No Buying Toiletries in March Challenge

Mags30

PudseyDB wrote: »

clingfilm sounds well weird!!! any socks will do if you dont have cotton ones.

and you're right - theyve made the S&G genius heel balm sound !!

Clingfilm is a good idea, I've seen it recommended for using with a hair mask as well, it keeps the heat in helping the product to work I think but it's a bit awkward, you couldn't walk around with it on unless you wore the socks over it to keep it in place. No need to fuss about cotton socks, any socks will do, they might just be cotton anyway.

ACCA_Girl

bohemianrose9 wrote: »

Amaaaazing stash, ACCA!!! You're going to really enjoy using that up! :j

Thanks although I'm a bit red faced this evening at the size of it!

celebrate wrote: »

evening guys

ACCA girl :eek::eek::eek: amazing stash, i am impressed girl, now i don't feel quite so bad about my 99+ fragrances, can i ask....are you an accountant by any chance??

Haha! Yes, I am an accountant. And typically, I've done my sums to work out how much that little lot cost me - taking out the miniatures, and allowing on average £5 per item, it comes to around £2,500!!!!! Yikes! No more spending for me for a while!

trudij wrote: »

Wow Acca - that has to get some sort of prize.... !!

Can the prize be more products?

xx

juliebunny

Phew just got it in before the end of the day - Happy Birthday Vivh!!

Big cutesy aaahs to the new baby toiletries addicts of the future who are being fed as their mums catch up on the thread.

Bargain Betty - I had my hand over my mouth going OMG when i read your story! and Celebrate - ugh!!

Good job this thread is (almost) anonymous eh! :eek:

I've lost 2 hand creams in the house somewhere, it's really annoying me. I know I had them and I have the other products I bought at the same time....grrr! I love S&G hand food but fancied a change. But where oh where.....I think my stash must have started eating new arrivals!! :rotfl:

I have cracked open my new Clinique products from THAT mag. My theory being, that if I try them out and love them, I may still be able to get more!! My bestie gasped in horror when I told her I had 'broken their seal' as she knew they certainly weren't next in line in the stash and I have 2 other face creams open....ha ha! I would say I'd send her to this thread to read about pink candles but she's already here!! :T
Anyway, thank goodness, they didn't really do anything for me. In fact they left my face feeling a bit tight, esp on the top of my cheeks which is my real problem area - but I am Ms Sensitivity. They look pretty on my bedside cabinet anyway....:)...the Glamour Clinique thread was almost fisticuffs this week if you haven't seen it with people desperate to get this or the other and moaning about the greedy geets that have bought 30 copies!! I should send them over here......or are you here already!! Waves!! Don't like to mention that my tiny shop still has everything available.....and no I don't do mail order!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: IT'S ONLY STUUUUUUFFFFF!!!

juliebunny

sarah*a wrote: »

Arrrgggghhhh! I wonder if I could combine this with an ASOS/Diet Coke £5 off £20 voucher??

:cool:

(Whisper - no you can't apparently...)

Hope you feel better soon....try and stay with us!

celebrate

ACCA_Girl wrote: »

bohemianrose9 wrote: »

celebrate wrote: »

evening guys

ACCA girl :eek::eek::eek: amazing stash, i am impressed girl, now i don't feel quite so bad about my 99+ fragrances, can i ask....are you an accountant by any chance??

Haha! Yes, I am an accountant. And typically, I've done my sums to work out how much that little lot cost me - taking out the miniatures, and allowing on average £5 per item, it comes to around £2,500!!!!! Yikes! No more spending for me for a while!


xx

HA!
knew you were, no i'm not psychic, just knew you'd have to be to be able to add up such a massive stash:rotfl:

no just kidding, mys sisters an accountant too-the ACCA is a giveaway X

Kaz2904

celebrate wrote: »

-yes i intend to declutter.....one day! hopefully if i start on the toiletries i can move it on to other areas of my life. I am well known for being a hoarder and clutterer, my parents despair of me!

