Okay, let’s face it. You’ve got lots of stuff. But there’s probably something that you’ve got LOTS of. Maybe you’re like Imelda and you love shoes. Maybe someone caught wind that you like frogs, and now you get gifts every year that include little frog figurines.
I’ve got two such things:
Bottles of lotion
strawberries & champagne (on desk @ work)
cucumber melon (on desk @ work)
Vaseline intensive care (in desk drawer)
vanilla floral (at home)
ocean breeze (at home)
cranberry with a hint of orange (at home)
I love, love, love smelly lotions. And when I find a scent I like, I’ve got to buy it. I can never get enough. And I change my mind on what scent is my favorite. Ergo, the billion bottles. I will NEVER use them all up as fast as I buy them, no matter how hard I try! Don’t even get me near a Bath & Body Works…
Cookbooks
At least 15 Weight Watcher cookbooks
3 Cooking Light annual cookbooks
A handful of other healthy or light cookbooks
I could pretty much never buy a cookbook again, and I would have enough recipes to try something new every time I cook until the day I die. But it will never fail - I go into the WW room, I see a new cookbook, it MUST be mine.
And of course, by saying I have “too many” of these things, I of course mean that “I can NEVER have too many” of these things.
hmm… I have too many:
frisbees (I play frisbee golf. badly. and keep trying new discs)
asian spices (I cook much better than I play frisbee golf)
boots (army boots, steel toed boots, winter boots, hiking boots)
role playing game supplements (yep, I’m a geek that way)
knives and swords (I collect’em when I can afford it)
books (ma was a librarian. it obviously had an effect)
SF Books. I figure if I retire right now, I might be able to
read the ones I own which I haven’t read yet in about 6 years, assuming I read one book a day and don’t buy more - which I would.
Jigsaw puzzles. I have this fantasy about having a mansion with a ballroom, and putting out puzzles on the floor, so the entire floor is covered with them. That means I don’t get rid of the ones I’ve finished that are interesting. I only have six or seven I haven’t done yet, but over a hundred that I have.
Have other people found that when you’re young you have time for stuff but no money to get it, and when you’re older you have the money but not the time?
Ooh, we’ve got lots of plastic grocery bags, too. I have a cupboard under the counter that holds them. Sometimes it gets so bad that the door won’t stay shut.
Then I switch to paper grocery bags - until the same thing happens with them!
Ball caps. I acquire them somehow. I don’t buy 'em cause I hardly ever wear 'em but I’ve got a lifetime supply. If only I had the same problem with sunglasses. Or beanie weenies.
You think you have too many cookbooks? My mother had every freaking cookbook known to man. Everything from your standard Betty Crocker and Joy of Cooking to the Chocoholic’s Dessert Cookbook and the Jewish Bread Cookbook. There had to be at least a hundred of the damn things. Any thing you wanted to make, she had a freaking cookbook for it. And she kept acquiring more. She got them on Ebay, she bought entire big box lots at local auctions just because they had one or two cookbooks in them. She passed away over a year and a half ago, and to this day there are nine big’ol packing boxes filled to the brim with cookbooks out in our garage. Just… cookbooks. So… many… cookbooks. My entire family is a bunch of packrats. We keep everything and never throw it away, at the same time acquiring any cheap little thing that looks like it might be vaguely useful or interesting to have. So we have too many of… pretty much everything.
Old magazines. Anybody miss the reviews of the first batch of 10 MHz 286s? I’m trying to remember to take a handful out to the trash whenever I leave the house.
Things to make the house smell nice, like candles and oils. I have a lifetime supply and every intention of buying more at the earliest possible opportunity.
Also hair gel, mousse and other assorted hair gunk, because there’s got to be something out there that will make my curly hair work just right and do it easily.
I believe I may have too many sets of undies. Is it normal to need two whole drawers for your drawers?
Oh, books, definitely. I’m just now reading one that I bought about ten years ago. (It took a long time to ripen.)
Spices. Just received my last order ($80) via UPS today actually.
Shirts. I’ve got a closet full of them but I only wear the same half dozen or so.
A whole trunkful of old family photos, all the way back to tintypes, resides in my closet awaiting organizing. Now that I’ve got my digital camera I’ve got megabytes of more photos to do something with.
And now, Voyager
Exactly!
Someone or something in this benighted universe has a morbid sense of humor.
Up until Saturday I had too many sets of sheets. Technically you only need one pair of sheets until they wear out; two pairs if you want to be extravagant and put a fresh set on while the other is in the wash. For some reason I can just never pass up a good deal on sheets. I had blue toille sheets, purple striped sheets, neon green solid sheets, snowflake flannel sheets, Monster’s Inc. sheets (I was so tickled to see them in Full size, I had to buy them,) yellow checked sheets and a sorta cheesy floral I used for the guest room.
Last weekend we upgraded to a King bed and I saved the toille sheets for the guestroom and donated the rest to Goodwill. Ok, ok. I also saved the Monster’s Inc sheets in case my niece and nephew come to visit.
Holding at one set of sheets for the king…for now!
