A depressing realisation

Jacks_xxx

Alexnikov wrote: »

I've just bought December's edition of Glamour (seduced by the free Kinder Bueno and clutch bag that came with it) and there are about 6 free samples stuck to the adverts in there Only £2 as well, bargain!

Ooh you're such a temptress!

I haven't read a glossy mag for a-a-a-a-ages - but now I really want to.

Oh well..if i'm a really good girl and get all my eBay listing done today maybe I'll treat myself.

My daughter can have the Bueno which will make her happy,(I'm a dark choc girl) and I'll take the magazine to the surgery when I go next week so it'll get lots of use.

See. Now I feel positively virtuous about it!

Cheers honey,

I LOVE trying out free samples! :j

Love Jacks xxx

Madcatgirl

I love this thread! I think I'm a reformed addict now, but when I think of what I spent in years gone by especially when i was working in low paid jobs and or a student it makes me shudder. My cosmetics budget now comes in at about £30 a month, but that includes haircuts, so I think it's reasonable!

I have very sensitive skin so I don't buy the cheapest of the cheap, but mid priced, and I know what products I like, so stock up when they're on offer. I've not bought any make up apart from foundation and concealer for two years, as I buy No 7, and there's always an offer for a goody bad of mini products - these last long enough until the next offer! A few weeks ago Tescos had my favourite conditioner (timotei, so not too expensive) reduced to a pound each. I bought 12 of them, so should last me a while!

My one lluxury is clinique total turnaround cream - my skin can't function in the cold winter without it. I buy one pot a year from strawberrynet and only use it when I'm going to be out for a while in the cold. I also but on chepaer mosituriser before, so I need to use less. One pot usually lasts me through the winter.

I don't take baths, so use bath cream as shower gel - I think it's the same thing!

Jacks_xxx

:wave: A quick update from me on this front...

Since we're so-o-o-o-o close to becoming debt free (only £28000 to go! :rolleyes: ) I find I just don't want to buy anything... I don't know how long this feeling's going to last though!

I'm getting along pretty well with my touche eclat substitutes and we're not going to run out of any of the basics any time soon so we're ok.

If anyone asks me what my kids and hubby want for Crimbo I claim that they've been begging for shower gels and body sprays and hair products so hopefully they'll get loads!

:rotfl: I'm a mean Mummy! :rotfl:

I've had another look at my stash and turned out two palettes - one that I haven't used yet cos it's too pretty and one that I've tried to make use of but it's not one of my "Go to" palettes so it's never going to get used up probably.

I thought I'd start them at 99p on eBay and see if anybody wanted them. (I've just taken some pics on my battered old kitchen table now- I had to move the cat and a massive bubble wrap roll among other things!)

I'm running a Beauty Top ten Competition in my eBay shop as well, which is turning out to be quite fun, all my buyers are posting their Beauty Top Tens in my blog and being a nosey person I find it all very interesting!

You can easily spot the QVC girls - like me!

I'd love it if you girlies would post yours as well, but I don't think I can post the link.

I think I can probably give it to you if you PM me though... although "ebay blog Beauty Top Ten" would probably get you there.

Is that naughty?!

Love Jacks xxx

red74

Well I may have just lost the plot entirely on the beauty front - having just shelled out £160 for a cut and colour:eek: (boyfriend doesn't realise he's not getting a xmas pressie this year:rotfl: ). Have to say that it is a very very good cut and colour, and a very different experience to my usual hairdressers. I plan to recoup the extra money I spent - very slowly - by following the hairdressers tip of using diluted fabric conditioner as a leave in conditioner and de-tangler. Sorry Mr Worthington, it's lenor from now on!

pippo

Managed to finish both a shower gel and a T&G conditioner toady so I can get another 2 out of the cupboard!!
Found a couple of No7 skincare products unopened so I guess i can ebay them!
I have loads of sample sachets of shampoos etc do you think that these will sell? Very handy for weekends away!!

MissD

I do this too! I think it's a girl thing.

what i try to do now is to use up what i do have rather than buy more toiletries and I also buy spares esp 3 for 2's on say toothpaste etc... then I always have a spare toothpaste and don't need to worry about them. I also prefer to shop in Boots for their points even though Superdrug are cheaper.

Cellulite creams, well I really don't bother here as I think they're a waste of money, but if you wanted to do it you could try a massager/body brush plus maybe an essential oil blend (you can make this yourself. google recipes). You can also make a lot of aromatherapy recipes like salt scrubs, my neighbour used to do this when she ran an aromatherapy company, again, internet search for that).

