Is it just me, or is anyone else not good enough for posh toiletries?

[BorissGiantJohnson]

Aibu in thinking posh toiletries are wasted on me, and re-gifting them or giving them to a raffle or charity shop so someone proper can enjoy them?

I was given a few sets for Christmas. I was having a bath the other day, without a small child for once, and I thought for a second about putting one of the bath bombs in for a bit of luxury. But then I thought no, that'd be wasting it! Someone could enjoy that!

I feel a bit like the opposite of the loreal ad. I'm not worth it! Is it just me?!

Yanbu: Give the stuff to someone else
Yabu: waste use them on myself

I just use them.
Nothing nicer than a lovely scented Clarins bath, followed by matching body lotion and a spritz of the same Eau Ressourcante fragrance before I get into bed. We aren't talking hundreds of pounds but it's nice stuff and so relaxing.
I treat myself when Clarins have gift sets on offer so I always have some.

There is a hygiene bank where I live. I donate a load after Xmas as i only use sensitive stuff. Gives someone in need a helping hand

Thanks Sarahandquack! And the glands of Madame Chanel really made me laugh!
Pyongyang that's a really lovely idea.

I read something that changed my perspective on this, about someone who died and their family moved all the unopened and unworn stuff saved for best.

I wear chanel perfume every day and shower with Molton brown in case tomorrow never cones for me. Someone thought I deserved it. Someone bought me it. I’ll use it.

No! I’m the opposite.

Judging by our loo at work though, I have colleagues who feel nice things are too good for them. Jo Malone hand wash and hand cream has appeared since Christmas, donated for communal use. Are they mad?

Oh god,

Bath bombs = thrush bombs!

Yabu but so I am. I give them to my adult daughter as she can't afford treats like that and deserves them more than me.

RJnomore1 I was thinking along thise lines. There was something doing the rounds where the husband gets out some of the clothes his wife had never worn because she was saving them for an occasion. The ending being that he was taking them to the undertaker to be used for her shroud.

I don’t use them, not because I’m not worth it but because I don’t like that sort of thing much so it’s wasted on me. I’d rather it goes unopened to someone who will value it rather than I use a few squirts and throw it away because nobody will want it part used.

Exactly the same here! I think "ooh that's special, not for everyday" and save it, bit every day is "everyday" isn't it, by default, so I never use it! Then when it's old and a bit shit, I'll use it because now it needs to be used up and I'd feel guilty if I threw it away unused. Madness!!

If you would enjoy using these luxuries you really should.

I'm very fussy and only use good soaps, bath bombs would make me explode, excuse the pun...

Use the good bath oil, as the late, great, Nora Ephron once said. If you genuinely don’t like it, pass it on, but if you do, use it and enjoy it. When my gran died there were loads of “nice things” she must have been saving “for best”. She didn’t live to see “best”, and it was so, so sad that all the lovely clothes (with labels still on) and perfumes etc went unused.

I do try, @BorissGiantJohnson! I giggled at your name, btw.

I really hope you don't donate them (unless you really don't fancy the idea, in which case of course you should) and you do enjoy the nice luxurious bath you deserve.

I can't use fragranced stuff. The most exciting stuff I can put in my bath is Epsom salts hark is that a tiny violin

If you can't do it for yourself OP, do it for those of us who can't go near a bath bomb for fear of exploding in hives. Think of it as a your duty .

I think that the OP says "isnt worth it" when she means "I wouldnt appreciate it" because I'm the same. If it makes my skin feel nice I dont really care if it costs £2 or £200. My sister is in the industry though so she will spend £200 on cream and her regular shampoo is £45 a bottle, so she would appreciate posh stuff.

I'm with you - much rather have my usual shampoo or shower gel. I would use posh ones though, but donate body lotion, hand cream, etc to raffles, because otherwise I use it about once and then it's wasted.

A Sali Hughes quote

"Saving things for best is like metaphorically spending your life sitting on a sofa wrapped in cellophane, waiting for a more deserving time that may or may not ever come. And even if it does, the sofa will be out of fashion, the perfume will have soured and be fit for nothing but stripping pine. And besides, any opened serums and creams should be used daily or at least weekly in order to work, so using them only on special occasions is a big old waste of cash. We are not rehearsing here. We are alive now and deserve to look and feel great. Buy the neon lipstick, pour the luxury bath foam with abandon, light the candle for no discernible reason and wear the Chanel No5 to the Co-op. Lovely things deserve to be seen, used and enjoyed, not hidden away. And you deserve to live well and feel great now, not later. Life is really bloody short, so stop saving things for best today. It really is a mug’s game."

Well Sali Hughes makes a living selling posh toiletries.

I use them if I’m gifted them and like them but don’t spend money on them because I wouldn’t notice it.

This is about gifts though.

Not spending yourself but whether or not you andyour life is good enough to use nice things.

This is not a rehearsal. I like that. So true.

I have an issue with anything that costs money and goes straight down the plughole except toilet cleaner!

But if it's genuinely a nice brand like Jo Malone or Penhaligons, why not pick one day a week for a long bath with s glass of wine and use the good ones up? After my DM died I found her lily of the valley fragrance (£90 and carted across the world by me) almost unused, and she loved it. Too much, it turned out. What was she saving it for, at 92?

Carpe Diem; carpe smellies!

Yes for sure, what you state as posh toiletries, are usually no different to the cheaper stuff. It's all just crap marketing. to make you think.that something magical will happen to you, in a bath product costing x number of pounds, as opposed to some radox etc..

But people with plenty of money,and the believers of crap advertising,will always spend loads of money on the expensive stuff.

I would definitely use them.

Life's too short. I use all my posh toiletries everyday.
Chanel soap, body lotion and perfume.
I also light my posh candles, will happily drink all the expensive whisky DH has too.

Well if you don't have posh toiletries because you don't buy any, then the entire thread is pretty redundant and doesn't apply to you!
However if you have been given them, or randomly bought some, then obviously it's about using them
Nobody is saying go out and buy Chanel bath stuff because it'll be worth it, it's whatever is worth it to YOU. It's like not buying a shower gel you really dislike again, you buy what you like

My Mum saved all kinds of stuff for "best" or a special occasion - toiletries, new clothes, perfumes etc. When she died and we were clearing the house her wardrobe was stuffed with unused presents and unworn clothes that had been put away for some special day that never came. It was really sad.
I think it was because she had been brought up in real poverty in the 1930s and never really dared enjoy anything remotely luxurious.
OP, of course you are worth posh toiletries if you like them. Why shouldn't you enjoy nice things? I am sure that whoever gave you the gift felt you were worth it.