Which vice will you pick?

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 25 Mar 2011, 11:05

Fran wrote:
StephenKingman wrote:Fran is gonna run for the hills here soon
More Lucozade urgent

I cant help you Fran, i have given that stuff up for Lent/forever. Diet 7-UP any good?

laci_baby · Post by **laci_baby** » 25 Mar 2011, 19:48

Aww poor Fran! How is it your always the dirty one even if you never say anything dirty? Poor girl...

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 26 Mar 2011, 00:21

My vice is buying books I cannot really afford. I love collecting first edition signed books. Now one every now and then is ok, but sometimes I get on a site and find some beautiful books and then bam bam bam I have bought them all. Weeks later I get the bill and arrrrrhhhhhhhh. This is a serious vice and I have to break it before I am living in the gutters. It really is an addiction, I can't seem to go by a book that I love without buying it.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 26 Mar 2011, 06:33

Gannon wrote:My vice is buying books I cannot really afford. I love collecting first edition signed books. Now one every now and then is ok, but sometimes I get on a site and find some beautiful books and then bam bam bam I have bought them all. Weeks later I get the bill and arrrrrhhhhhhhh. This is a serious vice and I have to break it before I am living in the gutters. It really is an addiction, I can't seem to go by a book that I love without buying it.

I know exactly what you mean- i used to be addicted to buying books almost every week when i was in town- anything that caught my eye went in the bag, from a nice cover to the latest horror. I used to justify it buy saying to myself that ill get around to them soon when in fact a lot of them just gathered dust, only to be read years later. And many of them i regretted buying when i got home. I had this silly notion that i had to be buying and reading the 'next best thing' to keep up with current trends but it only hit me when i did up a budget and found out i was spending literally hundreds of euros on books every month. So i copped on and limited myself to 2 a month and have put my money into savings for (another!) holiday, so thats the advice i would give you.

There is life after impulsive buying, believe me.

GotThatSwing · Post by **GotThatSwing** » 26 Mar 2011, 12:07

I am addicted of buying books too, I can't read them as fast as I buy. And spend LOTS of money on books. But it's a family gene that I inherited after my mum and grandpa.

I had the same vice in the beginning of the year but it didn't work out. I'm hopeless.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 26 Mar 2011, 20:06

StephenKingman wrote:
Gannon wrote:My vice is buying books I cannot really afford. I love collecting first edition signed books. Now one every now and then is ok, but sometimes I get on a site and find some beautiful books and then bam bam bam I have bought them all. Weeks later I get the bill and arrrrrhhhhhhhh. This is a serious vice and I have to break it before I am living in the gutters. It really is an addiction, I can't seem to go by a book that I love without buying it.
I know exactly what you mean- i used to be addicted to buying books almost every week when i was in town- anything that caught my eye went in the bag, from a nice cover to the latest horror. I used to justify it buy saying to myself that ill get around to them soon when in fact a lot of them just gathered dust, only to be read years later. And many of them i regretted buying when i got home. I had this silly notion that i had to be buying and reading the 'next best thing' to keep up with current trends but it only hit me when i did up a budget and found out i was spending literally hundreds of euros on books every month. So i copped on and limited myself to 2 a month and have put my money into savings for (another!) holiday, so thats the advice i would give you.

There is life after impulsive buying, believe me.

Thanks SKM that is some good advice. I am going to try and limit myself to one signed first edition a month. I know what you mean about trying to keep up with "the next big thing". I live in a small town that does not have a decent book shop so I do all my book shopping on the net. There are alot of book sites that I search to buy books. The problem is overload. There are so many books that you see and in the past I would buy them. My TBR list is about 20 books long and growing. I am going to try and take your advice one signed and two normal books a month and I am not going to buy another book until I get my TBR list down to a couple of books. Thanks, fingers crossed I can do it.

C0ldf1re · Post by **C0ldf1re** » 28 Mar 2011, 18:18

laci_baby wrote:Aww poor Fran! How is it your always the dirty one even if you never say anything dirty? Poor girl...

It is usually the quiet girls who have the dirtiest minds.

GotThatSwing · Post by **GotThatSwing** » 28 Mar 2011, 18:30

C0ldf1re wrote:
laci_baby wrote:Aww poor Fran! How is it your always the dirty one even if you never say anything dirty? Poor girl...
It is usually the quiet girls who have the dirtiest minds.

Poor Fran, no way you'll be left in peace

C0ldf1re · Post by **C0ldf1re** » 28 Mar 2011, 18:41

GotThatSwing wrote:
C0ldf1re wrote:
laci_baby wrote:Aww poor Fran! How is it your always the dirty one even if you never say anything dirty? Poor girl...
It is usually the quiet girls who have the dirtiest minds.
Poor Fran, no way you'll be left in peace

Does a girl with a dirty mind really want to be left in peace?

BookWorm617 · Post by **BookWorm617** » 28 Mar 2011, 22:25

Tip the Bottle wrote:My favorite vice is marijuana and I shall not be giving it up for lent regardless of my religious or non-religious belief.

+1

This is why I love being an Atheist. I can do whatever I want without fear!! And I don't have to give up anything.

C0ldf1re · Post by **C0ldf1re** » 29 Mar 2011, 03:02

BookWorm617 wrote:... This is why I love being an Atheist. I can do whatever I want without fear!!...

That's like saying you don't believe in buses, so you can walk across the road blindfolded without fear. Without fear, yes; without danger, no.

BookWorm617 · Post by **BookWorm617** » 29 Mar 2011, 15:58

C0ldf1re wrote:
BookWorm617 wrote:... This is why I love being an Atheist. I can do whatever I want without fear!!...
That's like saying you don't believe in buses, so you can walk across the road blindfolded without fear. Without fear, yes; without danger, no.

Uh no bad bad analogy!! How can one not believe in buses. I can easily see/touch/smell/hear a bus. I can't see/touch/smell/hear god. What I meant about not having fear is fear of going to hell for sins.

I am Atheist, I do not believe in God therefore I cannot sin or go to hell. Got me!!

C0ldf1re · Post by **C0ldf1re** » 29 Mar 2011, 19:44

BookWorm617 wrote:... I can't ...smell... god... therefore I cannot sin or go to hell...

For damnation you must yearn,
For you can sin and go to hell.
There's something that you did not learn:-
Proper Gods don't have a smell.

BookWorm617 · Post by **BookWorm617** » 30 Mar 2011, 05:52

C0ldf1re wrote:
BookWorm617 wrote:... I can't ...smell... god... therefore I cannot sin or go to hell...
For damnation you must yearn,
For you can sin and go to hell.
There's something that you did not learn:-
Proper Gods don't have a smell.

I tell you I am Atheist and you spew religious rhetoric at me. Why am I not

!! I can't sin so Yeeah what you say means nothing..sounds like a dark Poetry to me.

C0ldf1re · Post by **C0ldf1re** » 30 Mar 2011, 17:03

BookWorm617 wrote:
C0ldf1re wrote:
BookWorm617 wrote:... I can't ...smell... god... therefore I cannot sin or go to hell...
For damnation you must yearn,
For you can sin and go to hell.
There's something that you did not learn:-
Proper Gods don't have a smell.
...sounds like a dark Poetry to me.

You have embraced the Dark Side. You must burn. (Nothing personal, of course.)