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No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries October 2021

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  • asajj
    asajj Posts: 5,125 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Rampant Recycler
    @VALM I tried the Inkey List once upon your recommendation and found it good and effective. WMBA.

    UU - Hydra-Activ Smart Nutrient Day Cream. Great texture and feel on the skin but not moisturizing enough. This was from a Beauty Box I think. WNBA.

    1 TA - NYX Strictly Vinyl Liner. Dried up so goes to makeup recycling.

    I ordered the Cult Beauty advent calendar. I haven't had one for 2 years and liked the look of this so decided to gift myself.
    ally.
  • Hi All

    Could I join you please?  I was here a few years ago under a different name, VALM, I certainly recognise your name. 

    I still have oodles of make up and toiletries to use and desperately need to save money so for each item I finish I will pop £1 in a pot, I did this before and it soon mounted up, particularly as I have a lot of travel size and mini items in my stash mainly from beauty boxes and Beauty Advent Calendars.

    I will try and get a stash list together but that may take a while!  In the meantime I will pick a few items to target and start there.

    Looking forward to de-stashing, pampering and money saving  :smiley:

    MvTMM
    Mortgage (Nov 20- NOV 39)  originally £130,999 (Interest only) NOW £104,774 (approx 78% equity)
    Over payments 2020 £750/£750 (Mortgage payments only start Dec 2020)
    Over payments 2021 £9,000 /£9,000  Over payments 2022 £7,629/£9,000 (£1,371 short of target)
    Over payments 2023 £2,620/£9,000 (£6,380 short of target)
    Over payments 2024 £5,406/£11,000
    Over payments 2025 £814/£5,600  (fix rate exp Dec 2025)
    Loan £13,338
    Total Savings £5376
    Premium Bonds - £838
    YBS Xmas Regular Saver - £450

  • Hi All

    Could I join you please?  I was here a few years ago under a different name, VALM, I certainly recognise your name. 

    I still have oodles of make up and toiletries to use and desperately need to save money so for each item I finish I will pop £1 in a pot, I did this before and it soon mounted up, particularly as I have a lot of travel size and mini items in my stash mainly from beauty boxes and Beauty Advent Calendars.

    I will try and get a stash list together but that may take a while!  In the meantime I will pick a few items to target and start there.

    Looking forward to de-stashing, pampering and money saving  :smiley:

    MvTMM
    Welcome aboard! 
    Not buying unnecessary toiletries 2024 26/53 UU, 25 IN
  • dolly84
    dolly84 Posts: 5,851 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    uu

    Clearsil Bar Soap - I actually quite liked this, very lathery and had a nice scent.
    Debt Free and now a saver, conscious consumer, low waste lifestyler


    Fashion on the Ration 28/66
  • Hi everyone I used to post a few years ago but I fell off the beauty wagon so to speak and collected a lot more products. I’ve got products everywhere in house and am aiming to just have products in bathroom and one draw in bedroom. Please could I rejoin on here? I need to thoroughly sort out my stuff and will do a proper list. 
    £2 savers club 2025 #2= £48
  • Hi everyone I used to post a few years ago but I fell off the beauty wagon so to speak and collected a lot more products. I’ve got products everywhere in house and am aiming to just have products in bathroom and one draw in bedroom. Please could I rejoin on here? I need to thoroughly sort out my stuff and will do a proper list. 
    The more the merrier!
    Not buying unnecessary toiletries 2024 26/53 UU, 25 IN
  • Hi

    Do you mind if I rejoin - over the last few months I have bought a load more toiletries so need to get reducing it down again. I need to finish going through what I have and then I will share lists of what I have and what I plan to clear out.

    B x
  • Hi All

    I still haven't had time to make a list but I have sorted through more of my stash and targeted some items to use up, mini size products that have been loitering in my washbag.  I have placed these items in a basket in the bathroom as a prompt, I'm loving the focus already as it is making me establish a proper night-time skin regime, something which has slipped lately.  I've earmarked my tin for all of the £1s from each item used and hope to leave it until it is full!  I should be making my first deposits this weekend  :)

    MvTMM
    Mortgage (Nov 20- NOV 39)  originally £130,999 (Interest only) NOW £104,774 (approx 78% equity)
    Over payments 2020 £750/£750 (Mortgage payments only start Dec 2020)
    Over payments 2021 £9,000 /£9,000  Over payments 2022 £7,629/£9,000 (£1,371 short of target)
    Over payments 2023 £2,620/£9,000 (£6,380 short of target)
    Over payments 2024 £5,406/£11,000
    Over payments 2025 £814/£5,600  (fix rate exp Dec 2025)
    Loan £13,338
    Total Savings £5376
    Premium Bonds - £838
    YBS Xmas Regular Saver - £450

  • dolly84
    dolly84 Posts: 5,851 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Welcome to all the newbies and returners.

    I have a uu

    Blushberry Botanicals Natural Cream Deodorant in Peppermint & Tea Tree - this is the second one of these I've finished, I find them effective, this one smelt of buttermints.
    Debt Free and now a saver, conscious consumer, low waste lifestyler


    Fashion on the Ration 28/66
  • VALM
    VALM Posts: 5,954 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Welcome all the returning forumites.  Good to see people returning to the fold, as it were.  Ha Ha. 

    2 more UU : Lacura Glycholic pads.  Love these.  Think I have one more pot in my stash.

    Bath & Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar hand wash.  I'm wondering whether this was old stock.  I couldn't detect much fragrance when this was first opened however I had Covid at the time and couldn't smell but once that sense returned I still couldn't smell this.  I have rotated the hand soap from the kitchen back to the bathroom and replaced the kitchen one with B&BW Kitchen Lemon. 


    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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