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I use cheap beach towels as bath towels, nice size and weight and wash/dry really well.

My Asda towels lasted much better than my “good” Costco ones.
I do this too, I have 2 huge beach towels I bought in the sale in Primark for about £5 each a few years ago, they are lovely and soft.

I've got some bath sheets from Asda which are ok but not that fluffy unless you tumble dry them.

Edited to add, I stayed at a friend's recently, all her towels are Dunelm Egyptian cotton and they are amazing.
 
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Idk if it's available in the UK (I live in Spain), but there's a hand cream I get that's less than 2 euro by Instituto Español and it has urea in it. It's the only thing that can cope with my season eczema, and it even gets rid of my cuticles, too, so bonus 😁
 
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Idk if it's available in the UK (I live in Spain), but there's a hand cream I get that's less than 2 euro by Instituto Español and it has urea in it. It's the only thing that can cope with my season eczema, and it even gets rid of my cuticles, too, so bonus 😁
Used this brand for a few years, good range of it sold on Amazon, great quality that works & very reasonably priced.
 
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Idk if it's available in the UK (I live in Spain), but there's a hand cream I get that's less than 2 euro by Instituto Español and it has urea in it. It's the only thing that can cope with my season eczema, and it even gets rid of my cuticles, too, so bonus 😁

Ooh that sounds good. Which one is it ?
 
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Cheap jaffa cakes are better than branded jaffa cakes. The cheaper the better!
I’m not disagreeing with you, but this made me laugh! I do like Jaffa cakes, btw, but I don’t think I ever ate any brand than the one from Aldi. They aren’t that popular around here.
 
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Cheap jaffa cakes are better than branded jaffa cakes. The cheaper the better!
As a student I used to drink Sainsbury's 18p tea bags. My god, the looks I got for saying they made just as nice tea as PG Tips, etc !

(I do generally find own brand tea bags to be fine. Might buy Tetley or PG Tips if they're on offer)
 
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As a student I used to drink Sainsbury's 18p tea bags. My god, the looks I got for saying they made just as nice tea as PG Tips, etc !

(I do generally find own brand tea bags to be fine. Might buy Tetley or PG Tips if they're on offer)
I think a lot of things are very much psychological, I remember some food show on channel 4 or bbc where they blind tested people to judge what was the cheap, middle or expensive brands of food and so many people were 100% sure something tasted chsap/expensive and were almost always wrong
 
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I think a lot of things are very much psychological, I remember some food show on channel 4 or bbc where they blind tested people to judge what was the cheap, middle or expensive brands of food and so many people were 100% sure something tasted chsap/expensive and were almost always wrong
I would happily take lidl chocolate digestives over Mcvities any day !.
 
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Yeap, Tesco SF Blue Spark is just as good as SF Red Bull. It's way cheaper & with the amount I drink, I couldn't afford it.
 
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The Mco Charlotte Tilbury setting spray dupe is fabulous!. It was £12 in superdrug. Smells nice, fine spray and really works!!.

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Superdrug do an excellent version:


TBH, I tend to make my own, get a nice flannel and some Vitamin C facial oil, mix with hot water, feels really good and cleansing and cheap as chips.
This sounds lovely!
Do you mix the oil with the hot water, rub on face and take off with a dry flannel or do you just rub the oil on your face and take off with a hot wet flannel? Ta!
 
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This sounds lovely!
Do you mix the oil with the hot water, rub on face and take off with a dry flannel or do you just rub the oil on your face and take off with a hot wet flannel? Ta!
It’s a dupe of Liz Earle’s cleanse and polish, you put it on your face then using the cloth provided wet it and wash off
 
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