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.