What is your OS compulsion?

Proofraider · 11 November 2009 at 11:48AM

thriftlady wrote: »

Mine isn't a buying compulsion- it's making shopping lists.

My weekly shopping list takes nearly a whole week to make. I shop on Monday but by Wednesday I'm starting to make the next week's list. I continue to revise and refine it through the week until Monday morning. I also go online to do a virtual shop to see how much I'm going to end up spending. I get through loads of notepads.

For the last couple of Christmases I've been given one of those page-a-day tear-off block calendars, and since each sheet is blank on the back I've saved them as notepads by the phone and I use them for shopping lists etc as well!

ariarnia · 11 November 2009 at 11:50AM

hmmm....

lots of bad cases on here I see.

My main problem is books.

My degree was in philosophy, so many books needed for that, but they were all very heavy books. Like chewing toffee.

As a relaxation I developed a habit for young adult fantasy (Gareth Nix and the like). Little did I know that he was no more than a gateway to the stronger stuff!

Soon I found myself unable to settle for anything less than complete series!

Now my bookcase is alphanumeric by author and publication date/chronological order (damn prequals!). Or at least were until we moved, they're now in boxes by the same.

I read at least one book a day. they have to be in sequence and I can't read the same book twice in a 12 month period!

When I don't have a book to read/a book in the series is missing, I'm unlovable until it can be found (to the point at which I have several copies of habitual hiders)

And yet for birthdays and Christmases - no one buys me any books!

purpleivy · 11 November 2009 at 12:13PM

I think I can honestly say that 90% of these things I do, especially lists, cookbooks, fabric/pattern/wool stashes. I too tend not to open the catalogues that I get through the post Book People, Lands End, Lakeland I think are the only ones that come.

I don't do plastic tubs as I have lots of nice tupperware that I got amazing deals on when friend was an agent. Mum keeps me supplied with Carte d'or tubs.

Eltee12 · 11 November 2009 at 12:51PM

Mine is more of an aversion than a compulsion - I begrudge paying full-price for anything these days!

Last week my OH was laughing at me cos he DARED to suggest we go to the Baker's BEFORE 3pm and I got all offended and said 'What, and pay full price?'

This might count as an obsession, if OH does go out shopping on his own, I demand the receipt when he gets in:rotfl:

Eltee12 · 11 November 2009 at 12:52PM

Oh yes, I forgot the lists

lists of stuff to do at home
shopping lists
to-do lists at work

etc.etc.

windowshopper100 · 11 November 2009 at 1:01PM

http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CatalogSearchResultView?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&pageSize=10&beginIndex=0&searchScope=SimpleSearch&resultType=2&resultCatEntryType=1&catgrpSchemaType=2&vipStatus=&fromPage=basicSearch&layout=oneColumn&pageNumber=&pageSizeOption=10&format=&sortOption=DEFAULT&ageRange=&onlySets=&categoryName=&categoryPath=&categoryId=&luceneSearchType=BASIC&searchTerm=forgotten+skills

Ta daa!

spend_thrift · 11 November 2009 at 2:08PM

OK, I'll admit it - I'm Spend_Thrift and I'm an OS compulsive!

They say that admitting you have a problem is the first stage towards a cure....

My biggest compulsion is bargain-hunting. I'm absolutely incapable of passing up a bargain when I see one, even if that means spending a fair bit more than I planned to in order to save money later. I have cupboards stuffed full of multiples of non-perishables that were on offer (a couple of years' supply of toothpaste, enough shampoo to last forever) and I stockpile my favourite butter (Kerrygold) whenever I see it cheaply. :rolleyes:

I find I'm copying my mother's approach to saving, although we come from a long line of bargain hunters. My great aunt once went into a furniture shop and swiped a knob from a chest of drawers, then went back later and asked for a discount due to the drawers having a knob missing! :eek::D:rolleyes::rotfl:

Most of my bargain purchases are books, secondhand/vintage kitchenware and storage jars. I can't walk past a Kilner jar without wanting to buy it

(And I'm eyeing up that forgotten skills cookbook now too... thanks a lot! :rotfl:)

parsonswife8 · 11 November 2009 at 2:18PM

Mine is also making lists-I have been doing that for donkey's years.:rolleyes:
Another is trawling charity shops:rotfl:
Also buying autobiographies.:D
And using as many money saving coupons and vouchers, as I can:T.

LameWolf · 11 November 2009 at 2:56PM

I seem to have developed an allergy to throwing anything away that can conceivably be used again.

Yesterday I finally got around to finishing off making some table mats from offcuts of material from when I shortened the kitchen curtains - and sewed them up with the cotton I'd unpicked from them in the first place!:rotfl:

Triker · 11 November 2009 at 3:10PM

Slinky_Malinky wrote: »

Mulitple compulsions here...

Huge stash of tinned/dried food
Freezers bursting at the seams
Cook Books
Diet Books
Kitchen cookware/gadgets
Bargain clothes for my son `to grow into` though not MS when I take them out and they have already been outgrown :mad:
Vast collection of various plastic storage crates/drawers/tupperware etc.
Collection of many crochet patterns, started 25 years ago when they were so hard to find that everywhere I went I`d check out out the wool shops and buy any patterns they had. Built up a lovely pile, mainly baby stuff. Ironically when my son was born I never actually made him a single thing!

I think we must have seperated at birth.....'cept the bit about the son and the crochet, I have girls....everything else ...yup..:whistle::D

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