Book Buying Addicts Anonymous discussion
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Have you ever tried to hide your book purchase from your partner/parent etc ?
Samantha, Jeez, I'm glad I have a parents who supports me in my reading plus they don't mind the books I bought except books that came from abroad. Haha.
Afsana wrote: "you serious? your mum actually goes in and asks if you have been in? is it a small town? "
Its not that small, but yes she does. She knows if ive been in ive brought something.
My parents used to freak out because my room was chock-full of books. No shelving so my books were piled haphazardly all over the place. I could barely move in there. Since I lived on my own for a few years, I have my books. They are a security blankie, my treasures.
Samantha wrote: "I have to hide mine, because my mum would frog march me back to the shop and make me get a refund back. So I hide them in my bag or in my car untill I can safely get them in and under my desk, wher..."Your mom sounds a wee bit like mine. She wouldn't go so far as to actually go into the bookstore and ask the staff if I bought anything (she hates bookstores!), but she sure gets ticked sometimes when I come home from Borders with a new bag of books.
My mom thinks books are a waste of money and thinks it's even more stupid that I want to keep them all. She doesn't have a collector's mentality like I do nor does she like to read. I'm pretty much the only person in my immediate family who likes to read as much as I do. My dad mainly reads newspapers or magazines. Sometimes my older brother wants to borrow books from me, but he doesn't go through them nearly as fast as I do. It took him six months to read a book that was around five hundred pages. I could get through it in less than a week.
I am guilty of hding mine in the car, and then sneaking them in later when mommy and daddy are asleep. Haha! I am in Borders so much the staff sort of knows me. It's kind of embarassing sometimes.
I don't have to hide mine. I live with my parents, and they both accept my love for books. :) My dad is a big reader, but my mom's not. Of course, all of my books are kept in my room, so they're not in my parents' way. Me and my mom shop together a lot, so she's actually with me when I purchase most of my books.My grandma does scold me a little when she sees me buying books, though. She always says, "What are you going to do with so many books?" and she thinks I read too much. :)
I sometimes sneak my books in past my hubs. Some people go to the mall for "therapy." I go to the bookstore. I spend my trade as fast as I accrue it...and then I spend a little more. What can I say, books are my crack of choice! =D
Samantha wrote: "I have to hide mine, because my mum would frog march me back to the shop and make me get a refund back. So I hide them in my bag or in my car untill I can safely get them in and under my desk, wher..."Hmm maybe it's time to tell her to mind her own business or get a place of your own? :-) I think marching you back to get a refund is a little over the top...
WOW!! i had to say i'hv got very understanding parents.i mean ya sometimes my mother say's 'i m just too much of a reader', apart from that she is cool with my reading.
and about hiding my purchases, i simply can't.
i mean when i get delivery by courier my family is the one to receive it(while i'm in my office) and when i purchase from bookstore(half price, garage sale, novelty etc..), i can't stop my self from showing them my latest addition to my shelf. and how much i saved by purchasing the same.
Never really had to hide my purchases. My friends knew I wouldn't buy it if I really couldn't spend. My mom reads as much as me so... there's no problem there...
My dad though... I would hide from him. Simply because he wouldn't understand why I can buy so much... or understand why I read so much... so... it's better he doesn't know!!!! :P
My hubby and i have cut a deal. I buy books, he buys wine. neither of us ever catches up with our purchases but I have the additional benefit of sharing his. He is not a reader but I am a wine drinker.
Well Denise, nothing like win win situations :-)
Louise wrote: "Well Denise, nothing like win win situations :-)"Absolutely! there is a method to the madness!.. I do however, have to hide my books from from chidren. Both are young adults but when they come home they raid my shelves. Not a bad thng but a) I have to hope I read the book and b) I need to acknowledge I may never see it again.
No need to hide purchases here. My wife knows I will often spend days searching for the best deal on a book before I buy it (I think I have a thrift habit too). Besides, she likes to see the excited look on my face when a book finally comes in the mail.
