Still continuing with this challenge to spend just £100 in a year on beauty products, I now have just two months left to go. I had a good month this month, with relatively little expenditure, just essentials. The stash is gradually diminishing, which I'm loving.
I was just over the target expenditure last month and this month I am almost within target as I underspent on the average of £8.30 per month by only spending £7.02, bringing my total for the year so far to £83.56/£100. So, I have £8.22 to spend for each of the remaining two months.
I managed to come under budget by continuing to use up travel sized and hotel freebie shampoos and I am now in the process of using up the conditioners, shower gels and soaps too, just to get rid of them and generally have less stuff cluttering up the house. I must admit that some of the shampoos haven't been the best, so my hair has probably been a bit of a mess this month, but at least they haven't been wasted and have been put to good use. I made sure I used a decent conditioner, even if travel sized, which has helped.
Expenditure this month has been on the following:
Hairspray - £1
Toothpaste x 5 - £3.39 - I stocked up on a recent Approved Food order, so this should see me through the rest of this challenge.
Distilled Witch Hazel - £1.93 - My regular toner needed restocking this month.
Deodorant - 70p - I ran out of this whilst away over the Easter weekend so had to buy some more despite having some in my stash in London.
Total = £7.02.
I'm going to try to have one last push to underspend next month, so that I can treat myself in the final month of this challenge. The better I do, the bigger the budget for the treat. Fingers crossed.
You are doing really well with all your challenges including this one.I know what you mean about having less stuff cluttering the place up.Before we moved here in 2010 I stocked up on what I thought was about a year's worth of toiletries etc , I obviously don't use as much as I thought as almost 4 years later there are still quite a few items left in my stash.It did highlight to me things I had bought then not used at all so that was good and some cheap shampoos have been used up bathing Jake as I didn't get on with them. Now I am just working on minimising what I use instead, like having a shampoo/conditioner combined and one bottle of shower gel for everyone to use instead of different ones for me and Ian. :)
ReplyDeleteI must admit that I tend to try to minimise by us all using the same shampoo/conditioner and shower gel. Less bottles around the bath and less chance of some languishing unused.
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