No Buying Toiletries in February Challenge

LadyGooGoo_2

Hello ladeez!

This month I am not promising to buy nothing, but I will not buy any dupes of products I already have, and I will try and resist impulse beauty shopping. I also want to reduce my overall beauty spend.

Looking through my statements I realised that I spend a big chunk of my disposable income on toiletries and cosmetics. (The amount is more than I spend on clothes, but less than I spend on my social life.) I feel a lot of pressure to look nice, smell nice, be in fashion, etc. I feel that if my hair and make up are always done to the max I can "get away with" buying fewer new outfits. As it is I have a lot of clothes. I don't feel as if I have too many, but they take up a lot of space.

(I have clothes for the gym, clothes for work, clothes for casual, and clothes for going out, and there is hardly any overlap.)

For my run and going to the gym I have a scrubbed face and hair pulled back, but otherwise I have my hair and make up done at all times.

I buy from cosmetics counters rather than shops with just displays because I always ask advice and if the thing they sold me doesn't what they said it would, I take it back. I also buy from QVC for the same reason.

I can promise not to buy any toiletries, so long as we don't include make up. I definitely have enough skincare and smellies to last me the month.

Alton_Towers

UU this morning Sanex hypoallergenic shower gel WIBA Yes I bought this when I came out in a rash from an allergy and its worked a treat! No smell or anything exciting but it didnt aggravate my skin so it did the job!

My desk stash is small P&P handcream and L'oreal lip pastel repair balm and a battered old tube of eumovate for the odd dermatitis breakout!

Handbag stash BS cherry lip butter, S&G motherpucker lip gloss and a nail file. Occasionally I have a blemish stick for the odd breakout.

Not very exciting really! lol

SJP

Hiya

I've finally just caught up after being MIA all weekend

Some of you use a lot of products in one pamper session, i'm going wrong somwhere...

UU
Sanctary Spa Luxury Bath Float (mini) WBA but not just yet, i've more in my stash
Carex moisturing hand wash - this smell is beginning to remind me of 'home' dont need to buy again as mum buys me it in bulk each christmas
Nivea Sport Shower Gel - OH's but he's declaring it and paid his quid for using it up I asked if he would buy it again and his words were 'suppose it depends if you find it cheap enough for me to have again' :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Throw
Some Wella hairspray - WNBA never seemed to come out right, ended up with it all over my hand and arm (which is why i've thrown it!)

ebay
S & G Girligo - Just dont fancy this
S & G Shampoo - no conditioner & I like them to match
Boots 17 Starry Eye liquid eyeliner - BOGOF offer and I dont wear it

No in's to declare as had a quiet weekend, did fancy the MB offer, but the nearest MB is in Leeds and i'm too 'fat' to be bothered to go.... :A

I dont carry toiletries in my bag either, I tend to do my face once a day and never re do it (unless i'm going out, in which case its a full get ready again scenario) and on my desk at work I have a Botonics hand cream and the blue vaseline for lips..... Prolly not still on my desk now though!!!

Savvy_sewing

:jI am so excited. At the weekend i went to stay with my BF, and his daughter was having a clear out of her drawers.
This is what I came home with!

Clinique comforting cream cleanser 30ml x2
Clinique dramatically different moisurizing gel 30ml, 1 x 15ml, x 15ml lotion,
Clinique sparkle skin body exfoliating cream 75ml
Clinique 7 day scrub cream 30ml
Clinique 2, clarifying lotion, (half used) 200ml bottle
Clinique advanced stop signs cream 7ml
Avon colour touch of cream for lips. 5Ml
Lancome High Resolution anti wrinkle 5ml
Lancome Impact, triple preformance cream 5ml
Lancome Renergie Nuit, Night cream, 5ml
Clarins, Par Amour, Bath and shower gel, 10ml
Clarins, Extra firming night cream., 15ml x 2


Kyle Minogue Sexy darling sample, 2ml
elizabeth Arden, Provocative Woman, Body lotion, 30ml
Estee Lauder, Revitalising comfort crème, 7ml
Boots Hair Science, straighening balm. (part used,) 150ml tube
FCUK body spray,75ml
Aromatics Elixir, fragrance, 4ml
Tweed, fragrance, 4ml
White Satin, 4ml
Sachets of:-
Nivia Soft, moisure cream 8ml
Nivia happy time, sachet, 4ml
Nivea, 3 x sachet, with Moisure crem, radiance boost cream, and radiance boostng scrub cream, x 2
Nivia firming body lotion sachet, 5ml


There was also a set of Strawberry scented stuff that friends daughter loves so they were gifted straight back out to her.
Some Fiori perfume and Sparkle bath crème, gifted to twin1.


