No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries - May

VALM

bev97 said:

Hello Can I join in too please?
I haven't sorted a PP list yet but have looked at my stash and overflowing drawers of all sorts and was shocked! Last week I bought a Garden of Wisdom multipeptide serum ( it hasn't arrived yet) and then I've just found an unopened one at the back of a drawer! 
I also have endless bath and shower gels and unopened........ I have over 4 Litres!!!!!  Not parting with any though!
I have lovely make up but haven't used it for months!
You have all inspired me to stop buying and start using up!

Welcome bev97. You may find it useful to make a list of your stockpiles to avoid buying duplicates. I find the PP List motivates me to keep using items regularly.  

VALM

asajj said

Hope everyone is keeping well. I think I'm starting to find lockdown and working from home full time difficult, had a difficult couple of days.

I think this last couple of weeks of lockdown has been hard on a lot of people. I felt it too last week and a few friends were feeling it too. My daughter had to submit her dissertation last week and my husband, who is furloughed, becomes stressed when she is so I had both of them to contend with while trying to work at home.  Work is disjointed because I’m in a paper based office usually. Have you found other things to do when not working? 

maddiemay

I am late this month, but here for the far foreseeable!
asajj I agree with Val, it seems that so many people are beginning to struggle with the situation, whether WFH or like me being confined to the house.  It doesn't help me that OH and I should be on our month long travels around Yorkshire, Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.  However, I have decided that for me the only thing to do is make a big effort to enjoy something in every day and not think any further forward than that.
I will be back later with PP list for May, virtual hugs for all that need one.

dolly84

VALM - I have Stila in the Light too, the palette I am using is one of 3 which they brought out, they are like little books and they were called Not So Nude, The Natural and Dare to Bare, I bought all 3 of them, one of them has since passed to DD, I am using Not So Nude.  I do still use the UD primer, I find it really good, they used to do a wand applicator then changed to a squeezy tube then back to an applicator, I apply it then do my eyebrows and concealer then just pat over it and it stays put all day.

I hope Emma did well with her dissertation, students have had a raw deal this year.

dolly84

I've seen a real shift where I live in the last week or so.  The roads haven't been quiet around here during any of this but they are now very busy, the streets, woodlands, fields etc have been busy with people the whole way through this, the butchers shop in our village was closed and just taking telephone orders but they opened this week, the car sales place nearby opened this week, one of our neighbours is a carpet fitter and he went back to work Monday.  DH is a key worker and spends a lot of time in hospitals, clinics, universities and gp's surgeries, at first when he went to hospitals etc they had people stopping him, all the staff had masks on etc, now when he goes they are just going about without all that going on and the hospitals are very, very quiet, hardly any patients and no visitors.  He played a part in setting up the nightingale hospital in Harrogate which never got used and all the oxygen from the tanks is now being vented off.  The company he works for thought they would be raking money in but they have lost money and will be making redundancies in a few months.  I'll keep my opinions of this virus to myself but I will say I am a practical person and I call a spade a spade which never goes down well and right from the beginning I said the cost of the reaction to this would be much, much greater and further reaching than the virus itself.

VALM

maddiemay said:

I am late this month, but here for the far foreseeable!
asajj I agree with Val, it seems that so many people are beginning to struggle with the situation, whether WFH or like me being confined to the house.  It doesn't help me that OH and I should be on our month long travels around Yorkshire, Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.  However, I have decided that for me the only thing to do is make a big effort to enjoy something in every day and not think any further forward than that.
I will be back later with PP list for May, virtual hugs for all that need one.

I know what you mean, we were meant to be in Lanzarote for a week in April and I felt so fed up cancelling my annual leave to sit at my desk at home working when my out of office should have been on.  When we have a planned break (no matter where it is to or what we do in our normal life) we get mentally prepared for the break.  I was really ready for a break but there's no point when you can't go anywhere.  But, despite all this, I still count myself lucky that no-one close to me has succumbed to Covid 19.

VALM

dolly84 said:

VALM - I have Stila in the Light too, the palette I am using is one of 3 which they brought out, they are like little books and they were called Not So Nude, The Natural and Dare to Bare, I bought all 3 of them, one of them has since passed to DD, I am using Not So Nude.  I do still use the UD primer, I find it really good, they used to do a wand applicator then changed to a squeezy tube then back to an applicator, I apply it then do my eyebrows and concealer then just pat over it and it stays put all day.

I hope Emma did well with her dissertation, students have had a raw deal this year.

Have googled that Stila pallette and it looks like one I have seen panned on YouTube.  Lovely colours.  Thanks for your kind words re: Emma.  I hope she has done well too, she's certainly worked hard enough. x

rdone

Are people still wearing make up when at home?  I can't bring myself to and am hoping that my skin will thank me for it in the long run.  I've also given up painting my nails - I'm using OPI nail envy nail strengthener on them to try and give them a bit of life back.

VALM

rdone said:

Are people still wearing make up when at home?  I can't bring myself to and am hoping that my skin will thank me for it in the long run.  I've also given up painting my nails - I'm using OPI nail envy nail strengthener on them to try and give them a bit of life back.

I have been wearing make up for "work" and still painting my nails.  Gives me a sense of normal routine. I dress every day as well. 

asajj

Hi everyone, yes I agree I think last week or so it has become more apparent where I live too, that people are struggling to cope.
My job is almost always too busy and working from home didn't change that. I struggle to separate work from other things. My usual life outside work involves socialising with friends, going out etc so this has been difficult. I never managed to have a hobby as I always struggle to keep focus. I love reading but I haven't managed much of it during the lockdown. Definitely exercising more now though - which is probably a bonus. I keep thinking I should dress up and put my make up on but I find it hard. I had a long weekend booked in Geneva and ended up cancelling and I also love travelling and not being able to plan for that is hard. Overall though, I know I'm lucky that I have a job that isn't immediately impacted, I'm healthy so do people I know and I try to keep the perspective. It is, however, ok to not feel well about this too. Hopefully, we will go through this as a nation.