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Hey bees! Just as a fun post , what are your strange addictions?? I would love to see what kind of wierdos we have among us :-p I will start! For some reason.. i love love love the feel of q-tips. yes, i know its bad for me, yes i know I am just pushing the wax further down but I continue to do it.. multiple times a day. And I stick them way down too lol.. anyone else?
haha omg I love threads like this. Let's all reveal our true selves.
I am addicted to aquaphor on my lips, cracking my knuckles and picking the gunk out of my cats' and dog's eyes! THe last one is so gross, but I think them having that crap in their eyes is grosser!
I'm a Q-tip junkie too !. I offer to clean my Fiances or family members ears all the time. They think Im nuts but I can't stand the thought of earwax in visible sight.
@MrsNeutrino: Have you ever tried ear candeling?
I count everything like a weirdo. It doesn't over take my life and I don't recount things once I have counted them, but it's pretty strange. I know how many tile are in the kitchen backspalshes at everyone's house that I know LOL.
Cleaning my BlackBerry. I keep alcohol wipes, cutips, and toothpicks next to my couch so I can clean it. I seriously cannot use it unless it has been cleaned. I am always cleaning it at work too, makes people crazy.
Tweezing my eyebrows. I cannot stop. I don't over-pluck but i tweeze every day. I read once that Courtney Cox has the same obsession and that made me feel better:)
I'm majorly addicted to burt's bees lipbalm - it has to be the original peppermint kind. When I was in sixth grade, I was addicted to carmex and put it on my lips every ten mins it seemed... and I became immune to it. I'm terrified of ever becoming immune to burt's bees.
I pick at stuff. Scabs, hangnails, peeling sunburn...anything my fingers think "shouldn't be there".
Whenever I'm on the road I always look for interesting license plate letters. Like my mom's old car was FEB. One day when she picked me up from school, the car behind her was MAR. I looked to see if the car ahead was JAN, but no such luck, lol. If the letters aren't interesting in themselves, I make car nicknames or other word combos out of them. I've done it since I was a kid; my dad's old license plate was WPJ and I came up with "wet pajamas". Mom thought it was hilarious.
I have a potato obsession.
and not JUST potatoes.. potatoes done a particularly childlike and bizarre way. First I bake a potato, cut it in half, and put both sides face down on the plate. Then I smush out the potato insides, fold the skins in half with butter, salt and pepper inside and set aside. Next, I make mashed potatoes on my plate using my fork, with more butter, salt and pepper. I could honestly eat them for every meal, every day.
it embarrasses my husband so much that he made me promise to eat my potatoes like a normal person when we're in public. :) I've been doing it that way since I was a child, and to be honest I'm in my late twenties and have no intentions to stop.
I pick the skin off of my lips. How gross is that? It's gross. I like picking off the rough parts. Chapstick doesn't help either. I'll pick them until they bleed. DH smacks my hand when I reach up, LOL!
scratching, I have really bad problems with dry dry itchy skin and can't stop sometimes until I bleed. FI has to stop me if I'm doing it in bed.
picking my nose (oh man, I'm embarrassed to admit that!), I try to keep it to myself and not in public
salt cravings, I love myself some soy sauce, some saltines, anything of the sort sometimes
@melodicsighs1: I'm addicted to Burt's Bees too but I can deal with any kind. I actually do find that if I use the same kind enough it seems to stop working. Luckily though they make enough different kinds that I can cycle through them. I cannot stand to have my lips be dry.
I crack my knuckles (and my back, though that's mostly pain relief), bite my nails, pick at scabs and bite my lips. Ugh.
Love the feel of stickey things like tape or a sticker. It is weird but I like the tackey feeling in between my fingers and I keep playing with it.
@thismustbetheplace: I totally eat my potatoes like that too. I never thought it was weird and still don't; they're YUMMY that way!!!
@mandb122: You're lucky that you can use all the kinds - I put on some of the honey kind one day not realizing it and basically threw the tube down and frantically searched for a regular one.
@PitBulLover: omg, im addicted to picking the stuff out of my dogs eyes too! one of them gets massive "eye boogers" (as we call them) and i love to pick them out! i don't know why but its so much fun!
@thismustbetheplace: That sounds delicious. I'm totally craving yummy potatoes now.
I used to have this obsession that I had to wait for the digital clock to turn a number that is divisible by three. Strange, I know. I remember when I learned in elementary school that a number is divisible by three if the sum of all digits were divisible by three. I was hooked ever since. For instance, if the time was 8:33 I would not take my eye off of it until it was 8:34 since 8 + 3 + 4 = 15 = 1 + 5 = 6 = divisible by three. I don't do it anymore but it was such an awful habit. It got to the point where I did the same with license plates. I loved the number 3!
God, I can't believe I revealed that. How embarassing! Haha I'm such a freak!
@duck: I finally feel somewhat normal now :-) DH thinks its sooo gross but I do it every day, several times a day! I know that I hate having gunk in my eyes and I imagine they do too, they just dont have fingers!
@PitBulLover:OMG! me too! I HAVE to pull the gunk out of my dogs eyes. I usually have to do it when nobody is around, cuz they always yell at me to stop. But I cant stand when they have crusty eyes!
@MrsNeutrino: Right there with you! Fi is the same way, if we don't have Q-tips in both bathrooms and by the computer he goes BONKERS (it's pretty funny).
@Eva Peron: I clean FI's ears all the time. Peroxide works wonders.
At work we can't listen to music and the 4am shift is solo for a few hours. I will count times tables in my head over and over and over again.
Haha I LOVE this thread!
I'm weird with numbers as well. The clock has to say an even number or multiple of 5 for me to get up or leave or anything. like 8:02 or 9:05.