I feel like it was christmas all ove agan. But a bit better! as I use the clinique stuff especially. (Mind you if I had been given so many lotions and potions before, I would have thought she was trying to tell me something Not anymore. All gifts gratefully received.), (and catalogued so I can remember what I have to add to the stocks around the house. Which I plan to catalogue at some stage. Maybe on a bad day,when I am unwell, and housebound).:o:D

sofababe

Wow Mooloo, what a great stash to come home with :beer:

I've sold a couple of items on eBay this afternoon,

Gok Gold Body Oil (would never have used this, I don't like to sparkle)
Baylis & Harding 100ml bottles of Shampoo & Conditioner (didn't think this would be any good on my dyed red hair, should have used it when I got it re:PRCP:()

I sold some unwanted clothes and shoes too, I made £81 in all :j:j:j, I may leave it in my Paypal account and use on Boots.com when I need something (where else can I use Paypal?). I quite fancy some Clinique All About Eyes concealer, but at £16 its a bit steep for me normally so I might just treat myself. I am nearly out of the Collection 2000 "touche eclat" concealer.

Savvy_sewing

sofababe wrote: »

Wow Mooloo, what a great stash to come home with :beer:

I've sold a couple of items on eBay this afternoon,

Gok Gold Body Oil (would never have used this, I don't like to sparkle)
Baylis & Harding 100ml bottles of Shampoo & Conditioner (didn't think this would be any good on my dyed red hair, should have used it when I got it re:PRCP:()

I sold some unwanted clothes and shoes too, I made £81 in all :j:j:j, I may leave it in my Paypal account and use on Boots.com when I need something (where else can I use Paypal?). I quite fancy some Clinique All About Eyes concealer, but at £16 its a bit steep for me normally so I might just treat myself. I am nearly out of the Collection 2000 "touche eclat" concealer.

More and more places are accepting paypal, I use it a lot.

I still have not sold on ebay. Nervous to start, I really must get over that hurdle. I have lots of clothes I no longer wear, due to change in life style. I really cannot see my Liz Claybourne suits on the school run, or digging up the garden! :rotfl:

bohemianrose9

Evening all,

I love the idea of the work stash. I only keep carmex, lipstick and a horrible vaseline hand cream at work (aiming to use it up!). However, I do have 5 pairs of boots/shoes under my desk, aside from the ones I wear into the office! I think my colleagues are baffled!

Still no uus for me - my 15ml decleor cream is finally nearing the end, but I can imagine it will last another week. I've been using it every day for the last 3 months! One in the other day though - Boots tea tree and witch hazel night treatment, to sort out my spotty chin. I only put it on last night and already I can see some improvement - hooray!

postingalwaysposting

I don't have work stash but I do carry around a small pot of Handy Guragu (hand cream) and a vaseline tub. Due to my manual job I use so much hand cream in work I may as well carry around the full tub. I also have a foots works spray in my locker for my shoes buut I don't count it in my stash as I buy it from someone in work and never bring it home.

One uu today, colgate toothpaste, wiba, prob not. It was a sample of there new sensitive whitening one I recieved it in the post some time ago but I didn't really like it. I ended up rotating it with another, but at least its gone. I prefer sensodyne (sp?).

Oh and I may have ordered from Avon after all

elfen

UU (well, they got binned):

BS Vanilla and Nutmeg body butter... WIBA? No, it made my skin really tacky feeling
Charles Worthington Dream Hair stuff....WIBA? No, made my hair really limp.

Got two sputterers in the bathroom....so just waiting. Also got some toothpaste comnig to be tested so no toothpaste for a bit!

LadyGooGoo_2

sofababe wrote: »

Wow Mooloo, what a great stash to come home with :beer:

I've sold a couple of items on eBay this afternoon,

Gok Gold Body Oil (would never have used this, I don't like to sparkle)
Baylis & Harding 100ml bottles of Shampoo & Conditioner (didn't think this would be any good on my dyed red hair, should have used it when I got it re:PRCP:()

I sold some unwanted clothes and shoes too, I made £81 in all :j:j:j, I may leave it in my Paypal account and use on Boots.com when I need something (where else can I use Paypal?). I quite fancy some Clinique All About Eyes concealer, but at £16 its a bit steep for me normally so I might just treat myself. I am nearly out of the Collection 2000 "touche eclat" concealer.

I do that too. The money I get from eBay sales is money I am allowed to be frivolous with.