25 lip balms

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I was cleaning out my closets and decided to get rid of some jackets. Some of them had lip balms in the pockets. I decided to count how many lip balms & lip glosses I had. The answer was 25!!!

I have 17 pairs of mittens!

I have 9 winter hats!

This are all mine - for me and nobody else.

They are my favorite things. I go to craft shows or stores and I am drawn to these things.

Is there anything you have a lot of??

[Shooby]

LOL! Amazing what we really collect.

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Lip Balm addict here, too. I know I have one in every pocket I own. I can't tell you how many times I've run one through the washer and dryer. 

[dogmom]

Love lip balm.  Have four in my purse and a few laying around the house...  Otherwise, last count, only 10.

[dannylion]

Another lip balm junkie!

I cannot stand to have dry lips, so I have lip balms strategically staged throughout the house as well as in pockets and purses. (My favorite is Badger Balm).

I have several winter coats. I like coats. I used to sew all my own clothes and made lots of wearable art coats.  More recently I haven't had as much time to sew, but I still like to have different coats for different purposes (long coats, short coats, coats with hoods, etc.). Also winter scarves. I, too, am drawn to that sort of thing at a good craft show, especially if it has a pleasing combination of colors or patterns.

Also arty jewelry.  I have lots of arty brooches and earrings and dozens and dozens of bracelets and many rings.  I wear too much jewelry.  It's part of my charm. 

And books.  I have books.  Lots and lots of books. 

[plugginaway22]

Last time I cleaned out my drawers and closet I found around 40 CARDIGAN sweaters. Apparently that is all I buy when shopping.
And yes, some colors were missing, I tended towards dark colors.  For a long time after I realized that I wouldn't allow myself to look at a cardigan sweater.

[sarcasticgirl]

I have dozens of lip balms. I make my own and have then all over the place.
I have about a million scarves... I often coordinate an entire outfit around a scarf!

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[sarcasticgirl]

Aug 31, 2014 14:41:33 GMT -5 plugginaway22 said:

Last time I cleaned out my drawers and closet I found around 40 CARDIGAN sweaters. Apparently that is all I buy when shopping.
And yes, some colors were missing, I tended towards dark colors.  For a long time after I realized that I wouldn't allow myself to look at a cardigan sweater.

I am a cardigan queen as well. I just got rid of a bunch that were too big and so I have about 30 right now.... I've already been eyeing up more for fall.

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[Regis]

Aug 31, 2014 13:22:37 GMT -5 @bluester said:

Is there anything you have a lot of??

Unfortunately, not patience!

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JEWELRY!    I am a jewelry freak!  Not necessarily expensive stuff.  I have come across items that I don't even remember buying.  I have drawers and drawers the stuff.  Since I have been ill, don't really wear much of it; but that doesn't keep me from making a beeline to jewelry sections of stores.

[sesfw]

Not any more. Since retirement and both of us having health problems I'm doing a lot of downsizing in everything. Including what we wear.

If something comes into the home, something has to leave.  And DH is a clothes horse.  Last week he bought 4 new short sleeved shirts and won't get rid of 4 shirts that are too large for him.    

I'll keep after him though.  Its amazing how much I can get rid of at laundry time.    

[cronewitch]

Dish towels. I like the packs from Costco but not all the colors so will buy a few packs to get matching towels then have a bunch in prints I don't like and solids. Last time they came with solid yellow and light green so I sent all those to ISO's house and sent him a bunch of solid red ones. He can't tell a hand towel from a dish towel so used striped hand towels in the kitchen and dish towels in his bathrooms. I had a lot too many bathroom towels too so sent to his house, I should take him more towels and only keep one color bathroom towels too. Any towels that don't match are now rags even if not in really bad shape, sent him a bunch of rags too I had way too many rags.

[billisonboard]

I have about twenty pairs of different colored sunglasses. I keep them in their own little bags with color coordinated toggles. 

[gacpa]

I love this thread!

[quince]

I have at least 25 pounds of wool and other animal fibers-probably more.  Little vials of beads, and a ton of handspun yarn that I don't know what to do with.

I have probably about 10 scarves or wraps- a bit silly, I don't wear pretty things, just functional, so I don't need them all. 

[MarleyKeezy78]

I collect blankets, lol! I have started a camp blanket collection and once in a while I hit up the salvation army to see if they have plaid or wool blankets. I love being able to keep some in the cars or use them outside. I make sure they wash up easy as well. 

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At the cheap end of the range: T-shirts. I never buy them but I've gotten them from previous employers, athletic events, the blood bank, etc. I've always used them for workouts and are using them more for everyday wear now that I'm retired. I probably have 2 dozen.

Middle of the range: hot sauces. I think there are 4 in the refrigerator, another in the pantry and a small bottle of "Death Rain", a really wicked powder I sprinkle on just about anything. Last week I bought sea salt seasoned with ghost pepper.

Expensive end: Jewelry. I've bought it over the decades and periodically rotate what's in the safe and what I have out so I can enjoy it all. I'll probably slow down the buying a little but not completely. In the last year I've added 2 charms (a whale tail form Alaska and a dolphin from SC) to my travel-themed charm bracelet and I have a bid on one from Athens on e-Bay right now. Sometimes I buy a charm when I visit and sometimes I just buy one later on e-Bay but they're all from places I've been. I still have to add London and Paris!

[sesfw]

I still have to add London

I have three travel bracelets and need a charm from London also.

I have a US bracelet and a EU bracelet. My 3rd one is a hodpoge of what is left over.

I have some jewelry.  What I like is the expensive stuff in silver and gold.  The only diamond I have is in my wedding set but I have a lot of the American Indian jewelry.

My uncle had more than 100 bolo ties when he died and I eventually inherited them.  About half were tourist junk but the other half is old silver and beautiful.