little white truths

I guess the good news is that I can still purchase things so I won't go too nuts while I'm waiting for the spending ban to lift, and indeed I know that I'll be running out of several things like body cream, concealer and tinted moisturiser soon enough.

So although I can buy some things in the months to come, I know that I can't buy any facial skincare. If I do, I'll risk having things go off on me before I have a chance to use them - so I've definitely got the incentive to stop the flow of new products coming in.

And as you may know, Maslow & Co recently closed operations and since that's primarily a skincare box, this means I'll no longer have six boxes arriving each year that contain bundles of skincare for me to try. Yes I'm sad that Maslow is gone, but I suppose it's come at a good time because it will cut off one of the reasons why my stores have become so full.

While there is talk of someone buying-out Maslow, I'm not sure when that will happen and I also don't know whether the buyer will run things as well as they've been run so far, so I'll hold off on resubscribing until I know more. 

I also have no plans to sign up to any of the other boxes that are currently on the Australian market, since I've done my time with sub boxes and Maslow was really the only one that I personally felt was worth it. So at least there'll be no skincare coming in from outside sources for the time being.

As for how long it will last, I realised yesterday that I haven't bought any skincare in December so that's almost one month already, and I'd like to add another five to that so I've done six months total. After that I'll reassess: it may be that I'll have run out of certain things by then and will need to lift the ban to make a few purchases.

In terms of 'rules', for the next six months I'll only buy facial skincare if I happen to run out of something essential (eg I can see myself running out of sunscreen during that time, which I'll obviously need to repurchase), and if I get offered any skincare to test - eg via the review crews I'm part of - then I'm allowed to say yes to that but I'm not allowed to spend eg gift vouchers on skincare because it's less about the money and more about the amount I already have to get through.

What I'll also do is update you at around this time every month, with a view to doing my final post at the end of May/beginning of June 2018. I'll do these posts to help with accountability and also to let you know how I'm going.

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