Collecting (wasting money)
I’ve scanned the rules and can’t see whether this is permitted or not, but I’ll give it a go anyway..
Does anyone find themselves almost shopping as a hobby. Not an intentional hobby.. I’ll give an example. I decided I want to spend less time online (clearly not going well as evidenced by this post), and instead decided I would start reading again.
There’s some series I know I like and I have a couple of the physical books and ebooks. However, I am not reading them. Instead I am looking up what are the “best” versions of the books spending hours on YouTube, eBay, Amazon sourcing them (wow, that illustrated version of the LOTR looks fantastic, maybe I should get that to enhance the experience / reward myself for doing this activity).
The new books turn up, I admire them, put them on the shelf.. and nothing.
Then I’ll decide it would be great to go camping.. £600 later.. sitting unused in the garage.. etc.
The researching and buying is almost the hobby and it’s not helping my frugality.