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  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 24,424 Forumite
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    I'm back in again this month!

    Thanks Charlie for starting the thread - love the roll call!

    Another vote for a pamper party on the 15th - but why don't we have an additional 'pre-wedding' pamper session too?
    What do you think ladies?

    What a fantastic plan! Good thinking Charlie & Sunshineyday! I will be mising out on it this time round as we will be away, but I will be with you in spirit! To be honest the clean fresh air and spending so much time outdoors will be like one giant pamper session for my face anyway!
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  • seasideDreamer
    seasideDreamer Posts: 1,363 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    I'm in again, hopefully do better this month, the urge to buy got too strong last week and had 4 INs. I will need shampoo and conditioner soon as almost finished and on the last of it but they will be allowed:)
    Debt free and busy treating myself:)

    No more toiletries/make up until I've used what I've got stashed since Jan 2011, graduated October 2012. Restocked Dec 13..damn those sales
  • ACCA_Girl
    ACCA_Girl Posts: 51 Forumite
    I AM IN!!! :j

    I love this thread, thanks for starting a new one.

    Xx
  • alja
    alja Posts: 838 Forumite
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    think I'll be around on the 15th for a pamper! :) x
  • LittleVoice
    LittleVoice Posts: 8,974 Forumite
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    Count me in for April, please.
  • missykaren
    missykaren Posts: 19 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Can I be in this time please?

    I'll try and post my stash, but I don't think its nearly as impressive as some of the hoards you've listed :)
  • minerva_windsong
    minerva_windsong Posts: 3,808 Forumite
    edited 26 April 2011 at 1:26PM
    Thanks to charlie for starting the thread :) And hello to the newbies! :hello:

    I'm in for April!
    Here is my current list (purple is now the HG colour as am moving in with OH on Saturday!):

    In use
    Gone!
    Holy Grail

    Bath
    Boots Essentials Pure White Creme Bath 1l
    Cath Kidston Rose Bubble Bath 30ml

    Shower
    Body Shop Black Velvet Apricot Bath & Shower Nectar 250ml

    Lush Calacas shower jelly 100g
    Lush Glogg shower gel 100ml
    Body Shop Sweet Lemon Shower Gel 250ml
    No7 Luxurious Foaming Shower Oil 250ml
    Soap & Glory Flake Away 300ml
    Soap & Glory The Scrub Of Your Life 200ml HG scrub
    Cath Kidston Rose Shower Gel 30ml
    Body Shop Nutmeg and Vanilla Bath & Shower Gel 250ml
    Body Shop Aqua Lily Shower Gel 200ml
    Body Shop Sparkling Apple Shower Gel 200ml
    Lush Tramp shower gel 500g
    Lush Iced Wine shower jelly 100g
    Original Source Black Pepper and Cardamom Shower Gel 250ml
    Soap & Glory Clean On Me 500ml
    Lush It's Raining Men shower gel 100ml
    Lush Sweet & Shower body wash 125g

    Body lotion
    Veet Hair Minimising Body Moisturiser 250ml
    Palmer's Cocoa Butter 250ml
    Body Shop Moringa Body Butter 50ml

    Cath Kidston Rose Body Cream 30ml
    Boss Orange Perfumed Body Lotion 200ml

    Other body products
    Boots Soltan Kids Extra Water Resistant Hypoallergenic Suncare Lotion SPF 30 200ml
    Gilette Satin Care Dry Skin Formula Shave Gel with Shea Butter 200ml
    Boots Soltan Kids Extra Water Resistant Hypoallergenic Suncare Lotion SPF 30 200ml
    Boots Soltan Aftersun Hydrating Lotion 200ml

    Hands, feet and face

    Soap & Glory Hand Food 125ml HG hand cream
    Soap & Glory Heel Genius 125ml
    HG foot cream
    Body Shop Hemp Lip Protector 4g

    Lush Maple Taffy lip balm 10g

    Boots Expert Cuticle and Nail Moisturiser 12ml
    Boots Expert Cuticle Remover 12ml
    B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful Sweet Lips lip scrub 25g
    Body Shop Sweet Lemon soap as hand soap
    Accessorize Strawberry Milk Lip Balm 4g
    Accessorize Banana Milk Lip Balm 4g
    Accessorize Chocolate Milk Lip Balm 4g
    Benefit Dr Feelgood Lipscription Buffing Lip Beads 17g
    Benefit Dr Feelgood Lipscription Silky Lip Balm 15g


    Hair
    Body Shop Banana Shampoo 250ml

    Body Shop Banana Conditioner 250ml
    Body Shop Ice Blue Shampoo 250ml
    Body Shop Rainforest Moisture Shampoo 60ml
    Body Shop Rainforest Moisture Conditioner 60ml
    Soap & Glory Hair Supply 200ml