My husband's really understanding, but I feel guilty when I buy a bag of books so a couple of times I did indeed hide them. And since I have so many books, he didn't even notice that there were more lol. He has no idea what books I own. :p He's more of an online newspaper reader.
No, I don't. My mom is at home, and even though she opens them most of the time when I'm home from school, I still wouldn't do it. :D And anyway, any books I order are on her account.
Wow I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who does this!
Shannon wrote: "I don't think I could ever get a Kindle or Nook. I love to smell pooks and hold them too much. I also like seeing them lined up on the shelves not on a list on a machine. I'm kinda OCD I guess."Im so glad someone else understands lol. Everyones like "You need a Kindle, you read too much!" I refuse lol
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Im so glad someone else understands lol. Everyones like "You need a Kindle, you read too much!" I refuse lol..."
I know where you are coming from. I love to collect books almost as much as I love to read them. You can't admire a Kindle sitting on a book shelf like you can rows and rows of books.
Lisa wrote: "Shannon wrote: "I don't think I could ever get a Kindle or Nook. I love to smell pooks and hold them too much. I also like seeing them lined up on the shelves not on a list on a machine. I'm kinda ..."omg other people have had that said to them
my brother says that to me- you have so many books why don't you get kinddle it will save you money (he does work for amazon mind)
yes but then I will have to get books for kindle and what about the 200+ books I have to read
thankfully my parents have encouraged me since I picked up a Dick and Jane book and wanted to be taught to read :) and I get most of my books on sale at Goodwill, libraries, yard sales etc. Also, my mom likes to read even if she is a bit slower at it than me. They would find it wierd if I didn't have books since I have carried one with me pretty much everywhere since grade school. Although, I have transitioned to a NookColor since I am at college and in a tiny dorm and I am running out of room in my room at home. I also go through several books a week ususally so I would have to carry multiple books so I wouldn't be without a book to read so an EReader helps keep my book bag light. However, if I find a copy of a book for cheap at Goodwill that I have as an Ebook I either buy it or get my mom to buy it since she works there (Yay for me! :)). I still have a couple office crates with to-be-read books that I bring to school with me to read (and return the finished ones and bring new ones back when I go home)since I have a massive amount of books that I haven't read yet. Thankfully my boyfriend (and hopefully future husband) is an English major so he shares my love of books and gets just as excited as I do when he gets a book and he spends just as long of a time in bookstores as I do :D.
I hide my book buying habit from my coworkers. They make fun of me cause I work in a library and spend my lunch hour at Boders. I spend at least 150.00 per month of books. I just can't stop and there is no more room at home to keep them.
I don't hide them, exactly. But sometimes I will try to blend new purchases in a bit so it's not too obvious, LOL. Not that he would care -- I think he thinks of my book buying as a funny little quirk, and he's kind of an enabler! But sometimes I'll start feeling like I've maybe overdone it just a bit -- that's when I get a little sneaky about it!
I know the feeling, sometimes you just get a little carried away don't you :-)
It is really an addiction: sometimes I feel a little sick while I'm buying something & go ahead & buy it, even though I know I actually could wait to buy it & I don't really have enough money to splurge. And then I try to hide it from my daughter, who's in charge of paying the bills. Our income is not such that I can hide even $30-$40 a month in anything, which is probably what I spend. Not a huge amount but more than we can comfortably afford at the moment. :'(
I feel that books really are a addiction for me, I can not walk past a book store without going in and buying something. My boyfriend doesn't understand why I really have to have another book when I have piles of books waiting to be read. Fortunately with my tbr pile being so high at the moment he has not noticed the newest additions to my collection.
Clara wrote: "I hide my book buying habit from my coworkers. They make fun of me cause I work in a library and spend my lunch hour at Boders. I spend at least 150.00 per month of books. I just can't stop and there is no more room at home to keep them .This sounds so much like myself. I used to go to Borders once or twice a week and drop anywhere from thirty to a hundred dollars depending on what I was looking for or what I found. I could spend a lot of money per month on new books. I then found out that used bookstores sometimes had good deals too and spent even more.
