What items do you keep buying which you know you shouldn't?

[wichitalinemanswoman]

For me it's red lipstick and high heels. I think I look great in both and I really really don't

Shoes! Sandals! Scarves! Stuff!

Fabric Conditioner. I put my shopping away earlier (after buying 2 more bottles of the stuff) and counted 14 bottles.
Same thing goes for Scent Beads and Dryer Sheets.
I am absolutely nuts for Laundry products - can spend a huge chunk of time in that aisle.

Clothes that don’t suit me. I have a particular knack of buying a type of top which due to stiffness of material/cut/width etc sticks out making me look quite pregnant. I am small build and slim. I have several of them. I have given many away. It’s like a magnet. I hate it.

Shower gels, I hav3 a thing that if I see a new one I must buy it... currentley have 15 in the wardrobe an ano her 5 in a separate bag. Also socks. If I see ones I’ve never had before I have to buy them, I currently have a whole plastic bag full 😂

Also Radox Stress Relief bubble bath. I've found 1L bottles of the stuff now - I have 4 'in stock' at the moment, plus one on the go.

I'm also a bit crazy for candles, bedding, dressing gowns, PJs, loungewear, socks and slippers.

Fake Tan (have a drawer full of the stuff), perfumes and high end makeup.

Finally Shoes and Scarves.

I found some chocolate covered waffles in Lidl.
I promise myself I won't go for more but my car drives itself there.

Voluminous skirts, that make my hips and arse look enormous....

But sometimes I think that's a nice rustic look....

Same with peasant blouses, balloon sleeves, broderie anglaise, voluminous tops with shirred waists

DH just asks bewildered if I'm off to audition for Mask of Zorro

Yet I keep falling for this style

Why

Fucking wine.

Clothes. I go through phases when I am very good and don’t buy much. Not in that phase at the moment... i buy new things sometimes, but charity shops are my particular weakness...

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Zorro

Plants. I think I'm addicted. I simply don't have space for any more in my garden (without digging out yet more flower bed...).

Dresses, any kind. I do look good in them but I don't have enough occasions to wear them. Even the casual dresses don't get worn as I am a jeans and T-shirt's kinda gal and prefer the comfort of casual. They look great in my wardrobe though...

Oh but my almost teen daughter is starting the wear them so not so much of a waste..

Clothes from Jigsaw

Coca cola, so bad for me but if it's there I can't resist it.

Cheap clothes that last two washes when I am skint then a week later having no clothes again because the ones I bought were so crap.

Ella's kitchen pouches for dd when my intentions are to make food myself I just can't get the consistency right and always feel once defrosted again it's not right.

Mosaic tiles. I am a mosaic artist and always buy extra beautiful tiles when ordering for a project

Chunky bracelets (another one!)

Second hand books and yarn.

We have enough in the loft that it’ll never need lagging! I did get rid of about 500 books at the beginning of the year, but more have snuck in since.

As for the yarn - in my defence I knit for a preemie charity, so need lots (that’s what I tell DH) - and having got my housebound Mum involved, I also buy to send to her.

Having said that, I have fifteen storage boxes up there!!

Love shower gels and soap as well

Fabric. Especially fat quarters on special offer in Hobbycraft.

Chocolate / cake / pudding

Clothes for DD (because I can never find anything nice for myself, see also chocolate / cake / pudding... 🙄)

Nail polish.

My nails are a really nice shape naturally but my cuticles are half way up them and I have to keep them quite short for work.

I keep buying nail polishes in lots of very beautiful colours thinking I'll use them on my days off, won't cut my nails two days before and they'll be a nice length, I'll give myself a little manicure when I get home.

Has literally never happened.

My nails are completely wasted on me, and so is all my polish.

Clothes off eBay and lunch at work.

Charity shop clothes
Charity shop books
Charity shop bric a brac, esp nice mugs
GF Portuguese custard tarts

Stationery. Particularly notebooks.

Chinese takeaways.

I'm skint and spend everything I have on my children so this is my only treat. Then I complain about not having any money to buy myself new clothes, the money I spend on takeaways every month could easily get me some clothes.

When I do go to buy clothes I end up feeling shit because I need a bigger size because of the fucking takeaways and end up going home empty handed.