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377 replies

NutElla5x · 05/02/2019 18:29

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?

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AwkwardPaws27 · 05/02/2019 18:52

Sugar.
Procrastinating.

BlueThesaurusRex · 05/02/2019 18:53

arguing with strangers on Facebook. I just can’t help myself.

TheQueef · 05/02/2019 18:53

Weed Smoking.
After a few years of medication and pain I switched over.
I'd already, in an attempt to improve illness, quit alcohol, changed diet and lost weight.
I had a vice vacancy.

13thWarriorWitch · 05/02/2019 18:54

Online shopping. Smoking. Am getting concerned for my health though.

Squickety · 05/02/2019 18:54

Cushions. DH made me count the other day and we have about 50 in a very average size house Blush. He's forever going 'but love we really don't need any more cushions'. One of the staff in my local TK Maxx now expresses surprise when I'm buying something other than cushions. At least I'm comfy!!

PlatypusPie · 05/02/2019 18:54

Expensive paints, paper and brushes. Oh, the brushes. We got burgled and my DH commented ‘they may think they did well with the cash and the jewellery but they had no idea of the value of those brushes’

edgen2019 · 05/02/2019 18:55

Buying handbags and visiting Charity Shops.

Ironmanrocks · 05/02/2019 18:57

To the PP who loves Pomm bears.....mine is similar, but the Tesco version - bunny bites!! They just have a touch more salt on them!!

Also browsing the internet for stuff...just stuff. I don't even buy it....

wine.....

YeOldeTrout · 05/02/2019 18:57

Holding grudges, guilty! It means I'm immensely tolerant until you fully piss me off & then I never ever want to forgive. Am trying to change.

Also have an almighty lazy streak.

Goldenphoenix · 05/02/2019 18:58

Definitely food and tea after that! I look forward to each meal so much and will look forward to food all day if we are having something special for dinner. Probably not healthy really, i totally reward and console myself with food...

FiveGoMadInDorset · 05/02/2019 18:59

Books and Diet Coke

Villanelley · 05/02/2019 18:59

Perfume.

SquiddyMcSquidford · 05/02/2019 19:00

Chocolate

EmLH · 05/02/2019 19:02

Poncy food. Expensive luxuries from Waitrose or farmers markets type of stuff. £3.50 for a flatbread etc! However, I don’t smoke or drink or buy other expensive things (would baulk at paying over £30 for a pair of jeans for example), so I don’t even feel bad about it! You’ve gotta live and life’s about the little things!

ShowOfHands · 05/02/2019 19:02

I don't drink alcohol, don't smoke, no sugar, no caffeine. Er, exercise maybe. I do work out every day.

I'm such a fricking bore.

whitewineandchocolate · 05/02/2019 19:03

Chocolate and Diet Coke. If I ever managed to quit it would be replaced with shopping.

BeanTownNancy · 05/02/2019 19:04

I don't have an addictive personality - there is nothing I would really suffer with giving up (currently pregnant so have given up coffee and alcohol from the start, and just last week got a GDM diagnosis so have cut way down on carbs and given up chocolate, for example).

I am, however, largely apathetic and super lazy. I guess laziness is my vice!

Littlepond · 05/02/2019 19:04

Food. It’s why I’m fat.

BlueJava · 05/02/2019 19:06

Chocolate!

turncloak · 05/02/2019 19:07

Red Bull. Currently 39 weeks pregnant and I think right now I'm more excited about the fact that I can have a Red Bull as soon as I've given birth rather than seeing my actual child.

callieisdoingit · 05/02/2019 19:07

Coffee and sweet food.

Unbelievable18 · 05/02/2019 19:07

Coffee, booze and running. Mostly running though.

OneKeyAtATime · 05/02/2019 19:08

Singular? ;)

RolandDeschainsGilly · 05/02/2019 19:09

PS4
Vaping

I swear I’m not a teenager Blush

punishmepunisher · 05/02/2019 19:09

Red wine. I'd probably lose about 3 stone if I knocked it on the head.