    Lee Stafford Poker Straight Flat Iron Protection Mist 200ml
    Batiste Dry Shampoo Boho 150ml
    Boots Essentials Conditioner for Normal Hair 500ml as shaving cream
    Lee Stafford Poker Straight Flat Iron Protection Mist 200ml
    Batiste Dry Shampoo Original 150ml

    James Brown London Scandalous Gorgeously Rich Moisturising Shampoo 100ml

    James Brown London Scandalous Gorgeously Rich Moisturising Conditioner 100ml
    Charles Worthington Front Row Rough & Tousled Salt Spray 150ml
    Lush Cynthia Sylvia Stout shampoo 100ml
    Lush American Cream conditioner 100ml
    L'Oreal Elnett Satin Diamond Hold and Shine 75ml
    Tresemme Moisture Rich Shampoo 8ml
    Tresemme Moisture Rich Conditioner 8ml

    Perfume
    B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful Cocktail 9g
    B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful 1000 Kisses Deep 9g
    Hugo Boss Boss Orange EDT 75ml
    DKNY Be Delicious EDT 50ml
    Paco Rabanne Lady Million EDP 50ml
    Body Shop Tea Rose Perfume Oil 15ml
    Dolce & Gabbana Rose The One EDP 30ml

    Nail polish

    Accessorize Illusion Nail Polish in Aztec
    Accessorize Nail Polish in Magical Mocha
    Andrea Fulerton Colour Nail Polish in Annie
    Barry M Instant Nail Effects in Black Magic
    Barry M Nail Paint in Racing Green
    China Glaze Nail Lacquer in Fairy Dust

    China Glaze Nail Lacquer in First Mate
    China Glaze Nail Lacquer in For Audrey
    Ciate Paint Pots in Mojito

    Nails Inc Hyde Park base coat
    OPI Nail Lacquer in I'm Not Really A Waitress
    OPI Nail Lacquer in Russian Navy

    Seche Vite HG top coat
    Topshop Nails in Airplane
    Topshop Nails in Geography Teacher
    Topshop Nails in Green Room

    Accessorize Illusion Nail Polish in Mermaid
    Barry M Nail Paint in Raspberry
    Barry M Nail Paint in Vivid Purple
    China Glaze Nail Lacquer in Ahoy!
    China Glaze Nail Lacquer in Flying Dragon
    China Glaze Nail Lacquer in Frostbite
    China Glaze Nail Lacquer in Ruby Pumps
    Essie Nail Enamel in Lollipop
    Mavala Nail Colour in Daring Pink
    MeMeMe Catwalk Nail Collection Long Lasting Gloss in Spirited
    Models Own Nail Polish in True Blue
    Models Own Nail Polish in Gold Rush
    OPI Nail Lacquer in Last Friday Night
    OPI Nail Lacquer in Meet Me On The Star Ferry
    OPI Nail Lacquer in Not Like The Movies
    OPI Nail Lacquer in Teenage Dream
    OPI Nail Lacquer in The One That Got Away
    Nails Inc Hyde Park base coat
    Revlon Nail Enamel in Emerald City
    Rimmel I Love Lasting Finish Fruities in Lemon Drop
    Rimmel I Love Lasting Finish in Your Majesty
    Topshop Nails in AWOL
    Topshop Nails in Beyond The Sea
    Topshop Nails in Carry On Camping
    Topshop Nails in Gypsy Night
    Topshop Nails in Mannequin
    Topshop Nails in Worlds End

    Skincare
    Simple Clear Skin Oil Balancing Cleansing Wipes 25s
    Lush Breath Of Fresh Air 250g
    Lush Vanishing Cream 45g
    Lush Ultrabland 45g
    Clarins Beauty Flash Balm 50ml
    Clinique All About Eyes 7g

    Lush Ultrabalm 45g
    Simple Clear Skin Oil Balancing Cleansing Wipes 25s
    Boots Cotton Wool Pads 100s
    Lush Angels On Bare Skin 100g
    Lush Breath Of Fresh Air 100g
    Lush Vanishing Cream 45g
    Pond's Cold Cream Cleanser 50g
    Boots Cotton Wool Pads 100s
    Vaseline Original 20g
    Simple Spotless Skin Rapid Action Spot Zapper 15ml

    Boots Cotton Wool Pads 100s
    Lush Oatifix fresh face mask 45g

    Deodorant
    Body Shop DeoDry Dry Effect Deodorant Chilled & Breezy Roll On 50ml
    Body Shop DeoDry Dry Effect Deodorant Cool & Zesty Roll On 50ml

