What’s your ‘thing’?

Scarves.... British Heart Foundation shops always have wonderful ones. Oh and I like 'statement' necklaces.

Books of all different kinds - cookery, fiction, (of many different genres), non-fiction. (autobiographies, information books, bird books to name a few). Yes, definitely books! ?

Oh God! I just told myself off for buying another top!! My DH passed away last year and his cupboard is now full of my new tops...I keep saying "that's it now" but if I see something cute, in cotton....My family are getting worried. Hopefully its only a phase?? Part of grieving I tell myself. Help!

I can’t stop buying books on my kindle. Most are only 99p each so it is very tempting but I must have at least 50 that I haven’t opened yet! It’s really GOT to stop.

I initially thought nothing, but on reflection it just might be nice undies. I’ve just done a quick calculation and I have at least 18 matching bra &knicker sets, plus a couple of strapless bras just in case. I’m stopping myself going the same way with pyjamas.

Anything to do with craft

Glad I'm not alone NoHogran. I can't walk past a fabric shop without buying something. As long as I live to be 150 I should use up everything from my stash!

I've read right through and no one has said Jigsaws. That's mine - from charity shops and jumble sales of course.

I'm hooked on jumpers, cookery books (I usually only make a couple of recipes out of each), cheapish necklaces, and a new lipstick always gives me a boost.

mollie, mine is also collecting cookery books, I have over a hundred, I do use them, but not all the time, and DH has built me a bookcase for them. I also read loads of detective stories, the more rubbishy the merrier. I keep this quiet from my book club friends.

I have a thing for vintage knitting yarn, ebay is a good source. I've got loads from there and some of it has been a bit beyond use but I still don't mind! It reminds me of the 70s when I was carefree!

Also I have a thing for handbags, not uncommon I know! I like the cheaper ones that you can bash about. I do have good leather ones but they always seem so heavy.

It is lovely to hear that I am not alone in having 'a thing'. Mine is books, books and more books, scarves and socks, the quirkier the better. I have a drawer full, only really buy them in sales.
I love buying crafty bits and notebooks and colouring books.

Shoes, table lamps and Yankee candles,
All my grandchildren bought me scented candles for Christmas

Books, but now on Kindle except for art or architecture books which I must have in hardback, oh and cookery books.

I used to be clothes mad and had wardrobes full, but here in France profonde I can't justify all that. shoes were also an almost fetish, but now feet won't allow that many styles, so making do with Hotter so at least I don't fall over.

Anything craft related, and fabrics. Mainly dictated by colour as I am addicted to colour - synaesthesia. I also love making things - clothes, cushion covers, things for the house, fabric decorations, cards. I don't need them, I just enjoy making.

We also seem to collect abandoned animals here because we are English and a soft touch.

What do I find almost impossible to resist? The internet! I have to absolutely force myself not to spend endless hours just surfing - looking at You Tube; checking the news and weather; reading about holidays I might, or might not like to go on; looking at all the houses for sale in my area on Rightmove even though I have no intention of moving; or even worse rambling around on Amazon to see what I might buy!

I just retrieved some cushion covers from the pile put on one side for the charity shop and found some cushions in the under-bed drawers to fill them. I like cushions too.

Goldengirl check out cushion covers on amazon.
I bought 'Halloween' & 'Christmas' cushion covers for the conservatory for less than £2 each .
I have just replaced the Christmas covers with nautical style. (62 pence each + a small p&p)
The quality is very good, they are usually from China so they can take longer to arrive than locally bought items.

My things
Scarves
books
audio books which I use to help me get to sleep at night.

Diggingdoris I have umpteen reels of cotton - but what happens when I decide to sew something on the spur of the moment?
I don't have that particular colour!

is it because we didn't have much in our childhood in the post war years, that now we hoard?
And yes, I wonder if it is something to do with that, although my DM tended to throw a lot out and my MIL was a hoarder.

I don't buy very much at all now that I have retired and the DH has been made redundant but I read all the time so book bargains are irrisistible. I skim the charity shops and also read reviews and order the books recommended from the library for 60p a reservation.

I also didn't think I have a 'thing', until I started reading, but realise I match lots of you on here.
Earrings over 100pairs, scarves over 50, books by favourite authors 250+, vintage blue and white China, vintage blue glass. Then craft stuff, wool, ribbons ect oh and cotton reels 50-60 I guess. I never have to buy one when I have a sewing bug as I already have the colour I need!

I have a question for us 'collectors', is it because we didn't have much in our childhood in the post war years, that now we hoard?

Kindle sample this book.
I am addicted. Don't know when I will ever get through them all.

I'm rather partial to a new flannel. I have quite a lot, all stacked up, but they do get used.

Clothes, clothes and yet more clothes!

Stationery and bookshops can make me lose a good couple of hours.Oh,and craft shops too-that's 3 "things" but hey,it's better than collecting expensive shoes I suppose!

Like Mollie, notebooks are my thing - have so many and still collecting. I don't write in most of them as they're too beautiful to spoil. Also books to the extent that I have an addiction to Amazon that I really need to curb; and I don't have enough lifetime left in which to read them all!