# what do you have too many of? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667 "2003-03-24T01:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ChrystinP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@ChrystinP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrystinP)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/61 "2003-03-25T05:42:11Z")
Podkayne, as in from Mars? One of my favorite books. One of the suggestions someone gave me for all my old band type tee shirts was to make a quilt out of them, which I’m seriously thinking about doing. The thing is the ones I really truly love like Black Sabbath, Korn, and Filter are extremely worn, and the ones I don’t like as much are too new (and expensive!) to cut up. Rasa, another coconut smell hater, but I love to eat fresh coconut. The oil smells too yucky and concentrated. ---
**Author:** ![summerbreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@summerbreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/summerbreeze)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/62 "2003-03-25T14:26:31Z")
Golly, you guys have a lot of cool stuff! I started this tread because I had to move one of the sewing machines & started counting. No one’s mentioned photographs yet. A dozen shoeboxes full that I swear to god I am going to go thru one rainy day. Board games; we are going to turn off the box & have a cozy evening with board games. Yeah, we’ll take them to the nursing home when they wheel us there. Coffee mugs; who still thinks they make amusing co-worker gifts? Do you have things you’ve bought because you lost one, then found the lost one? Over & over again? I have a friend who has 14 garden trowels. ---
**Author:** ![Reckless\_Humor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Reckless\_Humor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reckless_Humor)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/63 "2003-03-25T16:54:43Z")
Green Bean, I didn’t say I never used my grinder … I’m just not sure what its proper use actually IS!! Mostly, I just rev the motor, watch it whir, and giggle maniacally. Vroom! However, I don’t think that’s what the people at Makita had in mind. Mmmmm … bondo. ---
**Author:** ![Bunnylady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Bunnylady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bunnylady)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/64 "2003-03-25T20:53:05Z")
Blood-bank t-shirts. Every time I give blood, they give me a shirt. They’re cute and have bad puns on them (“You otter give blood” with an otter on them, e.g.). I just hit the 4-gallon mark. Do the math! ---
**Author:** ![summerbreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@summerbreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/summerbreeze)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/65 "2003-03-26T02:54:14Z")
**Bunnylady** – can I have some of your shirts? All I ever get is a sticker & a bandaid. Like I _need_ more t shirts. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/66 "2003-03-26T03:59:12Z")
raccoon visitors, bird feeders and migraine headaches ☹ You can never have too many books, CDs or dogs! ---
**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:** [March 26, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/67 "2003-03-26T04:07:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MercyStreet \* > \*\*I have, it appears, an abundance of Molton Brown body lotion in lovely little one-ounce containers. \*\* I have dry skin. Very dry skin, as in, my hands don’t just chap in the winter, they develop cracks so deep they bleed. I also have one or more container of EVERY sold-in-a-store moisturizer made. I keep hoping that _this_ one will work the miracle, you know? “New and Improved” the darling little bottle will say, and I say ‘gimmee.’ I have a row of lotions atop my dresser. A shelf full in the medicine cabinet. More stored in a crate in the linen cupboard. ‘Purse’ sized bottles stashed beside each sink, reading chair, telephone. (Great times to grease up.) \ None of them work especially better or worse than any of the others, it seems to be simply a matter of how thick/thin you want the lotion and what scent they add to it. And still, there I’ll be in a drugstore and the bright red sticker will catch my eye: “New and Improved”… And the bottles pile up. And yet, when I read MercyStreet’s post, I had to virtually sit on my hands to keep from begging for a bottle of Molton Brown. I don’t have any, you see. Maybe _this_ is the one miracle lotion I’ve been hunting for all my life. If I don’t ask, I’ll never know… Stop me. Please. Is there a 12-step program for this? Hello, my name is StarvingButStrong, and I’m a lotion abuser. