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Despite my whinge about the quick sell outs this month I did manage to secure a couple of items from the menu of youbeauty discovery this month as well as two extras. This is my box for May 2015. The first item in my box is an extra and it is a sample of Jimmy Choo Man eau de toilette. This is an odd extra in a box which will be bought predominantly by women for their own use but I am guessing that most people will pass it on to male member of their family or household. I don't think I will be wearing it though but will give it to Paul to wear. The second item in my box this month is the 100% natural vegetable fibre face cloth from TheKonjacSpongeCo. This is shaped in a vague angel shape (mine seems to be divebombing) and the packaging says that it is kinder to the skin than a standard muslin cloth. According to the write up on the back it can be used with or without cleanser for daily cleansing or to remove face masks, hot cleansers and waterproof makeup....

I really enjoyed doing the advent calendars for 2014 and found it useful as I now have lots of products to use and it also meant I could see the value of the advent calendars ready for 2015. Here are my summaries for each (except Yankee candles) and some of my thoughts on each.

Here are my christmas eve/christmas day items from my advent calendars.

Only two more advent days to write then I am up to date. Sorry for the lack of posts/ long gap but trying to get back to optimal health... Which might be about june. But sorry to go off on a tangent. Here is the day 23 entry for my advent calendars.

Another advent calendar entry and another good day for me with products I will use. Will definitely be hard to decide order of preference today as they are mostly great with one making me really excited.

I am slowly getting through the backlog of my advent calendar days and I am finding that the last few days seem to add a lot of nice products to my stash and day 21 seems to be no different with a serum, highlighter, brush, tea light and s eyeliner, which my aunt will enjoy.

Day 20 is a lot more fun than day 19 and it is a day which offers good value in all the advent calendars. But what did I get?

Sorry, this is a little late but this will be the first of my updates on the advent calendars. I will return where I left off when I exited and then sum up each one as I did actually originally purchase all five to assess value for money. Here is day 19 though.

So, thankfully with this post I am up to date with my advent calendars even though I am feeling like I should sleep all the time. I hope you all feel better than I do at the moment and like these posts. So, here are my day 18 goodies:

Another day. Another lot of goodies for my advent calendars. And another day of a horrid cold. But paerhaps these goodies will cheer me up...

Sorry, I am two days behind on my advent calendar but I will catch up today hopefully.  This is day sixteen of my advent calendar and has a nice selection of products.

Another day, five more doors and today is okay but another day that doesn't really blow me away but at least there are no accessories today and the tea light smells nice.

Today's advent calendar picks are a bit meh for me today but all are useful to me, but one, and I like opening the calendars as it is exciting and I knew that eventually I would get a meh day. Unfortunately it is going to be that day today.

Today was another great day in my advent calendars and unlike yesterday I will use all of these products and there is a great selection for me to use. For skincare to makeup to nail care there are useful products a go go.

I hope you forgive me for being a little behind but we spent today and yesterday swapping two bedrooms in our house so Edward could get a big boy bedroom. So I had no internet on my company for two days so now I am catching up. And here I bring you yesterday's advent calendars.

I have been having a few good days and I knew that a bad one would come and today is the day. Don't get me wrong, all but one can be used but no real wow products today.

Wow, into double figures with the advent calendars already and getting ever so close to Christmas. Where is the year going? Another great day in advent calendar land though as you can see when you look at what I received.

A better day than yesterday today and today other than the tea light surprising me a little, as it wasn't pink or white or red, all the items are fab and huge size samples for the formats that they are and I am really happy.

Day seven was fab yesterday and today it looks like another so so day as although I will use it all there is nothing which really jumps out and bites me. But at least I will use it all. Now to show you what was in my advent calendars:

I had a particularly bad day yesterday so everything is going up a little later than expected but hopefully no one minds too much. Thankfully, though, this isn't too delayed and it is a good day in advent calendar land. Plus I get to shop on someone else's money so, for the most part, I am very happy.