Also what I used to do *if* i wanted to treat myself was to maybe in Boots buy just 1 luxury item, and the rest as necessities. Also it helps if you don't go to Boots or not pass by every day you don't spend the money there, I used to spend £30 per month on rubbish toiletries now it's maybe £5 to £10 if that. I also buy luxury Austrlaian Organics shower and scrub gels from Waitrose, then I am getting my luxury fix but not buying the whole shop.

You can also sell new unused (maybe some used??) beauty items on Ebay. have you thought of that? including perfumes.

Good luck and don't beat yourself up over it.

Miss D

Jacks_xxx

pippo wrote: »

Managed to finish both a shower gel and a T&G conditioner toady so I can get another 2 out of the cupboard!!
Found a couple of No7 skincare products unopened so I guess i can ebay them!
I have loads of sample sachets of shampoos etc do you think that these will sell? Very handy for weekends away!!

I bet they would all sell honeybun.

There's almost nothing left in my unopened stash any more as it's all been sold on eBay. :eek:

I've sold or selling all the bits and pieces I was keeping as a pressie stash as well.

There's a definite space on the bathroom shelf where things have been used up and not replaced, and I am definitely missing some of my old favourites.

I've still got far too many face masks though!

There's the one I bought from QVC that has iron filings in it that you remove with a magnet. (Fun the first time but a bit of a faff after that!)

The one that the beauty therapist sold me when actually it's the beauty therapist spending an hour tending to my my skin that provided the result not this bog standard mask.

And the AHA one which has a fab result but makes me all pink in the process so I never seem to use it.

I could do an at home facial tonight I s'pose. Might be quite nice!

I've had to buy shower gel again cos we're down to the last half inch. (What do we do bath in it??? )

Love Jacks xxx

setmefree2

Hi guys,

I've accomplished my use-it-up challenge :jand now only have a sane amount of smellies in my bathroom . I am left with - a tub of expensive bath salts - expensive they might be but they are bath salts non-the-less...just can't get round to using these up:p

If it's any comfort to you all I'm nearly 46 and must have spent a small fortune on make up in my life _pale_and I don't regret any of it (hee hee hee). Whilst I don't look amazing my skins not too lined....I still recognise myself:D Jeeze - make up is fun. I'm glad I used tons of it while I was young enough to wear it...soon I'm gonna look like Barbara Cartland (on Acid).....

All the best:xmassign:

Jacks_xxx

:wave: Hello lovelies!

I thought I'd resurrect this thread cos I'm all proud of myself :dance: :dance: :dance: and this is probably the only place anybody will understand!

I'd kind of got to the point where I'd run out of everything!

(OK not lipstick and lip gloss - I'll never run out of those!):o

But I was feeling a bit deprived, so I decided to have a beauty splurge to replace all of my old favourites and have some treats, cos I'm a girly, and girly things make me happy!

Anyway, this is what I bought. (Guess what it all cost?)

*Airbrush Legs so that I can get mine out even when I haven't had time to faff with the fake tan,
* a No7 under eye concealer pen - a daily essential for those of us with two jobs,
*Pout tinted moisturiser, (not a brand I usually use, but it was cheap!)
*Refine & Rewind,(been dying to try this for ages,)
*Brenda Christian face powder - a daily essential and I'm down to the metal on my last one.
*Clinique lipgloss, (not quite sure how I came to acquire this but it sure is pretty!
*Two Revlon eyeshadow palettes,(I didn't strictly need these I guess, but I haven't bought eye shadow in about two years so it's probably about time I had some new ones.)
*Some No7 gwp goodies, (for my handbag / overnight bag)
*dry body oil, a highlighter stick, and a new make up bag! (treats!)
(And my daughter got a Too Faced lip eye and cheek palette plus a purple mascara!)
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All for £40.73, and paid for by selling [STRIKE]old toot [/STRIKE]lovely old things on eBay.

I'm pretty happy with that haul, it'll keep me going for another two years now probably!

Love Jacks xxx

poorandindenial

I hadn't seen this thread before but I so should have done. I have toiletries overload too and decided about a year ago that enough was enough.

I still have a very long way until I have used up even half of my stash. I am even at the point where I am annoyed that I get toiletries for xmas and birthday as it means I won't have the joy of buying any for even longer (also they are never what I would have chosen but that is just my own ungrateful issue).

It has been over 18 months since I purchased any kind of shower gel, wash or moisturiser for any part of my body. I also have over 80 nail varnishes and goodness knows how much in the way of lippy and eyeshadow and other colourful bits (I estimate that I have in excess of £1500 of makeup sitting in containers).

I love hearing that everyone else is as crazy as me. My heaps are heading in the right direction but would head there faster if people didn't buy me more gunk!!! One day I will have only what I NEED.

Great Boots haul Jacks - you did well for just over £40.