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No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries October 2013

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  • Well, I have an IN, but it was a treat for surviving giving blood this afternoon (I hate doing it). Boyfriend took me to Lush, so I have 250ml of It's Raining Men shower gel :D
    No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries in January!
    UU: 5, IN: 2
    Total Stash: 99 - ultimate target 33 (year start 99)
  • dolly84
    dolly84 Posts: 5,851 Forumite
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    Have another couple of uu

    Elemis Pro Collagen Lifting Concentrate - 15ml, this is nice and smells of violets but I WNBA as it will be expensive and I don't think creams firm the skin particularly.

    Bare Minerals Original in Light - 2g. This is one of my project pan items. WBA but not in this colour it is too yellow for me so I have to mix it with Fair. Have another this size in the stash to use up though.
    Debt Free and now a saver, conscious consumer, low waste lifestyler


    Fashion on the Ration 28/66
  • rosemary54
    rosemary54 Posts: 2,495 Forumite
    rosemary54 wrote: »
    spent yesterday dredging the slime out of the pond:eek:keeping out of OHs way after yet another row:(he refuses to answer any questions about our future and def will not go to relate so ended up in floods of tears and now look awful.told me he wanted a divorce but think he would get laughed out of court as no grounds.Had a bath and went to bed early BUT when he came up he then proceeded to cuddle me,i ask why if he wanted a divorce and his answer was its cold on my side(blanket was on) and I have to get some use out of you!!!!
    I am totally confused by him even after 34 years.

    still its helping the diet as don't feel like food...now lost 4 kilos:)BUT 8 kilos to go to get to pre baby weight(youngest is 23)which will give me a BMI of 25 to please the docs.
    sold a fav skirt on fleabay as too loose:(/:)

    off to look round new spa today with 10% off offer:)think I deserve a facial.If I lose my weight will new a whole new wardrobe:):)and plan is to throw all this years make up(extravagant I know but have so much opened stuff,I want a new start at new year with less clutter,apart from a few freebies no ins in Oct.


    good news,booked a £10 facial at new spa with the skin care rep and will get £10 refunded if I buy anything(would be rude not to!!!)
    bad news someone(OH) left tap open on water butt so the pond I emptied yesterday is now full again:mad::mad:

    lit the fire and having yummy steak for tea now it is officially winter!
    hope all well with you ladies and no tree related problems
  • suzitiger wrote: »
    Afternoon all!
    Just checking in after my lovely Birthday weekend.
    I will have some INs to report, but luckily not too many as people know me well enough to know I have loads already! :rotfl:
    I will also need to go shopping for a foundation because my sister lent me hers whilst she was staying and it was SOOOOOO much better on my skin tha any I have so I will be buying one soon.
    Few UUs also to declare but I need to work through my stash list and previous posts again to work out what I haven't declared. I kept a note but now I can't remember what I have declared or not :D
    Gosh I need to sell some stashed bits, I keep putting it off though cuz it takes effort!
    Can someone add me to the faceboom swap page too? Who do I need to PM?

    PM me your email address and I'll send you an invite:)

    UU for me Timotei vivid colour shampoo, onto my last bottle and still OOS in the £1/99p shop grrr I don't want to have to pay full price:eek:
    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
  • Willow92
    Willow92 Posts: 2,186 Forumite
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    Finished my Lush Fun Bar today, won't be buying again.

    I starting reading this just after I bought my Snow Fairy shower gels.
    Savings £8,865.22 £/15,000 Aiming to save enough for a house deposit.
  • sam.4000
    sam.4000 Posts: 1,396 Forumite
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    Willow92 wrote: »
    Finished my Lush Fun Bar today, won't be buying again.

    I starting reading this just after I bought my Snow Fairy shower gels.

    I have read it, it's quite an eye opener.
  • Willow92
    Willow92 Posts: 2,186 Forumite
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    sam.4000 wrote: »
    I have read it, it's quite an eye opener.

    I'm not trying to discourage you all from buying Lush but it's made me think twice.
    Savings £8,865.22 £/15,000 Aiming to save enough for a house deposit.
  • Sorry to hear of your troubles Rosemary - such a shame as things seemed to have been improving a little.

    UU

    Sure deo spray - WBA DH HG
    Radox refresh shower gel - WBA DH HG
    mouthwash - WBA

    1 ebay out

    5 ins from philosophy TSV
    No more buying toiletries
  • mcculloch29
    mcculloch29 Posts: 4,972 Forumite
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    edited 29 October 2013 at 1:59AM
    Earlier link to blog about Lush didn't work for me, but scroll down and look for the blog entry headed "The Smell of ".

    I mentioned that I'd had some goodies to review from Am@zon.

    Straighteners - now have a 2nd pair!

    Hairdryer
    I've given honest opinions of both.
    I managed to avoid the temptation of shampoo and conditioner that Am@zon offered last week. We have a new guitar tuner instead... :D Some Avon is due, but still hasn't arrived.

    Rosemary, I am so sorry things have gone down again, been there, it's not the best way to lose weight at all.
    Enjoy all your treats and putting together a newer you.
    Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.
  • VALM
    VALM Posts: 5,954 Forumite
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    Fiasco55 wrote: »
    Liz Earl hand repair cream -WNBA wasn't very impressed with it. Also didn't like the smell.

    No, I don't like the smell of this either and I think it has white clay in which makes it flake off my hands whenever I apply it. Had a nosey through my stash yesterday for hand creams and have a tube of this in there. Not just a travel sized either so maybe I will gift it to someone for Secret Santa or add it to my friend's little hamper that I always put together. Do this for my sister as well but I have a feeling that she bought me this last Christmas. Other than that I only have small tubes of L'Occitane hand creams in the stash and they are smaller than the freebie ones so looks like I NEED to buy some new handcream. Will have a shop around online at lunch for some Molten Brown White Mulberry. Have a UU in the form of my L'Occitane Lavender and WBA as I love this one. I prefer to have a pump bottle of lotion on the go downstairs though as I rub it into MrM's feet at night. Otherwise, I would go through all the little tubes I have in no time.

    So 2 items down in my current Project Pan list and only 3 days left this month.

    Emma let me use a couple of items from the current Birchbox last night and I am pretty impressed by them. Not sure if anyone has published the contents of the box on here yet so I won't mention them specifically only to say one was a face mask and the other a lip balm.
    Willow92 wrote: »
    Finished my Lush Fun Bar today, won't be buying again.

    I starting reading this just after I bought my Snow Fairy shower gels.

    Have earmarked this to read later.
    Back for the No Buying Toiletries challenge. I pledge to only buy when I run out of a product that is not already in my stash no matter what wonderful emails land in in my Inbox or threads I read on MSE re: glitches!

    SPC Member 046
    £2. Challenge member 55
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