topic Re: ComPact 2018 -- Jim-dandy July! in Beauty

ComPact 2018 -- Jim-dandy July!

just bee — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 13:04:40 GMT

The ComPact is a commitment to simplify, pare down, streamline. It began as a way to gain some control over our collections of beauty products. Why were we amassing so much, yet not using what we were buying? Why were we always searching for the next new product? Why couldn't we just find what worked for us and stick with it?

The ComPact, however, is not restricted to beauty items. If you have a collection you want to address, do it here. Choose an area you want to work on, and track your progress on the ComPact thread. Members will offer tips and encouragement.

Choose one of our many mantras (“One by one until they’re done!” “We are SPAHHHRRRTAN!!!” “Not until you really have to.” “Buy less, choose well, make it last.” “Resist the propaganda.” "If it's high, I don't buy!" “When in doubt, do without!” “Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” "Only the store, online no more!" “Shoplighters of the World Unite!”) or create a new one and share it. Target items each month to toss, donate, or use, and post your “chopping block” -- or “hit list.” Post temptations, post victories.

They say it takes 30 days for something to become a habit: Let's see if taking the ComPact one month at a time works for you.

Join us.

Re: ComPact 2018 -- Jim-dandy July!

just bee — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 13:11:07 GMT

Hey, all you HEPcats and HEPdogs! We had discussed making the Healthy Eating thread a monthly jam session, so I just went ahead and did a little improvisation.

This is an invite to our crazy crib where you can come and break it down! I say we go 18 karat on this and really swing. If healthy eating’s not your bag, no problem. But if it is, I dig.

It’s cool, I’m booted, let’s jump!

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just bee — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 18:59:19 GMT

A gentle reminder...

It's a new quarter so it may be time to toss/replace mascara or whatever else...

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BExplorer — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 23:44:36 GMT

I am still plugging away at both compacting and HEP. I love reading how everyone is doing.

I am much more mindful in my purchasing, though I do sometimes (rarely now) binge. I am slowly working my way through skin care products. That is really the only category I need to pare down now. I don't have many back ups, it's just that I'm trying to work through what is open and get down to only a few products a day and night rather than the endless layering of too many products.

HEP is hit and miss but I am happy to report it is now more hit than miss! Again, I still binge but not as badly or as frequently. 👍

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just bee — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:56:40 GMT

Has anyone been neglecting her skin because it's summer and the thought of putting cream or oils on your face/body seems unappealing?

Or is it just me?

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just bee — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:42:54 GMT

I was so happy to see the circumhorizontal arc on Saturday. Now I feel the way you feel when your vacation ends and you're back at work.

It's going to take more than a new month to motivate me. I have a list of things to do and I just feel like taking a nap.

There ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

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geezerette — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 20:52:11 GMT

@just bee wrote:
I was so happy to see the circumhorizontal arc on Saturday. Now I feel the way you feel when your vacation ends and you're back at work.

It's going to take more than a new month to motivate me. I have a list of things to do and I just feel like taking a nap.

There ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

@just bee

Jim-Dandy (July) to the rescue! Hmm, no poodle skirt emoticon.

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just bee — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 21:09:58 GMT

@geezerette wrote:
@just bee wrote:

There ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

@just bee

Jim-Dandy (July) to the rescue! Hmm, no poodle skirt emoticon.

@geezerette

Jim Dandy (To the Rescue) was recorded again in 1973 by Black Oak Arkansas. At the time, the song and the band turned my stomach. Funny, but most of the music I despised back then is somehow much more palatable now. Ah, nostalgia.

I made myself do something. A body in motion blah, blah, blah. I went into the front room with garden clippers and tackled my overgrown houseplants. House trees, really. I cut back my rubber plants and they bled Elmer's Glue all over me. Once I got most of it off I started shredding some papers.

I've got to stop thinking that these projects have to be tackled all at once. It's impossible, so they just don't get done. If I can just do an hour here and an hour there, I'll feel like I'm accomplishing something.

That feeling of being stuck is the worst. No, actually the feeling of being sticky is. I think I missed a spot from the rubber plant attack.

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geezerette — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 21:55:26 GMT

@just bee

I guess bees and ants are related—you have “high hopes” when it comes to that rubber tree plant.🐝🐜

I just happened to hear that song on a Lipton Tea commercial. Ah, Frank. How times have changed.

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just bee — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 22:05:16 GMT

@geezerette wrote:
@just bee

I guess bees and ants are related—you have “high hopes” when it comes to that rubber tree plant.🐝🐜

I just happened to hear that song on a Lipton Tea commercial. Ah, Frank. How times have changed.

@geezerette

Ar, ar, ar! Should have seen what I did to the schefflera!

Yeah, it's weird what music is used for commercials these days. Everything's weird these days.

Remember when FM radio was worth listening to? Now the stations play the same ten songs over and over again. I can't believe that between 1968 and today, only ten songs were recorded. Ten cr@ppy songs.