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/68 "2003-03-26T06:24:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ringo \* > \*\ ***Joe K** - old school, pal. The one in the living room is Ludwig chrome shell with oil filled heads (22" bass, 8"x12", 9"x13". 10"x14" wings, a 16"x16" floor and a 5"x14" Precision metal snare, Zildjian 20" ride, 18" and 16" crash, 15" socks and a 5" splash; Tama sock pedal, Ghost bass pedal and a wood block, cow bell and african bells on their own cymbal stand). > > The one in the bedroom (the “spare”) is made up of Ludwigs as well. The 20" bass I purchased originally with my first kit in 1966 (it has a 1965 date stamp inside the shell) and it and the 20" ride are the only material possessions that survived my 1972 total burn housefire (that cymbal has a unique sound 😉 ). This kit is silver sparkle wood shell and also includes a 9"x13" wing tom and a 14"x14" floor. > > Whooee, I haven’t talked like this in a bit. Kinda makes me sad. > > But not. Those drums took me all over the South, and friendships were formed, some of which have outlasted that in which they originated. I spent a very nice Sunday after the last Austin Dopefest a week ago with friends made during those times. > > * * * > > Back to the OP; you _can_ have too many friends, but I think it’s rare to have too many good ones. \*\* DUDE! If those items are collecting dust in storage, I know a drummer in Northeast Ohio who would GLADLY drive his pickup truck down there and take them off your hands! 😃 That is, IF I can pry my wife’s hands off the checkbook long enough! ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/69 "2003-03-26T13:41:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StarvingButStrong \* > \*\*I have dry skin. Very dry skin, as in, my hands don’t just chap in the winter, they develop cracks so deep they bleed. > > I also have one or more container of EVERY sold-in-a-store moisturizer made. I keep hoping that _this_ one will work the miracle, you know? “New and Improved” the darling little bottle will say, and I say ‘gimmee.’ I have a row of lotions atop my dresser. A shelf full in the medicine cabinet. More stored in a crate in the linen cupboard. ‘Purse’ sized bottles stashed beside each sink, reading chair, telephone. (Great times to grease up.) > > \ > > None of them work especially better or worse than any of the others, it seems to be simply a matter of how thick/thin you want the lotion and what scent they add to it. And still, there I’ll be in a drugstore and the bright red sticker will catch my eye: “New and Improved”… And the bottles pile up. > > And yet, when I read MercyStreet’s post, I had to virtually sit on my hands to keep from begging for a bottle of Molton Brown. I don’t have any, you see. Maybe _this_ is the one miracle lotion I’ve been hunting for all my life. If I don’t ask, I’ll never know… > > Stop me. Please. Is there a 12-step program for this? > Hello, my name is StarvingButStrong, and I’m a lotion abuser. \*\* have you tried sweet almond oil with 6% lavender essential oil? helps wonders for me, I even use is on my hair, and ever since it’s been in perfect condition… ---
**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:** [March 26, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/70 "2003-03-26T14:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfje \* > \*\*have you tried sweet almond oil with 6% lavender essential oil? > helps wonders for me, I even use is on my hair, and ever since it’s been in perfect condition… \*\* No… Where do you go to buy that? A health food store, maybe? And…is the lavender just for scent, so I could substitute something else? I’m not wild about lavender, I associate it with my great-grandmother, who was incontinent the whole time I knew her. ☹ [See? See/hear of a new lotion possibility, and I leap at it. Pathetic, right?] ---
**Author:** ![MercyStreet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@MercyStreet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MercyStreet)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/71 "2003-03-26T15:07:10Z")
Yoo-hoo, StarvingButStrong!! I have 28 bottles of Molton left and one of them has your name on it! Would you hurry up and e-mail me already? … You have to bathe and shower with Alpha Keri Oil. Then follow with moisturizer. Preferably Molton. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/72 "2003-03-26T15:28:19Z")
Okay, **MercyStreet** , you twisted my arm. 😉 Now, what can I unload, er, _gift_ someone else with? Angels! My mother collects angels, and has passed a whole horde of angel stuff along to me. Ornaments mostly, also angel pencils & stickers & who knows what all. Someone need some halos cluttering up their house? How about slum marked with the names of psychiatric drugs? Tons of pens, especially. Geodon? Effexor? Welbutrin? Viagra? Carry a few of these prominently and people will start backing off when it looks like you’re losing it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lachesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lachesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lachesis)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/73 "2003-03-26T15:40:32Z")
