What tat are you trying not to buy??

Anything that promises to make my life easier or warmer, but ends up unused in a kitchen cupboard, drawer, attic or garage. Been eyeing up steam cleaners, electric cleaners, and carpet cleaners recently.

My aunty always gives my kids Christmas PJs as an early Christmas present at the beginning of December so at least they get a decent amount of use out of them throughout the advent period. The elves then give them some fancy PJs to wear on Christmas eve and Christmas morning. The fancy PJs tend to get worn a lot more than the Christmas ones throughout the rest of the year

Beware! Yarn addiction is real.

@Superworm24

Those would make excellent Christmas presents

And now mine too 🤭

Sorry! Lol….

Sold! They're back on my list.

Even cutting turnip or butternut squash is like cutting through butter. I did cut myself as well so need to be careful with them.

Argh no! I had told myself they would be rubbish and that I would treat myself to some expensive ones in the new year. I suppose there's always black Friday?

It sounds like my husband. He’ll ask why I need it and will I use it. It was a lot easier before he WFH.

I got the ninja knives with he sharpening block on prime day. They are brilliant.

Stationery I don't need. If it is reduced then I will buy it. Pens, notebooks, erasers, you name it. That section of the supermaket has an invisible, strong magnetic pull on me. I just have to wander down the stationery aisles if I pop in.

IKEA shit.

Needed a few larger bits (£370) yet there is almost £500 worth of stuff in my basket!! I keep going back to it, to see what I really do / don't need. Can't quite decide what to cull.

Think I'm just going to get DP to order what we need, minus all the crap.

a punch needle kit - in my head I will creat something fab in reality i'm awful at anything crafty.
a lip stain i keep seeing on tiktok I really want it but hardly ever wear make up

I’m not very crafty, but I would have thought you could knock up some tombstones out of cardboard and paint, or even cast some from concrete if you want to get fancy. As it’s a big thing in the community, you could maybe invite your neighbours to a home made Halloween workshop?

I'm desperately, desperately trying to resist the temptation of buying a load of those Treasure X/Zuru Smashers 'unboxing' toys.

Not for a kid, for me.

I'm 40 😭

Thank you, @BunnyLake. It's a historic neighborhood in the middle of a big city, so children from all over the city come here. Last year, my next door neighbors gave out two sacks (like the size of a large sack of potatoes) full of treats. We set up a stand in front of our house offering treats for children and cocktails for accompanying parents. Last year we served Mint Juleps. The whole neighborhood gets involved.

5000 wow. I’ve lived in my house for thirteen years and have never had a single trick or treater. I’m hidden away so people don’t even know it exists (which I love).

Hope you find your stones 🤞

Nothing. I never buy tat or ‘stuff’ unless it has a specific purpose. I used to be a bit of a spender but have had a lot of money stresses over the years so now that I feel more settled I have no desire to buy anything unless I need it. The last thing I did buy though which hopefully won’t become ‘stuff’ is a slow cooker.

Definitely tat. I REALLY want to buy some tomb-stones for our front garden. We live in an area (in the US) where a lot of the neighborhood decorates for Halloween (and where upwards of 5000 children come trick or treating on Halloween evening). I can't find any that aren't cheap, nasty, made of painted foam... and don't want these, as I want something I can bring out every year. But I also know that REALLY I don't need these things. My little boy wants to decorate, and it would be fun, plus our front garden would be perfect for this, but I am trying to resist.

I'd never be able to buy a book again.

I've got a floor to ceiling shelf and one half the size, all filled with double rows on each shelf. These are books that I will keep because of favourite author or book etc. About 1600 books, maybe 600 unread.

3 of the trollies all filled. About 280 books. These will be read and given away.

A 3 shelf Billy bookcase of hardbacks I will read and not keep, none read about 80 books there.

And 4 Billy bookcases of hardbacks and special editions (spredges and signed) that I will read and keep around 700 books there, 4 hundred or so unread

About 500 on my kindle but that doesn't count.

The.most annoying part? I've read 74 books this year, all bloody library books!!!!

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Anything 'crafty'. It's not tat for anyone who is good at crafting. For me it's just tat. I KNOW me.

Still not "tat"!

A special cranberry sauce dish. I can't stop thinking about it - even though we only ever have it once a year - on Christmas Day...and I am allergic to red berries, so I can't even eat cranberry sauce!!! [A few months ago, I bought a Stilton scoop, which I know I'll never use, but it looked so stylish. It's now at the back of the cupboard!]