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Baby Steps to Reducing Waste

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I will be the first to admit that sometimes I wish I could still be ignorant about the amount of trash we human beings produce.....  It would make life blissfully simplified if I could. But unfortunately the damage has been done. Growing up in Texas we rarely recycled anything other than aluminum cans. If it ain't broke, don't fix it; and if it is broke then just toss it was the order of the day for us as well as every other family I knew growing up. As an adult I casually looked into recycling but it wasn't an option at our apartment complex and the recycling center nearest to where we lived was rarely open, so into the trash nearly everything went. I look back now and feel sick to my stomach thinking about how many trips I made to the dumpster during the week in out 7 year sojourn there. I was blissfully unaware of how much waste we were actually creating. Moving to Northern California has opened my eyes to how wasteful I was being in so many ways, and not jus
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Allure Beauty Box| November 2018

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"Masquerade! Paper faces on parade, masquerade. Hide your face so the world will never find you...." I am so pleased that my Allure box came at a reasonable time this month! I will be honest that when I saw that it was going to be mostly masks I was dreading it. It's not that I don't like masks, it's because I currently have an insane backlog of clay and paper masks that I am desperately trying to use up. Seriously, I've been trying to use at least two masks a week to try and get through some of them. Happily, this box includes some really interesting masks that I had never heard of or tried, and some aren't for your face which is so refreshing. In light of this knowledge I'm gladly making some room in my collection for these guys. **I promise I am not a hoarder...*** Before we get into the contents of the this months box lets go over the subscription details briefly. Allure Beauty Box is a subscription service which for $15 + tax will deli
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Ipsy Bag November 2018

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This is the time of year that I look forward to the most with my subscription services.... Ipsy in particular has always been exceptionally good in the Nov/Dec months. Like anything else subscription services usually try to wow you during the holiday season and I am all for it! While this bag isn't a complete and total win for me, I will say I am very happy with it on the whole.  For those of you who may not know, Ipsy is a monthly subscription service which for $10 plus tax will send you 5-6 sample to deluxe sized products ranging from skincare all the way to beauty tools. This time of the year I am loving the travel friendly products I can just throw in my bag. The contents of each bag will be different for different subscribers based on your answers to a questionnaire and how you reviewed products sent to you in the past.  So if  you are ready to see what I got in my particular November bag then let's get to it! ** Quick disclaimer; I would ideally prefer to w
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