I'm a picker too! It's gross but I can't stop. Chapped lips, dry skin, sunburns, scabs, etc. I have to keep acrylics on because they don't tear my skin up like natural nails do.
AND I crack almost every bone in my body it seems. Neck, wrists, fingers, back, hips, knees, ankles, toes. Drives FI nuts!
I used to have to touch things four times and count things in fours. Weirdest thing ever, but I could.not.stop. I still do it to some extent (with the stripes on the road) but it's a weird OCD thing I have.
Holy freak, I'm embarassed.
If I look at the clock and it is a 11:11, or 5:55 (favorite number is 5) I have to stare at it until the time changes.
I have to have everything in odd numbers. Like, let's just say I bought picture frames to hang on the wall. I'd either put one there, or three, or five, or seven. I like the way things look when there is one thing in the middle and an even number of things on each side of it. I HATE the number six, so nothing is done with that many letters.
When I'm reading, I often have to go back over the same sentence multiple times in my head if I didn't read it "right" the first time. I have to read the same lines until I'm satisfied with how they sound in my head.
But, I guess none of those things are "addictions" so much as OCD behaviors. As far as addictions go:
Biting my nails. It is like a comforting for me.
Calm's Forte natural sleep aid. I'm addicted to Passion Flower when I feel like I'm going to have a panic attack.
Chicken Salad. I could eat chunky chicken salad on a croissant everyday.
Sweet pea and violet body wash. I buy the cheap, Suave body wash because that is the ONLY scent I am 100% in love with and it makes me feel so clean. I love to smell myself afterwards. I also use the deodorant.
Facebook and WB.
Sweets of all kind. Brownies, blondies, cookies (but not cookies with raisins or nuts), cake (except coconut cake or cake with nuts in it), pudding, ice cream, donuts, cupcakes, fudge, pies, parfaits, sherbet, pastry, muffins, cinnamon rolls... Oh God, you name it, I will eat it! Just as long as it doesn't have nuts!
The Kotex pads with the neon wrappers. They give me a little something to be excited about on my period, lol!
@Gabrielle123: im the same way!!! i always thought it was just me who did that!
and i am the same way with my pet's eyes and eye boogers...
I wouldnt say mine is too weird but I am ALWAYS licking my lips and picking the dry skin off with my teeth.
What a fun post! It's a bit reassuring to know I'm not alone in my weirdness.
I pick, pick, pick - the chapped skin on my lips, peeling sunburn, the callouses on my feet. I know...it's disgusting :(
I am completely addicted to diet soda. Nothing is more reassuring than an ice cold diet soda. I can't drink regular soda, it's just not the same.
I'm addicted to my phone. If I left it at home, I would turn around and get it, even if it meant being late for work.
When I was pregnant with my first child, I absolutely craved the smell of gasoline. Crazy!
I'm also addicted to St. Ives Apricot Scrub. If I don't wash my face with it, it just doesn't feel clean.
I have to put 16 layers of chapstick on before I go to bed. Weird. I don't know why. I think I started doing this when I was 7 and I didn't think it was weird, until my friends started noticing that I was doing it at school. Someone counted when I wasn't noticing and told me that I had gone back and forth, upper lip, lower lip for a total of 16 times.
I'm a pimple popper. I absolutely cannot make myself leave them alone. I know it's SO bad for my skin. At least I'm not really bad about it and I don't try and pop other people's pimples. Yuck.
This is more of an OCD thing, but I love thing that are in rainbow order. Like, I'll rearrange all the crayons or markers or colored pencils into rainbow order before I use them, or else it bugs me to use them. I also arrange my closet and drawers in rainbow order. Other stuff too. DH makes fun of my rainbow closet.
Chapstick, especially Burts Bees...I'm addicted, like my lips NEED it. And I tend to mess with everything on my body...crack my knuckles, twirl my hair, pick at everything, bite my nails. It's bad, I know.
I also have a thing about the number 4. Everything has to be in multiples of four. For example, the volume on the TV is always set on a multiple of 4.
I'm addicted to Chipotle burritos. I could seriously eat one for each meal of every day (but then I would be really fat and probably wouldn't be able to move - lol).
@linguo42: I pick at scabs, hangnails, and peeling sunburns too!
@Aure: I crack my neck multiple times throughout the day. And my fingers. And I'm always trying to get DH to walk on and crack my back.
@PitBulLover: I know! I figure if it is uncomfortable to me (when I have goop in my eyes), then it must be uncomfortable to them so I want to make them feel better.
I eat the skin on the side of my finger nails...
I cover my mouth and nose to calm myself down when I get scared or upset.
I have to have my blanket tight to my neck when I sleep... my blanket also comes with me everywhere I go... I'm trying to figure out how to get it on the cruise with me for our honeymoon lol.
I also pick all my food apart... it drives my FI nuts (and he says it makes him feel bad because it's a sign of poverty- but I did grow up very very poor)
I am also addicted to coke, coke zero, dr. pepper... anything soda... I have to have it every day as soon as I get up! If I dont have atleast one glass a day to fulfill my needs I go crazy lol!!
Cracking all my joints as frequently as possible
Weddingbee
My cat (obsession, really, not addiction)
SUNFLOWER SEEDS
Breaking Bad
As much ice as possible in my drinks
Popping pimples (but I rarely have any... poor FI)
Picking my cuticles (I hate this so much!!!)
ETA - I was going to start this thread, but I was sure someone already had
picking pimples
picking eye boogers (on myself - i have incredible allergies and have frequent "eye boogers" which feels like I have something in my eye until I get them out (they go across my eye in a string so freaking gross - i should really try some drops or something)
cleaning my ears
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