I went through my stash and I had to throw away a large percent of my cream eye shadows because they dried out. I am so mad because I didn’t get to test or use them I just stored them as if they were going to live forever. This has made me cut back on cream purchases. If I don’t think I can use them up quickly enough I will not be purchasing a large supply.
this is one of my issues, I went through my cream blushes at the weekend and throw away several, I am now trying to use up the rest and I think I will only repurchase one to keep in my stash when all the others are gone.
I have the same worries about my cream eyeshadows, I am purging my maybelline colour tattoos as I just don't use them enough, I am concentrating on using up my Bare Escentuals tubes, although I think creams keep better in tubes than jars. I also am concentrating on using up my LM cavier sticks.
Again I think I will just repurchase/keep one or 2 key shades once I have finished using up, simply because of shelf life issues, powders keep longer than creams but even powders don't last forever.
I can't wait to get my collection down to a useable size, I am now really enjoying purging and working out what works for me.
I worked on my clothes this weekend, I sorted out a large bag for the charity shops and listed some pieces on ebay.
Going to do some more this weekend too. I am also working on wearing up some of my knitwear as its beginning to look past its best, I figured it was better to wear it up now and throw it away at the end of the winter and buy some new pieces next year rather than store it through the summer.
Like others have mentioned, I am feeling lighter and more positive. I can see my bedroom floor again, my vanity has space to do my make up and hair, I can reach my make up and open my wardrobe again to choose clothes! I am also openly questioning my wishlist and not just buying to make myself feel better.
With the profits from my sales I am tempted to purchase a handbag....just debating the pros and cons first rather than rushing in there!
Next stop is to revist all my eyeshadows again!
I still don't appear to be reaching for my MAC shadows so I am going to down size to the 15 pan palette and see if I use that, I suspect I really don't love the majority of the shadows in my 30 pan palette, so I am going to look at the wear levels and keep those that obviously have been used and loved. Store the rest and see if I miss them. I think that maybe my naked palettes have displace the mac shadows, but them I can'r remember the last time I used naked 1 & 2 ekk! This area of my stash is definitely a work in progress still.