Uh oh. The New York Times is onto us! This is why I need “Thunking Thursday.” Do you feel that your collection of samples is starting to look like hoarding? What (if anything) do you plan to do about those samples?
Serenity Now Scents and Sensibilities
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Serenity Now Scents and Sensibilities 
Noooo! Never! Hoarding?! Yeah, ok, a little. I pass on my samples to a co-worker’s teen daughter. It is like Christmas four times a year. Any double ups of scent go to folk I think might like them.
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That’s very generous, I’m sure your co-worker’s daughter is over the moon with her gifts.
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Thanks, Matty. I am old school. I love to give.
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I have a sample box, but it is not very big, so i am hoping to use the things up, that it contains. My skincare samples are taken on vacations, so i use them up relatively quick. Some expensive Korean skincare i order as sample packs, because they are much cheaper like this (Sulwhasoo or History of Whoo). I don’t want to shell out over 100Euros for 50ml of face cream.
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No hoarding for me…between my three kids, their college friends, my parents, my best friend of 50+ years who has recently caught the perfume bug and my small group of perfume online friends I don’t seem to keep too many samples at home..plus I am known for thunking samples in one fell swoop 🙂
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I have many samples that I mostly enjoy when I want to explore. I admit to hoarding my favorites! However, I have a fragrance loving friend who I share many samples with. It makes me happy to give her the opportunity to sample more and we have fun discussing fragrances with our interpretations and reviews. I would happily share more if I had more fragrance loving friends! I am slowly but surely enticing my sister. She is finally open to sampling and wears more than “one” signature scent.
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For many years I was keeping samples even when I tried and didn’t like them. I called it “Library.” But since I do not wear perfumes from samples, and after a while I do not go back and test those that I didn’t like again, they just stay in my drawers and slowly die. So last year I decided that I needed to go through samples quicker, decide whether I wanted to test them more and, if no, pass them on somebody else for testing: I hate the idea that people spend dozens of dollars to test something that stays without any use in my collection. It goes slowly, since I’m re-testing some of the perfumes – to make up my mind or sometimes just to make sure that it’s still not spoiled before sending it to someone else.
Recently I “purged” a set of samples by adding them to Lucas’s travel box of samples.
Maybe in a couple of months I should do my own box and send it off to the World…
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As a grateful recipient of some of your samples, the sharing is much appreciated! I love the idea of an Undina traveling box!
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