I’m with your mom and sister. I spent most on skincare. I don’t really need anything else. What kind of car care things did you get?
After getting a ceramic coating and paint protection film on my car, the shop told me I had to "take care" of it in order for it to last. So I took them seriously and looked around for info on how to do that and bought stuff like a special car shampoo, leather cleaner, a brush for getting in between the spokes of the wheels and a good bit of microfiber cloths and drying towels. I was told the stuff you get AutoZone, or something, tends to not be the best so I got whatever was deemed as "quality" by the Auto Detailing subreddit. We'll see how it goes but since I started the advice given to me by the shop that did the work and from what I've seen and read online, I've been washing all our cars somewhat regularly and in doing so I think I've discovered that I find cleaning therapeutic and calming. I had a hint a few years back when I'd vacuum the house and just kind of got lost in it but felt much better afterwards. Sounds dumb but the right type of "cleaning" puts me in a special place. Cleaning shit skid marks from the toilet bowl? No. Dog shit in the house? No. But definitely something that you can stand back and admire and feel the clean, that's become therapeutic for me.
So the newer car doesn't need anything extensive and just needs preventative stuff but my parents' and sister's car could use some love after 3 years of use. One thing I've been doing is getting familiar with rinseless washes since the cold weather is here and we don't use the outdoor house to rinse off our cars. But road salt will be an issue and letting it sit too long will damage the paint. Plus it doesn't look nice. My parents run their cars through a car wash near the office but I'm not sure if it's touchless. So if it isn't, those spinning brushes are destroying the paint too. Even if it is touchless, it has been so nice to just sit in the garage with a bucket, a sponge, and rinseless wash and just wipe down a car and dry it off and apply some gloss/wax to it afterwards and see the results.
So this BF was more about self-care rather than other stuff. My mom and sister, like I said, got some creams and makeup but I got a salve of moisturizer too. I use it daily, especially since I started my clinical rotations and am out in public but I wasn't all-in on skincare so I used to drug store stuff like Jack Black or Dove for Men. Then once I started this OB/Gyn rotation, somehow we students got to talking about skincare. between 3 guys and 3 girls, we had some sort of skincare routine and they all discussed the products they used. Well, i just told them I slapped my face with Dove for Men on the way out the house but the other guys talked about toners, moisturizers, etc. Maybe they dealt with acne as a kid and have gotten in to the habit of having a multi-step routine to clear up scars and maintain a clean face? I don't know, I'm assuming things but while it's bad for dudes to just run out in to the world without some care for their skin, theirs seemed like something they looked up and researched a GQ magazine and built a routine that way. Which is fine, but it opened my eyes a bit more that skincare really is something more guys are taking seriously.
So my mom shops this cosmetics store nearby and basically pillages the store with their deals. So she got a small salve of a Clinique moisturizer for free and told me to try it a few weeks back. Turns out it was even better than the other shit I was using "for men." And while it doesn't say it's for women, it certainly doesn't have the masculine smell of, say, Avalanche Thunder Rape from Old Spice. And I'm OK with that. So I've been using that moisturizer every day and still feel it soft at the end of the day when going to bed, so it's quite durable. So I bought a larger salve of it and lumped it in with my mom's order from Clinique.
So that's my start in to skincare and I'll probably leave it at that for a bit since it's simple enough to do daily and the results are fine for me. I don't know if wearing a mask for 9 hours helps or hurts but the girls were complaining about acne since the pandemic from mask-wearing and that's something I've managed to avoid.