I have not allowed myself into a Borders store for like.....two or three months now. I have been avoiding bookstores like the plague. I have about sixty or so unread books so I tell myself I have plenty of books to read and I don't need to buy anymore until I read most of what I have.
I too am running out of room. I have two bookshelves overflowing full, closets, boxes, under the bed....etc....all these full of books. I need to stop buying or at least part with some I didn't enjoy as much but I simply can't bring myself to do it.
Nicky~Ann wrote: "The only time I've ever tried to hide purchases was when I returned my time in England. I had bought so many books from Waterstones (3 for 2?! Yes please!) that I was a bit embarrassed by myself. M..."other people have said that about the Hp books from here- what do the usa covers look like?
I love the US Harry Potter covers- I think they're gorgeous. The British ones are nice, too, but I prefer the US ones. :)
I don't hide my purchases, I share them with everyone ... they're as eager as I am to read them.
I have never been a spendthrift on anything, including books, BUT if I ever had to hide anything from a partner I would not be with that partner for more than a minute which is how long it would take me to throw that person out. www.joeicarlton.com I'm old and I've worked all my life and deserve whatever I buy. Joei
McKenzie wrote: "Samantha wrote: "I have to hide mine, because my mum would frog march me back to the shop and make me get a refund back. So I hide them in my bag or in my car untill I can safely get them in and un..."
You and Samantha are breaking my heart! I encourage my kids to buy books and to read, read, read. If they can't think of anything they'd like, I'll pick stuff out for them. Reading is just so important -- for learning about new subjects, new ideas, other cultures . . . to not encourage that . . . I just don't understand.
You and Samantha are breaking my heart! I encourage my kids to buy books and to read, read, read. If they can't think of anything they'd like, I'll pick stuff out for them. Reading is just so important -- for learning about new subjects, new ideas, other cultures . . . to not encourage that . . . I just don't understand.
Denise wrote: "Louise wrote: "Well Denise, nothing like win win situations :-)"
Absolutely! there is a method to the madness!.. I do however, have to hide my books from from chidren. Both are young adults but ..."
You sound like a sweet family!
Absolutely! there is a method to the madness!.. I do however, have to hide my books from from chidren. Both are young adults but ..."
You sound like a sweet family!
Nicky~Ann wrote: "Afsana wrote: "other people have said that about the Hp books from here- what do the usa covers look like? "
These are oversimplified, but:
Sorcerer's Stone: Harry flying through pillars after a sn..."
What do the British covers look like?? I didn't know they were different!
These are oversimplified, but:
Sorcerer's Stone: Harry flying through pillars after a sn..."
What do the British covers look like?? I didn't know they were different!
Nicky~Ann wrote: "Lea wrote: "What do the British covers look like?? I didn't know they were different!
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I'm glad people are so curious! I found a site that shows you the different covers from numerous countries. ..."
Some of these are just gorgeous -- I want to buy them, even though I can't read them!
I think the Netherlands is my favourite.
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I'm glad people are so curious! I found a site that shows you the different covers from numerous countries. ..."
Some of these are just gorgeous -- I want to buy them, even though I can't read them!
I think the Netherlands is my favourite.
Yes they're nice, but the French ones look so oldfashioned!
Louise wrote: "Yes they're nice, but the French ones look so oldfashioned!"
I know, I loved those too!
I know, I loved those too!
Lea wrote: "Denise wrote: "Louise wrote: "Well Denise, nothing like win win situations :-)"Absolutely! there is a method to the madness!.. I do however, have to hide my books from from chidren. Both are youn..."
Thanks! I don't know about sweet but I do know that 3 out of the 4 of us are book addicts.
