What do you buy too much of?

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Just lighthearted as I can't sleep

I'll start - I buy way too many books.
I love to read but on my last count I have 518 on my bookshelf. I've cut back on spending now and am getting them from bookswaps instead

So what's your thing?

Well today it was cleansing balm. The biggest tub was eye wateringingly expensive but worked out at 50% cheaper, so I now own a 450ml tub. I'm going to decant but will also put a date on it to see how many years it lasts me!

Fabric, craft kits and wool. It's an affliction.

I LOVE stationery, always have, so have accumulated for too many notepads, diaries and other writing papers / pens etc.

This too. God I love a lovely notebook...

For me it’s totes. When I travel I always seem to come home with a couple especially if I’m somewhere that I really love such as the UK !!

Dog toys
Dog treats
Books
Magazines
Food.

I think the overbuying of food is due to growing up with empty kitchen cupboards and having a fear of it happening again and not being able to feed my kids.

Tins of soup
Salad

I’m an idiot for shoes, too.

sandals
gin
crochet kits/yarn

Ah, I'm ahead of the curve with that and still have some brushed cotton lumberjack checked shirts from the 90s...😂

@rightonthyme - hahaha love it!

@HastaLaBisto - yes yes yes! My problem entirely.
In the US apparently you can return opened hair care if they don't suit you (I read it on insta so I'm not sure how true this is) but I would have quite a great refund if I could return half of the products that don't work for my hair.
All this trial and error is bad for my pocket

I’ve just looked this up... how elaborate! Her website claims she is making it for childrens birthday celebrations. So quite far from the nuggets the rest of us are chucking in the oven.

black clothes. I really must stop.

Oh I am exactly the same.

I'm rubbish at matching colours and worry that if a buy something say green, I won't be able to wear many other things with it.

Make up/skincare.
Perfume
Jeans
sweets & crisps

Scarves and chocolate.
Scarves- first priority when I'm in a charity shop. Just can't help myself but at least they don't take up my room.

DH feels the constant need to stock up on paracetamol/ibuprofen/cold and flu relief. Drives me up the wall. We have so so much!

Mugs. Glasses. I don’t need 30 plates, so why do I need so many glasses and mugs? It is illogical.

Yes but remember years ago the mumsnetter whose dh had an obsession with stocking up on loo rolls; she put on a photo of her cupboard piled high with them. I often thought of her when Covid struck and we were all panicking about toilet paper 😆

Used to be books, now it’s knitting yarn. Which is even more expensive.

Drinking glasses. I can't resist them. I have boxes of them in cupboards and I still can't resist them.
Also kitchenware, I don't know why because I rarely cook and never bake, yet my kitchen cupboards are busting at the seams with the stuff.
I have a cupboard full of pans of all sizes which have never seen the light of day.
I think I need help!

Scarves

Socks

Oh, mugs as well

Books, even though menopause has ensured that I don't have the concentration to read any more!

Candles, and face creams.

Books - this year my resolution is no buying more books (although free libraries don't count).

Soap. It takes me about a year to get through a bar, so I appear to have enough to last me until retirement.

Sainsburys clothes - they always seem so nice and cheap too, but when I get them home they are never quite right after the first wear, so languish in my wardobe before being taken to the charity shop.

Just stuff in general that I don't need