What came in the mail today?

My beautyhabit.com order: CSP Vanille Peach (sugary smelling so far and I
don't detect the peach), Decleor gel cleanser and Decleor Iris night balm.
The free stuff: two containers of Decleor products, bigger than travel
sized (a milky cleanser and a toner), and two bags of various cool
samples. I love beautyhabit.com!
Smokey

My Amazon book order that included two Priddy picture books and Judith
Levine's "Not Buying It – My Year Without Shopping." I'm on page 62.
There's much more analysis of the shopping/spending need and economics
than I thought. I thought it would just be a chronicle of her year.
Even so, it is interesting. I still don't understand, though, how you
get two people to agree on what is a necessity for each of them! So
far there hasn't been a great description of that part of it. Some of
the back and forth between them but no real description of how it was
resolved to each's satisfaction. For example, they agreed that $7/lb
coffee was a necessity but Q–tips weren't. What?! I need Q–tips!
Who decided that?
Jamie

totally couldn't believe she didn't need qtips.. I would buy generic..
I would buy less expensive stuff. I would shop ebay and dollar stores
but to skip all that stuff? granted I don't NEED a lot of beauty
products –– sorry but hair products I do go through..
and face cleansers too.
but clothing.. that's iffy too. do you just spend the money to have
things altered? or wouldn't it be cheaper in some instances to donate
and then buy on sale/loehmans/sample sale/ebay
Stevie

Jamie, I agree with you. I heard about this book too and saw the author
on a talk show. It seems easier for a single person to live like this
than for a household shared by several members.

"Stevie" <stevie.wil...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Her point seems to be that there is no 'perfect' way to decide; that every
item will mean something different to each person and that each
person/couple can decide as arbitrarily as they desire. I guess my question
is then, what's the use? If you can buy some things then how do you limit
yourself on others? Not just groceries but even so.....do you say "We don't
buy any spice blends" but do you still keep a full rack of spices (to blend
yourself)? Or do you just say "We'll only use salt & pepper?" And hair
gel; she said she had to have hair gel but her husband couldn't have wine
(he's part Italian and really into it). But he did end up making his own.
I don't know. I'm as interested in the how–to of this as I am the subject.
It seems like it could be so *(#...@ detailed and could cause an argument
over each and every little item. I won't belabor it. I agree with Audrey;
I think it was easier with it just being the two of them.
Jamie

"Stevie" <stevie.wil...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1142990382.920919.63...@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
Her point seems to be that there is no 'perfect' way to decide; that
every item will mean something different to each person and that each
person/couple can decide as arbitrarily as they desire. I guess my
question is then, what's the use? If you can buy some things then how
do you limit yourself on others? Not just groceries but even
so.....do you say "We don't buy any spice blends" but do you still
keep a full rack of spices (to blend yourself)? Or do you just say
"We'll only use salt & pepper?" And hair gel; she said she had to
have hair gel but her husband couldn't have wine (he's part Italian
and really into it). But he did end up making his own. I don't know.
I'm as interested in the how–to of this as I am the subject. It seems
like it could be so *(#...@ detailed and could cause an argument over
each and every little item. I won't belabor it. I agree with Audrey;
I think it was easier with it just being the two of them.
Jamie