# Gah! I have too many... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 24, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935 "2003-04-24T19:53:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/21 "2003-04-25T07:55:05Z")
Books. Especially Photoshop books. I got one in the mail today, and another one’s coming. I scare myself with Photoshop books. (But it’s _Photoshop!_) Cats. Books. All kinds. CDs, LPs (“records”—those black vinyl disks for those of you born after 1983) and tapes. VHS tapes and DVDs. Art supplies. Sketch pads. Rapidograph pens. Clay. Bottled glazes. (I am a potter and artist.) Computers. A Macintosh G4 400, Mac G4 533, an upgraded Mac 8600 (upgraded to G4, that’s still being worked on by the Mac Guru), an 1800+ AMD PC, and an old crappy 450 AMD PC. That’s too many computers. ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/22 "2003-04-25T12:22:42Z")
Pairs of jeans. Waaaay too many. And stuff related to Eeyore. A lot of people seem to know about my deep and abiding love for the donkey, so I have Eeyore mugs, Eeyore stationery, stuffed Eeyores, Eeyore books, Eeyore mousemats, and even a stuffed Eeyore _in_ a mug, which I have to say I’m in love with. All you can see is his head peeping over the edge of the mug at you. Too much stuff. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/23 "2003-04-25T12:29:55Z")
Nuts, bolts, washers, _any_ type of hardware. Even when I get, say a new ceiling fan, when I’m done installing it, I save the “pocket bolts”, 'cos ya never know when you might need just that bolt. Hinges, latches, doorknobs, you name it, I got a sh\*tload of 'em laying around… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/24 "2003-04-25T15:55:29Z")
Nice work, Biffy! > [@](#): > > Children. I think that’s our best reply so far. But I was also amused by > [@](#): > > the Jewish Bread Cookbook as I was unaware that bread could BE Jewish. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/25 "2003-04-25T16:00:17Z")
Dire Straits albums. At least, everyone tells me I have too many. Suspiciously, one went missing, when I lived in a house full of professed Dire Straits haters. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/26 "2003-04-25T16:06:29Z")
**dwyr** , are you ordering from Penzey’s? I’m about ready to dive into their catalog and order - it always looks so nice! I’ve also decided I have too many running socks. I get the wicking kind by DeFeet that have cutesy little designs on the ankle. I’ve got the one that has the sperm on it (Survival of the Fittest), the Plumber’s Butt one (literally, it has an ass crack on the rear of the sock), florals, swirls, whatever. I’ve probably got two weeks’ worth of socks, even though I do laundry every week. I can never get enough! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/27 "2003-04-25T17:03:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*I was unaware that bread could BE Jewish. \*\* I occasionally pick up a loaf of Oroweat “Jewish Rye” bread at the grocery, but it always makes me wonder, “Where’s the Catholic rye?” ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Fluffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/28 "2003-04-25T17:09:03Z")
I have way to many; Lipgloss/lipsticks (makeup in general really) I can’t leave a drugstore without buying a new gloss! Magazines-Cosmo, glamour, allure etc. Anybody want em? They’re all current issues Body/hand lotions ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/29 "2003-04-25T17:17:25Z")
Clothes, period. I have two closets full, and my storage room is overflowing. It’s absurd, really. My roommate asked me how many days I could go before wearing the same thing - I answered honestly - about a year I think. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/30 "2003-04-25T18:43:19Z")
Books. Like **DeVena** , I too need a new bookcase. And being a grad student, I can borrow stuff from the library for up to a year at a time; so, I currently have 46 books on topics like “the poetics of Dostoyevsky” randomly flung around my place. Baseball cards. At least 10,000. But I won’t sell or get rid of any of them. It would be easier to burn one of my books than destroy a baseball card, since most of my childhood memories are wrapped up in them. Half-eaten packs of Spearmint Excel gum. I have about seven or eight on my dresser. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/31 "2003-04-25T18:53:20Z")
Pieces of mail. I save most of the first-class mail I receive. I’ve got every Christmas card anybody’s sent me for the last 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/32 "2003-04-25T22:57:02Z")
I’m sure I’ve got too many clothes, but specifically, shoes, handbags, and jackets/coats/vests. I’d say CDs, but I make a point of selling the ones I don’t listen to, so all 400 or so are pretty much essential. Houseplants… I need a bigger place to accomodate them, but then I’d just get more! ---
**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/33 "2003-04-25T23:10:56Z")
Books Plastic grocery bags cats and dogs lipsticks shoes office supplies telephone books (I seem to get a new one every week! I’m really going to have to call someone about this.) ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/34 "2003-04-25T23:34:21Z")
I’m embarrassed to tell everyone just how many bottles of shampoo and conditioner I have. They’re filling up a storage caddy in the shower, a rolling cart next to the shower, and I put 3 or 4 sets in the linen closet to get rid of the overflow. I have shampoos and conditioners for color-treated hair, for frizzy hair, etc. I think I need a 12 step program. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935/35 "2003-04-26T00:13:25Z")
scout1222 Penzey’s! You bet, I love that place. Their turnover is high so their spices are the freshest you can get. Unless you grow your own that is. 🙂 I unpacked the box last night after work and had to open each container to smell. Wonderful stuff! I got Vietnamese cinnamon, crystallized ginger (delicious), lemon grass, galangal, chives, green peppercorns, curry powder, kala jeera, peppermint, taco seasoning, Foxpoint seasoning, msg and a few empty jars. Penzey’s threw in a free sample of pasta seasoning. I have eclectic tastes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-i-have-too-many/170935.md?page=1)