Remember in grade
school when you would get something in your lunch that you didn’t want, so you’d
try to trade it with your friend? That
was one of the best parts of lunch, until someone ended up with hepatitis and
they outlawed it. Awhile back I posted a
picture of my sample drawer. Remember
this mess?
Well, it’s gotten
even bigger, so much so that I had to abandon the drawer for a much larger
storage box from Ikea. It drove me crazy
that I had all these products sitting around unused. That’s a big ole box of money right
there. Granted I didn’t pay for most of
it, but that’s beside the point. That’s
all changed though since I’ve found the world of trading.
A few months back, I
found makeuptalk.com when I was frantically trying to find out what was going
to be in my June Birchbox. And the
answer is no, I can’t just wait and be surprised like everyone else. The ladies on MUT are James Bond like in
their spoiler hunting ways, I was home!
Besides all the spoilers, they have an entire part of the forum
dedicated to trading. My first trade was
for a Fresh Sugar Rose lip treatment and Ada bronzer. I sent her a perfume sample that I would
never use, and a beauty balm that would spend its life in that box. Next trade was another BB for an awesome
lipstick and mascara. Winner, winner,
chicken dinner.
Trading is taking up
a ridiculous amount of my time at this point.
Between looking at other’s trade lists to see if there’s anything I
want, packaging, and going to the post office, my husband thinks I would be
better off just buying the stuff I’m getting in trades. Really though? It’s a lot of fun, and I’m getting to message
back and forth with some great girls who love this as much as I do.
So from now on, when
I get products I don’t care for in my Birchbox or Test Tube, it doesn’t even
phase me. Products I won’t use might be
someone else’s HG. To the trade list
they go!
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