    Toothpaste
    Colgate Total Advanced Whitening 50ml

    Make-up
    Benefit Playsticks foundation in Spin The Bottle HG foundation
    Rimmel Hide The Blemish Concealer in Ivory HG concealer
    Benefit Playsticks foundation in Spin The Bottle HG foundation
    Maybelline The One By One Volum' Express Mascara
    Benefit Sugarbomb face powder
    Benefit Eyebright instant eye brightener
    Benefit Big Beautiful Eyes eye contour kit
    Benefit Bad Gal eyeliner
    Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion in Sin
    Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Midnight Cowboy
    B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful Bon Bon Highlighter
    Rimmel Lasting Finish Lipstick in Heart Breaker
    Benefit Benetint Lip Balm SPF 15

    Vaseline Rosy Lips 20g
    Benefit Glitz Glam & Gloss in Kiss You 3ml
    Benefit Glitz Glam & Gloss in Friends In High Places 3ml
    Benefit Glitz Glam & Gloss in Zone Out 3ml
    Benefit Glitz Glam & Gloss in Almost Famous 3ml
    Benefit Glitz Glam & Gloss in I'm With The Band 3ml
    Benefit Glitz Glam & Gloss in Fresh Squeezed 3ml
    Rimmel Glam'Eyes Quad eyeshadow in Urban Flower
    Bourjois Little Round Pot Eyeshadow in 12 Bleu Magique
    Rimmel Glam'Eyes Trio eyeshadow in Twilight Zone

    Total on 1st April 2011 161 products

    Goal for this month As the last couple of months have been 'easy hits', I don't think I'll use up as much this month but am aiming for five items.
    "A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." - Tyrion Lannister
    Married my best friend 1st November 2014
    Loose = the opposite of tight (eg "These trousers feel a little loose")
    Lose = the opposite of find/gain (eg "I'm going to lose weight this year")
  • destroyerofdebt2011
    destroyerofdebt2011 Posts: 286 Forumite
    edited 31 March 2011 at 10:31PM
    Hi, ive been on use up toiletries for the last 3 years due to smells obsession and seige mentality im still going through the liquid hand wash and bars of soap. So this List is a much smaller but non the less still impressive in my eyes anyhows. So hopefully with some help we can reduce this list even more

    Soaps
    2 Bars of Lemon Soap
    Pears Handwash - Spluttering
    Carex Handwash - Spluttering
    Cien 1 ltd Handwash
    CIEN 500 ml Handwash
    1 Bar of imperial leather
    Lemon soap bar - spluttering


    Other
    Lush - silky underware talc
    Nair hair removing sachet
    Nair hair removal creme tube.
    45ml of hairspray
    trial size dove go fresh deoderant
    soft and gentle sesual deoderant
    24hr total confidential deoderant spray - spluttering
    48hr tesco deoderant spray
    Mum Roll on
    Dove invisible dry deodorant
    cotton deodorant spray
    chique ladies saving gel.



    Body Lotions & Mouisturisers& sunscreen
    Factor 8 Suntan Lotion
    Factor 30 Suntan lotion
    Aftersun lotion 200 ml
    Banana Boat tanning oil spf 15 (smells devine HG)
    Banana Boat - Aloe Vera gel 250g
    Dove silkening body lotion 250ml
    Spa Formula soothing body gel
    Wild Rose and Rasberry Leaf Moisturiser 500ml
    Baby Oil
    Nivea Rich Care moisturiser 250ml
    Nivea Creme 200ml
    Nivea creme 50 ml
    Nivea creme 30ml
    White musk body lotion 30g
    Santuary mande lunar
    Santuary body lotion 75ml
    Sanctuary body lotion 250ml (half used)
    Lux light refects body lotion


    Hair styling
    Carefree styling gel
    V05 Heat protect styling spray
    Extra firm styling mousse
    frizzezz serum finishing spray
    Advance techniques dry ends serum

    frizzease curl controller
    wellar shock waves max volume mousse X2
    clubbers hairspray

    Bubble Baths & ShowerGels
    Sanex Dermo protector 650ml X2
    White musk bath oil
    Avon naturals red rose and peach shower gel - spluttering
    cheep shops own shower gell 300ml
    baulis & Harding Bubble bath 300ml


    Face
    Simple Kind to skin Cleansing Lotion
    Olay daily cleansing lotion
    simple kind to the skin 150 ml Face wash 1 in use 1 in stock
    simple kind to the skin travel size - spluttering
    Simple travel size facial toner
    Anew rejuvenate day creme
    Anew rejuvenate night creme
    Simple day creme
    Liiv night moisturiser
    Anew clinical eye lift


