No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries January 2022

pinkfluffybabe

Here we go again for another month. As usual, this initial post has been shamelessly copied from the many previous months. A big thank you to pinkfluffybabe for starting us off last month. 

Welcome all newbies and regulars to this very friendly and chatty thread where we give lots of lovely tips on how to use up your stash and lots of support and encouragement if you need them.

Keep up the pampering and keep down the spending: let's make the naughty step an empty and lonely place this month (rather than one so long that it can be seen from space)! Will this be the month when the "usual suspects" rein it in a bit? Let's see..... (but I doubt it!) 

Remember - those products do nothing for you while they are stashed in drawers, boxes, and cupboards! 

We are eternally grateful to Katie Clampet who set up this fab challenge in January 2010. Here's her original challenge post:

"No buying any new toiletries, cosmetics, perfume etc... until I have used up ALL the ones I already have. I got a huge amount of (really nice) stuff for Christmas but I am going to resist the urge to browse Boots, Asda, Superdrug etc, and pop another tub of cream, face scrub, shampoo or conditioner into my basket. I reckon the stuff I have will last me until possibly June. I have decided that the money I save I will put into my special holiday account. Anyone else?"

Lots of us have taken part in the challenge over the past few months (and some of us even years!!) and are making great progress in reducing our stashes and unnecessary/excessive spending.

Regulars can ignore this, but a quick resume is always helpful for newbies:

Why not add the challenge to your signature as a reminder?

How about taking a bit of time to do a stock-take and see if there are any gaps in your stash that you might need to spend on this month? Some of us set a budget for the month for essential purchases or to help with withdrawal symptoms, others like to go cold-turkey!! Other ideas which some people find useful: Listing everything out so you can cross things off as used to increase the sense of achievement, and putting a sum of money in a pot each time you use up an item to save for something you really want, or simply to assist in making future essential purchases "cash neutral".

Remember the challenge is about making the most of your money, enjoying your products, finding which products really suit you best and are worth buying, giving yourself a well-deserved pampering and breaking the habit of buying for the sake of buying. In money-saving tradition, it should also be about making your products l-a-s-t as long as possible (although the temptation of using an unloved shower gel extravagantly to finish it off is sometimes too much to bear!).

Brand new products (or opened perfume) sell well on eBay.

Unsuitable products can be repurposed and used for other jobs (shower gel/shampoo as handwash etc).

Some items can be returned to certain stores for exchange (for essential items or gifts!!) without a receipt.

Unwanted items can be recycled as gifts or for gift hampers (saving the money you'd have spent on gifts).

Unsuitable items can be donated to charity or a local women's refuge as mentioned earlier

Also, why not reward your efforts by banking and recycling your use ups/throw aways with Boots scan2recycle points at participating Boots stores: Recycle at Boots - Get rewarded for recycling - Boots 

Alternatively, simply drop them off at Maybelline Recycling points: www.maybelline.co.uk . Unfortunately, you won't be rewarded for the latter but the earth will thank you :-)

It helps to avoid the places where temptation lurks for you; be it QVC, Boots, Body Shop, email newsletter, the supermarket toiletries aisles, Grabbit board, online toiletries browsing, seductive department store beauty counter offers etc. Remember retailers are making offers and promotions all the time, so there will always be another deal! Honest! 

Good luck all for this month and indeed the coming months, and remember to keep your stash lists updated, keep popping in for inspiration and support and to report your UU's and IN's, especially any sales bargains - we want a nosy! 

Welcome to all newbies - the more the merrier. Please introduce yourselves so we can welcome you properly! Do de-lurk if you are lurking, this is one of the friendliest threads on MSE.

Oh - and anyone thinking "OMG my stash is FAR bigger than all of theirs, I cant possibly join" - believe you me, we have been doing this challenge for well over a year some of us - you wont scare us, and I can almost guarantee that someone somewhere will have had more and survived.... we are very supportive (and protective - so don't be scared!!) oh - and did we mention that are nosy??!!

Useful abbreviations and jargon!

WBA - Will Buy Again

UU - Use Ups

IN - Self explanatory - stuff you've gained into your stash - warning: lines may be given out for unnecessary purchases or you may be sent to the naughty step!

NBI - A non-bought item such as a present, gift with purchase or free sample

WNBA - Will Not Buy Again!

