What is your biggest addiction?
By crazynurse
@crazynurse (7482)
United States
May 3, 2007 10:36am CST
We all are 'addicted' to something, whether we want to admit it or not! Our addictions are not necessisarily to drugs, alcohol and cigarettes as the word 'addiction' brings to mind. Lets leave drugs, alcohol and cigarettes out of this conversation....to what else are you addicted?
Me? I am addicted to music. I absolutely have to have music playing if I am awake!
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24 responses
@inked4life (4224)
• United States
5 May 07
I am addicted to coming up with witty responses to your discussions. It's really starting to affect my family life as I constantly test one-liners on the kids who don't find me funny at all and have started avoiding me...this has driven me into a massive funk and just the other day my wife found me in the corner of the shower, fully clothed with the water running cold and rocking back and forth sucking my thumb.......oh, and coffee as well
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
5 May 07
Oh inked, I am addicted to reading your witty responses! If I go a few days without a witty response from inked, I can be found curled in a corner in fetal position sobbing audibly. Yeah, I'm right there with you on that coffee addiction!
@legbamel (179)
• United States
3 May 07
Those are my two biggies, as well. We actually had to buy a new, external hard drive for our computer because we had filled our internal drive with music and could no longer fit the pictures of our children! We've got a little bit of everything, and a lot of blues and really hard rock, but very little newer than about 1995. We're getting old. LOL
As for surfing the 'net, I've got to start weaning myself off! But then again, nearly every time I really spend some time on-line I find at least one more way to make a little money. (Witness my presence here on mylot!) So I'm usually either reading or writing something on-line, with the intent that I will get paid for it or that it will help me get paid more for what I'm already doing.
Of course, I drink coffee the whole time I'm on the Internet - or awake. So that's number three!
@sigma77 (5383)
• United States
3 May 07
Watching the same movies over and over. I like to watch the same westerns and older movies again and agian. I seldom get bored with watching them. I might have some other addictions, like having that first cup of coffee every morning. What is the fine line between being addicted to something and simply loving it? How do you know which is which? Is it an addiction if it does not harm you? This is a good topic.
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@HeavenUnaware (1757)
• United States
4 May 07
I'm addicted to my computer or should I say the internet. I have to be on this thing at least once a day and I often stay here playing until very early in the morning when I should be in bed! I love everything that I can do online and I enjoy it so much!
I'm also addicted to reading - once I start a book, I can not put it down until I finish it. (unless it's just really boring) I also read all the time. Even when I'm doing my hair in the bathroom, I will stand there with the curling iron in my hair and reading the back of the hairspray bottle with my other hand! In the shower, I will read the back of the shampoo bottle.. stuff like that. I feel like I need to feed my brain with more information all the time - it's weird.
I'd say I'm addicted to music as well but I do not make the time to have it in my life every day. I enjoy it alot and I relate to so many songs but the only time I listen is when I'm driving my son to school in the morning or in the afternoon picking him up. Sometimes I will listen to the XM radio that AOL makes available and I like that alot too.
Great discussion!
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@chaygylmommy (2470)
• United States
3 May 07
Television and sugar! those are my downfalls! I may not be watching the TV, but I want it on and going at all times. I love music, too, but don't have to have it on like you do. I will turn on the Sirius Satellite music channels on my tv a lot like when I clean and all. :) As far as sugar...I LOVE IT!!! Cake, cookies, strawberries with cream, etc. This is why I am overweight. :)
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
3 May 07
OH MY. How could I have forgotten sugar. I too, am addicted. I literally get a headache if I don't have sugar. Sirius Satellite music channels rock! They are on quite freguently in my house!
@joycer (498)
• Sri Lanka
3 May 07
I must confess I am a little bit old for my addiction in gaming. It's my nintendo Ds lite that i am hooked with. Everytime i wake up in the morning, it's the first thing that i look for and play. Even at night eventhough my eyes are tipsy i still have the guts to play it. I sometimes stay late at night and sometimes Get pre-occupied by it. It's really fun playing it, especially the mario games. It's bringing me in a different level of fun and entertainment. There are times too that important matters don't matter because of my addiction. But now I am trying to schedule my playing time because i have neglected so many things already.
