Trying to avoid the cost of new lotion, shampoo and body gel? Look no farther than your own bathroom cabinets or other places you stash gifts, travel toiletries, and hotel shampoos and lotions.
Shopping your own inventory of bath products will save you money and help thin your shelves of bubble bath and body spritzers. There are several approaches to using your own sweet-smelling products.
You can adapt the advice financial guru Suze Orman gives those trying to pay down credit cards. Start with the smallest or largest balance — in this case the least or most filled bottle of lotion or shampoo of your choice — and work on it until it’s finished. Attacking bottles with lesser amounts of product will get you through them quicker and make you feel that you are making headway. You can also interchange bottles if you get bored.
By the time you need to buy more toiletries, you will have saved enough using what you already had that it will feel like a treat and not a drain. Elizabeth Aguilera, The Denver Post
