I've had a lot of hairs under the left side of my chin recently.  I feel for them constantly and have to get the tweezers out when I think they are long enough to pull.  I had one which was small on the surface but once I got a grip, quite a large hair came out!  It's laid on the bath so must go clean up!  It quite amazes me that there is such depth to some of them!

Yikes!  The holidays are upon us, and the 'horders' come oout of the woodwork!  I'm buying things I know I'll ned because they're on sale for the Christmas meal, lol!  I went to the grocery store, and people were still trying tto get their Thanksgiving meal items together.  No me!  Did that weeks ago.  Got a couple of fresh things, and I was outta there!  The cupboards are filling up, again!  Watch you feet if you open one of them.....

Fun to be back here, Lizzie.  One of my favorite rooms!    :hearts:

Last night I was feeling under my chin and hey presto! there's another  :wwww:

Couldn't see it but it was blond with a dark root when I did get it out.  It's beside the earlier one - really *must* get cleaning that bathroom  :whistling:

As for food: there are certain items I hate to be short of in the cupboard as well as face tissues and loo rolls.  Fortunately hubby will do the shopping if I can't drive so we rarely run out.  But just in case I make sure we have a supply ..........

I know.  I could feed people for weeks with the stuff I have squirreled away.  I have to have certain items, or run to the store.  Like this is dictating my life.....  I need to get it down to a list, I guess...

I keep buying clothes all the time. How many trousers, shirts etc. that I've got I don't know, I don't count them. I still keep them when they are worn out and I only throw them out when they physically fall to bits. I wear the same six tee shirts and two track pants all the time. I got loads of new and old clothes to choose from to wear but I still stick to the same ones. I still got a pair of socks from when I was about twelve (46 years ago) and odds and sods from when I was a kid. You don't want to look in my garage or attic!!!

Lizzy

Thank you SO MUCH for starting a hoarding thread again. I have been thinking about it myself. Something really, really strange has happened to me. You probably remember in earlier threads how I was hoarded to the point that I didn't have anywhere else to put anything. Bags of stuff still with tags. A dozen of items that I had no use for. Well, it's seems like almost over night, I have become the exact opposite. I have gone from simply HAVING to shop everyday to not wanting to go shopping at all. As a matter of fact, I am not spending time obsessing over how to get rid of stuff. Strange, huh????

And you are still cracking me up with your "chin hair reports". :D :D :D

:grinning: Lol I didn't want to say anything about "the chin hair reports"  :blues:  but I love them. I am new and have chin hair I swear I have carpels tunnel from all the plucking. So when I saw the posts I busted out loling NOT at the poster but knowing I am NOT alone and that someone shares this. To me it is top secret. I hoard some too like many of you its clothes, make up and food hahaha in case I have to feed a nation too and...toilet paper I always panic if I am below 48 rolls in case I cannot get out say a blizzard or something. This site is too cool  :hearts:

ButterFlyWings    Believe me, you are definitely not alone....in chin hairs or hoarding. I think that it is hilarious that chin hairs and hoarding are sharing the same thread.
And yes, we must keep those 48 rolls of toilet paper! Never know when the stores might ALL close at the same time. LOL

OMG. The toilet paper! I have a walk in pantry closet in the kitchen. Whole top shelf is devoted to TP, tissues, and paper towels. I could open a Costco wholesale club with my stash. Never mind the secret stash under the sink in each bathroom. I must have 150 rolls of Charmin in the house. For me and my daughter. 150 rolls and 2 butts.

btw... the rest of that pantry is packed. i could feed a family of 6 plus my 2 cats (dont forget the 4 cases of cat food) for the next 2 months without ever leaving the house. yet i seem to find myself wandering around the supermarket every 3 to 4 days.

alley, it's really only 1 1/2 butts since your little darling is only 4 (right?) LOL! So 150 divided by 1.5 = a lot of rolls per back side!

Just when I thought I had some of my hoarding under control, I come home from the grocery store with bags and bags of stuff that is all stuff I have shelves and shelves of already...I was chuckling as I was putting it all away, there wasn't a darn thing that I _needed_ just more of the same...just how many batches of chili do you think I will make before this winter is over???