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
3 May 07
Yes, I have a grown son and a teen who are gaming addicts. They, like you, have to schedule their time or they'd sit and play 24/7!!
@tentwo67 (3382)
• United States
5 Sep 07
I am addicted to caffeine, junk food, chocolate, ice cream and television. I also love People magazine and other outlets of celebrity gossip.
The food thing just totally does me in, much to the shagrin of my ever increasing proportions... but I'm trying to get better!
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
19 May 07
Shopping would be my biggest addiction. I love to shop. I don't necessarily need to buy anything either. Just being in the store to look at what they have to sell is a high for me. But, when I find a bargain and it cries out for purchase, I have to do it!
@estherlou (5015)
• United States
7 May 07
Addicted? strong word, but there are several things that come to mind. I have to have my radio on at work playing christian music in the background. It soothes me and keeps me sane and helps drown out others stress around me. I also listen to the radio at night. I find it harder to go to sleep without it. I also feel I have to have "something sweet" after eating supper. I'm just not satisfied until I have that. And I have certain shows I tape and watch every day.
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
3 May 07
Yeah, coffee and chocolate are also big addicitons of mine. I literally get headaches if I don't eat some sugar!
@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
5 Sep 07
I am a food addict and a mouse potato. I go into 'withdraws' if there is something wrong with my computer. Thankfully, I've learned how to do most of my repairs on the PC such as changing DVD burners and hard drives plus booting operating systems into those hard drives. I can also dust out the 'tower' where the guts of my PC live. Just in case, I have a 'back up' computer sitting to the side that can 'stand up' in case something major goes wrong with my primary PC.
@hezoid (2144)
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5 May 07
Either crisps, or toiletries/cosmetics/make-up! I love my crisps, eat several packets a day (would eat more but i restrain myself as they're bad for me!). I also love to buy & use toiletries, cosmetics and make-up, and have loads and loads of stuff!!! So i'm addicted mainly to buying but also to using it.
@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
3 May 07
I'm very addicted of playing a video game whether it is playstation,gameboy and pc games actually my favorite is Sims 2 I love playing and I spend so much time playing that.
@canjo13317 (396)
• United States
19 May 07
ok. i too share the same addictions as many of you. plus a few others that we won't mention here. but the one that i am most shameful of is......coming up right after this message.
sorry, couldn't help myself. as a 47 y/o male role model and support figure, i find it almost humiliating to admit that i am addicted to American Idol. every week i swear i'm not going to watch another episode...ever. you guessed it, there i am staring blankly at my screen on tue/wed evening, screaming at the judges, cringing when blake hits a sour note. but this time i mean it. if my contestant doesn't win this year, i'm giving up on Idol forever. hmmmmmm, didn't i hear they are making a band idol show?? lol
@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
4 May 07
I am 1oo% irrevocably, unabashedly addicted to chocolate and computing. Preferably together. I turn my computer on first thing in the morning and then off last at night. I have a nightstand drawer full of chocolate. I am working on p.ortion control; one piece a day
@biwasaki (1745)
• United States
3 May 07
I'm addicted to my computer. I spend way too much time on it. I'm also addicted to Pepsi. I've tried giving both up with no luck; so I've given up on trying to give it up. *LoL*
@Grandmaof2 (7579)
• Canada
4 May 07
I would have to say my computer, I always look forward to sitting at the computer and I can admitt I spend way too much time on it.
@princeworthy (1909)
• United States
4 May 07
Hmmmm... if I had to be honest. The thing that I just can't give up and always have to have around me or I go nuts? I would have to say it would be my husband. This is not one of those awww how sweet kind of things. I just have to have him near me almost all of the time. If I am feeling bad all I have to do is go and snuggle up to his butt and somehow it makes me feel a little better. Even when we fight and I am mad at him I still want to be in his arms. That is why I think it is an addiction. Other than him I would say the internet, I am always on the internet!
@easy888 (10405)
• Australia
4 May 07
Hello,crazynurse,I am addicted to chocalates,i cano eat few packages of chocolate in few mintues non stop,especially when i am sitting in front of the computer, i will eat one package and then follow by another one. My favourite brands are Mars and Snickers.