butter last night and started the Molton Brown bubble bath my brother got me for Christmas - compromised using up a few bits and pieces before I started these (5 100ml bottles) but not leaving these until every last drip of other stuff gone.