No buying unnecessary toiletries in January 2014

KT2802

Evening ladies. Welcome to any new people to the thread.

Hope you're enjoying your lovely new bathroom emsjune - would love to see a picture.

Rosemary your pamper day sounds lovely.

I have more INS but can't face recording them at the moment really must stop going to the shopping centre after work. I have spent so much money on make up this month - think I am going to challenge myself to buy no make up for the whole of February. Sad as it is this will be a real challenge for me, as I have said previously, make up is my problem (used to be clothes). I am inspired by people on here though as I know others used to have a similar problem with make up.

I think I might go through all my make up at the weekend and have a big sort out/remind myself what I have.

2 UU though today :T -

10 - Cinders Bath Bomb - WNBA, was disappointed with this although did buy in the sale. Smelt nice but that was it. I prefer the bubble bars. Anyone know if Lush do a cinnamon bubble bar?!

11 - Benefit They're Real mini - WBA and have, have a full size one to use now, this mini came free when I bought the full size a few months back. For some reason this mini started to go all clumpy and weird so threw it out. Had been using for a few months though so probably needed throwing away.

Clutterfree

maddiemay wrote: »

I failed on my "no un-necessary in's, but this was too good an offer to miss:o
IN's
100ml Merumaya Melting Cleansing Balm
15ml " Iconic Youth Serum
15ml " Moisturiser

I also succumbed today!

I also have another Aromatherapy Associates sale order to come...

Serious question here, does anyone else find their willpower is lower the week before their TOM?
I find I am much more easily tempted to buy things. No idea why, but it was a pattern I noticed last year.

pixtotts

So I'm a wee bit late but the second Ciate mini of the month is Chinchilla. I have to admit though I did open all the doors and mix them about when I decided it was going to be 2 a month instead of an advent calendar, tried to get the mega mega will only wear at Christmas ones to that end of the year. Very excited to try it, but going to try and resist till morning or I'll smudge it ...

Have a shampoo and conditioner spluttering, well mega spluttering, I think one more wash... maybe 2 for the shampoo.
Ooh also used up one of those bath bomb thingy's from bomb cosmetics I got a box of 6 for Christmas but had horrible blisters so didn't dare use them untill now. I'm always underwhelmed by them, they all smell pretty much the same overly floral, and make the bath slippy . I'm a little tempted to splurge on a Lush one when I sneak in for some henna... will try to behave... honest...
x

seasideDreamer

Babafette wrote: »

Dare I ask how to get hold of one of these............?

Rosemary's right, its through their Facebook page. I've had a few few handcreams including full sized ones through their page over the last year!

Its great because I love their hand cream but never need to have to buy it:money:

VALM

seasideDreamer wrote: »

A UU for me S&G hand food mini. Speaking of hand cream, has anyone managed to get a L'Occitane free hand cream set yet? I went yesterday but my local hadn't received any yet, off to try again tomorrow.:money:

I have applied but not sure when I'm gonna get to a store.

Clutterfree wrote: »

Serious question here, does anyone else find their willpower is lower the week before their TOM?
I find I am much more easily tempted to buy things. No idea why, but it was a pattern I noticed last year.

Not toiletrywise but I get the munchies really badly lol.

VALM

VALM wrote: »

So my new PP list :-

[STRIKE]Elemis Pro Collagen Marine Cleanser
TBS Seaweed Toner[/STRIKE]
Vaseline hand cream
TBS Cranberry Joy hand cream
LE Orange Flower hand wash
L'Occitane Verbena body scrub
[STRIKE]Molten Brown Ylang Ylang shower gel
Molten Brown Ylang Ylang body lotion[/STRIKE]
NSPA BB Cream
Elemis Neck and Bust Cream

The Molten Brown products have gone as well. There was only enough lotion in the bottle to apply to my arms so I made sure I finished the bottle of shower gel as well. Sad thing is that this only smelt nice when I applied it twice. Not very MSE. Would never choose to buy any of the Molten Brown shower gels for this reason.

Am thinking these may be my last UUs for this month although the tubes of both the Neck and Bust Cream and Vaseline hand cream have been cut open.

Sundaysgirl

Another UU:

19. Sanctuary Body Butter 300ml - WDBA, this is one of my HG lotions - smells lovely and absorbs well with no stickiness. Replaced with same.

£10 into the savings pot for this... this is starting to get expensive and is making me realise just how much cash I have tied up in my hoard, and how much I spend on toiletries I'm really not looking forward to my stash being depleted and having to go out and hand over all this cash to Mr B each month!

Clutterfree wrote: »

Serious question here, does anyone else find their willpower is lower the week before their TOM?
I find I am much more easily tempted to buy things. No idea why, but it was a pattern I noticed last year.

I can tend to feel quite low and emotional, which leads me to want to buy nice things in order to perk myself up. I'm getting better at curbing this, and have found that shopping my stash and selecting a few of the nicer things to use for a spot of pampering can work just as well. Or, I fill a basket online and then shut the browser without checking out!

dolly84

piratey - rabbits? hands? yes that is weird.

All my uu came early in the month and now everything is new/hanging on, I might get one more uu tomorrow though.

I haven't been tempted by anything for ages now, there are a couple of things I want to get and am hoping to use advantage points for those. I truly hope I am getting things under control.

savingsharon

Hmm, one more UU to report - but I did go shopping too!

Clarins Multi Active Day Cream 30ml - This was a GWP and is a lovely cream, WDBA (but as said before, am staying away from the Clarins sale as I have so much to use)

I was in the supermarket last night and picked up 4 Timotei shampoos and 1 conditioner. I know I don't need them but it is hard to find this particular one and as a bonus they were only £1 each!

At least my UU have equalled the INs so I don't feel too bad this month.

ruby_eskimo

KT2802 wrote: »

I have more INS but can't face recording them at the moment really must stop going to the shopping centre after work. I have spent so much money on make up this month - think I am going to challenge myself to buy no make up for the whole of February. Sad as it is this will be a real challenge for me, as I have said previously, make up is my problem (used to be clothes). I am inspired by people on here though as I know others used to have a similar problem with make up.

I think I might go through all my make up at the weekend and have a big sort out/remind myself what I have.

I used to have such a problem with buying makeup. For some reason I felt that I had to get at least one thing from every new Mac collection for at least a couple of years. Thankfully I managed to reign it in and have managed to not buy any unnecessary new makeup since December 2011. My stash is still huge and I am contemplating selling some of it as I'm probably not going to get round to using some of it for a very long time. BUT IT'S SO PRETTY!

Have a couple of UU to report:

Lush Jumping Juniper shampoo bar - WNBA, this actually made my hair oilier because it was stripping my scalp a little too much. Have moved on to their New shampoo bar which I prefer and once that's gone I'll have to actually go and buy shampoo!

Lush Sultana of Skin soap - WNBA, this came in a gift set at Christmas and I felt that it dried my skin out more than a shower gel would.

I think that takes me to about 10 UU for the month, might have another one tomorrow and so far no IN's! My £120 budget is still sitting there totally intact! Have worked out I won't need to buy any shower gel all year at the rate I'm going!