# Items in which you are a sucker for. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364 "2005-06-15T12:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/1 "2005-06-15T12:36:10Z")
I can’t explain why I like lockets so much. I’ve always been attacted to foriegn change and old, old, old coins ( romans). All that history just is so cool. Ebay has helped satisfy or feed my whims in this department without actually having bought anything yet ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/2 "2005-06-15T12:42:57Z")
Bowls. From ramikens to big ol’ ceramic mixing bowls, I’m a sucker for bowls. I can’t fit any more in my cupboards, though, so I only buy the ones I really, really like. Computer games. Even if I only play 'em for an hour, I want 'em. That’s OK with the bargain bin ones, but at $50 a pop for the real ones I can’t go too overboard on them. Books. Yeah, I know, I can get 'em from the library, but I prefer those nice crisp [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) boxes, or going to a good bookstore and buying 'em fresh. ---
**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/3 "2005-06-15T12:43:59Z")
Kittens Cool containers or bags Fabric … Metric tonnes have I … almost Time-waster threads 😉 when I really should be editing this pile of caveats over here … ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/4 "2005-06-15T12:47:50Z")
Vintage table cloths. Old dictionaries, medical books or manner books. Silver flatware (especially if it’s cheap). ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/5 "2005-06-15T12:58:14Z")
Clocks. And lamps. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/6 "2005-06-15T13:10:03Z")
Free food, whether it’s good or not. This includes all-you-can-eat situations, particularly buffets. Cats. Cleavage. Dominatrixes. Masked wrestlers. Twangy, reverb-drenched surf-style guitar playing. Comic books featuring Blue Beetle, Starman, or the Question. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/7 "2005-06-15T13:27:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Items in which you are a sucker for. Good grammar. (I kid, I kid 😃 ) Animals. Mostly cats, but any animal turns me into a big pile of goo. (Not that I collect 'em or anything). Comic books. Beer. Clothes. I am such a clothes whore, it’s taken a herculean effort to get my spending under control. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/8 "2005-06-15T13:39:32Z")
Anything with Hello Kitty on it. It started because of my daughter, but when I bought the contact lense case and checkbook cover, I really couldn’t play it off any longer. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/9 "2005-06-15T13:51:43Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Free food, whether it’s good or not. This includes all-you-can-eat situations, particularly buffets. > Cats. > Cleavage. > Dominatrixes. > Masked wrestlers. > Twangy, reverb-drenched surf-style guitar playing. > Comic books featuring Blue Beetle, Starman, or the Question. I can only imagine what your dream weekend would be like. For me: Sweaters. (One entire closet, plus a chest, plus three drawers in the bureau.) Reference books, esp. slang dicitionaries and books on word derivation. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/10 "2005-06-15T13:57:23Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I can only imagine what your dream weekend would be like. Frankly, I’m kinda wishing he played on my side of the fence. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/11 "2005-06-15T13:58:14Z")
Reference books (though nothing of grammer :p) I especially like DK eyewitness handbooks, which my children have always gone to first for ‘just looking’ at phases. Baby name books ( even though we are finished in that department and I can go on line for names.) Romance novels though I am fading it out of my life right now. and Children’s books. I use to own about 8 watches ( well, I still do) but I gave up on watches about 5 years ago and either ask for the time or look at my cell phone. Fabric…oh dear god is that an addiction. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/12 "2005-06-15T14:09:16Z")
Antique ceramic pitchers, probably because they invoke memories of Grandmom who always used them. I’ve got dozens scattered across the top of the kitchen cabinets. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/13 "2005-06-15T14:12:48Z")
1930’s airplanes 1960’s European sports cars Some Art Deco Northwest-style smoked salmon Music that doesn’t get played on the radio Places I haven’t been to yet Deadpan comedy Poetry that has a clever rhyme by breaking in the middle of a word Women with glasses ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/14 "2005-06-15T14:15:07Z")
Fountain pens (I have about a dozen, though I mostly prefer to use a gel pen for actually writing.) Hokey Japanese monster movies Bubble gum pop rock. (Sugar Sugar, Da Doo Ron Ron, that sort of stuff. What can I say? It just makes me smile.) Any movie with Sean Connery in it. Stationery stores. Okay, not really the stores, but all the NEATO GOT TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE stuff you find in them. Some women like to window show in jewelry stores, but give me a Staples. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/15 "2005-06-15T14:28:05Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Women with glasses That is important. Yes. Should have listed that myself. Nothing like women with glasses. I’ll also add: Film noir style and fashion. Antique futurism – what “the future” was presented as looking like back in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. 1939 World’s Fair sort of stuff, with Art Deco influences. Salsa and chips. Cold pasta salads. Gyros. Saxophone jazz (perhaps accompanying torchy female vocals or beat poetry). ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/16 "2005-06-15T14:29:44Z")
Miniature figures. Gotta buy em, paint em, and display or sell em! Books. I have an unbroken chain of reading stretching back for over twenty years. The second I finish one, I get the next one and put the book mark in it. The book mark doesn’t even have time to be laid down before getting stuck into the next book. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/17 "2005-06-15T14:40:20Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > That is important. Yes. Should have listed that myself. Nothing like women with glasses. That’s 'cuz we’re hot. 🆒 I’m a sucker for: Animals, especially orphaned ones Anything BBQ flavored Books Flavored teas Vases (One can never have too many vases.) A Good Deal (The Dollar Tree is my heaven.) Antique furniture Men with big … sparkly brown eyes (What were you pervs thinking?) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/18 "2005-06-15T14:46:13Z")
Compasses. Kaleidoscopes. Art glass. Leather book covers. German sport sedans. New Victoria Secret Catalogues. Shape of a perfectly trimmed sail. Old restored classic sail boats with lots of wood. Great shoes. ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/19 "2005-06-15T15:04:46Z")
Flashlights Knives and edged weaponry hiking gear catalogs Asian grocery stores Good cooking utensils Good beer and scotch ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364/20 "2005-06-15T15:09:39Z")
Dictionaries, and random IKEA knick-knacks. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-in-which-you-are-a-sucker-for/308364.md?page=2)