Model Horses ~ I am absolutely addicted to them . Breyers , Peter Stones , expensive artist’s resins … I love them . I own close to 500 of them , and keep searching for just 1 more …
Dogs ~ both dog figurines (I have about 200 of THEM … yes , that is a lot of dusting…) and real , live dogs . I am fighting the urge to go puppy shopping right now , I want either another Gordon Setter or a German Shorthaired Pointer in the WORST kinda way… :dubious:
Books ~I love books . Love them , I tell you . My books are my friends .
CDs ~ Must…have…my… music .
DVDs ~ especially if there is a mark-down bin … Lordy , you have to drag me away ! I recently found a BUNCH of good old movies 2/$11 at Wally World , old favorites that I did not yet have on DVD . Got 'em now tho
House plants. Whenever I’m at Wal-Mart or Target I always have to stop and look to see what kind of plants they have.
I also am a sucker for sad looking ones that are usually marked down because it’s obvious they are going to die. I buy them in hopes I can bring them back. So far I’ve only done this twice. One of them looks a little better, but pretty much the same. The other, a coffee plant, is doing really well. I found that one in a dark corner at Earl May’s.
I love marbles, but in quality, not quantity. Today I got to go to a place where they make marbles, and I got one that glows under a blacklight and one that looks like an eyeball. I think I’ll put my marbles in my fishtank to show them off instead of keeping them in the bag anymore.
Beads. I love having boxes and little containers of beads, even if I don’t do anything with them.
Have you misplaced an evil twin somewhere in NE IL? Your tastes are frighteningly like my own!
Gobs of Breyer horses (OK, admittedly, I’m trying to re-home most of them, but they’re still here and don’t seem to be going anywhere fast). Don’t show any more but used to in a big way.
More ceramic and resin animal figures than I can shake a stick at, with a strong emphasis on Hagen-Renaker and dog of many manufacturers
Books. Oh yes, books. Many books. Shelves full of books. Boxes of books. No matter how many I sell or give away, there are always more to take their places. Right now I’m on a graphic novel and art reference book kick, but there’s a little bit of everything on my shelves.
Ever since I have bought my pet espresso machine I can’t stop buying dainty espresso cups, gorgeous cappuccino cups, different kinds of coffee etc etc.
Black cardigans.
You can send me shopping all day, in the most interesting boutiques ever and odds are that is what I will end up buying every single time. There are all different styles, though.
-Books, Cd’s.
No brainer.
Musical instruments.
I actually only have three, but if I had more money it really could get out of hand.
Bread - specifically warm crusty french sticks… mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Sweets - Haribo Tangfastics (formerly Sour Mix) are my main vice. Me? Eat a whole bag in half an hour? Nah… ::wipes sugar from round mouth::
Ice Cream - but quantity, not necessarily quality. £2 for a small tub of “nice” ice cream? Nah, I’ll get the 2 litre tub of vanilla and some chocolate sauce, if it’s all the same to you. I do like the good stuff, don’t get me wrong. But I want MORE.
Why are all of these food? Hmmm. I used to be a sucker for magazines like FHM… coz I’d been buying them for years, and it seemed wrong to not buy it this month when I’d bought it every month for the past several years. “But the women in bikinis will be different this month” I used to promise myself. They rarely were.
Shirts - it’s a good thing I rarely go shopping because I’m bound to find a going-out shirt I like. Shame about the other million I’ve got in the wardrobe, but this one’s just brilliant, I must have it.
fountain pens? good god, i’ve got over 40 already, working and non- … and i still drool over catalogs like Fahrney’s and Levenger’s (sp?). (for the love of Og, stay away from PENBID.COM!!!) i literally cannot count the number of gel, scented gel, sparkle-y gel, color-change gel… i think you get the idea.
maybe not strictly hokey Japanese monster movies… it’s more like ANY monster/horror movies, up until the recent shift to “bloody/grossout is the new scary” emphasis.) monster movie queen from the second grade on out.
