to think that nearly everyone has

[NutElla5x]

a vice. Mine used to be the booze,but I knocked that on the head when I found myself drinking up to two bottles of wine a night. Now it's shopping. I just love to shop,be it for food,stuff for the kids,make-up,clothes,shoes,household goods or anything else. I just get a buzz out of it. What's your vice? Is it something you worry could get out of hand, or do you see it as a simple pleasure that you deserve even if it might be bad for you and/or your bank balance?

Hot baths...

Sex, and haribo, used to be cocaine and cigarettes

I don’t really have a single vice but I have no willpower to stop myself so as soon as I decide I want something I just go and get it. It leads to pigging out sessions, buying things I can’t afford, getting pissed on a random Thursday night, smoking 20 cigarettes in one night but then I’ll not smoke another for a week. I am always busy doing things for others so whenever I have time to myself I fill it with one of the above. It’s a bit destructive really and I worry for when I’m not needed so much.

Mine is a lot of low alcohol percentage white wine and (far less) weak cigarettes, as quantity trumps quality in my view, post 9pm!

Between the ages of 18 and 21 I tried every drug going, including heroin, but only once or twice as, for some reason, drugs just don't agree with me.

I remember lying around on the floor with a group of people just after I'd taken heroin for the first time at aged 19 and thinking wine made me feel so much happier!!

I don’t think I have a vice. I think it is because I get bored very very easily.

I do something once and enjoy it. Do it again and it is ok. 3 rd time is boring

@YourFly respect ✊!!

JustPoppingOut The problem is that this thread has made me feel a bit of a saddo.

I dont go out ever!
I dont drink or smoke.
Work, home, sleep.

Weekends are spent going for a walk, from home (no petrol) & taking my own coffee.

I dont buy food out, magazines, or anything!

I spend £10 a week on petrol to get to work and £40 a week on food. That is literally it.

I know I really really want the campervan but I will probably be too tight to drive it after being in this mindset

Clothes and booze for me. I decided to drink less alcohol a couple of years ago, so I drink less but higher quality and therefore more expensive wine. And I enjoy it a lot more. Same with clothes - I don't buy some many now, but the ones I do buy are really nice and often made to fit me. They look and feel much better than a load of high-street ones and having fewer of them takes up much less space.

Cava (v chilled)
Flamin Hot Monster Munch dunked in soft cheese
Netflix binges - currently Russian Doll, so good!
Having my back scratched

Reading and sourcing cheap and/ or free books to feed the habit
Chasing Rolls Royce bargains for Trabant prices (on a pension and DH redundant but still like Gravadlax and Champagne, very nice clothes and expensive jewellery)
Being in control (bit OCD and very anxious)
Cake
Being retired and in charge of my own life (loved teaching but OFSTED and stress wrecked my mental and physical health for a long while)
Being calm and happy
Walking
Being solvent (money is very important to me)

Books. Our house is full of them. I justify it on the basis that each one is bought for a specific purpose, rarely fiction unless it is so good I have to read it and can't get from the library, but the amount I have spent over the years on books...... sheeeze.

Bargain shopping. I end up spending significantly more on tat stuff then I would if I bought if I just bought the things I want regardless of price.

Buying makeup. The makeup changes frequently. It was nail polish two years ago, I went through a lip stage last winter and I’m back onto eye shadow palettes again. The irony is I’m rubbish at applying makeup and barely end up wearing it

Gaming - this flares up when the buying stops. It’s usually one of the other.

I probably drink too much too.

A game on my phone called Songpop.

Chocolate and weed. I hate alcohol and cigarettes so I feel ok about it.

Playmysong

I also do this, if stuff I use is on offer, especially if I have a money off coupon for a certain spend I buy loads of it so have loads of porridge, coffee or teabags, stuff like that at any one time. I am sure it is cheaper in the long run though. Some of my stuff has to go into the spare room, like the 10 packs of 9 toilet rolls from Amazon, I bought these as they were discontinued in Tesco and Waitrose and were on offer. I had coupons from Tesco so I just bought twice as much shopping, spending on the offers to use them.

PUBG Mobile and kebabs.

Sugar

I'm incredibly greedy - I like all food and am always hungry. Luckily I'm not as fat as i ought to be given my calorie intake but still quite stout.

I also still enjoy a cheeky fag when I'm round my friend Naughty Nic's ...I "gave up" 16 years ago but it doesn't count in someone else's garden if no-one (DH, DC's, parents etc) sees does it?

Casinos...and I'm pretty good at it 😄

I love silly activities where I'm blindfolded - I'm obsessed with them, obviously I didn't do them enough as a kid (when I did, I remember them vividly). My DH has found himself having to drive me to mystery places, test my sense of taste and directional hearing, wrap my presents in front me, play blind man's buff with me, get me to feel trees and then find them later, hide things for me to find. I suspect he often gives me the finger to check I can't see!

Buying stuff I don't need. Mainly new cosmetics, boots or handbags.

I do actually think of it as a bit of an addiction - I think about something I would like, then it's niggling in my head until I go and buy it. Then going to the shop, buying it, coming home and looking at my new 'thing', Im buzzing like I'm on something .

But then it wears off and I have to think of a new 'thing.

Sounds bad when I describe it like that!

Glory just read your post - I have 'phases' of makeup buying too - currently foundations. It was eyeliner for a long time before that....

A good bunfight on a dog thread. And some wine.

Or maybe a bunfight on a dog thread after some wine.

The mock little Milky Ways (not good enough) from Asda are called "Whirly Bars" 15 in a pack.
To eat them:

1. Unwrap and give clean wrapping to dog to sniff

2 Place teeth either side of long sides of top chocolate as near the top as possible. 3 Lift the top chocolate off like a lid. 4 Eat it with milk so you get chocolate milk 5 Go round the sides removing the chocolate in same manner 6 Eat the short ends of chocolate last 7 Now you are ready for the bliss supreme. 8 Nibble at the filling in bites to suit your pleasure but not too big bites. 9 mix in mouth with a little milk 10 Enjoy the rapture.

The above can be replicated with the Lidl bars which are similar but do not quite reach the most luscious teasing texture of the Asda bars. Real Milky Ways are entirely useless.

WhentheDealGoesDown Playmysong
That's not a vice in my book. It's sensible! All you need is the first outlay then you are not spending each month/week. I buy cheaper loo roll in bulk usually from Amazon, ditto dog food and treats, then any other long lasting stuff e.g. washing up liquid, that is good value. I check it is cheaper per item than the local cheap offers in Supermarkets (where I also get deliveries in similar way when the opportunity arises) and having it delivered free saves going out and lugging it home and as I'm disabled this is a big help! I think I save a lot by buying this way. I store in the garage. It's an old garage and too small for the car but has a door through to the house.
Vice? No! It's an economic virtue!