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Sometimes I feel a little neurotic having so much fun with this, even G is on board and cheers me on along the way. Laugh if you will but I'm here to tell you that it's eye-opening in a more than a few ways for a product junkie like myself. I'll just make another handy list to tell you about it.
1. I learned that it actually takes a long time to use up products. This should be a good thing except when you really want it to finally be gone. In fact it's ironic that I bought something and that I should want it to be gone. Not too smart?
2. I am so careful about what I just casually put in my shopping basket anymore because it's going to be in my bathroom for a long time. See No. 1.
3. My goal is to have products that multi-task so I can have less bottles. Bottles take up too much space and I want to have a beautiful vanity like I see in the pictures above.
4. Another goal is to share products with hubby if possible also to have less bottles. Now if I can just get him to put his bottles away we would always have a clean vanity and sink area. Smile honey, you're on my blog!
5. I've been using up products that I didn't like that much just because they were there for the sake of this project. I don't really like doing that. I took a bag of things to share with my niece and aunts when I went home, but those didn't count towards my Project 10 Pan. In the future I will either return the item or give it away. Life is too short to use bad stuff.
6. The biggie here is learning that I really want to function with less. Too much stuff smothers me. Most bloggers goal is to use things up so they can buy more, but I'm reformed. Even before I did this, I had stopped buying makeup. I want to enjoy shopping for the things I need instead of being seduced into "needing" this or that. I did happen to buy a new lipstick yesterday to cheer myself up though. It's really pretty.
7. Focusing on a small amount of things to use them up has been the key to my success. I can't switch around too much or it will just keep sitting there forever almost gone. I make my list and really only use those things.
8. I'm realizing that I have a lot of similar items. When I bought those different eyeshadows I thought they were unique and maybe they are to a degree, but to be honest I could have not bought them at all and used what I had. Nobody would know the difference. I bought them for fun and that was that. Knowing the reason is important to change the buying behavior.
9. I'm very determined. To prove it, I'll show you what I used up this week. It was my Mom's and I absolutely couldn't throw it away, so I carried on like a good soldier in spite of this. I'm pretty sure it made me break out too.
10. Nobody would consider me a makeup hoarder or anything that extreme but I feel that I have too much makeup and it is wasteful. If you actually followed expiration dates and recommended throw out times, which I obviously don't, you are wasting a lot of money because you can't possibly use up a lot in the short amount of time.
Anyone else doing Project 10 Pan or your own version of it? Let me know how you fared. I have a vision of only having one makeup bag with all that I need. I want an easy, peasy makeup routine and only shopping when I need something,
4 comments:
I'm not exactly a product junkie, but like you, I also have more stuff than I actually need. I had already started on my own 'no buying till I've finished up what I have' mission before reading about Project Pan and now I'm even more inspired. I guess buying the smallest sizes of bottles would also help in reducing clutter and keeping interest alive in that product :-))
This is very interesting. My project 10 pan sort of fizzled but you are right, it is a burden having too many things. I'm starting project 333 with Kristi at www.labellafigura.net on October 1 with my clothes and I was thinking of doing the same thing with my makeup, paring down my choices to one lipstick, one eye shadow palette, etc and putting the rest away. I really want to experience what it's like to not have so many choices when I'm getting ready.
Stephanie, You and I always were kindred spirits! Stay tuned on both of those counts!!
Being Fab-How's your project 10 pan going?
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