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just bee — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:42:48 GMT

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just bee — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:55:10 GMT

And to think that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on

July 4, 1826 (Jefferson went first).

And James Monroe died on July 4, 1831.

TCM scheduled 1776 tonight. If you're looking for something to do...

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rnmom — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:54:18 GMT

Hi girls!

I'm still puttering away over here very slowly. I got some new clothes for work so I went thru my closet and found 5 older tops and a pair of pants to donate. I also went thru my younger son's shirts and found 12 tops to donate and we tossed one. I have one book, 6 CD's and 2 bracelets to donate too.

Then my son and I went thru his school supplies from last year. We tossed a bunch of used/broken stuff and tried to organize what was left. I usually always buy lots of extras during the summer when it's so cheap, crayons, markers, colored pencils, pencils, folders, glue sticks, erasers, etc. The list the school sends us home each year is huge. But this is my younger son's last year in elementary school so after this coming year he won't need most of that stuff anymore. So I don't need 10 boxes of crayons and 15 glue sticks. I actually think that we have just about everything that he will need for next year. I have to actually get out his list and compare it to what we have here, but I know we'll be doing pretty well and won't need a lot. I don't want to keep a ton of backups anymore.

I tossed a foundation and 2 cream blushes that weren't working for me and gifted a BBW lotion to a co-worker. Making progress!

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aprilskies — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:42:07 GMT

@BExplorer wrote:
I am still plugging away at both compacting and HEP. I love reading how everyone is doing.

I am much more mindful in my purchasing, though I do sometimes (rarely now) binge. I am slowly working my way through skin care products. That is really the only category I need to pare down now. I don't have many back ups, it's just that I'm trying to work through what is open and get down to only a few products a day and night rather than the endless layering of too many products.

HEP is hit and miss but I am happy to report it is now more hit than miss! Again, I still binge but not as badly or as frequently. 👍

@BExplorer, I can totally relate. I am the same way now, although lately it has been not so good. I was almost going to call a no buy July on beauty products because I have been buying stuff I just dont need or even knew I wanted so I feel I backslid badly. But, I am not going to do that to myself. I just dont do well with restrictions. I just have my ups and downs and I am still trying to manage that. I just hope I am at the other end of my latest.

HEP - still a work in progress. What has started to really bother me lately is the fact I cant do the things I want to do because of body strength limitations. My own doing as I know I dont move enough and now I have different issues but I will try and work through them. So, this summer as much as I cant stand the humidity, I am going to try and get out more.

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aprilskies — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 14:18:06 GMT

@rnmom, you really are prodding along. I have finally got my donation bag out the door and I am so happy to have reclaimed my closet floor. I have started another bag. I like to just toss things in when I know it is time for them to go. It is amazing how quickly the bag fills up. It makes me feel like i am making some progress without having to spend hours decluttering. I am not up for that at the moment.

As far as fun - I am trying to get out more in the summer. The humidity has been beyond tolerable and find myself with a headache, but I really am trying to get out more this summer. I am usually holed up inside with the air conditioning. But then fall and winter come and I find myself holed up inside with the heat. Well, you know in the winter, not so much the Fall. But, I would like to find myself outside more. I have become too much of a homebody. I have been making use of the local parks. They are all beautiful, but one near me is big and offers so many things. I even just go there and walk. And seeing everyone there just having fun makes me want to be out more.

It was pouring this morning with thunder and lightening but it seems to have stopped now. I hope so as I would like to go for a long walk after work today.

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just bee — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 12:07:15 GMT

@aprilskies wrote:
HEP - still a work in progress. What has started to really bother me lately is the fact I cant do the things I want to do because of body strength limitations. My own doing as I know I dont move enough and now I have different issues but I will try and work through them. So, this summer as much as I cant stand the humidity, I am going to try and get out more.

@aprilskies

I've never been a gym rat. When I was younger I liked yoga, fencing and archery. Walking. That's always good. Used to ride my bike a lot but now I have a bike that just sorta decorates my garage wall.

What I do like to do is what my dog and the cat who lives next-door do. Stretch. Essentrics is having a summer sale on DVDs. I don't buy exercise DVDs, but I'm thinking about buying Season 11 of Classical Stretch.

It's just stretching but it also fools the brain into thinking you're doing ballet. Without deforming your feet. Sale ends tomorrow.

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just bee — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 12:47:42 GMT

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geezerette — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 15:45:42 GMT

@just bee wrote:

It’s amazing he lived as long as he did.

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just bee — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 16:06:44 GMT

@geezerette wrote:
@just bee wrote:
It’s amazing he lived as long as he did.

@geezerette

It's amazing he drank as much as he did. I think he embalmed himself.

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just bee — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 17:15:26 GMT

Okay, I just ordered Classic Stretch DVDs and I don't want them to sit and collect dust so someone else is going to have to order them now.

Anyone out there? Hello? (You're all too smart, aren't you?)

I told BH I'd ordered them and he asked, "Why?" Now I'm going to have to use them.