The Copycat!

We go through this all of the time with the things we buy and the things we do. I think alot of people like our style with some things and they want it for themselves.

yes it can be irritating. My eldest sister has copied our other sister all of her life - very sad really but my sister doesn't get too mad. It is not just decorating but clothes and hair styles etc. I couldn't take it but she would not copy me as I live simply really.

Yes I agree with you jillhill "Not Cool" The thing that bothers me even more was whenever I came up with a real good idea and hubby would claim it as being his. That really does P.M.O, and he has done it time and time again. Good news is I no longer have to go through that anymore. Take Care my friend.

Yes copy cating can definitely be annoying. There was actually a post not to long ago I responded to about copy cating. So I guess there is more copy cating going on than I thought. My sons always argue because they are always coping what each other are doing or saying. I have to tell my older son that his brother is doing it because he is the little brother and that's what they do.

I think that it depends on what is being copied and to what extent they take they copying. Clothing and decorating items, such as bathroom accessories and bedroom sets, etc., are produced in bulk for various sizes, so they are meant to be "copied". If it is an outfit or a bathroom set that they copied from me, for example, then I would not mind. If they decided to copy my entire wardrobe or my entire house style, on the other hand, then I think it would probably bother me.

I guess I've never cared if someone played "copy cat" on me. I've asked friends if they minded if I used an idea they had but I was never satisfied to do anything exactly like someone elses.

Personally unless it is an idea I do not mind them borrowing and encorporating in their own life or home.. it can be a little frustrating. I think many times we need to watch what we are sharing with others sometimes as you never do really always know what others will do with the information that you are sharing. Because when an idea is also used you hope that it is always a compliment indeed.

I think it depends, if it a copying a decorating idea, I'd be flattered, but if it is my writing, then no..That is why I am patiently waiting for my cousin to supply me with info on getting my story copy righted...

I don't recall a time when someone has copied my style, but I am sure it would bug me if it did happen to me. It seems rather rude. If there was a decorating idea that I really liked that someone else was using I would at least have the courtesy to ask them if they had a problem with it first.

This is my MIL. When she notices that I have something new....or not even new....she looks at it and asks me where I got it. I admire lots of things at my friends and family's house....but I never ask how much it cost or where they got it. In my MIL's case, the reason she asks where I got it, is so that she can go out and buy one for herself.....or I feel she will go to that store and find out how much I paid for something. it drives me crazy. Sorry, just more complaining about my MIL...

It wouldn't bother me if someone copied me. "Imitation is the best form of flattery" after all ;)

There are a lot of copycat in this world. Many people copy your style of dressing,the business that you invest in, the house that you built, I think it is just in the character of most people to copy people way of doing things. I still do not bother about this. It is something that is common in majority of human.

I don't think I would mind that much, because if I got an idea, I probably got it from somewhere myself.. so if I told someone and they copied me.. it's probably the same as how I got it. I'm not a decorator, so if I got an idea it would be from a magazine most likely... and that is also being a copy cat, I guess. Now.. if someone copied my article and called it their own.. that would be plagiarism.. .. but if someone write an article based on my article, but it is totally different than mine, then that is okay. One time a writer was honest enough to tell me he used my article to base his article off from and he paid me $5 for using it. I was shocked and pleased.

I knew a girl in college that was the ultimate copycat. Everything about her was copied from someone else. She would spend time with one person and come back wanting to major in that persons major. Then she would go somewhere with someone else, and suddenly that person's car was her dream car. If someone said they enjoyed a certain author she would go read all of the books by that author. Same thing with food and clothes. She wasn't into it until she saw someone else was. I don't know if she was trying to fit it to the extreme, or if she just didn't understand herself enough to have her own style.

Hi Jill! I have experienced that! And yes, it bothers me most of the time. It's true that at first, it would feel like a compliment because somebody likes your idea and style to the point that that person is applying it to himself or herself. But there will come a point that it will become so annoying. There were people in the past who copied the way I dress and some of my hobbies and at first, I thought it was nice because I had influenced others. But then, when it went on and on like that, I got tired of it. I don't know, maybe I wanted to be the only one for a change. So I agree with you that they should find their own ideas. I mean, maybe I'm not the only who dresses like that and with hobbies like that, but I am not directly copying it from someone I know. You know what I mean..

I found someone taking an idea and running with it at work without acknowledging where it came from particularly annoying. To be honest, there's not many people who'd want to copy either my dress code (farm muck chic) or my decorating style (cardboard box city) these days.

I can't stand people who copy! I like to consider myself a creative person and i always have something original in my mind and if i share it with someone i expect them to either like it and move on or don't like it and move on not like it and copy it!People need to be more original these days.

For me yes I hit it because you have the idea in your mind and the things would be stop just because you said copy cut.

I hate copycats especially impersonation in which they pretend to be someone that they're doesn't for the purpose of deceiving people.

Well if they copy me is because I am correct, or they see something on me that they don't see on the others. So yes I know a lot of copycats I remember one time in my job one of the teachers asked what song my kids will sing for the Christmas concert (I was a preschool teacher)so when that teacher asked I told her what will be the song that I teach to my students, then one day I realize that she was practicing my song with her students, so I had to change very fast my song and make my students learn another song and the dance and we didn't have a lot time. But thanks God everything was OK. Well I think that all of those who copy me is because they understand that I am good in what I do. I try to do my best always.