No Buying Toiletries in March Challenge

Alton_Towers

UU Botanics Vitamin face mask - WNBA this was the rebranded one from poundland and I used it up as a daily face wash and it wasnt very masky.

VALM that really made me laugh about the foot cream! LOL

I have a BS Vit E face cream due to finish this week! Also I have gifted a pot of Vit E cream to my mum for Mothers Day as she loves it to!

charlie792

minerva_windsong wrote: »

A few weeks back I had a mega-panic - I was leaving a hotel after a weekend away, reached into the zip up pocket in my bag and thought, "S***, where's my railcard?!" Cue emptying and repacking bag, turning room upside down etc... and then finding it in one of my jacket pockets after putting it there in case I needed my ticket to get through the barriers at the train station

I'm naturally really dippy like that though, doing things like going upstairs and forgetting why I went up there or taking my glasses/jewellery off and then forgetting where I've put it. No wonder my mum calls me the absent minded professor!

Oh dear haha :T

I honestly swear the funniest thing ever though was my OHs nan bless her, she was walking round the house for ages asking if anyone had seen her glasses, and she'd put them on her head....was something out of a comedy sketch :rotfl:

Gigglepig

My skin and scalp has been quite sensitive recently, so I did a big stock take of everything in the bathroom to try to avoid any harsh chemicals. I was a bit shocked to see how much toiletries I have accumulated :-(

Can you put me down for the April challenge please? Thanks!

Kaz2904

Haha at everyone losing stuff! I lost my car keys last week for days. I had to get the spare set out and I knew they weren't in the car because it was locked. I could not figure out where they had got to. I found them yesterday afternoon hanging up on the key hook by themselves. No other keys blocking my view oranything! Such a wally!
My BS order arrived today. Lovely lovely stuff . I have left out the shea butter body scrub to use tonight when I have a bath. I dithered for ages over this or the Satsuma scrub. I shall use that next.
I have developed a rotten stinky nasty cold since last night so I will really be looking forward to my bath tonight after I have picked up DD from her rehearsal at 9.30 (she's only 9, she's going to be exhausted this week).
On the plus side, as she has to be at rehearsals all week and is going on stage on Saturday, I reckon I might get the flaming hairspray UU on her! (Although, then, I'll suddenly have an occasion to need to use it myself and will have to go and buy another one and so it continues!).
I have MiL here this evening so I wasn't able to photograph my stash as it arrived (she already thinks I'm a bit odd, let's not confirm the true extent of it!). I shall do it tomorrow if I feel better, then I can post it on Thursday or Friday on the April thread. I might jump in and start the April thread a bit earlier because I want to get my stash list up there early on and I'm working Thursday night and out Friday evening so may be short on time.

MiL was well impressed at the price I paid for the body shop haul though, she said "Ooh, you're always getting good bargains on stuff!"
I have insider knowledge, see

bev97

sawan82 wrote: »

I don't normally browse the L'Occitane site, but valm's post got me thinking. I was wondering how much the hand creams usually are (I usually get them free with a magazine or reduced gift set) and I came across this

http://uk.loccitane.com/FO/Relaxing-Lavender-Trio,p95RETRELAXLAV11.htm

and this

http://uk.loccitane.com/FO/Romantic-Rose-Trio,p95RETROSE1411.htm

Do you think they're good value?

RE: large size products, it didn't annoy me until I started this challenge! Currently the S&G The Daily Smooth is driving me mad. Trying to squeeze bb out of a tube is no fun :mad: Going to wash out my EL moisturiser pot and squeeze it into there to use I think.

I think considering the travel sizes retail at £7 each and the 75ml handcreams are £13 the kits are a good price - I can get 15 -18 showers out of the 75ml sizes and they are lovely. The lavender hand gel (santitizer) is the best they are £5.50 and the Bonne Mere Soaps are £4 each. The Lavender hand cream is DIVINE! I didn't even need to check the prices online as I know them off by heart:o. I'm a bit of a L'occitane addict and have 15 of the 75ml shower gels when they were reduced to about £2 each. Ebay is also good to try for L'occitane and I tend to use tropicanaUK store.
BTW, I have just had an email from L'occitane with the code ADEL25
offering FREE DELIVERY on all orders over £10 and upgrading all orders to their Express Next Day Service.

