My Strange Addiction

[Trilby]

It pains me to admit this, but I cannot get out of a Yankee Candle store for under 50 bucks.

What is wrong with me (or, more likely, right with their store??)

What is your achilles heel?

[Sundae]

Now you see I don't have £25 to spend.
But if I had, I'd be hard pressed to exit a candle shop with it still in my pocket.

When I had money - real money that would be replenished every month - these are the things I would buy.

Books. I never understood why bookshops didn't have baskets. I'd walk to the counter with a pile wedged precariously under my chin. £70 ($120) was not exceptional.

Sparkly things. I was and still am a magpie. In these days where I have champagne tastes and a lemonade budget I can still be found with my nose pressed against jewellers' windows.

Unusual/ exotic food. I can easily spend an hour in a high-end food store, looking and smelling and (ideally) tasting. Even at my slimmest and richest I gobbled up samples. Always looking for a new taste sensation.

And back to the OT
Candles. I still buy them when I can. There used to be an amazing candle shop in Covent Garden. I bought the evil ex a large, complex candle in the shape of a dragon which was very similar to a carved wooden dragon I had also bought him (he'd admired it, but it was out of his price range). WE agreed that he might light the candle one day, but only on a special occasion. Imagine my chagrin when I travelled down from Leicester to see him and it had already been lit and was half melted away.

Arsehole.

Anyway.
I also have a terrible addiction to make-up and cosmetics.
Why?! I rarely wear them!
Although my recent purchase of a Maybelline mascara was well worth it. The sort of inspired purchase I think I am making every time I buy.

[GunMaster357]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Books. I never understood why bookshops didn't have baskets. I'd walk to the counter with a pile wedged precariously under my chin. £70 ($120) was not exceptional.

Same here. I read a lot. And I can't stand to wait at the library for a book to become available I want to read it again. So I buy a lot of books, either in stores or on-line. Nearly every gift I buy for my family is a book, even for my 2 years old nephew.

My other weakness is chocolate. I once went into a store to buy a gift for a friend and ended up with the gift wrapped along with something like 200 € worth of chocolate just for myself...

Fortunately for my bank account, I do that no more than once or twice a year.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Sundae

But if I had, I'd be hard pressed to exit a candle shop with it still in my pocket.

Books. Sparkly things. Unusual/ exotic food. ICandles. I still buy them when I can. make-up and cosmetics.
Why?! I rarely wear them! my recent purchase of a Maybelline mascara was well worth it. The sort of inspired purchase I think I am making every time I buy.

so... spending, then? in a nutshell?

[grynch]

mrs. G loves Yankee Candle also.........thank gawd the nearest one is 1000's of miles away

[infinite monkey]

Socks.

Mostly because I can pick up 9 or ten black socks and not find one matching pair in the bunch.

I wish my addiction were cleaning and organizing.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Socks.

Mostly because I can pick up 9 or ten black socks and not find one matching pair in the bunch.

I used to work for Dr Solomon's Software. We threw socks out at IT shows. It was funny to watch Department Heads on £100k+ scrambling for free socks
The cardboard attachment read "Dr Solomon's. Blows your socks off" and the black socks had Dr Solomon's stitched in white at the top.

Being part of the sales team I had plenty of freebie socks.
And they could be worn left or right and therefore never got mixed up in the washing.

I think I lost or left my last pair approx 14 years after acquiring them.

I borrow my Mum's now.

[grynch]

my addictions are wine , women and song


and I've never been all that crazy about the music.

[Trilby]

Sundae - your weaknesses are my own! I love all those things, too, and buy them up when I should be a grown up and pay the rent!

I had a few dollars in my pocket because the water bill was 1/3 what is usually is (son was staying at his dads house) and I sold some gold.

[monster]

used hockey gear.

[monster]

Originally Posted by monster

used hockey gear.

scored a goalie stick for $3.50 today. Hector doesn't need any more sticks, didn't have a measuring tape to tell if it was his size paddle, blade curve looked a little too much but hell, $3.50 -beat up sticks sell for $30 and this one is autographed by someone and clearly hasn't been used since that happened when it was fairly new. Turned out the paddle was exactly the right size for hector, as was the angle of the blade, and the curve is something he's been looking to experiment with.....

[skysidhe]

Books, candles and planting/ growing flowers. I just harvested my own home grown lavender yesterday!

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

I just harvested my own home grown lavender yesterday!

Oooooooo! whatcha gonna make? Lavendar dollies?

[skysidhe]

I am too lazy for that. I pulled the buds off some stalks and they are wafting their aroma through the house. I just left them alone to do all the work.

I also put sprigs in a vase, which is sitting on my mantle. That is the height of my accomplishment.


If I had time and it wasn't so late in the season a lavender wreath would have been nice.

[Pico and ME]

I was addicted to candle shopping once upon a time. I stopped when I realized that I just wasn't burning them. They finally did come in handy one winter when we had a power outage during a really nasty cold snap. I lit every single one of them in the living room and dining room, and those suckers actually kept the heat around 55 degrees!

I also had a Hobby Lobby addiction too. I could not get out of that store for under $100. It was those damn 50% off sales on decorative glass and ceramic stuffs.

My current addiction is 75 % clearance sales at department stores. I have kind of slowed down now though because our clothes closets just wont fit anymore in them.