@VickyVicky wrote: ↑4 years agoBoy. Do I relateI buy things from shopping channels, especially from shoplc for over 40 family members including kids. I buy for Birthdays, holidays, graduations, etc.
As much as I give, there are soooo much more I am waiting to give. My huge dresser drawers are overloaded with the Jewelry. They share space with my unmentionables etc.
The more I give, the more I buy. Other rooms are filled with them too. The only good part is my family are known for having many beautiful pieces.
Their friends want to know if I can please adopt them.
My joy is making my family happy.
I just received a 3ct Diamond bangle from Shoplc. It is stunning. Might be enhanced, but if it is, they did a great job. Cant wait to gift it. I just ordered the matching 3ct diamond Bar necklace. Im hoping its as gorgeous as the Bangle, or its going back.
Of course I mainly only buy with at least 30% coupons, without the starting price increased before the coupon was applied
But I noticed that lately I am splurging. I conveniently blame it on the Neupro patch that I started 1 month ago for RLS.
It has a known side effect of causing a SHOPPING ADDICTION
I wish it would include a CLEANING OUT MY CLOSETS ADDICTION
I buy things from shopping channels, especially from shoplc for over 40 family members including kids. I buy for Birthdays, holidays, graduations, etc. 
I think your home sounds wonderful! You're such a giving person, too! I understand completely about seeing things on these channels and knowing this or that would be perfect for this person or that person! If I won the lottery, I'd be giving gifts constantly. It's so fun!
There are definitely medications that do cause shopping addictions. Gambling as well. But if you are enjoying it and can afford to do what you're doing, I say: DO IT! Because we absolutely do not know what tomorrow, or even this day will bring. Not even the next minute!
I agree about the "Cleaning Out Closets Addiction"!
It just doesn't seem fair! I'm actually a very organized person. But due to circumstances right now, I'm just not capable.
Although eons ago, during the Phen-Fen phase...taking only the Phentermine and not the Fenfluramine AKA Pondimim, my house was never so clean.
Some of the docs I worked with took the Phentermine and allowed staff to get it through their pharmacy at cost.
It is the ONLY medication that made me WANT to get up and sort things and clean, etc.
I want to WANT to do it now, but can't. When taking P, I wanted to. I actually took pleasure in it AND had (of course) the energy to do it, too!
They took the Fenfluramine off the market but none of us ever took it. The Phentermine was enough. One doctor told me that on his golf days, at the end of the day, he and his friends who golfed together found themselves snapping at each other.
This happened to the staff, too. They started being rude to patients and each other.
It's of course because the Phentermine wore off by the afternoon - and the irritability began.
I'd take it now, but can't because of hypertension. But if I could take it again, I would be absolutely thrilled because this room would be spotless.
Oh, it's so unfair!
Enjoy your home, Vicky. I grew up next door to a woman who was the top saleswoman in her district for over three decades. She sold a brand of makeup, perfume and jewelry. As children we LOVED going to her house. The smell of products and perfumes, and her baking all mixed together was wonderful. And that's where my sis and I got our love for jewelry.
She had bags ready for customers, and products and samples EVERYWHERE! A paradise for us children!
I'll never forget something she said to my sis and I when we were kids, with her Texas accent we loved so much:
"You little sugarplums! Yer just suh entranced! Yer suh curious! Aih know ya luv luv luv visitin because of all there is tuh look ait here! And thayts a gewd thaing tuh be! Aih know it's a mess! But, Aih jest caint worry about it. Aih decided a long long lonnnng taim ago thayt it isn't dirty, it's jest cluttered! And aih caint do a THING about it. There are farrrrrr more important things in laif than a spotless house! And...Aih LIVE here! Soooo, as long as Aim doing what Aih enjoy, Aih caint fret about it! Aih just don't have the taim tuh worry about what others thaink. And, Aih learned a long long longggggg taim ago thayt we're never as important as we thaink we are! So muh house is always goin' tuh look lived in!"
She's right, too. Erma Bombeck wrote about all the things she would and wouldn't do if she could go back in time and relive her life. One was she would allow her children to eat buttered popcorn on the sofa and watch movies and not care if butter etc., got alllll over the sofa or carpet.
Enjoy it, Vicky!
between Cheryl yelling and my Chihuahua barking back at her, I have a headache
if only she can do that 24 hrs I wouldnt shop
I tried phen- phen and all the other diet things. Never worked. To lose weight, I just lived on coffee and a couple veggies. Atkins failed because my calcium went too low. Ca++ Supplements didn't work. 
