No buying unecessray toiletries in July

evilsquid1603

VALM wrote: »

Well done on your weight loss evilsquid. I too have just got down to my 1 stone loss. Have been bad today though and had a Harry Ramsdens fish and chip lunch. Unfrotunately, Cheshire Oaks have done away with the big food court they had and now the only alternatives for lunch are Pizza Express, Wagamama, McDonalds, Harry Ramsdens or Spud u Like. Hardly any choice for something quick and tasty eh?

well done to you too!

i also had harrys, we went to see Hugh Laurie tonight so stopped off there beforehand. i had a choice of kfc or harrys and i thought if i was going to be eating badly, id enjoy the chippy more!

Pippin12

Hi all, is it ok if I join in? I'm so glad I stumbled upon this thread. I'm drowning in my sea of toiletries and really need to use some stuff up before I buy any more. I've started taking an inventory of everything I've got but it's going to take some time unfortunately. I seem to go mad stocking up whenever I see a 3 for 2 offer or somesuch. I've already bought some Clinique goodies this month (another irresistible offer in Boots lol). But I want to go cold turkey from here on in. I'll post my inventory when I've got everything down. Any top tips for a newbie?

I look forward to getting to you know you all,

Cheers! :beer:

Dollypop_2

I'm defo back in for July, I let things slide in June so wasn't around much and I want to get back on track

UU for July
Sanctuary Shower Mousse WNBA I don't think this is anything special so wouldn't go out of my way to re-purchase

I've started getting my package ready for my sun swap buddy, so I'll have some outs there, not till the end of the week when I post it though

