I open my cupboard and there they are. The army of products that have been bought, gifted and puseded by myself to try. Products that I had to have, told to try and swore that I will be better for it. Taking long hard looks in the mirror and telling myself that I will do better by myself by looking after myself properly. A scrub there, a lotion there, facial wash or masks. The list goes on and the excuses and reasons cease, as now I just get it cause I want to.

Grrr no room in cupboard and cupboard looks a complete mess every time I reach for a product. So one-day after tidying the bathroom cupboard for the umpteenth time, I decided to set myself a challenge where I will not buy any more products such as shampoo, conditioner, body creams etc until I have finished all what I have.

One of the reasons that I started this challenge, apart from what I stated above is the guilt of waste. We waste so much especially in this time, when we buy products to review and then put aside, and buying products to try for that routine, that you promised yourself that you are going to do, because you want to look better than you currently do. Whether or not the product has expired; half bottles, quarter bottles even almost used once bottles, get tossed away.

We are so seduced by packaging, latest trends and bargains that we do not know when to stop. Most times we don’t even want to, we just keep on buying and scream at things like bills only because we want to try more things. Some people  are middle of the road with the occasional dip on the lux side of products and will occasionally by a high-end product or four, to only have it sitting on their dresser. Even the cost of a high end product that they can not really afford, is enough to get them to finish and not buy another.

Then there are the bargains, whether they are branded or not, we buy them cause spending a pound here and there is not going to break the bank lets face it. It is so easy strolling down the isles of supermarkets and just tossing a few products into the basket next to our meat and fish and veg.

CURRENTLY USING

But there comes a time when, a judgement has to be made and a stance taken. If you see first pic, these are the products that I have finished using. I started this a few weeks ago and I am proud to say I am still going. I am on a Jo Malone hand and body lotion and a foot cream by the Sanctuary.  I have just finished this gorgeous body scrub I bought in Pound Stretcher.

Are you in the same predicament? Stacks of unused, almost used, products that you should really just use up and then bin. The difficult part of this challenge is that, I am a vlogger and blogger and I love to do reviews. In order for me to do reviews I need to buy new products so that I can go and write or talk about them.

PLAN OF ACTION

I will continue to buy and review, but I will keep using older products to reduce the build up. I have already finished 7 products so I am not doing too badly.

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What a night it was. What night? You may well ask, well the night that had people singing, dancing and left wanting more. The night that left us waiting 4 years before he graced the staged, the night that lifted the vibrations in the club, the night of Byron Gold’s Ep Launch, ‘The Affirmation’. I arrived, at the venue 229 near Great Portland street station and entered the empty venue with only myself, Byron, the sound guy,  his backing singers and his musicians, which there were four. Watching them run arround, I waited with anticipation as I watched the band set up. The sound man began plugging in mics and working on his mixing desk, making sure everything was going according to schedule. When the band, Byron and his backing singers where ready, I got to enjoy the making of what I knew was going to be a brilliant night. It wasn’t long before the East London Artist, who originally hails from South London graced us with a collection of music that had you on you feet and singing along even if you didn’t know the words. He wore a stylish faux leather jacket accompanied with grey jeans and a white Tee, and finished off with a pair of white trainers. Byron who always takes pride in his appearance sported a stainless steel, hand linked chain with his initials B G and a bracelet made from semi-precious Jasper stones, both customised and handmade by  Nithria handmade for you.

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As I sit there watching the  box set of Supernatural, I am on season 7 episode 4 called, Defending your life. It is about the Egyptian God Osiris who snatches people who have carried around their guilt due to harming others even though that they have paid for their crime. He then goes onto bring those victims to them and then they are killed.  Before long Dean Winchester (such a hottie) has to go before the judge who is the God, with his brother Sam defending him (such a sweetie). The God then proceeds to reveal to Dean of his guilt. This episode took to me, and it got me thinking about how much stress  we carry around is guilt. Guilt has to be one of the biggest stresses and probably the most heaviest of non physical punishments that we can carry around. It can affect our bodies physically, either by over eating, under eating or even self harm. It can change our attitudes towards our families and friends and most importantly to ourselves. Guilt is a form of slow and long-term destruction if we do not recognise or if we do, do something about it.

Guilt. Why do we have it? In a nutshell we feel incomplete. Not having the family we wanted, job or and career, our physical appearance. How does it come about? Possibly the failure to do something about it or that we gave up a little two soon.  Either way the guilt is a real problem and it is something that in order to have a more peaceful and fulfilling life  needs to be dealt with straight away.

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The big to do list. There is a big to do list now? Well, only if you haven’t completed all the things that you sworn to yourself that you were going to complete but failed to do them. I have had a big to do list to do for the longest time and it is only getting bigger.

How does a big to do list even happen? How did I even get there? Well it is pretty easy. If you are someone who is quite busy always got something on the go and other things always seem to pop up, it is easy to push things aside and tell yourself that it will get done later; like next week or a few days, except that those days or week gets extended to months, if at all. Especially if they are small things that seem at the time not to make an impact on what you are doing. These not so important things seem to pile up and can actually play on your mind without you realising it and until it is too later; or when you want to do something and it takes you 30 mins longer than it needs to because you haven’t done the thing that you said that you were going to do.

There comes a point that all those tomorrows are just not going to come and the only way to get them done is to get on with it. Select a day, a week or a month and make it your primary focus. Your brain will force you to abandon the idea, because it is not important so you can afford to put it off for another few days or weeks. But we have been down this road before and only when you make a decision to deal with it and stick with it is the only time that it will get done. When you do get started and finish your big to do list, you will be glad that you have started.

What has inspired me to do my big to do list is the need for another injection of productivity. Sometimes, things do not always work out how you planned for whatever reason and so the need to step it up and take it to another level comes to play. So this month (although I am 5 days late). Gona do a series called Move it March, where I plan to  get as much as I can in the month. Check out my instagram for posts.

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