Glitch - when a shop/online store make a pricing mistake so you end up paying less or even get freebies! 

PYN(M/T/W/Th/F/Sa/Su) DELETE AS APPROPRIATE! - Paint Your Nails Monday/Tuesday...... it allows everyone to try and finish those dastardly nail varnishes with group support! You can never be too groomed for this thread. Also see PY(T)N... - for toenails!

Splutterer - the stage where an item is nearing the end of it's life and spluttering - also the most annoying and seemingly never ending stage!

GWP - Gift With Purchase - a sample or mini sized item

HG - Holy Grail - this is the product you would go back for time and time again, it does the job brilliantly, and is either economical, or so fantastic price becomes no object!

NPI - Near Purchasing Incident (OMG we all have those!)

LHJ- Long Haul Job - for those products - love 'em or hate 'em - that never seem to end no matter how often you use them
PRCP - Pink Rose Candle Philosophy inspired by Erma Bombeck who said: 'If I had my life to live over again I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose that melted in storage'. Don't keep things 'for best' or 'for a special occasion'. That day never arrives. Give the best to yourself now and enjoy it. (Thanks to McCulloch29 for introducing this thought provoking sentiment to us)

GA - for an out that was given away to charity, as a present, or "just because" rather than binned or UU

TA - for an out that was thrown away due to going off (generally as it has been lurking at the back of a stash since time immemorial) or for any other reason such as a broken container or spillage

PP - Project Pan: a list of specific items targeted to be used up

If anyone can think of any more we can add to the list so newbies won't be intimidated by our jargon!

pinkfluffybabe

In again for 2022, starting with a stash of 65 items this year (much better than previous years!).

Project Pan list for January 2022:

Burts Bees Lip Balm
Midnight Recovery Concentrate
The Ordinary Niacinimide and Zinc
Drunk Elephant Protini
Aveda Nutriplenish Shampoo
Aveda Nutriplenish Conditioner
Weleda Skin Food
Ren Evercalm Cleanser

List of 6 items to finish by Spring:

Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream
Espa Lip Balm
Drunk Elephant Babyfacial
Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Oil
L'occitane Shea Butter Handcream
The Inkey List PHA Toner

dolly84

Thanks pfb for the new thread.

Makeup I want to finish in 2022

1. Soap & Glory nude pink eyeshadow from a quad

2. Soap & Glory dark brown eyeshadow from a quad

3. The Balm Down Boy Blush

4. Brillo lipgloss in a pale coral colour - keep this in the car to use

5. Smashbox Full Exposure Mascara mini

6. Model Co Cream Blush

7. Bare Minerals Plum Eyeliner

8. Benefit Creaseless Cream Eyeshadow in rsvp

9. Max Factor Fusion Mascara

10. MAC Foundation

11. Max Factor Facefinity Foundation

12. Wet n Wild Foundation

13. Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation

14. Matte brown eyeshadow single (any of the ones I have taken from a palette and put into my magnetic palette.

15. Lipstick Queen Thrilller Lip Crayon

16. Revlon lip crayon in Honey

17. Bobbi Brown concealer

18. Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Will not need to buy in 2022

Shower gel of the liquid variety
Nail polish
Hair serum/oil
Makeup  (except possibly foundation and mascara)
Perfume

May need to buy in 2022

Shampoo bar

Cleanser

Facial Oil /Moisturiser
Curl cream
Deodorant 

Hand cream

Foot Cream

Hair Conditioner bar/refillable bottle of conditioner

Soap

Solid shower gel bar (at the end of the year when I've used all my stash of shower gels)

no PP list this month, I will just post my uu's as they come.  At the end of 2022 every area of my stash apart from perfume and eyeshadow should be under control, it has taken years and because I had one period of insane buying I took away the pleasure of choosing a lipstick, an eyeshadow or a perfume buying it and then using it straightaway, I had so much already and just had to stop buying.

VALM

Hi everybody. Thanks for the new thread pinkfluffybabe. 

