Trash Talk

Time to get rid of some trash again.  This month I had plenty. 



My beloved O2 Gold from Advocare ($31.16), again not sure if this is a placebo but since taking it I swear I can breathe better.  I take Vitamin C every day.  I just bought this one at Target and recently bought a new bottle at Wal-Mart for about $5.  I've read that it taking 2,000 mg daily is a good anti-aging routine.  That's 3 times the normal dose than I normally take so I will probably dig a little deeper.  But I'm all about anti-aging.  I take some B12 daily for energy and a slew of other benefits.  I really like the chewable cherry flavored tablets from Wal-Mart and they are only about $3.50.  I finished a bottle of the Equate brand Ibuprofen PM ($4).  I always get the Equate Ibruprofen and the PM from Wal-Mart.  It's SO much cheaper than name brand and just as good.  I keep a bottle of both in my nightstand.  I have learned if I feel a headache coming on in the middle of the night the last thing I want to do is get out of bed to hunt down pills.  Unless it's a bad one. Then only the RX will do.  My last bottle is Catalyst ($25.20) which is an amino acid supplement.  

Total:  $68.86

Purex Crystals in Lavendar...a must.  About $4.00 at Target. 

Hair products...Suave dry shampoo...I love this stuff!  It's getting tougher to find for some reason.  I couldn't find it at Target and grabbed the last bottle at Wal-Mart.  It's $3 and smells great.  I bought this Aveda Smooth Infusion from Nordstrom online over a year ago for about $30.  It's pricey but I liked it a lot and it lasted a very long time.  I used less than a dime sized amount at a time and I think it really helped smooth my hair.  I used it on my damp hair and let it air dry.  I would probably actually buy it again.  I had two shampoo samples.  Wella shampoo which is my favorite!  It smells SO good.  A huge bottle goes for about $15 on Amazon...which after looking at that I kind of want to buy it.  So I'm going to call this bottle about $1. The Clear shampoo is pretty good too and also smells really good.  This bottle is closer to about 75 cents.

Total:  $34.75

Body products...the Coconut Frosting shower gel from Philosophy was a Christmas gift.  It smelled pretty awesome.  It also can double as bubble bath and shampoo but I only used it as shower gel.  I was told it was purchased on sale for $10.  I used 3 of my Mango Temptation lotions up.  ($5 each) I despise their new packaging.  They basically kept the body butter in not as good of a formula scent wise, kept the thickness, and put it in a squeeze tube versus a tub.  So it is very difficult to get the product out.  So what I've done is kept one of my old tubs and started to just cut open the tube and put all the lotion in the tub so I don't have to fight with squeezing the lotion from the tube and giving myself hand cramps and threatening to never buy from VS again which is an obvious lie.  The Olay shower gel was in a Pinch Me sample box (I think this would be about $1.50 if I'm estimating low).  It was decent.  I typically don't buy the full size due to price.

Total:  $26.50

I finally finished up this Loreal Color Riche Balm in Pink Satin which goes for about $6.99.  It's pretty moisturizing for about 3 minutes.  There really is no color to it.  Finished the small bottle of the Smashbox Primer Water which goes for $16.99.  Using the full size bottle now because I'm pretty addicted to this stuff!  I like using it before and after I do my makeup.  Finished 2 bottles of eye make-up remover which was the Clinique Take the Day Off ($9) and the Estee Lauder remover ($9).  I like both of these but unless it just doesn't work I'm not too picky on removers.  Now I'm on to a drugstore remover which works just as good and is much cheaper but I had these samples from orders. I decided to stop hoarding all my samples of toothpaste and used the Tom's toothpaste ($1?) which was really minty and nice.  Also finished the Pond's cream ($2.03) which I pretty much used on my neck.  It lasted a long time.  It was decent, didn't love it. 

Total:  $45.01

I'm including the empty Hy-Vee cotton ball bag because these were terrible.  The "regular size" were like miniature marshmallow size.  Would not repurchase these.  I think I paid maybe $1.50 for them. 

Trash total 03/14/16:   $180.62

Trash total   2/7/16:        $311.07

Trash total:  2/17/16:    $251.02

Grand total year to date: $742.71

Doing this has inspired me to finish up a lot in my pantry too.  I've recently finished up a lot of products that have sat there for too long.  I've been drinking a lot of hot tea that says "Kroger" on the label.  We don't even have a Kroger here so that is at least 8 years old.  I'm not going to Google how long tea lasts and just hope it doesn't expire.  It tastes good and I'm not puking...so, so far so good!