My Strange Addiction
 

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

my addictions are wine , women and song


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

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.

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.

used hockey gear.

:eek:

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

Oooooooo! whatcha gonna make? Lavendar dollies? :)

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.

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.

Luckily I owe too much and with the need to pay for my mom's implants and crowns, I do not readily spend these days. The other day, I saw a tote in just the perfect size that I've been longing for all these years, wanted it so badly, but I left the store without buying it. I may long for it later but I won't die without it. :p: Still a little sad but I know I shouldn't get it. Anyways, I like Yankee Candle too. They can really freshen up a room, unlike other scented candles.

I can barely get out of Yankee Candle with my lunch intact.

The overpowering density of the atmosphere is practically unbearable. Taken one at a time, the candles are quite nice and I've had a few here before. Though, my inner cheap bastard strongly prefers to shop at the cheaper stores for cheaper candles.

I have a weakness for tools, hand tools mostly, but I love power tools too. Witness my recent repair of the hatch on my car. I consider them my "payment" for doing a job, I love it when I can justify getting another tool. I do like to get tools that can be used more than once, so specialized tools that are needed for *this job only*, while cool, are not usually appealing enough to purchase.

I own a lot of movies, but that has tapered off with the increased ability to stream them. Same with music. Craft materials tend to accumulate here, I can usually make something I need (I fixed SonofV's headphones today with a bracket I modified and a ring clamp. His Deadmau5 helmet/mask was put together with what we had here. McGuyver got nothin on me man).

My retail therapy experiences are on indefinite hold though, the economy don'tcha know?

novels. Just today, eventhough I have about 5 ahead of this one, I bought a stewart woods novel tonight when I went to the store to buy supper...

Also, like BigV, tools. I need about ohhhh idunno, 6 more grand worth? I cant go to homo depot or lowes without walking out with something.

Books. I used to love going to borders in the city. I have spent a huge amount of money on books over the years, but I don't regret it. I've enjoyed every single one of them, and will again.

I look forward to the day when things aren't so tight financially and I can allow myself to go into a bookstore again.

all you have to do is ask. you are a treasured friend and it would be an honor to buy it for you.

Hehe....It's the thought that counts, and I greatly appreciate your thought. :)

ohhhh alright. well christmas is coming up soon! hm? hhm? hhhhm? pm me a little hint and info!

This made my breath hitch a little bit. Bless both of you x

My soot-covered ceiling asks Yankee Candle lovers to switch to soy.

I'm afraid my Kindle has let loose my book-acquisition reflex. I'd run out of shelf space, now I'm packing them into my Kindle, including all the out-of-copyright books which I want to own and have read/will read again/might read/ought to read.
I get the impression that the mp3 player has done the same for Mr Limey.

Mom got new boobs? You go, girl. ;)

We're just good friends. He wouldn't have said all that if he realized how expensive the purse is. :p: But it is a blessing to have good friends, isn't it? ;)

:lol: Dental implants...:p:

Soy is sootless? Does it freshen the room well too?

Well I was told that soy produces less soot, but a short Google investigation seems to say that this might not be the case.

We used unscented soy candles for a while, it seems like scents are put into soy candles in the same way they are put into "regular" candles, and work the same way.

You had better not let him buy it. You know how jealous it will make me

I can't justify the price for expensive candles. I can get very smelly cheap candles that serve my purpose just fine. I burn a ton of tealights (in stained glass and clear swirly glass containers) and smaller ones in glass jars. I don't want to spend a fortune on them if I'm burning them almost every night. (I don't like a lot of light...at night the light from the candles and the TV or computer is more than enough.)

I haven't had any good experience with inexpensive candles. They don't smell good. Actually, they don't really give out any scent at all. Just a candle burning away uselessly.

I'm the same way about not liking a lot of light. Especially overhead lights. I'm constantly turning them off after someone leaves them on.

Lord knows that crap is only good for burning up anyway. Blech.

Certainly one pays for quality, like in everything else. I've bought good candles and I know there's a difference. I like the light and the bit of odor; it's just me and a cat. Plus, I'm hard of smelling. :)

I buy cheap ones. the expensive ones are overpowering and generally just too sweet and icky. You just gotta be careful -some cheap ones smell like toilet cleaner

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.....

We have a shop here called Dusk which sells all that candle type stuff. Some is ok, some I don't like.

My favourite candles to burn are some small ones which were limited edition of my favourite fragrance by narcisso rodriguez. I'm nearly out of them now, and I stocked up.

I make my own candles from old hockey tape (microwave it to melt it), bacon fat and a little salt. I uses twisted tape for the wick. I have used (jockstrap) cups as a mold, but only as a joke. I usually use disposable drinking cups.

(It's a fantastic fundraiser, makes people laugh, but they can't help but buy.....)