Comments on: The Frugal (Be)Witching Hour http://www.thecheapchick.com/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour/ putting the fun in frugal living! Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:39:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bionic Beauty http://www.thecheapchick.com/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-2733 Bionic Beauty Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:54:40 +0000 http://www.elshaddai-edwards.com/thecheapchick/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour.html#comment-2733 <p>I'm bookmarking this! You, darling, are simply fabulous! </p> <p>See, you're productive while up at night too. I'm glad you love Milani too... aren't their eye shadows super cool? (okay, that's showing my age.) </p> <p>I can't use the Mint Julep mask, but SO wish I could because it has sulfur which is why it's so awesome at kicking acne! (I'm allergic to the glycerin in there.) Instead I use that cheapy $8 tub of Aztec Secret mud. About 50 masks for $8. Woot!</p> <p>Sigh. Yep, I just said Woot. Oi.</p> I'm bookmarking this! You, darling, are simply fabulous!

See, you're productive while up at night too. I'm glad you love Milani too… aren't their eye shadows super cool? (okay, that's showing my age.)

I can't use the Mint Julep mask, but SO wish I could because it has sulfur which is why it's so awesome at kicking acne! (I'm allergic to the glycerin in there.) Instead I use that cheapy $8 tub of Aztec Secret mud. About 50 masks for $8. Woot!

Sigh. Yep, I just said Woot. Oi.

]]> By: Missy @ Marketing Mama http://www.thecheapchick.com/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-2732 Missy @ Marketing Mama Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:08:31 +0000 http://www.elshaddai-edwards.com/thecheapchick/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour.html#comment-2732 <p>Great list. I might just try out that mint mask - looks awesome. Also, I hate to be a know it all, but they aren't called OIL of Olay anymore... just OLAY. They changed the name of the company years ago because OIL doesn't sound very good when you are talking about something you put on your face. :)</p> Great list. I might just try out that mint mask – looks awesome. Also, I hate to be a know it all, but they aren't called OIL of Olay anymore… just OLAY. They changed the name of the company years ago because OIL doesn't sound very good when you are talking about something you put on your face. :)

]]> By: Tashi http://www.thecheapchick.com/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-2731 Tashi Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:50:02 +0000 http://www.elshaddai-edwards.com/thecheapchick/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour.html#comment-2731 <p>Love the tips, thanks! I've been making shampoo and body wash bottles last a little longer for years, by getting water into them and swishing them around, to loosen more prodcut for usage. I also love Suave. I get their Sweet Pea & Violet body wash. At $1.87 a bottle, I can easily buy a few at a time. I like it way than Softsoap! Lasts longer too. Sometimes, you can even score TWO bottles wrapped together for a special sale price. Only problem with Target body wash is, they seemed to have greatly watered down the sensitive skin formula (green label), and changed the bottle design, so that the cap is harder to get off (and add water to!) in the last six months or so. NOT cool. I'd humbly add a tip: If you find yourself using a body wash that's too fragrant, try mixing in a little fragrance-free body wash, to tone it down. I did this with some Ivory stuff that was too fragrant, in my opinion. One last one: Use plain Chapstick on your eyebrows to make them stay in place. Just go light on them, and then brush them into place (got that from "Good Company" eons ago).</p> Love the tips, thanks! I've been making shampoo and body wash bottles last a little longer for years, by getting water into them and swishing them around, to loosen more prodcut for usage. I also love Suave. I get their Sweet Pea & Violet body wash. At $1.87 a bottle, I can easily buy a few at a time. I like it way than Softsoap! Lasts longer too. Sometimes, you can even score TWO bottles wrapped together for a special sale price. Only problem with Target body wash is, they seemed to have greatly watered down the sensitive skin formula (green label), and changed the bottle design, so that the cap is harder to get off (and add water to!) in the last six months or so. NOT cool. I'd humbly add a tip: If you find yourself using a body wash that's too fragrant, try mixing in a little fragrance-free body wash, to tone it down. I did this with some Ivory stuff that was too fragrant, in my opinion. One last one: Use plain Chapstick on your eyebrows to make them stay in place. Just go light on them, and then brush them into place (got that from "Good Company" eons ago).

]]> By: Marie http://www.thecheapchick.com/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-2730 Marie Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:51:20 +0000 http://www.elshaddai-edwards.com/thecheapchick/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour.html#comment-2730 <p>Love the frugal tips! One that I just came up with this week was about liquid body soap. Prepare to be amazed. We've been realizing that it's so much easier to clean the tub and/or shower if we use liquid soap instead of bar soap on our bodies (as you know, bar soap leaves sludge wherever it sits). So we switched over to those liquid body soaps in various yummy scents and with various yummy scrubbing beads. But then I got a little tired of the prices, even on the "cheap" brands. I started wishing that they sold the stuff in big refill jugs like Softsoap hand soap. And THEN, I read the back of the Softsoap hand soap refill jug, and compared it to the back label of the Dial brand liquid body soap. Whaddya know? The ingredients were almost identical (other than the scrubbing beads, which the Softsoap Milk & Honey liquid hand soap didn't have). So I did a little mathy-mathy and discovered that it's less than half the price to get the gender-neutral-but-still-yummy-smelling Softsoap refill jug and use it to refill our body soap bottles, than it is to buy even the cheapest brand of liquid body soap on the market. This is one of those ways that marketing really tricks us, as we think we're buying different kinds of soap, but really... we're buying the same soap in different packages. Why not beat them at their own game, and save ourselves a few bucks in the process? (I'm thinking I should blog about this.)</p> Love the frugal tips! One that I just came up with this week was about liquid body soap. Prepare to be amazed. We've been realizing that it's so much easier to clean the tub and/or shower if we use liquid soap instead of bar soap on our bodies (as you know, bar soap leaves sludge wherever it sits). So we switched over to those liquid body soaps in various yummy scents and with various yummy scrubbing beads. But then I got a little tired of the prices, even on the "cheap" brands. I started wishing that they sold the stuff in big refill jugs like Softsoap hand soap. And THEN, I read the back of the Softsoap hand soap refill jug, and compared it to the back label of the Dial brand liquid body soap. Whaddya know? The ingredients were almost identical (other than the scrubbing beads, which the Softsoap Milk & Honey liquid hand soap didn't have). So I did a little mathy-mathy and discovered that it's less than half the price to get the gender-neutral-but-still-yummy-smelling Softsoap refill jug and use it to refill our body soap bottles, than it is to buy even the cheapest brand of liquid body soap on the market. This is one of those ways that marketing really tricks us, as we think we're buying different kinds of soap, but really… we're buying the same soap in different packages. Why not beat them at their own game, and save ourselves a few bucks in the process? (I'm thinking I should blog about this.)

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.thecheapchick.com/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-2729 Stephanie Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:47:07 +0000 http://www.elshaddai-edwards.com/thecheapchick/2009/03/the-frugal-bewitching-hour.html#comment-2729 <p>Ha, I just bought the Suave Damage Care because I remembered you said it was good ju-ju, and it's cheap. I've just used it once but I love it. I have thick curly hair that I blowdry, straighten and color, so it takes a beating. This stuff IS good ju-ju!</p> Ha, I just bought the Suave Damage Care because I remembered you said it was good ju-ju, and it's cheap. I've just used it once but I love it. I have thick curly hair that I blowdry, straighten and color, so it takes a beating. This stuff IS good ju-ju!

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