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“What Is One Strange Thing You’re Addicted To?”: 30 Odd Things Our Community Can’t Live Without
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!
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Being alone, if you know you know.
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.
About 4000 books condescend to let me live here, wedged in between. All I have to do in exchange is read.
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.
I read your nice comments and feel so bad. I suffer from severe depression and I can't listen music anymore cos it makes me feel even worst. I only want silence and I know this is a very bad sign. I won't wish this mental state not even to the worst person on earth.
Bored panda. Won't survive a day without the cat memes.
Knitting and crocheting. Totally weird for a bloke in his 50s, I guess.
Long naps. I arrange my whole schedule around them.
every time i nap i wake up feeling like im in another dimension after being asleep for 100,000,000 years
Coffee. Must have it first thing in the morning or I get a headache, haha.
thats not strange at all about 1/3 of the worlds population is
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.
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.
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.
I once peeled a piece of sunburn 3" square, I can still remember the triumph
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!
Allegedly true horror stories. I am obsessed with these and I listen to them non-stop.
MrBallen is an amazing storyteller when it comes to true crime and the strange and unusual in story format
I’m sorry, my current addiction phase is dash cam videos of idiot drivers. I can’t turn away!
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.
I'm hearing 🎶 I kissed a girl and I liked it... The taste of her cherry Chapstick🎶
Hoodies. More specifically oversized hoodies. And throw blankets. And stuffed animals.
Stuffed animals, I can definitely relate to. I’d buy dozens if I had the room for them all
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’.
Binge-watching YouTube videos I have zero intention of ever doing/trying myself. E.g. truck driving, dumpster diving, and furniture upcycling.
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.
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 😆
YESS on raw tomatoes!!! My whole life I never cared too much for tomatoes or most tomato based sauces, but I LOVE eating tomatoes with salt! (and tomatoes on a BLT, I'm not a monster)
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Yes, my doctor told me to continue to be a saltaholic because my sodium was low. I always liked pickle juice and green olive juice because of the sodium.
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I sprinkle salt into my palm and eat it straight. I eat the salt out of the bottom of pretzel bags. When I was a kid, I ate the rock salt my parents got for the sidewalk... lol (and yes it was the same as table salt, not that green poisonous stuff!) Contrary to popular opinion, my blood pressure is quite low. :P
i eat salt of fresh vegetables and lots with salad never by it's own lol i guess i understand tho it tastes nice after the burning saltiness
finally, this is a weird addiction. I have heard of the exact same BUT with sugar NEVER WITH SALT
Grandmother liked to salt her bananas. I tried it. Wow good.
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Yup. I felt just like it/her as a kid. Couldn't get enough salt.
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When I was little we had one of those hand crank ice cream maker things. They require rock salt.... I still eat rock salt occasionally. I love the crunch.
I love drinking Himalayan salt with water, ACV and lemon juice in the morning.
Have been a saltaholic since I was about four years old. Am almost 75 now.😉
I used to salt the s**t out of fresh lemon juice and drink it.
Recent studies found that salt does not cause any health problems. If you have high blood pressure, elimination of salt is only because it retains water. In fact studies found people who are extreme in avoiding all salt die prematurely.
My mom used to do that. She'd pour salt on a plate and lick her finger dip it in and lick it off while she read her books. Yeah, my mom was a bit kooky but she was all right :)
I noticed something odd about myself. I get very dehydrated if I drink plain, fresh water. But if I add salt I no longer feel that thirst. I slosh it around and spit it out, but it's like my mouth can produce saliva again.
I have the exact same cravings, but I have noticed that when i get that craving to have so much salt my tongue burns, it's because my thyroid levels are off. Growing up with iodized salt caused my body to recognize salt might help when my levels start to go wacky. I noticed this because pouring on the sea salt didn't stop the craving. Good ol' Morton's salt did the trick. Now when I feel the salt craving, I call my doctor and schedule bloodwork.
Pickles! I can eat a whole jar of Claussen or Vlasik in one sitting. Then drink some of the juice. Then cut of cucumbers and let them soak a couple of days and eat all those too
I cannot salt anything anymore. There is enough in most things that I get what I need.
