What is your OS compulsion?

buying LOADS of cheap veg when it's on offer! bought heaps of carrots, onions, potatoes, leeks, parsnips etc this last couple of weeks. I'm slowly working my way through it but I'm sure it'll last me until the end of the year (that was the idea anyway!)

Dizzyduck wrote: »

Fabric softner and liquid- have a number of bottles under sink from special offers and BOGOF at Marks & Spencer. I know it'll get used but even 4 bottles of each is excessive. Mind you if I spot another special offer will I be able to resist? Probably not!

Snap! There was a really good offer on some washing stuff about 2 years ago I think in Morrisons, much reduced and with a 50p voucher off the new style packet.

At one point I think I had 15 bottles of the stuff. Just about using the last of it now...

And loo rolls... I'm down to my last 48, I'll have to look for a new offer. (I live alone as well... my relatives think I'm bonkers :rotfl:)

Carbohydrates. I always figure if I have loads of them filling the freezer and the cupboards then we may get bored but will not go hungry!

I can see myself in so many of your posts .

- Whoopsie-hunting is one of my worst/best - I can actually sense a yellow sticker in the next aisle :rotfl:.
- Washing out freezer bags.
- Washing out margarine tubs AND stacking them neatly in one of the bottom cupboards - nearly kills me to throw one out :rolleyes:.
- Asking all my 'gardener neighbours' if they can use any packaging trays for growing seedlings in.
- Freezing anything/everything I can get my hands on. Eg DS2 arrives with dgs3, opens a tin of soup and uses half to feed him with - I grab the remainder, put it in a small freezer tub and into the freezer - he'll be grateful one day when he arrives with no dinner for him .
- Watering down semi-skimmed milk to make skimmed :rolleyes:.
- Putting the plug in the bath while I'm showering so that my feet get a good soaking at the same time - saves using a separate bowl of water.
- Using up OH's toothpaste when he buys a new tube because he buys the expensive stuff and leaves lots in the old tube .
- Flattening the toilet roll tube so the dgk's can't pull loads off the roll without me hearing them do it .
- Hanging onto Christmas Cards/Wrapping Paper from one year to the next. Rolls of wrapping paper are stashed down the side of the wardrobes and Christmas Cards are in those boxes that hold reams of printer paper. Also making gift tags out of the Christmas Cards each year .
- Have had a 'gold theme' for Christmas for the past 15years or so - saves having to keep buying new deccies - just get a few new ones each year.
- Lists - shopping lists, reminder lists, freezer lists, present lists et al.
- Fabric/Wool stashes - very embarassing. We have an amazing remnants shop in Liverpool that I'm addicted to - I frequently go in there and forget to come back out again .
- Cookery books in Charity Shops.

I used four old curtains this week-two to make snuggly duvet protectors for the dks (curtain one side, Asda fleece the other), and two to line the door curtain in the hall.

Having dipped into the curtain box repeatedly over the years to make dressing up costumes for school, and having given the better curtains away to friends who needed them, the old curtain box is now looking...gulp...almost empty.

As I took the curtains out of the box I caught myself thinking...No...I can't USE these old curtains...what will I do if I need to use them for something?

Perhaps I need to join Old Curtains Anonymous....:o