Not that I am trying to tempt you.....

sawan82

bev97 wrote: »

I think considering the travel sizes retail at £7 each and the 75ml handcreams are £13 the kits are a good price - I can get 15 -18 showers out of the 75ml sizes and they are lovely. The lavender hand gel (santitizer) is the best they are £5.50 and the Bonne Mere Soaps are £4 each. The Lavender hand cream is DIVINE! I didn't even need to check the prices online as I know them off by heart:o. I'm a bit of a L'occitane addict and have 15 of the 75ml shower gels when they were reduced to about £2 each. Ebay is also good to try for L'occitane and I tend to use tropicanaUK store.
BTW, I have just had an email from L'occitane with the code ADEL25
offering FREE DELIVERY on all orders over £10 and upgrading all orders to their Express Next Day Service.

Not that I am trying to tempt you.....

Yay :j:j Thank you!!

I know what I'll be ordering online after watercolours class tonight

scrappie_2

Hi Ladies!
I have been following this thread for the past week or so, and think it would do me 'the world of good' to get involved. I'm assuming that you will have it up-and-running for April? If so, could I join you all please??? I know I'm asking a little bit early - but I'm working 12hr shifts on Fri/ Sat/ Sun and I want to make the commitment at the begining of the month. By the time I'm home on Monday there will be pages to read and I might not do it!!

My 'addiction' to cosmetics/ lotions/ potions etc is not helped by my lovely family and friends who are always buying me beautiful things -and sometimes 'just because' no occasion needed! While I don't want to seem ungreatfull - I really do need to 'get a grip' on the whole beauty side of the house.

My intention for tonight is to -
a) hope that you ladies will accept me into the fold!
b) search my 'stash' for 'regifting' to my god-daughter, her 16th birthday next week. So most likely lots of S/G stuff will now go with the Pandora bracelett I have for her.
c) into the 'stash' again to see what I can give to mum as part of her mothers day gift - I'm sure there are some Decleor/ Bare Essentule products in there that she would love.
d) into the 'stash' for a third time - to collect up all of the gift-sets that I just know I will not use. Charity shop for all of those tomorrow.

Reading all you ladies have said has spurred me on to 'take control' and the moment you all started talking about loosing stuff I knew I would fit right in. I lost my phone a few years back - reported to police/ phone company. New phone arrived. Found the old one three days later in the salad draw of the fridge!!! Don't ask - much alcohol was involved!!!

vivh

Welcome Scrappie, look forward to seeing your stash list next month.

Another out on the facial moisturiser front, have put an Olay anti-wrinkle classic fluid in my mums mothers day present. This was a tesco dtd in and i shouldn't have got it really should I, (or the other 7 olay items I got aswell). So hard to part with them though even though I won't get around to using them for ages, they just won't be there to look at or look forward to using anymore - how sad am I.

Going to to eat some thorntons chocs and watch Eastenders now, when will this baby thing end, just want Kat to have her baby back (don't even like Kat) and not to have to look at Ronnie's miserable face anymore (I wouldn't be miserable if i was married to Jack;))

lynseydee

Have a couple of confessions. Placed an Avon order a few weeks ago, which I omitted to confess to , which hopefully isn't too bad. I originally only wanted to order myself a necklace but our Avon rep gives a free gift on a specific spend and as I only needed to spend another £3.00 I ended up buying the shaving gel which was 3 4 £5.00. I didn't really need this as I do have two others to get through first but at that price I couldn't resist. My free gift turned out to be the new lemon and basil shower gel, not that I need anymore, but it does smell really nice.

I also put in another order today but was quite good and just ordered the room spray in the same fragrance as the shower gel, but did want to get this anyway. In my defence I was going to order two of the £10.00 Anew packs but decided that as I probably wouldn't be able to afford to use the range I decided not to.

I suppose I'd better do my time on the naughty step too so budge up. I would say I'd bring the chocolate biscuits I bought earlier but I don't think there'll be enough to go round

lynseydee

vivh wrote: »

Welcome Scrappie, look forward to seeing your stash list next month.

Another out on the facial moisturiser front, have put an Olay anti-wrinkle classic fluid in my mums mothers day present. This was a tesco dtd in and i shouldn't have got it really should I, (or the other 7 olay items I got aswell). So hard to part with them though even though I won't get around to using them for ages, they just won't be there to look at or look forward to using anymore - how sad am I.

Going to to eat some thorntons chocs and watch Eastenders now, when will this baby thing end, just want Kat to have her baby back (don't even like Kat) and not to have to look at Ronnie's miserable face anymore (I wouldn't be miserable if i was married to Jack;))

I thought I'd heard that Jack does find out that it's not their baby but that was ages ago, and also that Ronnie is leaving and part of the reason why is because of the storyline.