Lizzy, chin hairs here too. Drives me crazy. I get them on my neck too. That is very hard to get to sometimes. Gross. Why do I have black hairs on my neck. Just random every so often around my neck and chest...HATE it! I am fair skinned and light hair so the black hairs really stand out. ick, ick, ick.

Such is life  :)

I absolutely love this thread!!! I just got thru listing MORE stuff on ebay that I have had literally hidden. I hid it so good that I am just now finding some of it.

ButterflyWIngs!  Nice to have you on board.

An american lady on British TV last week has undergone laser treatment to get rid of intense facial hair.  She was nervous of going out socially etc. and although the cost of the treatment was expensive and took several months she is now feeling much better.

I keep a pair of tweezers in the bathroom and check at least twice a day under my chin.  None in my neck region yet thought!  Menopausal women suffer particularly as do ladies with polycystic ovary syndrome so if hairs suddenly become a problem, do seek medical advice.

Do plants count as hoarding?  Today hubby and Iwent to the garden centre and I bought 3 pots of winter flowering cyclamen; two summer flowering jasmine 'clotted cream'; two plants for the bathroom ....... and I know we are off to a hellebore 'sale' at the end of Feb.; when does a passion become hoarding?

>feels chin < everything's fine tonight.  Now what will I do with my time ......      

I have at the moment a stock of about 50 toilet rolls, 17 kitchen towels, 5 litres washing up liquid and about 25 kilos of washing powder. A lot of other stuff I've got to buy 'cos I've nearly run out, namely cases of tinned tomatoes, tinned beans, coffee and wine to name a few. If any of it is on special offer well I go to town and buy even more. It's my nose hairs that annoy me and they are difficult to get out. :D

Lizzy Maybe you title this thread "Hairs and Hoarding"!
And, it's good to know that I am not alone in the stocking up thing. Except, I am doing the complete opposite now and trying to either get rid of everything or keep everything to a minimum. I wonder what would make me go from one extreme to the next seemingly overnight. And,no matter what extreme, I spend so much time obsessing over it. Sorry, I can't join the hair club. I am pretty light-haired and light skinned (Scotch-Irish-German). I just really get a chuckle out of the hair discussions!!!

Lizzy, one word, wax.   :)  Or would that take all the fun out of it  ???

When does a passion become hoarding?  I think that is altogether different.  I call having a lot of stuff I like; but don't need, collecting.   :D  It is not like I "stock up" on hats and caps in case the world has a shortage.  On the other hand  :verysad3: I have enough Diet Coke stored in my garage to get me through the next ten years.

One can NEVER have too big a stash of Diet coke!  

Wax vs. tweeze.... i do both. Wax the brows and lip at least once a month, but tweeze in between for maintenance. At least thats what i call it.   Do i need to perform "maintenance" twice a day? Prolly not. *scratches head wondering if my tweezers are in the same place as Lizzy's* .... anyway, i curiously do NOT wax my chin. More fun to tweeze that.  ???

Passions turning into hoarding? Hmmmm....tough one. I am passionate about my shoes. And clothes. I have tons because i like them. And i have some shopping "issues"   Do i hoard them? Dunno. Paper goods. Non perishable pantry items? THOSE i hoard. I could stock a fallout shelter.

I also have a "disaster preparedness kit," along with my Tom Ridge-inspired 12 gallons of water, plastic drop cloths and duct dape in the garage. I swear this is latent bitterness for getting expelled from the Girl Scouts.   Seriously, tho... I wonder what life experiences have to do with shaping that fear of running out of stuff or being unprepared. I lived 10 miles from NYC on 9/11, and my husband, parents, and uncle were all trapped in the city that day. Maybe i was afraid of being unprepared for a disaster? I now live <3 miles from a nuclear power plant. Good to know if that thing ever blows, i'll have enough plastic sheets and tape to cover my incinerated house.  :glare:

Lizzy...i hope your plants never go from passion to hoarding, as i do love your gardening stories. I live vicariously through you, since i've been gifted with a black thumb. I could somehow kill a SILK plant.  

Jilli... i do the same thing with the groceries. I sometimes wonder why i bought 4 cans of chicken soup when i already have 4 in the closet? Maybe we can have a soup and chili party for the Super Bowl? And re: the TP... call it TWO and 1/2 butts. You've obviously never seen how much TP a 4 yr old can stuff in the toilet at once.