I’m getting close to owning 100 watch straps. And there’s simply no reason for it.
I do like wearing wristwatches but I’m not so into them that it makes sense to own this many straps. The vast majority have never been worn. The trouble is, every time I’m shopping online I get a recommendation of another watch strap, and they’re fairly inexpensive so another one goes in the basket.
Yes, I will start selling some, I just thought I’d count them while I am at the high watermark and was shocked it was over 90.
That’s true, I suppose, of course I’ve never heard of anyone who suffered from a watchband addiction. Why did you think you needed more than one watchband per watch? It’s a pain to change them so you usually only wear one until it wears out.
My mother probably has at least 10 styluses. She keeps dropping and losing them, and buying more before finding the old ones. It’s a problem because she can’t really use her phone all that well without her stylus.
I tease her that we’re just going to staple one to her forearm eventually.
Reading glasses (the cheap-ish things you get at the drug store).
I don’t own anywhere near a million but I have way more than is reasonable. Not completely sure why. I do not buy them because I like the design or anything. They are a utilitarian item for me. Yet somehow…I have a lot of them now.
Continuing from a different topic, I have been collecting the containers and lids from a particular brand of potato salad that I quite like, because the shape and size of the containers and the tight-fitting lids made them very useful for freezing various leftovers.
I was saddened when the brand was discontinued but – yay!! It’s back! So my tower of stacked containers grows ever higher!
I have no idea how many pairs of reading glasses I own, but it’s a lot. I have one in the basket that holds the TV remote. One in the pocket of most of my jackets (so probably 4-5). One in each of the cars. One that I keep with my EDC items. One in front of my keyboard. Two or three in a box holding miscellaneous eyewear ( eg sunglasses, extra prescription glasses). And I think there’s at least two in my work locker.
Yes! We have a jillion of the Talenti gelato containers with the screw-on tops. They’re good for all kinds of stuff. If we ever run low, I’m sure we could manage to eat more gelato.
I also have more bookmarks than I’ll ever use. I bought some I love, and also people give them to me, but the one I use daily is just a pasteboard one I picked up at the library. When it’s beat-up enough, or I lose it, there’s plenty more where that came from.
I have over a dozen ball point pens. Every charity seems to think they guilt me into donating be giving me a pen. One or two even have my name on them.
Ice cream tubs. It’s not entirely inexplicable as obviously I buy ice cream and the empty container looks useful, but after stacking up 20 in a cupboard I really ought to stop hoarding them, but I can’t bring myself to throw away such a potentially practical item.
I do use a fair number for things, admittedly, but so many lay empty.
I was a paramedic in my youth and live with two other former medics. We have hundreds of pairs of EMT shears and hemostats on the premises, entire drawers full. We don’t know how this happened and suspect they come alive at night to procreate, same as the coathangers.
I had to keep a stash back when I had a cat, because he would steal them and stash 'em under the couch. But I don’t have a cat anymore, so there is no good reason for a drawer full of scrunchies.
Cheap pens. I was an an inadvertent stealer of pens for decades at my former job. I always had to be jotting down things on the job, so I always had to have a pen and every day at the start of my shift I’d stick one in a breast pocket. Inevitably a certain percentage wandered back home with me at the end of the day. Occasionally I’d return a fistful to my work credenza, but over the years probably two for every three that ended up at my place. I probably still have a few dozen laying about my home in various places.
Stripedy French sailor shits. Watch you’ll see them everywhere on movies, ads, TV shows. Why can’t I have the right one. I watched Mutiny on the Bounty(old one with Gable), recently and there in B&W were lots of sailors and MY shirt. Gah!!
Many configurations(yes there are 100s).
Can’t find just the right one.
One day…..
(Seriously I’ve bought about 17, it has become a problem)
