Retour Stratagy Part 2
Moving right along. The next thing I did was to create yet another document, this one was the, erm, 4th? And I called it “full bottles I still need to test”. And that’s exactly what I put in there. I found 32 blends that I own all in full bottle size that I still need to test to figure out whether they belong on my swaps/sales list or in my personal collection. Theoretically I should test them all, so that I can figure out if any are so amazing that they are multiple bottle worthy, so that I can grab backup bottles during retour, but that’s just not going to happen. I don’t have the time to test all of them, or even most of them before retour ends, so I’ve decided to, for once in my life, lol, let it go. I have a full bottle of each, and if I do find an amazing one in that lot, later after Retour is done, then I’ll just suck it up, shut up and cope with the prospect of not being able to ever get more of it. I really want to focus on new scents I’ve never tried or that I’ve only ever been able to try in sample or partial bottle form that I already know I will love. So, 32 of these blends I still need to test, subtracted from 186 fragrances on my Retours list, leaves a grand total of, 154.
That’s still 134 blends too many, so next I made a document called “Scents I Just Didn’t Care For” and on it I will place all of the blends that I have tried in sample, decant, empty, sniffy, partial or full bottle form that I have sold or swapped, am currently trying to sell or swap, or that I have tossed in as frimps into swap and sale packages, because they didn’t work on me, were not to my taste or both. This knocked another 46 fragrances off of my working list. There were 45 different scents on my list of just didn’t like LE Possets from the past, but for some reason Spook was listed twice on the Retour list and on the website it’s self. I did check to see if the descriptions and spellings of the names were identical, and they were, so it must have just been a mistake when Fabienne put up all of the Retours. Either way, it eliminates 46 scents all together from the list I am whittling down. 154 minus 46 equals 118 perfumes left to go.
This is where it gets more difficult. I think next I will take out all of the OAR benefit fragrances that are for cats who have not yet been adopted, as these blends will be available again for sure if and when each cat finds their forever home, that and Fabienne usually brings back all of the past OAR Cat scents, that have not yet been retired because of their cats being adopted, each Christmas Time, so I should have at least 1, but probably more than 1 chance left to get these kitty scents. That takes another 11 scents out of the equation. 107 left to go.
I’m really wracking my brain to figure out what else I can take away. I think next I’ll get rid of all of the 100% Natural Blends as they are twice as expensive as the others, would take a serious chunk out of my Retour budget, and the only Natural I ever bought failed on me miserably. So I was able to eliminate 11 additional scents, bringing my list of choices below 100, thank God, to 96.
My brain is starting to throb, so I’ll come back to this in a while. It is still nearly 5 times the amount of bottles that I want to buy, so I need to really give this some thought. Arg. Be back later for more punishment. Oh and for the record, still creating separate documents for each type of scents I remove from my final cut list, but you get the point, I don’t need to keep telling you that I’m doing it with each new cut I make. This will also be a nice basis from which to later expand the lists to make a list of all of the Naturals ever offered by Possets or all of the OAR Benefit fragrances ever made by Possets, and so on. I’d just add back in ones that were missing because they were eliminated earlier in my weeding out process of the Retours.
That’s still 134 blends too many, so next I made a document called “Scents I Just Didn’t Care For” and on it I will place all of the blends that I have tried in sample, decant, empty, sniffy, partial or full bottle form that I have sold or swapped, am currently trying to sell or swap, or that I have tossed in as frimps into swap and sale packages, because they didn’t work on me, were not to my taste or both. This knocked another 46 fragrances off of my working list. There were 45 different scents on my list of just didn’t like LE Possets from the past, but for some reason Spook was listed twice on the Retour list and on the website it’s self. I did check to see if the descriptions and spellings of the names were identical, and they were, so it must have just been a mistake when Fabienne put up all of the Retours. Either way, it eliminates 46 scents all together from the list I am whittling down. 154 minus 46 equals 118 perfumes left to go.
This is where it gets more difficult. I think next I will take out all of the OAR benefit fragrances that are for cats who have not yet been adopted, as these blends will be available again for sure if and when each cat finds their forever home, that and Fabienne usually brings back all of the past OAR Cat scents, that have not yet been retired because of their cats being adopted, each Christmas Time, so I should have at least 1, but probably more than 1 chance left to get these kitty scents. That takes another 11 scents out of the equation. 107 left to go.
I’m really wracking my brain to figure out what else I can take away. I think next I’ll get rid of all of the 100% Natural Blends as they are twice as expensive as the others, would take a serious chunk out of my Retour budget, and the only Natural I ever bought failed on me miserably. So I was able to eliminate 11 additional scents, bringing my list of choices below 100, thank God, to 96.
My brain is starting to throb, so I’ll come back to this in a while. It is still nearly 5 times the amount of bottles that I want to buy, so I need to really give this some thought. Arg. Be back later for more punishment. Oh and for the record, still creating separate documents for each type of scents I remove from my final cut list, but you get the point, I don’t need to keep telling you that I’m doing it with each new cut I make. This will also be a nice basis from which to later expand the lists to make a list of all of the Naturals ever offered by Possets or all of the OAR Benefit fragrances ever made by Possets, and so on. I’d just add back in ones that were missing because they were eliminated earlier in my weeding out process of the Retours.