I’m trying to catch up, really I am. Not too many for the end of last year but I did manage to finish a few of my use it or lose it products. I’ll do a proper purge in another post but here’s my empties for the tail end of 2016. 

I was flat out for the 3 months from August to November which ran me right into the ground so the day after the kids school term finished in September I basically collapsed with a flu/virus thing. In that whole time I know my skincare routine took a beating so I’m surprised that I managed to use as many products as I did.

A few more Use It Or Lose It products gone which I’m quite happy about. Here’s what I finished up in July...

A bit of hair, a bit of skin - quite Garnier heavy for June. Here's my most recent empties and what I thought of them...

 

A bit of a boring empties for last month – just a few regulars and not much else.

Nice quiet month in empties for March. I concentrated on finishing the many mostly empty deodorant cans I had taking up room in my bathroom cabinet and crossed a couple of things off my 'Use It Or Lose It' list.

Feb is a bad bill month for me and as luck would have it I ran out of a lot of my staples (plus I still haven’t replaced my night cream) so I dug into my samples box to get me through making it a big one for empties last month which I've divided into hair and body, skin care and makeup.

The end of the year is usually fairly productive for me when it comes to finishing products. Here’s my round-up of empties for the last quarter of 2016 and a little of what I thought of them...

October

This is late...story of my life. Empties for the third quarter of this year are:

July

I finally have my lappy back up and running. Lots to do and write about. Better get a move on...

April

Super busy start the year and not a whole lot o' slap going on but I'm still slowly going through products.

January

3 years ago my bathroom cupboards were overflowing with bottles of things I had bought to try or because they were on special yet had never really bothered to use. So to stop the wastage and make myself accountable I started a Project Pan to make sure I used them all up. In the process I discovered that I had been buying the same things over and over that I didn't really like because I hadn't noticed that it had simply been repackaged or because I forgot why I didn't like it the first time around.

My project pan quickly evolved into a log of my monthly empties, complete with short notes of what I thought of the product to remind myself whether it was worth repurchasing and more importantly when NOT to buy it again.

In 2014 I managed to finished 126 beauty items from 4 categories: skincare for the face, skincare for the body, haircare and makeup, with these 31 being from the last quarter of the year.

October