I listed some some items I want to finish in 2022 as part of my own Finish 22 items in 2022 however I’ve updated this list and now have 22 items:-

Finish 22 in 2022
 
 Jack Wills body spray
Liz Earle NO9 Botanical Essence 
Paco Rabanne OLYMPEA 
Hotel Collection 28 Citrus Blossom
Shay & Blue 
Hourglass Luminous Glow 
Hourglass euphoric fusion 
Nyx Wanderlust 
Benefit Dandelion 
Bare Minerals Golden Gate
Colourpop beauty and the beast 
Morphe On Camera 
Mac Riff Raff
Smashbox eyeshadow 
Bare Minerals Naked Beach
Bare Minerals Heartbreaker 
Bare Minerals Everything 
Bare Minerals Forbidden 
Bare Minerals Rebel
Bare Minerals Boss
Bare Minerals Warmth loose
Bare Minerals Free highlighter 

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dolly84

dolly84 said:

no PP list this month, I will just post my uu's as they come.  At the end of 2022 every area of my stash apart from perfume and eyeshadow should be under control, it has taken years and because I had one period of insane buying I took away the pleasure of choosing a lipstick, an eyeshadow or a perfume buying it and then using it straightaway, I had so much already and just had to stop buying.

I lied, my lipstick and lipbalm stash is probably my worst area, I think I must have been blocking it out of my mind.

VALM

My PP list this month:-

Skinsense Neck and Décolleté cream
Skinsense Leave on Overnight mask
Skinsense Eye Concentrate
Essie scrub
Rituals handcream
Emma Hardie Cleansing balm
Revolution Niacinamide cleanser 
Skinsense facial oil
The Yorkshire Soap Company Happy Hebden bar soap
Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish

asajj

Happy new year all! I'm hoping to make good progress on my stash this month/year!

I like the idea of Dolly84's list so here is mine.

Will not need to buy in 2022

Nail polish
Hair serum/oil
Face masks
Makeup  (unless run out)
Perfume
Hand/body creams

May need to buy in 2022

Cleanser

Facial Oil /Moisturiser

Foot Cream

Hair Conditioner 

Hand and Body Soap


I like Valm's idea of using 22 in 2022 so I will come up with a list!

VALM

Happy New Year everyone xx Looking forward to seeing your list asajj. 

2 UUs from my list. I knew they were gimme items but felt I needed some early motivation:-
Emma Hardie Cleansing Balm
Skinsense Facial Oil

The Cleansing Balm was in my M&S advent calendar. I was so impressed by the contents of this calendar.  I did give away a few items but kept everything else to try. I gave Emma the Alpha H Liquid Gold. She had the calendar also and got a good result with this product on first application. I use daily glycolic pads and don’t want to try a strong per exfoliator at the moment. I gave the Eyeko mascara to a friend at work as part of her Christmas gift as there’s no point in me trying any other mascara as the wands are nearly always too bulky. I gave This Works stress rollerball to MRM.

Anyway, I digress.  Returning to the balm, this was lovely however I love TBS Chamomile Cleansing Butter so would not purchase the EH balm. Did buy 4 x TBS on Black Friday at 20% off.

i also love the Skinsense facial oil. I bought one from a Facebook Seller recently however do have a serum from Avant open at the moment and have plenty of serums in my stash. 

shed35

Happy New Year!!!

My first update of 2022.  

UU
Molton Brown Soap
Weleda Almond Facial Oil
Superdrug E Hydrating Face Mask
Dove Essential Body Lotion
Clean and Clear Exfoliating Facial Wash
Balmond Skin Balm

IN
All Purpose Skin Balm  x 6
Anew Vitamin C Serum
Anew Vitamin C Skin Exfoilant

NBI
Saponi Citrus Bath Foam
Saponi Citrus  Body Cream
Ghost Perfume
Bath Fizz Trio
Body Shop Satsuma Shower Gel x 2
Body Shop Satsuma Soap
Body Shop Satsuma Hand Lotion
Body Shop Satsuma Hand Sanitiser
Body Shop Satsuma Body Mist
Triple Butter Body Soap Sponge

Lots of Christmas pressie . Very Happy !!!

Total  123

VALM

UU 8ml pot of L’Occitane Immortelle Precious Cream. From the M&S advent calendar. This was lovely. Am going to try the Prai night cream next.

perfect10

VALM said:

UU 8ml pot of L’Occitane Immortelle Precious Cream. From the M&S advent calendar. This was lovely. Am going to try the Prai night cream next.

I am using the Alpha H rose liquid gold from the M&S calendar at the moment and really like this, not tried the others yet.