What is your OS compulsion?

shazrobo

i have to visit every charity shop wherever i am, even at the seaside for days out
stockpiled enough toiletries for the rest of my life, if anything non perishable that i use is on offer, i stockpile
i also have so much knitting wool, and patterns, that the loft was converted into a craft room to store it all

mum2one

Mine is lists - I have lists for everything, but usually lose them!

Christmas cards - I think I made the best mistake in Jan - thought I was ordering 80 xmas cards at £4.99, but I actually ordered 800 cards - they were still £4.99 thou!!
x

MikeyMacbeth

2cats1kid wrote: »

Chopped tomatoes and kidney beans! At one point I had so many tins I swear I could have made enough chilli to feed a small African nation!

Guilty as charged m'lud:o

tessasmum

thriftlady wrote: »

This one looks good though......:D

Yes, it does - but don't buy it there as it is much cheaper at The Book People!

beemuzed

Lovely thread! mine is lists too - for anything and everything. Might even do a "list of lists I have" someday!
My cupboard under the sink has many duplicates which I keep in a basket in the garage - and then forget to check so I buy more later!
My fabric stash includes many lengths purchased in the late 70's and 80's - but I will get round to using them someday. Best is probably the material bought to make cushions for the garden bench purchased 20 years ago and which (still cushionless) has just been given to a friend to use in his wood burning stove...
And then, the recipe books.... two long shelves, both full, in the kitchen. I can't bear to part with any of them.

marie8284

For years my family have told me to get rid of my margarine tub collection which i admit can get alittle bit out of control when we have an avalanche flying out of the cupboard. Also I always thought I was a freak as I didn't know anyone else with a margarine tub collection. But now I know I'm normal and there is others out there like me!!!!!

Marie

Bambywamby

My compulsions are:

*Checking online banking daily - even on a Sunday when nothing goes out.
*MSE of course.
*Using stardrops to wash O/H white shirts rather than waste our precious washing liquid.
*Banning everyone from the kitchen. They either make a mess, use stuff up that was part of my meal planner or wash the pots and use too much w/u/liquid.
*Spreading marg on the back of Ryvitas and Cream Crackers, you use up less on the flat surface...less calories too.
*Making soup every few days from rubber veg, left over meat and collected stock.
*Checking the weather forcast online every few hours if I have washing out - I would hate it to get wet and have to use that devilesque tumble dryer.
*Saving bread bags for sandwichs and carrier bags for bin bags - I have an obscenely large collection of both.
*Checking the survery sites twice a day.
*Hoovering through the house twice a day like a mad woman because I have three dogs and I HAAAAAAAAATE :eek: dog hairs.

sandraroffey

so many, many jars for preserves etc that i dont get around to making often these days, keeping all the peels and croes from fruit in the freezer, taking up lots of space, and like as with the jars, never seem to get around making the jam, little plastic containers, like take aways come in, for making ice cream in, off cuts and oddments of fabric which i will use sometime soon (!) lists, lots of lists, and getting to iceland just as they open in the morning to buy meat at half price, or less, then have to give it to my son because there is no room in the freezer. but at that price, i just cant turn it away. being on here on MSE, and so, so much more. glad it isnt just me.

bluebag

Lists. Office supplies, goodness knows why?? Hair conditioner, my girls use loads of it as they have curly hair, but I seriously have a massive amount of hair conditioner.

Toilet rolls, I always feel a sense of panic if I start getting low on loo roll.

Towels, tea towels and travel towels, guest towels, beach towels, camping towels, scruffy towels, best towels.. I find it really hard to part with towels. Feel quite disenchanted with myself now I've written that down, umph!

pigpen

valli wrote: »

*checks to see who's looking*;)

i have no compulsions at all:a:a:a

liieeesssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!