Pippin12

I've finally made a list of all my toiletries. Here goes

Haircare
L’Oreal Everpure Shampoo x3

L’Oreal Everpure Conditioner x5

L’Oreal Eversleek Shampoo x4

L’Oreal Eversleek Conditioner x2

Head and Shoulders

Naked Rescue Intensive Care Conditioner x2

Tresemme Naturals Conditioner

Aussie 3 minute miracle Conditioner

Aussie Frizz Miracle Shampoo

Pantene Repair and Protect Shampoo x4

Herbal Essences Ignite My Colour Shampoo x3

Pantene Repair and Protect Intensive Treatment

Aussie dual personality serum

Frizz Ease serum

Boots coconut and almond intensive hair mask x3

Botanics 3 minute deep conditioning hair mask x4

Organics hair mayonnaise

Pantene enhanced layers whipped wax x2

Hot Tin Roof dry shampoo

Superdrug dry shampoo

Lee Stafford dry shampoo

Bodyshop coconut oil hair shine

Boots Essentials extra firm styling gel x2

Boots Essentials curl crème x3

Nice N Easy medium mahogany brown hair dye x5

Nice N Easy light auburn hair dye

Naked style miracle worker leave in conditioner

Umberto Giannini Curl friends silky curls smoothing balm x4

African Pride braid sheen spray

Umberto Giannini instant beauty silky soft leave-in conditioner

Umberto Giannini Overnight beauty moisture balm

Umberto Giannini flirty curls scrunching jelly

Wilko extra firm hair mousse

Wella Shockwaves mousse

Pantene ultra strong hold hairspray x2

VO5 mega hold gel spray

Sof n free curl activating lotion

Tresemme smoothing crème serum

Tresemme ultra hold hairspray

John Frieda sheer hold hairspray


Bath and Shower
Palmolive Bath Milk x4

Palmolive Shower gel x2

Original Source lavender and teatree bath foam x2

Foamburst gel x5

Teeth
Assorted toothbrushes x8

Sensodyne pronamel toothpaste x5

Sensodyne pronamel mouthwash x3

Macleans Whitening toothpaste

Colgate Plax mouthwash x2

Face
Olay Total Effects make up remover face and eyes x3

Olay Total Effects Radiance Enhancing Cream wash x3

No7 Exfoliating sponge x2

No7 Cleansing sponge x4

Tesco sensitive skin cleansing lotion x2

Simple exfoliating wipes x2

No7 Beautiful Skin quick thinking wipes x4

Simple Clear Skin oil balancing moisturiser

Clinique repairwear uplifting firming cream 15ml x3

Clinique repairwear intensive eye cream 5ml x3

Clinique Ant-Gravity firming eye lift cream 15ml

Clinique dramatically different moisturising gel 30ml x4

Clinique liquid facial soap for oily skin 200ml x3

Clinique All About Eyes 5ml

No7 Protect and Perfect Intense beauty serum x2

No7 Protect and Perfect beauty serum

Wilko Skin Therapy 3 in 1 facial wipes x2

Perfume
Jean Paul Gaultier woman 50ml

Dior Poison 50ml

Miscellaneous
Mitchum antiperspirant deoderant x5

Cosmetic buds 80 x3

Cotton wool x6

Simple baby moisturising wipes

　

I'm shocked at the amount I've got - especially the amount of hair products. The money I've spent on this little lot! No more buys in July now :A!
　

maddiemay

Welcome to Pippin, you will find us a helpful and friendly little group, well done for doing your list, with skin care and makeup I would say use the oldest first as so many things do go off and end up being thrown away, but not so sure about haircare as it has only been a minor stash item for me. I am sure others will offer advice, but for the moment I would say collect together all the opened items and evaluate which work well for you and decide on an order to use them. Stuff that you don't like anymore can be re-purposed, conditioner as a shaving cream and as a pre shampoo treatment and shampoo as handwash, cleaning your makeup and hair brushes, bath and basin cleaners, and possibly to wash woollens, I often do this to save buying expensive wool wash. To make my expensive shampoo last longer I have been using the samples and travel sizes as a first shampoo and the good stuff as second, I hope to graduate on the hair care soon:j

The more I join in on here, the easier I find it to resist all the special offers and filling up "shopping carts" to save postage, it is not a bargain if I don't need it:(

dolly84

Morning All

I have got July off to a good start with some UU and some Ta's:

Boots Botanics Clay Mask - WNBA, this dries really hard and takes too much effort to get off, also saw no improvement from using it.

Vaseline Cocoa Butter Vitalising Gel Oil, have chucked this out, DH stopped me throwing it the other week and I tried using it on the kids and on myself again but it just doesn't absorb and it is really oily and I was just slipping and sliding about, life is too short to suffer using something that cost less than £2.

Lacura Body Moisturiser for Dry Skin - TA - this has the consistency of PVA glue and just doesn't move on the skin, it doesn't absorb either. Again this was less than £2 so not worth the hassle, it's 500ml too so it would go on forever. The normal skin version by the way is lovely.

Crabtree & Evelyn La Source shampoo, this was a little hotel freebie with just one use left. Lovely shampoo.

Body Shop Oatmeal and Honey face mask, GA to my friend's teenage daughter, this is for dry skin and I have combination.

E.L.F Smokey Eyes Pallette - TA, the fallout from these shadows is awful, I have tried a few of their products and not liked any so far.

dolly84

Woops forgot to say Welcome Pippin.

rosemary54

morning all,well i got through the weekend without sheding a single tear(first one in a month or more!) tho it was a bit like walking on eggshells at times:rotfl:we did go dancing in the end which I enjoyed as usual being held in a romantic hold for a tango caused a few of the oldies to give us a few looks:rotfl:only annoying thing was this old man who just at the end of the night(10.30) came to tell us his life story(again) and we only managed to escape when the bar maid took pity on us and called him over at 11.20:eek::eek::eek::eek:...ok for him as no work today.DH had said he didn't want to go at first as had a busy week so I was quite annoyed but he seemed not to mind!!!

Occitane order just arrived:)I love the way they pack things in such pretty boxes.so ins are as follows(sorry I needed the reatil therapy!)

creeme radieuse hydration cream(as in the LIB box...expensive but got a free cleaner in a nice pump bottle worth £16)
1 bath ball down from £4:eek:far too much to £1
a sample cream mask and after shave(for DH)
a make up bag( theirs are so pretty) with bonne mere soap(I know I don't need anymore soap!)a lavender body lotion,rose hand cream,shea butter shower gel,and an eye balm(half price for the bag and contents at £12.50 so "saved" a total of £28.50 and free post.
am I alone in getting so much pleasure out of buying the stuff??!!!!

