No Buying Toiletries in March Challenge

ACCA_Girl

Wooops! Found an Intensive Conditioner in my stash. So it is the naughty step for me! This list is growing arms and legs and running around the flat laughing at me - I really don't think I can post it. I haven't even started on the make-up yet! I swear I could open a shop at this rate. I am utterly horrified at myself and I'm probably only half way through. Will finish it during the week but I can confidently say that I will only be reporting UUs for the rest of the month.

xx

InaPickle

Kelly_B wrote: »

I've followed the last thread & finally decided to join. I tbought my stash was tiny till I saw it all typed out.

:rotfl: How many of us think that? :rotfl:

Well done on joining. I would recommend sticking the challenge in your signature as I am now rather geekily addicted to making the figure go up, meaning that the temptation to spend is kept in check. (Mostly!)

Confession time: my nice lipgloss is dying, so I decided to buy Glamour for the gloss in that. Alas, it's a bit pale for me, but I shall have to use it up somehow.

thevicster

mad_scientist wrote: »

I have snuck in late on a Saturday evening to confess my INs when there are not too many witnesses! :cool:

Today I went looking for the Barry M shatter effect topcoat after some naughty person posted a picture on here of their nails looking lovely! Another product I wouldn't have known about if it wasn't for this thread!

Anyway when I got to Boots it was 2 for £5 on Barry M nail varnish so I got the nail effects topcoat and a new shade called Indigo, its a lurvely purpley blue. I'll spend my time on the naughty step painting my nails!!

Guilty as charged! Hope you love it! I did my toenails in a bright blue with the shatter effect over the top, it's such a fab new plaything!

celebrate wrote: »

no i am actually quite well qualified, you'd die if you knew what job i did!

this course is more for personal and spiritual development, not doing it for the qualification

Mags30 wrote: »

Accountant?:rotfl:

Dying to know now! Good guess Mags!

I'm thinking that you mentioned working/had worked in a gp surgery (?) so I'm gonna go with phlebotmist (sp) I just love that word and rarely have chance to use it! :rotfl:

Hi to all the newbies!

Vivh - hope your tonsillitus gets better soon, it's so evil and nasty!

Good luck with the house selling lyndseydee, not moving to Cornwall are you???!!!!!

Stuuning foal trudij! Am also in love

missykaren

Hi, I'm new to this, but to celebrate my first post here i've just had a long pampering bath to start using up as much as possible. Even got the sceted candles going

mcculloch29

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

i'm feeling very inferior at the moment with all these make up stashes i think if i counted mine up i would possibly squeak about 10 items in total.

does anyone body brush? i've had a brush for ages but whenever i've tried using it it feels like it's scratching me, is that what it's suposed to do? will it eventually not hurt? I really need to do something like this as i have oedema (sp?) in one of calves/ legs which makes it about two inches wider than the other and it's driving me to despair. I'm hoping body brushing will help the fluid to move.

I body brush - and it shouldn't be scratching you. If it's leaving scratches, it's too firm. Puffy skin is tender enough, so be careful.
You may have to try a softer brush. I have a few and my favourite is from the pound shop, the scratchiest, a Sanctuary one (Go figure!)

You need to only brush upwards - or towards the heart- , not downwards away from the heart

Some other advice on oedema which you probably know but is worth repeating (given as a fellow sufferer, not a medical expert).
Don't wear tight socks - this is something I'm guilty of.
Limit your intake of salty foods (see above)
Raise your feet during the evenings if you can (I have a riser-recliner).
Raise them in bed too - use a wedge pillow. I bought an adjustable bed and it's brilliant, but it wasn't cheap.
Try support tights and compression socks and see how you get on with them.
Drink plenty of fluids.
Any exercise that involves moving your legs is brilliant. I used to swim and a puffy ankle would reduce like magic in the water. I also had to get out to go for a wee though .
These days I cycle, which is really good for it as well.
Tea tree oil seems to be helpful too, rubbed in. Any scratch on swollen skin is slow to heal and tea tree is good for this.

InaPickle

ACCA_Girl wrote: »

Wooops! Found an Intensive Conditioner in my stash. So it is the naughty step for me! This list is growing arms and legs and running around the flat laughing at me - I really don't think I can post it. I haven't even started on the make-up yet! I swear I could open a shop at this rate. I am utterly horrified at myself and I'm probably only half way through. Will finish it during the week but I can confidently say that I will only be reporting UUs for the rest of the month.

xx

Don't worry - we are unshockable here!

I didn't think I had that much, given that I only had 2 drawers worth of stuff, but then when I wrote it all down it looked never-ending! :eek:

Still, I'm not doing too bad on the using up of products, so it's not all bad.

celebrate

thevicster wrote: »

Dying to know now! Good guess Mags!

I'm thinking that you mentioned working/had worked in a gp surgery (?) so I'm gonna go with phlebotmist (sp) I just love that word and rarely have chance to use it! :rotfl:

erm no ...... keep guessing.......:rotfl:

mcculloch29

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh THAT FOAL!!!

And Trudi, I just read on Flame's site that Stargazy :smileyheais going back into training, ooh, I've mixed feelings there!

Fingers crossed for Reds.

celebrate

InaPickle wrote: »

Don't worry - we are unshockable here!

really????????????

so my OH gone to work and i have sneaked out of the millions of carriers in my wardrobe the f word (fragrances to any who don't know me yet) and put them all together in a box, wait for it there are ........99 :eek:

plus 15 minis

plus 14 gift sets

plus about 12 each of the mini sets still to come from online order

don't think i have even got that many friends or rels...........to give them to and haven't opened any for myself yet!
actually i only have 2 friends, my mum and my sister....:rotfl:lol!

thevicster

celebrate wrote: »

thevicster wrote: »

Dying to know now! Good guess Mags!

I'm thinking that you mentioned working/had worked in a gp surgery (?) so I'm gonna go with phlebotmist (sp) I just love that word and rarely have chance to use it! :rotfl:

erm no ...... keep guessing.......:rotfl:

GP? A top nurse? Sister? I can't think of any more types of people who work in GP surgeries! :rotfl:

This is so unfair!