Some people (if not all of them) have something they cannot live without. Be it a video game, a particular brand of chocolate, or some sort of before-going-to-sleep ritual, there's always that one (or more) thing that brings them comfort and makes life just a little bit easier.

However, while there are things we truly enjoy doing, eating, smelling, etc., sometimes those 'hobbies' of ours can get pretty addictive. Thinking about that, I got curious about some of the strangest addictions that our pandas have. Scroll down to read the answers!

#2

"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Reading, I've got to have a book with me at all times. I've even ducked into a bathroom during parties to read for a little bit.

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Robert Trebor
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

About 4000 books condescend to let me live here, wedged in between. All I have to do in exchange is read.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Music. It gives me infinite access to stories and alternate worlds and keeps me in a good place mostly. But one time after a concert, I had a comedown and depression episode that lasted weeks.

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Bored panda. Won't survive a day without the cat memes.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Knitting and crocheting. Totally weird for a bloke in his 50s, I guess.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Long naps. I arrange my whole schedule around them.

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the shrimp whisperer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

every time i nap i wake up feeling like im in another dimension after being asleep for 100,000,000 years

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Coffee. Must have it first thing in the morning or I get a headache, haha.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without My wife. I can't imagine my life without her. I can't think of words to express how much she means to me, I won't even try.
A close second would be playing my bass. Arthritis and carpal tunnel since my 20s. It seems to keep my hands working and I can tell when I don't play.

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NicNor5560
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love how you express yourself. My husband keeps repeating your first part to me mostly because I'm accident prone and get in trouble. He plays the flute, the recorder and the violin. I love listening to him play. He writes music too.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Peeling. Do you have a sunburn? Stay away unless you want me peeling the skin. Used to put Elmer's glue in my hands, let it dry, and then peel it. Friends had an 11ft python and I was in my glory when he asked if I wanted to help him shed its skin. I'm convinced I was a reptile in a former life.

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Auntriarch
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once peeled a piece of sunburn 3" square, I can still remember the triumph

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Listening to TV shows, repeatedly. I've watched the first 3 seasons of Burn Notice at least 50 times and the first few seasons of Ghost Hunters around 20 times. I don't even really pay attention, I just like to have familiar sounds in the background. It calms my brain. If there isn't something playing, I'll get anxious, paranoid and scared. Truly strange!

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Allegedly true horror stories. I am obsessed with these and I listen to them non-stop.

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Mama Panda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

MrBallen is an amazing storyteller when it comes to true crime and the strange and unusual in story format

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without I’m sorry, my current addiction phase is dash cam videos of idiot drivers. I can’t turn away!

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Chapstick. For about 35 years now. My lips no longer produce moisture on their own. And it has to be a Chapstick brand, no other will do. Any flavor, but cherry is my preferred.

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Not Telling you
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm hearing 🎶 I kissed a girl and I liked it... The taste of her cherry Chapstick🎶

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Hoodies. More specifically oversized hoodies. And throw blankets. And stuffed animals.

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PinkLadyEmpress
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stuffed animals, I can definitely relate to. I’d buy dozens if I had the room for them all

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Pimple-popping videos. I can’t get enough. I watch TV and videos on my phone at the same time for hours. And they better do it right, or I will ‘dislike’.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Binge-watching YouTube videos I have zero intention of ever doing/trying myself. E.g. truck driving, dumpster diving, and furniture upcycling.

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#18

"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Salt. I just love the taste. I sometimes will just get a teaspoon of it in my hands and eat a few grains at a time. Obviously, I am extremely dehydrated after that but I make sure I get plenty of water. I also tend to add a lot of salt to dishes lol.

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flutterbyy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved eating salt as a kid! Especially salt on raw tomatoes. Now that I'm older and have more than half family members with hypertension, I've learnt to control my addiction 😆

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Plants.

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Icecream Sarang
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honey, I think they entire world would be dead without plants.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Spider Solitaire. Been addicted since 1999. Someone gave me a hand-held game that I took abroad. Three months later, I was on an African safari and playing solitaire instead of watching for animals. I play at least 30 minutes a day.

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Buying pens.
Whenever I have had a rough day it always makes me feel better to buy a pack of pens

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#22

"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Theatre. And by that I mean the stage itself. I'm a theatre actress and the last two (Corona) years I noticed that I'm feeling physically bad if I don't do a few plays throughout the year. It's not the applause or the audience, it's just being on stage, reciting my lines, working with the colleagues, seeing the lights, smelling the unique odour... Sounds weird, I know.

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Daffodil
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not weird at all!! I also love theatre, and the last show I was in was part of a few one acts going on at my school (a chance for upperclassmen to direct short shows at the end of the year) and my directors stopped showing up so our show got cancelled and every other person in my one act was double casted in another or part of tech for another show and being the only one who was still there but not technically part of anything sent me into a bad mental state for a while. I tried to keep a positive attitude though.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Lego.

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NicNor5560
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I kept all of my children's Lego for my grand-children but I have none. Maybe my husband will start playing with them again. I have tons.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Don't judge but... Wendy's nuggets dipped in chocolate frosty. It's really good.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Ice for some reason.

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Amy S
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if you feel the need to chew it, you might be iron deficient

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Please don't judge but...standing under the mist of a humidifier just for fun.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without Cooking shows and YouTube videos of living off the grid or growing vegetables! They fuel my cooking creativeness!

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Huddo's sister
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been really getting into those recently, not so much the videos, but so many websites! I just make vegetable stock from scratch for the first time today! I also began planting my first lot of vegetables recently.

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My sunglasses. i never go out of my apartment without them. i wear them almost all year. i guess i make my eyes light shy.

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bloominglymphnode
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

probably light shy before the glasses. I'm pretty sensitive to light, too.

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"What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?": 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without YouTube essay videos on weird and random stuff. 30 minutes about the time Lady Gaga sued Moshi Monsters? Count me in.

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