No Buying Unnecessary toiletries in November

Fiasco55

CookieMonsta wrote: »

Hi all! Can I join in please?

My stash is taking over the bedroom! I'll go through it later and see what's running out, I'll hopefully have a few UUs to share by the end of the month :j

:wave: welcome CookieMonsta (love the name) - Good luck with your stash list - It really does help.

rogueylawyer wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: somewhere between 2009 and early 2011

My UUs have ground to a halt and the skin on my face has come out in a rash, with some scaly red patches under my eyes, very frustrating. I think it's partly to do with an old moisturiser that has now been relegated to the body lotion category, and partly to do with the colder weather.

I've been doing this challenge for 5 weeks, have UU or TA 36 items, more than 10% of my stash :T I've also not bought anything new, the only INs I've had have been free samples or gifts. I even made it through Boots and Body Shop today without any purchases bar the one necessary thing I had gone shopping for

Well done rogueylawyer :T. You can't beat the feeling of taking control over your stash.

Yet another day of no UU's. I was in town today and only bought some new clothes. Go me :A.

rising_from_the_ashes

Hi all - I am still here (and reading) ... honestly!

No more UU atm - everything I'm using just now seems to be huge / very full :rotfl:

Ran out of space in my sig :eek: so had to remove my challenge stats but will post them here as / when they change.

Currently: Total @ 3/11/12 = 180, TO/GA = 3, UU = 7, IN = 0

Spending_Vs_Saving

A couple of more UU during the day...albeit sample sized only

Garnia Intensive 7 day body lotion sample X 2 ..... only 19 more various types/sized body lotions to go (it only works out at something like 3.5ltrs of the stuff :eek:)

GreenFairy

I have gallons of body lotion as well...which is a pity as I never use it. Far too lazy when I have a big Lush Buffy in the shower. I've started using it as hand cream for the most part. At the current rate I won't have to buy any for about five years!

wondercollie

I've been busy rooting around

Tossed:

Elizabeth Grant Torriculum Lip treatment. Tried it put it away and took it out to try again. Woke up with waxy, weird feeling lips. Into the trash

Elizabeth Grant Honey Masque. Never opened it but I know that I moved it to Vancouver Island and back in 2004/05. I think it was time to admit it was never going to get used.

Kalaya ultra moisture cream. two 5ml sample tubs. It was good but not good enough to track down and buy.

Need to stop purchasing Shopping Channel mystery boxes!

We won't discuss the winter beauty boxes I bought from them this month as a lot of the products are going into Christmas stockings.

I'm waiting for my November TopBox. Western Canada always has to wait the longest. Some of the boxes are great, other are meh. I'm dreading it.

Glossy won't even ship November's box until the last week of the month. It had better be good because this is the first one that is costing over $20.

I'm nearly finish a Clinique moisturizer, the dregs just won't give up.

Going to Vegas on the 30th. Sephora doesn't hold much of a draw for me. It's the Christmas gift sets in Nordstroms, Macy's, etc, that always haul me in.

mcculloch29

Welcome newbies! Re the handwash and refilling it. Last year the same bathroom Carex milk and honey handwash in our house of 2 adults plus lots of visitors lasted the entire year. This was because it was refilled with the dregs of anything that was bubbly and vaguely the same colour. This included cheap and not so cheap bubble bath and shower gels that had been around for years.

A UU ! A 200 ml Pampered mango and orange body butter. This was a birthday present 6 months ago.

WIB? Yes, it wasn't that bad at all. Scent was pleasant and it rubbed in well.

I'd never heard of Pampered so I checked it out, it's one of the trading names of a big British company specialising in home and personal care, based in Manchester. No idea where friend bought it though.

VALM

Hi to all the newbies.

Another UU this am: one of the small conditioners that come with hair colorants. It was a L'oreal one. Seems a fairly slow month for me as well. x

rosemary54

so I have been using the BB stuff on one side of my face for a while ........no one has noticed any difference:(sometimes think axel grease might work just as well as some expensive stuff:rotfl:

OH now taken my (£57:eek:)Clarins serum to get rid of his dark spots:mad:

ma-ri-ella

good morning all.finally have something to report!!
too faced travel insurance- i "finished" this months ago but after cutting it up and depotting it managed to get about 4 extra months out it. i have another in my stash and when thats done wba
tbs cranberry hand lotion- would not buy again.i think it smells like alcohol/fruity acetone and since im diabetic its prob not the best thing that people think im about to have a hypo...
think thats it with the use ups.part of me wants to do a big makeup etc shop but i can honesty say theres nothing i need :P

Pootle_3

rosemary54 wrote: »

dolly84 wrote: »

On the subject of original Nivea, I used it as a teenager and was never troubled with spots. You need to be sparing with it. I know several older ladies who have used nothing else and have very good skin so don't write it off just yet.

joanna lumley uses it and she looks great,I always used ponds vanishing cream but never knbew why it was vanishing!!!

Vanishing cream is an oil free moisturiser, I presume it makes the shine vanish! Was told this in B**ts years ago when they discontinued the own brand oil free lotion I had been using.