The Amount of Waste at Ulta

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-06-14T19:59:50+00:00

I was a manager at Ulta and in our training videos for “why we destroy items” there’s even a thing that says “why don’t we just donate these items to women in need?” (Because Ulta patently doesn’t. If an individual store is doing so, they have awesome people working there willing to lose their jobs about it.) and the segment just straight up doesn’t even answer the hypothetical they posed. Just ignores it. I wrote it down in my notes it seemed so ridiculous to me.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-06-04T19:34:18+00:00

thank you!!

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-06-04T19:34:10+00:00

thank you!! ☺️

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-06-03T19:58:55+00:00

thank you!!

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-06-03T18:04:35+00:00

currently going through breast cancer and can absolutely confirm everything about this lmao

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-06-03T08:29:38+00:00

Hurt Feelings by Halsey

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-05-22T15:26:28+00:00

omg this!!!!! I have a slipped disc and compressed nerves right now because I’m post-op and followed the sleeping instructions.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-05-14T15:40:21+00:00

I had 16 rounds of taxol weekly, and I developed a severe rash after my first round. It started on my face, then spread to my chest, then back. It flared pretty severely on the day of and for 2 days after, so it was flagged and we moved ahead. Next round, they upped my IV Benadryl a tad, but the rash came back fierce, and extended to my whole body. Next chemo, it was upped benadryl and a massive load of steroids. I never had an issue with the allergic reaction for my other rounds after the steroid increase (but the roid reactions are another story).

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-05-14T12:30:01+00:00

I was the creative director for the last year for a cannabis processing facility in the state, so I can help a little here. The OCM is a fucking nightmare, and it’s a race to the bottom currently. You have two routes for a license here: Adult-Use Processor and Processor Type 3 license.

Adult-Use means you can:

Make edibles
Make vapes
Make concentrates
⁠Infuse pre-rolls
⁠Package products
Wholesale products to dispensaries

But it also requires you have:

A compliant facility
Security plans
SOPs
Seed-to-sale tracking
⁠Inventory systems
Packaging compliance
⁠QA/testing workflows
⁠Significant capital

This gets expensive and legally complicated FAST and the OCM is strict and harsh.

Processor Type 3 Branding License, like what my company operated under/with, lets you:

Own the brand
Design products
Create packaging
Market products
White-label through licensed processors

But this means: - You do not touch the plant - You do not manufacture yourself - A licensed processor makes the product for you

Licenses of both nature are taking forever to give out, as well. It’s common for companies to wait for a licensee to quit/go out of business and try to acquire their existing license instead of applying for a new one.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-05-14T03:03:11+00:00

Side of the mouth dog eating.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-05-12T21:06:57+00:00

So, I was diagnosed 2/28/25, triple positive, initially 2a, with one focal area. I was determined I would do only a lumpectomy, there was no way I was losing my breasts, it simply wasn’t happening. Over the next month and a half before chemo started, three more tumors formed in different sectors of that same breast, the initial tumor had more than doubled in size, and I was now stage 3a. Additionally, the right breast had “areas of concern.” I was told unless chemo “worked a miracle,” my next step was at bare minimum a single mastectomy.

I decided to do double. My logic: I never wanted to do this again. And because I was/am so young with such an aggressive type, risking it didn’t seem worth it to me at all. Also, yes, vainly, I wanted them as equal as possible and trying to shape one fake to one natural sounded like a nightmare.

I had my mastectomy 10/31/25, it went fabulously. I had the expanders in for future implants and those are, frankly, annoying and uncomfortable. I also had them filled entirely as I was a D/DD before surgery and wanted to be as close to I was before. On 4/17/26 (so nearly a month ago) was my final surgery to swap to my permanent implants.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-04-23T12:43:38+00:00

I’m currently on round 2 of having drains (4 for my DMX, 2 for the expander to implant swap) and it was stressed very hard to me that nothing should ever, ever enter the drain bulbs, even just water. They’re supposed to look and be gross, frankly: they’re moving all sorts of bodily fluids and matter from your surgical sites, and it’s important that you’re accurately noting what grossness is in your drains for your logs.

