want it, need it, gotta have it

[MagicalSilverKey]

The criteria:

• There is a material item you desperately want, which is reasonably attainable.
• You have been wanting said item for an extended period of time.
• You want this item so badly that you must handle it every time you enter that store.
• You think about that item once or more on a daily basis.
• You don't know for sure that you will actually use said item, if you had it, but your yearning for it is nearly unbearable.
• You feel you absolutely must have this item, or life as you know it, without the item, seems empty and meaningless

What is your item?

Mine is a leatherbound writing journal. Everytime I go in Barnes & Noble, I MUST hold it. I smell the sweet blissfull aroma of the leather. I fan the cream colored pages. I feeling the crisp edges of each page, while listening to the rustle as the pages flip. Sometimes, I go in the B&N for the specific reason of torturing myself over this heavenly object. I MUST have this journal! I have been obsessing over it for at least an entire year. It costs $35.00. I am afraid if I buy it, I won't use it, even though I love to write. It's almost TOO damn wonderful to desecrate by writing in it.

Ode to a Journal

Ohhhh my sweet, sweet journal... how thou dost torture my soul.
Thou mockest me as I lie in wait, dreaming of your elegant pages.
My heart cryeth out, and my soul burneth to attain you.
My fingers yearn to gracefully dance over you, my pen gliding as a veteran skater on the ice.
To have you, is to have you not. Yet not having you, is unbearable.
Ohhhh my sweet, sweet journal... how thou dost torture my soul.

[MagicalSilverKey]

Oh yeah, here it is: http://www.cavallini.com/leather.html

It's the brown "embossed" journal. I also like the "Romano," in both black and brown.

[Jpeg Jones]

Mine is this:

A brand new Asus K7V Dragon+ with onboard 6 channel sound and LAN, Athlon XP and DDR support.

Oh yeah, and that nice stick of OCZ PC3200 DDR DRAM.


Or, the entire boxed collection of All Creatures Great and Small on VHS.

Yummmmmm!



Come to think of it, I guess I'd actually use those things, so they don't exactly fit your criteria.

[Turpentine]

A hedgehog.

The guy at the petstore lets me handle them.

The reason I haven't bought one yet is because a friend of mine said they make terrible pets and their feces smell disgusting.

[Turpentine]

Oh yeah, and I even have a name for my hedgehog-

I had a dream once where I had a hedgehog and she spoke to me and said utterly profound things, true things, things that made me feel peace.

In the dream the hedgehog's name was Angela Bread.

[nightshadea]

heh 128 mb of ram and the eq expansion shadows of lucillin
.......

I havent even went to the places on the last expansion I bought so it might be years before I get to lucillin

[Homebrew]

I gave in last night and bought mine:

A 3.3 megapixel digital camera.

[Pucette]

Hedgehogs are beyond cute. I crumple into a girly mess every time I see one.

My item isn't really an item, and the fact that I would use it as often as possible is the only thing that doesn't fit with your list, but boy does it fit everything else: an internet connection at home. High speed. Aw yeah.

Excuse me, I need to go whimper now.

[kingtrw]

A nice beat-up, decaying, ex-army V8 Landrover 4x4.

[Kayeby]

The Monogram Mini Josephine by Louis Vuitton. $630 US and I'm terrified of the price in AUD. But oh, it would look so pretty with so many of my clothes!

[Coldfire]

I would like to have a Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Perpetual. It is simply the most magnificent watch I've ever seen.

Unfortunately, it retails for about USD 15,000. Ain't gonna happen until I win the lottery, I'm afraid.

[Why A Duck]

A Kitchen-Aid stand mixer.

Exciting, No?

[happyheathen]

a couple of crates of shoulder-fired missles (nobody said anything about legality, right )

[Homebrew]

Originally posted by Why A Duck
A Kitchen-Aid stand mixer.

Exciting, No?

[slight hijack]

Get it. You'll be glad you did. My homemade cheese-cake has improved by a noticable margin thanks to the superior mixing power of this machine. And fresh whipped cream or meringue will reach unprecedented heights of whippeditude. Plus the grinding attachment makes homemade chicken salad a breeze to prepare.

[/hijack]

[Stuffy]

I know just what it would be. Here's one right here

There's a dealership between my work and home. I stop in to drool over it every couple of days or so.

[TruePisces]

I got a couple of mine for Christmas -- the Breadmaker and the darts. I still have a few on my list though. The top of the list, at the moment, is...

A digital camera. I want to be able to take pictures at Dopefests and not have to wait for them to be developed. I want to be able to take pictures that traditional places WON'T develop.

I could find a thousand and one uses for a digital camera.

[auntie em]

Well, mine doesn't involve an actual store...

I want a finished basement. Sometimes when I'm down there doing laundry (accidentally dropping socks onto the barren concrete floor), I pause for a moment and, as I lovingly cuddle a freshly-dried towel, I look about and picture the warm, tomatoey-colored walls replete with colorful framed prints, the fully-stocked oak cocktail bar in the corner, the comfy couch, beanbag chairs and wall-to-wall carpeting, the end tables and coffee table, the big-screen television (which my mother would give me if I had a finished basement), the game table... Then I pull out the big guns...

The half bath. Oh, the glorious half-bath.

At that point I usually realize that the half-bath alone could run me a few thousand, and the bubble pops.

Defeated, I trudge back up the stairs misty-eyed, throw myself onto the couch in my tiny living room, and numb my pain with two-year-old Flavor Ice....

[zweisamkeit]

this majestic automobile

oh god oh god oh god. i don't care that it's about 115,000 US$ i *will* have this car, mark my words. if i choose to go the slightly alternate route, this is the other one. so i have two "want it, need it, gotta have it" lusts. all i have to do is save up a hundred grand, no biggie.

but seriously folks, just looking at images of these cars makes my heart rate rise and my breathing quicken. yes, it's the sign of a car chick.