btw it is now raining (again:()

Pippin12

Thankyou for the welcome Dolly and maddiemay, some good tips there, thankyou. I've just realised that I've left a few crucial items off my list. Here's the amended list:



　

Haircare
L’Oreal Everpure Shampoo x3

L’Oreal Everpure Conditioner x5

L’Oreal Eversleek Shampoo x4

L’Oreal Eversleek Conditioner x2

Head and Shoulders

Naked Rescue Intensive Care Conditioner x2

Tresemme Naturals Conditioner

Aussie 3 minute miracle Conditioner

Aussie Frizz Miracle Shampoo

Pantene Repair and Protect Shampoo x4

Herbal Essences Ignite My Colour Shampoo x3

Pantene Repair and Protect Intensive Treatment

Aussie dual personality serum

Frizz Ease serum

Boots coconut and almond intensive hair mask x3

Boots coconut and almond leave-in conditioner x3

Botanics 3 minute deep conditioning hair mask x4

Organics hair mayonnaise

Pantene enhanced layers whipped wax x2

Hot Tin Roof dry shampoo

Superdrug dry shampoo

Lee Stafford dry shampoo

Bodyshop coconut oil hair shine

Boots Essentials extra firm styling gel x2

Boots Essentials curl crème x3

Nice N Easy medium mahogany brown hair dye x5

Nice N Easy light auburn hair dye

Naked style miracle worker leave in conditioner

Umberto Giannini Curl friends silky curls smoothing balm x4

African Pride braid sheen spray

Umberto Giannini instant beauty silky soft leave-in conditioner

Umberto Giannini Overnight beauty moisture balm

Umberto Giannini flirty curls scrunching jelly

Umberto Giannini sleek and chic straightening gloss serum

Wilko extra firm hair mousse

Wella Shockwaves mousse

Pantene ultra strong hold hairspray x2

VO5 mega hold gel spray

Sof n free curl activating lotion

Tresemme smoothing crème serum

Tresemme ultra hold hairspray

John Frieda sheer hold hairspray

Bath and Shower
Palmolive Bath Milk x3

Palmolive Shower gel

Original Source lavender and teatree bath foam x2

Foamburst gel x5

Lush Jilted elf shower gel 100g

Lush soap slices x2

Lush Glogg shower gel 100g

Teeth
Assorted toothbrushes x8

Sensodyne pronamel toothpaste x5

Sensodyne pronamel mouthwash x3

Macleans Whitening toothpaste

Colgate Plax mouthwash x2

Face
Olay Total Effects make up remover face and eyes x3

Olay Total Effects Radiance Enhancing Cream wash x3

No7 Exfoliating sponge x2

No7 Cleansing sponge x6

Tesco sensitive skin cleansing lotion x2

Simple exfoliating wipes x2

No7 Beautiful Skin quick thinking wipes x4

Simple Clear Skin oil balancing moisturiser

Clinique take the day off make-up remover for lids, lashes and lips 125ml x2

Clinique repairwear uplifting firming cream 15ml x3

Clinique repairwear intensive eye cream 5ml x3

Clinique Ant-Gravity firming eye lift cream 15ml

Clinique dramatically different moisturising gel 30ml x4

Clinique liquid facial soap for oily skin 200ml x3

Clinique All About Eyes 5ml

Clinique Clarifying lotion 4 200ml x2

Clinique Clarifying lotion 3 400ml

No7 Protect and Perfect Intense beauty serum x2

No7 Protect and Perfect beauty serum

Wilko Skin Therapy 3 in 1 facial wipes x2

Soap and Glory sexy mother pucker lip plumping gloss x6

Perfume
Jean Paul Gaultier woman 50ml

Dior Poison 50ml

Miscellaneous
Mitchum antiperspirant deoderant x5

Cosmetic buds 80 x3

Cotton wool x6

Simple baby moisturising wipes

　

SuiDreams

Hoping for quite a few UU this week, lots of splutterers at the moment.

Rosemary - shopping cheers me up to, but as I'm trying to cut my spending, I'm having to resort to eating chocolate. Home life ok, but work really getting me down. Hope things improve for you.