    Oral hygeine
    Mouth Wash 1 spluttering 1 in stock
    Dental Floss
    travel size colgate toothpaste
    daily care sensative toothpaste -spluttering

    daily care sensative toothpaste
    colgate toothpaste
    Superdrug cleansing clay mask

    Fragrence
    D & G Femine tester size
    Impulse goddess spray
    so? body fragrence
    Dior pure poison
    Dior tendre poison
    So? perfume


    Shampoos and conditioners
    Lush red shampoo bar - spluttering
    Anti dandruff 2 in 1 -spluttering
    Tresemme deep cleansing 900ml
    Tresemme 24 hour body 900ml
    Tresemme Thermal Recovery 900ml
    Tresemme travel shampoo 100ml
    Tresemme travel conditioner 100 ml
    Boots pro vit brunnet shampoo 100 ml
    Jojoba conditioner
    shop owns cheep shampoo 500ml

    Colour effects rich red hair dye
    wash in and wash rich mahogany colour

    Hands and feet
    Avon Foot works milky foot soak 100ml
    CCS Foot care cream
    Sanctuary foot souffle
    Pedi peel pads
    soothing hand lotion
    soothing foot lotion
    French manicure nail colors set (3 nail polishes)
    nail polish various colours 6


    MAKEUP
    Body shop pressed powder foundation
    Rimmel renew & lift liquid spf 15 foundation
    Rimmel cool matte 16 hr moose foundation (HG)
    No 7 Even colour corrector creme
    Body shop tea tree oil cover stick
    Anew concealer (HG)
    Mascara rimmel black
    Mascara 17 brown/black
    Mascara boots natuarals clear
    mascara technic xxl lashes in black
    17 metallic eye pencil green
    17 kohl liner purple
    17 kohl liner silver
    rimmel wet & dry eye liner black
    no 7 stay perfect liquid gold eye liner
    avon color trend liquid eye shadow & liner green
    OG Liquid black eye liner
    No 17 liquid black eye liner
    Avon mocha latte eye shadow
    no 17 glitter eye shadow green
    no 17 eye shadow trio
    No 17 trio blue eyeshadow
    Colour trends nude eyeshadow
    rimmel colour mousse eyeshadow teal
    rimmel colour mousse eyeshadow snow queen
    boujois paris tinted glimmer gloss
    Rimmel flirt lippy
    NYC liquid lipstick
    avon frozen rose tester lippy
    avon instant mocha tester lippy
    Lip liner
    Anew moisturise lip conditioner
    Rimmel Lippy that lives in handbag havent a clue on shade.


    so if im able to repeatedly count on fingers and toes i think thats 137 depending on how many webbed toes one might conceivably have. Considering i dont wear a lot of makeup.. i guess i must hoard :rotfl::rotfl:

    Have a planned spend at AVON tomorrow but since i ordered that and the £14.50 has been in my wallet ready to pay for it since March im not declaring it as an in for april if that makes sence so can i be excused from the naughty step for this mnth please? I have been making use of the double the diffence offers but i think i have enough shampoo and bubblebath now! no planned spends this month but hopping to knock lots of spluttering items off the list.. they seem to splutter as good as Mary Poppins is at pulling coat stands out of that carpet bag of hers! BUT I WILL FIND THE BOTTOM I TELL U NOW!:p Dont want to spend anything more on makeup and toileties for the rest of 2011.
    SORRY FOR THE LONG POST/ESSAY/LIFE STORY
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    OD [STRIKE]£939.78[/STRIKE] £200.00
    No 49 of £2012 in 2012.. £645.10 so far & Crazy Clothes £14.09/£100.00 ReducingtheToiletryStash2012 UU12/IN 20 March Grocery 0.00/£65.00 & LbsNot£s Lost 14Lbs
  • Also thanks to everyone in the March thread who sent me good luck wishes for the interview :) It went pretty well I think - they said they'd let me know tomorrow so fingers crossed! It'd be a great job as it's very similar to my old one but also allows me to learn new skills, it's really good money, the people seemed really nice and it would be really easy to get to from OH's flat. So hopefully it'll be third time lucky for interviews in March!

    And I'm definitely up for pampering on the 15th :) I have some empty Lush black pots so am planning to take them into the shop and treat myself to a face mask which I might break out for that...
    "A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." - Tyrion Lannister
    Married my best friend 1st November 2014
    Loose = the opposite of tight (eg "These trousers feel a little loose")
    Lose = the opposite of find/gain (eg "I'm going to lose weight this year")
  • xoxo_2
    xoxo_2 Posts: 889 Forumite
    <snip>


    Topshop nail polish... now what's that like? :D:rotfl:


    I'm up for the pampering thing on the 15th... what do we do?:rotfl::D
    :j
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