I share Chai passion for OPI polish. I never use the blue or green, because it reminds me of nail fungus. But I do like the names, like "Not so Bora Boring Pink", "Amster-damsel in Distress" and my fav "Don't Socra-tease Me". When I walk into the cosmetic area of the local department stores, I swear they ring a bell to summon every paint vendor in the place. It an other-worldly experience.
But for sheer lightheadedness, let me get into a nice jewelry store, and I'm a goner. Currently have a big stand-up jewelry case and several other multi-drawered boxes to hold the stuff I've been collecting since I was 16 and got my first job, (OK, it was part-time, didn't pay very much, but jewelers used to let you put things on lay-away). I have a huge collection of white gold and silver that I never wear, just like to look at everyonce in a while. Really have a passion for precious and semi-precious stones, hence the reason for "glitter" in my screen name. I need to know all of you a lot better before I reveal the reason for "bag".
Now we get to shoes, my beloved shoes. A few years after I retired the first time, I needed to clean out my closet and forced myself to throw out sixty pairs of shoes that I loved but were either too worn or too out of fashion to keep. I have since built the collection up again, and today while I sorted thru to see if I could throw something out (to make room for more wonderful shoes) I found shoes I have never even worn yet. But they are wonderful and I will keep them.
So the shoes and makeup and nailpolish won't compare to Slappy's bills for his hog, but the trinkets in the jewel box, that's another story.
Glitterbag--
Your Inner Shopper is being nudged by your Inner Guru. You have a lot of traveling ahead. A lot of walking.
I guess I do have a useless habit - I am a plant addict, like Shewolf. I don't buy expensive plants, but I do buy lots of them. The problem with this hobby is that I don't own my own property, so, when I get kicked out of her (this spring or next), I will lose my babies.
My new downstairs neighbor is all about the plantlife. She was talking to me for 10 minutes straight about how she wants to put up hedges, plant some nice flowers, plants, ect. We don't have a lot of room for it, but I'm sure the hell not participating in that stuff.
Slappy--
Tell her you're willing to make a very modest financial contribution, but you have a bad back and an allergy to the molds in urban garden soil.
Or too much Vitamin D makes you sick.
i don't have one constant splurge. but it does come. once it's cosmetics - and i had nailpolishes from black to white, still own hundreds...- through gadgets -to biking gear - and to even household stuff - home depot seems like a paradise to me. but one steady splurge? nah, guess i don't have that.
I collect Barbies. Yes, Barbies. Pink, frilly, Barbies. But not the ones from Wal-Mart or the like. The nice expensive ones. Normal range for a doll I buy is $60-$80, some upward of $125-$150 each. Current obsession is $250. Only 999 made. Isn't she gorgeous?
I guess my hobby might not be useless after all. If I needed to, I could sell my collection and make a couple thousand bucks. So maybe it's not as useless as I thought. Hm. Tell that to my husband.
well, better than collecting those female action figures, that look like porn posters, but what do i know. the monster's (monster being a term of endearment for an ex) friend had hundreds. friggin everywhere! scary.
Kicked out? What's up with that, littlek?
I'm afraid I'm getting there on plants. They add up. If I'd gotten everything I wanted at the nursery, it would've been a thousand dollars or so, easy.
I'm with you Bella.
Except I only collect the heads.
Soz, the owners are planning on selling. The biggest problem I have with it all, is that I don't know for sure if or when it'll happen.
LittleK, why not start looking for a new place where you can take your plants with you? I've helped people move whole gardens. I'm not saying it's easy (or sane), but I'm sure plant addicts can relate. I solved my plant addiction by opening a nursery so I could buy plants wholesale.
My only other collecting vice is kitchen stuff, really good cook ware, old wooden bowls/utensils and dishware with botanical motifs. I don't own a complete set of any pattern, I just insist they all blend.
Debt. That's all I collect. Except for music and stuff to listen to it on, the debt is all I have to show for a decade of eating, drinking, smoking, moving, travelling, tuition, vet bills...
That and about two rolls of undeveloped film somewhere. (There were four, but the dogs ate two.)
Wish I had an obsession so I could have some accounting for where the future money is going to.
GW - I have two houses, my parents' and my sister's, where my special plants will go to. It's getting a little late this year, unfortunately, but most of the plants I want to transport will shoot up early enough so I can see them by mid spring. I don't want to leave this place, I love it. So, I'll stay here at least until the end of next summer if I am able to.
If they are going to sell can you buy it? Can you do like Slappy and rent part of it out to make the mortgage?
Other than money - is anything else stopping you?
Yes, but mostly it's about money.