I hide them from my parents.They're always complaining that I spend a lot of money on things I don't need. They don't even realize how my book collection is growing.
Sometimes I hide it from my parents. Like when I was on holiday with my father and we were waiting in the airport, I just got urg to buy books, so first I found one bookstore and bought five books, then another and then another, and in the end I bought eleven books in one airport, and had to carry them all in my backpack. I had already bought loads of books at the vacation, and he hadn't been happy at all after the fifth bookstore, so I decided to just hide it from him.Else, I sometimes hide it from my mother who tends to forbid me to buy any more books, because I, apparently, always have bought enough, and don't need any more until I've finished reading the ones I've already bought. So yeah, I tend to hide it from my parents.
I don't have to hide my book buying, my husband doesn't know when I purchase a book because I have a Kindle with my own bank account on it. LOL He wouldn't care anyway because for every book I purchase, I have aquired 1-40 free ones so it all evends out and there is no worry for if there is enough room to keep them. :)
When I was living at home, my room was always a mess because I has accumulated so many books with nowhere to put them. I had no space for a bookcase, so on the floor they went! LOLI also maxed out not one, dear heart, but three credit cards on books. that's over 2,000 on books alone. I could go without clothes. I was 18.
Denise wrote: "My hubby and i have cut a deal. I buy books, he buys wine. neither of us ever catches up with our purchases but I have the additional benefit of sharing his. He is not a reader but I am a wine drin..."Before my husband and I married he was quite familiar with my addiction. We made a deal that books had no budget and that he could not question any purchases. Besides the occasional sigh and rolling of the eyes, it's worked out fine.
Oh my gosh yes!! Had to do the same thing with my Starbucks purchases. Whew!
I work in a used bookshop and a couple of days ago I was sitting nice and quiet by the till when this slim, small woman comes slipping in through the door, all spy-like and looking over her shoulder. She flashes me a manic grin and dives to the nearest shelf, telling me as she does so that she's just managed to give her boyfriend the slip. Within seconds she's swept half the shelf into her arms, commando-rolled across the floor to the till and is buying them, all the while keeping an eye out for her boyfriend so he wouldn't know she'd been buying more books. Definitely a fellow BBA! To aid her in her plight, I looked out a bag that doesn't have the shop's logo on, so it wouldn't be obvious she'd been to a bookstore. Hehe, it always feels good to help out a fellow book-addict!
I do! I usually do it, because I do not want to hear the family argue against buying more books
Samantha wrote: "I have to hide mine, because my mum would frog march me back to the shop and make me get a refund back. So I hide them in my bag or in my car untill I can safely get them in and under my desk, wher..."I had to resurrect this because I thought this was shocking! Assuming that Samantha has a job and pays her own way then that's really out of line!
I don't really hide my purchases, the only person who sometimes criticises my book buying is my brother and he usually does it in a jokey way as he spends quite a lot on books too... which I quickly remind him of! ;-)
Joseph wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Shannon wrote: "I don't think I could ever get a Kindle or Nook. I love to smell pooks and hold them too much. I also like seeing them lined up on the shelves not on a list on a machin..."
They are ok for pure reading but they don't compare to the experience of a good quality paper book and there are too many limitations to them and uncertainty about long-term viability of the books you buy for them for me to consider buying e-books.
I find it hard to remember which e-books are on my kindle too, especially with the poor use of cover images.
No, I don't hide my books because when I'm looking for books at the library or book fairs, I'm keeping a eye out for books for my wife too. So there's no need to hide them from her. She loves to read, but not as much as I love to read & collect them.:)
I wouldn't say I hide it..if my partner would ask then I'd gladly fess up. But I just don't mention it and he usually doesn't ask so it all works out.
I have no need to hide books from my partner. She understands (and even more importantly puts up with me and my book collecting addiction) and supports me. She enjoys reading but I wouldn’t classify her as an addicted reader.
you serious? your mum actually goes in and asks if you have been in? is it a small town?