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.
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.
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.
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!
Bunnylady – can I have some of your shirts? All I ever get is a sticker & a bandaid. Like I need more t shirts.
raccoon visitors, bird feeders and migraine headaches 
You can never have too many books, CDs or dogs!
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.)
<Sigh>
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.
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!
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?]
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.
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.
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
Bills!
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.
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.
Did you marry my ex?? Well, no, it’s probably not her. She never mentioned wanting goats. But, you never know.
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. 
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]
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!!!