Come and join us over here honey! https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2948896 Before you know it, you'll not want to shop because you'll be busy liberating yourself from all this 'stuff'.
I used to keep shopping for pretty things for my home because it was such a mess and so cluttered. When I actually started to declutter, I realised that less is more.
I just thought of a really apt saying but before I could get it down here, it was gone. Sorry about that!



ETA: Got it: Have nothing in your home that you do not believe to be beautiful or know to be useful. (Or something like that. I think it was probably more eloquently put though!).

EssexHebridean

sarah*a wrote: »

Lol vivh - sounds like you've got it all planned

There's been some awesome stash posts this month (so far....:eek:) I'm half-tempted to go on a spending spree to match some of you and half-proud of my dwindling list

I've a couple of 'Help Me's' I've been meaning to post for a while but keep forgetting -

firstly: can anyone point me in the direction of a cheap hair detangler spray? I usually use the supersoft one that 99p/£land have in but they've had nothing for ages It's a kids one (with smurfs on the bottle ) and is strawberry and milk 'flavour' or I get a Watermelon one. Avon used to do one but last time I checked there was nothing available on the website. Mine is on it's last squirt and I'm going to start getting desperate

and secondly: can anyone recommend a facial hair remover cream that actually works? I'm not quite able to run away with the circus and become the bearded lady but I'm heading that way :rotfl: The last one I tried was the 'Boots Expert' and that was a pointless waste of my money. Really not brave enough for waxing and can't afford laser

TIA guys

Avon's one is still about - and in Campaign 6 (that most of us are on at the moment) I seem to recall it's on BOGOF at £2.60 as well, so a good time to buy! If you want to find a local rep then you can do so through Avon Connects (I won't post a link as I have a sneaking feeling it's in the rules somewhere that we're not meant to post links to other forums, but if you google it you'll find us!) I have several customers who buy the Avon one when it's on offer. How are your hands now by the way? Hope things are improving now. Most outdoor shops do small pocket size handwarmers which you just "snap" a metal disc inside to activate - they are quite good. You reactivate them afterwards by simmering in a pan of water for a few minutes.

Bargainbetty - LOVING your story! :rotfl:

Vivh - Happy birthday to you! Sounds like you've had a nice day, and some lovely presents!

Trudij fingers crossed for Red tomorrow xx

ACCA Girl - wow - quite some list! I seem to recall you have a way to go to catch up on one of our members though who had over 800 items at last count!

mcculloch29

Nothing has made me laugh more of late than bargainbetty's flying speculum story. I am going to print it out to share with my best buddy who doesn't have a pc. We are going out tomorrow and as we have a very similar sense of humour, I know she will appreciate it.

Nothing much to report on topic other than the Q10 handcream I took into work, spluttered magnificently and completely sprayed one of my colleagues - she described it as "being like a scene from There's Something About Mary".

They must all have been using it - it was a nearly full 100 ml tube when I took it in 3 weeks or so ago.

celebrate

Kaz2904 wrote: »

Come and join us over here honey! https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2948896 Before you know it, you'll not want to shop because you'll be busy liberating yourself from all this 'stuff'.
I used to keep shopping for pretty things for my home because it was such a mess and so cluttered. When I actually started to declutter, I realised that less is more.
I just thought of a really apt saying but before I could get it down here, it was gone. Sorry about that!



ETA: Got it: Have nothing in your home that you do not believe to be beautiful or know to be useful. (Or something like that. I think it was probably more eloquently put though!).

HA!! my house would be empty ...LOL!

I have dutifully reported to the aforementioned thread and introduced myself, problem is now I might have to actually start decluttering (BIG GULP!!!)

Gosh just looking at the thread, they look far more ruthless than you guys on here, feel a bit safer here!
Think I might only be able to cope with one challenge at once, perhaps stick to toiletries for now?!

Kaz2904

celebrate wrote: »

no just kidding, mys sisters an accountant too-the ACCA is a giveaway X

Not the one who can't work out when she needs sanitary products :eek: :rotfl:. Sorry, am I being a little harsh?