Can't Stop Buying

[Spuds up]

Has anybody got anything the they can't stop buying.

For me it is spring bulbs. I can't walk past a shelf in a supermarket, DIY store or where ever and not buy the bargain spring bulb collections at the moment.

I have just put all my recent purchases together and its quite a pile.

2 things, I doubt I have room for them all, secondly do I have the time to plant them!

Is there anything you must have and damn the consequences?

Cheers

[Lesley Jay]

Cookery books!

[nick the grief]

I find being skint helps but i have got loads of books

[Earthbabe]

Books and really good chocolate oh yes and essential oils and lavender plants.

Mr E is a DVD buyer. Miss E is starting to develop a passion for shoes and handbags despite my best efforts, especially pink, sparkly, fluffy stuff. And this is the child that brings worms home as pets!!!

I'm a fully paid up member of the chocolate tasting club but have to restrict myself to 3-4 boxes a year. Have already entered the chocolate giveaway competition.

[MissyMoo]

Books are my weakness but I'm trying to restrict myself to the library to save money.
Seeds are another one. A new packet of seeds is so full of promise!

Oh and anything on ebay....damn that site

[multiveg]

Seeds and books.

[JennieAtkinson]

Water colour painting books ........ and I can't paint!

[Waffler]

Seeds, cook books, spring bulbs & beautiful papers and cards for crafting.

[JennieAtkinson]

Oh yes, forgot about papers for scrapbooking. Thanks for the reminder Waffler!

[mandyballantyne]

Food from the supermarket, I go in for milk or coffee and come out with a tolley full. I go every few days, if I don't I get withdrawl symptoms!

Also books buy loads andread every one.

[HappyMouffe]

Earthbabe, I buy from the chocolate tasting club too - six times a year, and my next box will be turning up shortly - something to look forward to

Other than that - seeds! I always buy too many, and get loads of free ones from magazines and never enough room in the greenhouse for them all.

[Waffler]

Oh yes, forgot about papers for scrapbooking. Thanks for the reminder Waffler!

Trouble is - don't know about you - but I don't really like to cut them up!! I would quite happily frame them and put them on the wall if I was allowed to and if I didn't know that it would probably make me known to be very strange (instead of just being strange, but keeping it well hidden!)

[Alison]

Am with LJ on the cookery books front and can easily get carried away in the gardening catalogues on those cold winter nights. I content myself with the fact it's better than make up and shoes but that's probably debatable. OH can't resist a gadget and it's taken me years to convince him that I don't want something small and electronic for my birthday - last year after some (very unsubtle) hints he eventually realised I didn't want a camera that was so light it would float in air and bought me a wormery - much more useful and it's been quite fun now it's up and running.

[JennieAtkinson]

That's me Waffler too - loads of papers and don't want to cut any of them. That's why I buy more!

[OverWyreGrower]

Cookery books.... saw a new one by Jamie Oliver, meant for people who can't cook - it shows all the basics and stuff...

Had to force myself away from the shelf and not buy it, as I don't need a "basic" cookery book!

Also, gadgets for the garden, that you can do without, or have made them yourself, but you see it in B&Q, or a garden centre or a seed catalogue and think "Hmmm, that looks useful"

AND... kitchen stuff from Lakeland Limited. I don't really need a pineapple corer, but you never know when it will come in handy. My OH refuses to take me to Windermere, as all I want to do is look in Lakeland. I get dead excited when the catalogue is delivered

God, I'm so sad!