**StarvingButStrong** , my mom would have similar problems during the winter. she got a part-time job as a dermatologist’s receptionist at a certain point in our lives. apparently she had some sort of underlying fungal problem that was causing this. if that’s the case, over-the-counter stuff isn’t likely to make the problem go away permanently. you might need a prescription to clear up a similar problem. a trip to the doctor (or two) could be cheaper in the long run than buying every hand lotion every produced. …um, need to find a good home for any of the rejects? i’m partial to herbal types. or :: _sigh_ :: raspberries. lachesis ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/74 "2003-03-26T15:50:18Z")
Bills!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/75 "2003-03-26T16:06:04Z")
**lachesis** , a fungus, you say? My skin doesn’t crack open, but it’s almost like the cold makes me break out in an itchy rash. Just last night I woke up scratching at my nipples and had to put some hydrocortisone cream on them or I would scratch in my sleep until I bled. I know it’s not my detergent or soap, because it only happens when it’s cold. I was going to start a thread asking for advice, but you may have answered my question. Of course, it involves going to the doctor, which I tend to avoid like the plague! 😛 Which means I probably won’t do anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/76 "2003-03-26T16:33:43Z")
Pounds!! If I were English this might come under the heading of bragging, but alas. I am willing to share. Any underweight Dopers needing a few extra inches need only ask. Be glad to send some along. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/77 "2003-03-26T17:26:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > \*\*Actually, I have no goats. My wife has 15 goats, five cats, a dog, five snakes, four lizards, five fish, nine rats, and several hosts of feeder mice, crickets, and meal worms. I have only one wife (thank God). \*\* Did you marry my ex?? Well, no, it’s probably not her. She never mentioned wanting goats. But, you never know. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/78 "2003-03-26T17:31:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Boyo Jim \* > \*\*The problem is that I’m wasting some of that space on less than GREAT movies, when there are so many of them that I don’t have. I go shoppong, and instead of holding out and ONLY buying the great ones, I buy medicre movies at bargain prices. \*\* Yes! I have the same problem. I’ve decided it’s not all my fault. They just aren’t releasing the movies I want, on DVD. And, I have to buy SOMETHING. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/79 "2003-03-26T17:42:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flamsterette\_X \* > \*\*Stickers. I buy them primarily for use in birthday cards, to give away to the little kids, or to decorate my journals and books. With that in mind, I bought 15,000 mini-stickers in October. I still haven’t used them all up, which I guess is a good thing. (even mailed some off to **TroubleAgain** around Christmas last year) > F\_X \*\* Yes, and I’m using them! I’m rewarding myself with a smiley sticker every day that I “do the treadmill thing”! I also have stickers that I bought for birthday cards, and some that I bought for “rewards” for the guys at work when they do something cool. Amazing how things that work for kids can also work for adults! Me, I have[ul] [li]piles and piles of shoes[/li][li]way too many clothes[/li][li]way too freaking many cat figurines and pictures[/li][li]procelain freakin’ dolls that my mom keeps buying me for Christmas (she promised not to buy more)[/li][li]craft supplies[/li][li]hair things, 'specially ones that just don’t work on my hair[/li][li]dishes. I have no less than four sets, and I just gave away an old set of china to my niece[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667/80 "2003-03-26T17:50:33Z")
I have a large pile of bricks hanging around my front door. They used to be my stairs until the mortar dissolved into sand and they all got lazy and just fell about the place! I probably have a dozen nail clippers. I lose them and buy new ones fairly regularly. Then I will find a bunch of them but they go back into hiding fairly quickly around here. Oh and one can never have too many books or CD’s or Movies! or Monopoly things!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-too-many-of/163667.md?page=5)