(ok, i’m more into oldies rock than bubblegum, but i’m still stuck in the 60s/70s, so does that count?)
Sean Connery… swoooooooon
Stationary stores – if i had any sense of self-preservation, i’d ask them to not allow me to enter without a chaperone. or maybe that should be a keeper.
and let me join the chorus of fellow bread-lovers. (whimpers quietly at the thought of cinnamon-swirl bread. no raisins, please.)
but whatever you do, do NOT (repeat for emphasis-- NOT) stand between me and a German chocolate cake replete with the mandatory coconut-pecan frosting. your health insurance won’t possibly be able to cover all the damages.
Items in which you are a sucker for …
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[li]small clever gadgets (like the Nike Triax)[/li][li]small useful gadgets (like a USB flash drive)[/li][li]small unique toys (have tons of these)[/li][li]hand-held puzzles (ditto)[/li][li]small detailed chess sets (ditto)[/li][li]babies[/li][/ul]
Hmmm, I must have a thing for small stuff.
Crayons! Good lord, how did I forget about crayons?!
I collect Crayolas. I have no idea when it started, I just know I’ve been doing it for a long time now. Mostly crayons, but also some markers and general Crayloa products. I even have a crayon maker. I have a little stuffed crayon guy – from the Crayola Works store that used to be at Arundel Mills Mall – sitting on my bookshelf here at work. At home I have a big Rubbermaid container full of crayons (and a few coloring books; I especially like the ones with geometric designs). When my friends have kids, they always get some Crayolas from their Aunt Jenny. Every time I go to a store that has a stationery aisle I check out the crayons, to see if Crayola is out with anything new. Someday I’ll have to take an inventory.
Anything to do with Simon Templar, AKA the Saint. Especially the earliest books in the series which cross-over with my love of the “silly-ass” young man of the 20s and 30s, the hero who acts like a frivolous post WWI loon but is really a person NOT to be messed with.
Sensible canvas-y bags with lots of pockets. Pocket-knife like gadgets to go in all those pockets. Be prepared! I am just looking now for the kind of career that rewards preferring canvas-y bags full of gadgets to Kate Spade purses. I wanted to be MacGyver when I grew up.
I’m a sucker for fossils, though I don’t have many just yet, mostly small pocket money stuff, and some that we have found ourselves.
I do have a Mosasaur tooth, which is very cool, and so cheap when you think how many million years old it is!
I look at fossil sites and drool over some of the stuff there. I want a really BIG one to put in our living room, and make the focus of the room. Real, live (well, very dead actually) art.
We also have a dino poo that my aunt found and had verified. It actually looks so perfectly like a turd that my son sniffed it when he first got it.
Draelin had to be quoted because ze said it best. Books top my list.
Roll top desks or (some) slant top desks. I only have one of each (so far) but I always have to tear myself away from them in antique stores. Anything with lots of little cubbyholes and drawers to stash stuff in. Especially ones with secret compartments!
Pickled items in jars, the more unusual the better. Olives stuffed with garlic or jalapenos, pickled green beans or pea pods, etc.
Hot sauce! Only because Mrs. Stone can’t take anything over mild has kept me from filling our cupboards with an array of varieties. But I still love to cruise the specialty stores and peruse the shelves.
If the second line of that song is “I don’t wanna leave the jungle,” you have solved a 50 year mystery for me.
Also, some of the posters have made me cry. I’m either in love with them or want to adopt them. I’ve learned more about them in this thread than most others.
I’m a sucker for
Japanese gardens, decor and music
hunting for seashells
bossa nova, especially Jobim
anything to do with the French writer Colette
creating (music, poetry, a table setting, a beaded necklace)
sleeping on my porch swing in the rain
Yeats
Indian spices
wild violets
finding Heminway’s haunts in Paris
flamenco dancing
Camden Harbor, Maine