[anya marie]

I want a bass guitar, i have been wanting one for the better part of a decade. I do not have a specific model chosen yet, but i may be able to get it since my father is about retired, as long as i do not practice in the middle of the night.

I want to play a guitar so badly, but never wanted to join school band.

[romansperson]

A Mini Cooper. All I'll ever have is the model of it <sigh>.

[teela brown]

Turpentine and Pucette: Until you get your own hedgehog, you might like checking here:

http://www.whh.org/photos/default.htm

I like 'em too.

[Pucette]

Oh good lord, pugluvr. *squeals*

[Lissla Lissar]

A 1905-1908 cream silk chiffon evening dress, with beadwork and lace insets. I saw one at a vintage clothing show. I almost bought it. Aagh.

[ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks]

I used to have a hedghog named Prick. He died of heat stroke one summer and I was horribly sad. I still miss him! He didn't smell bad at all.

I really want this sweater kit: http://www.nakedsheep.com/rainandar.html

It looks really difficult and it's a pretty expensive project, but I look at it all the time and wish I had it. Sigh...

L

[Guinastasia]

Various clothing patterns. Especially a Titanic dress. I often go to my friend, Tracie's site and drool over the flying dress and the swim gowns. *sigh*

I want my sewing machine fixed in the WORST POSSIBLE WAY.

[Lissla Lissar]

I want my sewing machine fixed in the WORST POSSIBLE WAY.

Should be easy. Do you have a hammer?
(Ducks, and runs off giggling.)

[njufoic]

I want a new brake master cylinder for my car. It's been sitting in my driveway with inoperable brakes for two weeks. My mechanic can't figure out what's wrong with it, I'm at college and don't have time to go home and mess with it, and a new master cylinder from GM is $1600. Leave it to GM to design an otherwise indestructible car and cripple it with the brake system from hell.

-Andrew L

[trishdish]

Originally posted by Why A Duck
A Kitchen-Aid stand mixer.

Exciting, No?

Ooooooh, I still stroke and mollycoddle my Kitchen Aid mixer. I love him. His name is Bob and I love him.

[trishdish]

Originally posted by SexyWriter

I really want this sweater kit: http://www.nakedsheep.com/rainandar.html

It looks really difficult and it's a pretty expensive project, but I look at it all the time and wish I had it. Sigh...

L

A fellow knitter, no? I like!

[ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks]

Originally posted by trishdish


A fellow knitter, no? I like!

Yes! I can't stop! It's like a disease. I'm dying to do the Tradition sweater at www.philosopherswool.com too. Beautiful! Check out the Deep Sea colorway. Yum!

I need a support group. And more storage space for materials. Send help.

[Arnold Winkelried]

The OP seems to me like a "polling" type of thread so I'll move it to IMHO.

[MagicalSilverKey]

Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried
The OP seems to me like a "polling" type of thread so I'll move it to IMHO.

[racinchikki]

Originally posted by MagicalSilverKey

What? He's right! No need to get all uppity and roll-eyes over a thread move.


I want a butane lighter and an acetylene torch.

[Reeder]

Debij

And I get to handle her tomorrow...

Hehehe!

[Creaky]

Okay, I thought of something. I always, always want those really, really big pre-stretched canvases I see every time I go to the art supply store, like, 4' X 6' or something (haven't checked actual measurements), or even bigger. But I have no room for them in my apartment, and I keep putting off renting studio space so I could have somewhere to keep the things. (There's also no studio space for rent that I know of close to my place.)

Now, I could move to one of those "artist's loft"-type places, but you can't find a whole lotta them in the 'burbs, and there is NO way I will live in Baltimore City. (Yes, buck-buck-buck, I'm a chicken.) And since painting is my hobby, not my living, I guess I'll have to continue lusting for them big ole canvases from afar for now. Oh well, my paintings are big in my head, anyhow....!

[cercaria]

Friends. I don't have any right now. I mean, I have NONE.


*sigh*

[Creaky]

[hijack, please excuse me]

cercaria, that's not good! If you had listed an e-mail, I'd have put this in an e-mail, but you didn't, so I'm posting it. I'll be your online friend, if you like. Look, for what it's worth, I don't have a whole lot of friends, but I'm used to doing stuff by myself. I actually kind of like it, being all self-centered and set in my ways. However. It can be lonely, I'm sure. So, if you want to e-mail me, if you feel like it, that's cool. I'm not handing you a platitude or charity or anything of the sort. I just know what it feels like to be by myself and wish I had a friend. Please forgive me in advance if I'm being pushy or forward; that is not my intent.

And look, there are, I think, plenty of New York Dopers that would also be glad to hang out with you, I bet! Anyhow, whatever you decide, good luck!

[hijack is finished, thank you]

[MagicalSilverKey]

Originally posted by racinchikki

What? He's right! No need to get all uppity and roll-eyes over a thread move.

I'm not getting "uppity," It's just that I felt my op was very M&P. Sigh, oh well. Can't get em right every time.

[Survey1215]

A new softball glove - specifically, a Rawlings 13 inch softball glove. There's just always somethin better to spend the $65 on

[JohnM]

Well, I started lusting for the previous model of Canon's SLR digital camera, and now there's one with twice the resolution for about $US1000 less on the street. So, as soon as I can convince my wife that I really need to drop two grand on a camera (likely to be followed by new printer, at least one new lens, maybe a microdrive card, and oh yeah, a new desktop PC would be really nice), I'll be buying the Canon D60.