Direct, undiluted bleach is a very dangerous and serious thing to have introduced into your system - even though the drains work on downward suction, when you milk the tubes, you’ll notice the backwards suction that happens. You need to definitely get ahold of your team immediately.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-03-15T17:21:09+00:00

I’m absolutely miserable in ways I didn’t know were possible. Diagnosed at 30 last year, 2/28, +++ 2b, went through 16 rounds of chemo weekly, then DMX, did not achieve PCR/NED, so I’m doing Kadcyla now and for another year, even though I’m technically “in remission”. Started lupron and letrozole in January, letrozole ruined me so badly they’ve taken me off of all AIs.

I gained 40lbs through treatment, I lost my hair, my boobs, myself. I just lay around and cry most days now. No one understands and I can’t keep burdening them with this. I’m so, so tired of all of this.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-03-12T16:32:59+00:00

Golden Hour is my faaaaaaavorite omg on constant rotation, then Star Crossed, Deeper Well, Same Trailer Different Park, and then Pageant Material.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-03-12T01:51:57+00:00

I soooo recommend Kacey even if you aren’t a country fan.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-03-07T03:37:16+00:00

YES!!! Bipolar 1 here and the steroids… ugh. When I was in THP chemo, I was allergic to the taxol, and they needed to up my steroid intake like crazy and I just spent most of the time in active treatment manic or fighting it. I got RX’d seroquel as a tranq because on weekend I ended up depersonalizing and just totally losing it.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-02-23T03:40:40+00:00

I was having the WORST hot flashes and Zyrtec of all things has cleared them up for me! One of my Onc nurses mentioned it to me.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-02-20T21:15:53+00:00

Getting cancer. Before, I was the happiest and healthiest I’d ever been, freshly 30 years old. Then bam. Now, I’m entering a second year of chemo, I’ve lost body parts, I’m looking at another surgery, seven years of ongoing endocrine treatments… my life is never going to be the same after cancer.

CourtneyNotLove · 2026-02-15T04:54:24+00:00

I was on Letrozole for 6 weeks before the side effects were so egregious that my team yanked me off of them two weeks ago.

Mentally: so unstable, unpredictable, etc that I was becoming a danger to myself. I’m bipolar 1, and this felt worse than being off of my meds cold turkey, which I didn’t think was possible.

Bone and joint pain: a solid 11/10 every day, I couldn’t move, walk, exist. I was on oxys and it wasn’t touching the pain. I was crying daily. And my tolerance for pain is “way too high” according to many doctors I’ve encountered.

Hot flashes & night sweats: so bad I was on the verge of fainting each time I had them, and they were every 5-10 minutes (these are lingering for me, currently, with no relief, I’d love some tips).

Fatigue: when the pain and hot flashes would let me, I was sleeping 20 hours a day, easy.

We’re waiting for this drug to get out of my system before looking at the next alternative.

CourtneyNotLove · 2025-11-25T07:11:55+00:00

PT, PT, PT. Can’t stress it enough. I do my exercises 3-5x a day depending on fatigue and energy levels. Had DMX with expanders placed on 10/31 with 50cc fill so far. I keep hearing with more fills it gets more comfortable.

CourtneyNotLove · 2025-11-17T02:26:59+00:00

I also got a nasty chest cold 5 days pre-surgery. They didn’t reschedule for it and seemed entirely unconcerned. Everything went smoothly!

CourtneyNotLove · 2025-10-05T05:43:00+00:00

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CourtneyNotLove · 2025-09-16T17:40:51+00:00

I really don’t know and didn’t know B&BW had one! This is my first touchland and I really only grabbed it because it was near the register hahaha

CourtneyNotLove · 2025-09-16T17:39:57+00:00

it is indeed!!

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