Loved it. LOVED IT! Then, on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Boston when I was 10 or so, I made the mistake of emptying one of those tiny salt packets onto a leaf of lettuce (back when they still served hot meals on planes). I balled it up and ate it. Never been sicker!
I like eating Old Bay. But mostly I eat sugar out of the jar I could never ear salt
I love to add a ton of salt to my french fries. Oh Lord I could sell my soul for it...
Plants.
Honey, I think they entire world would be dead without plants.
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.
Buying pens.
Whenever I have had a rough day it always makes me feel better to buy a pack of pens
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.
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.
Lego.
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.
Don't judge but... Wendy's nuggets dipped in chocolate frosty. It's really good.
Please don't judge but...standing under the mist of a humidifier just for fun.
"Just for fun". As opposed to standing under a humidifier as a profession?
Cooking shows and YouTube videos of living off the grid or growing vegetables! They fuel my cooking creativeness!
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.
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.
probably light shy before the glasses. I'm pretty sensitive to light, too.
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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Daydreaming. I know it’s weird, but I like to conjure worlds in my head to de-stress and/or fall asleep.
I think that sounds lovely. I often make up my own stories (can run for several nights). I just can't be bothered to write them down and I'm rubbish at endings!!
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Buying books, even if I don't read them right away and they're placed on my TBR shelf for a LONG time.
Me too but I have to eat the ears first, then the face 😁
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I have to pop my toes before going to sleep. Even if I have snuggled down into the most comfy position ever I have to untangle my legs and pop my toes bye bending them against my other foot and vise versa. Then and only then can I go to sleep.
My ex was like that! I thought it was weird but apparently he’s not the only one!
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I am addicted to buying t-shirts. Any event I go to must be memorialized by a t-shirt. Also anytime the is a free shirt - well yes I will take one even though it is not my size. Merch shirt for my favorite YouTuber? Yes please. Dumb shirt that I don’t need? Take my money! It’s a real problem.
Cryptid books. Bigfoot and Dogman encounters. I love hearing about what people experienced.
If you haven't, you should read about the man-wolves of Ossory.
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Shoes. Sudoku. Those iced sugar cookies that have no taste, but I don't know what they're called.
My strange addiction was....meth. Hmmm doesn't seem so strange now that I'm writing it down. 🤣
Watching clips of horrible movie villains dying, over and over again....and classical music lol
Watching first amendment frauditors and sovereign citizens on YouTube. Totally addicted.
I like going to department stores and organizing the candle wax melts, toys and the cosmetics. No, I don't want to actually work at these places. I already work in retail with part of my job putting away items and sorting. But the way I like to organize is usually considered too unproductive for the workers to be allowed to focus on, and I love seeing a tidy store.
My boyfriend is 'addicted' to ranch and I love to tease him for putting it on everything he eats lol
Probably those who have that don’t want to talk about it here.
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Daydreaming. I know it’s weird, but I like to conjure worlds in my head to de-stress and/or fall asleep.
I think that sounds lovely. I often make up my own stories (can run for several nights). I just can't be bothered to write them down and I'm rubbish at endings!!
Load More Replies... Buying books, even if I don't read them right away and they're placed on my TBR shelf for a LONG time.
Me too but I have to eat the ears first, then the face 😁
Load More Replies... I have to pop my toes before going to sleep. Even if I have snuggled down into the most comfy position ever I have to untangle my legs and pop my toes bye bending them against my other foot and vise versa. Then and only then can I go to sleep.
My ex was like that! I thought it was weird but apparently he’s not the only one!
Load More Replies... I am addicted to buying t-shirts. Any event I go to must be memorialized by a t-shirt. Also anytime the is a free shirt - well yes I will take one even though it is not my size. Merch shirt for my favorite YouTuber? Yes please. Dumb shirt that I don’t need? Take my money! It’s a real problem.
Cryptid books. Bigfoot and Dogman encounters. I love hearing about what people experienced.
If you haven't, you should read about the man-wolves of Ossory.
Load More Replies... Shoes. Sudoku. Those iced sugar cookies that have no taste, but I don't know what they're called.
My strange addiction was....meth. Hmmm doesn't seem so strange now that I'm writing it down. 🤣
Watching clips of horrible movie villains dying, over and over again....and classical music lol
Watching first amendment frauditors and sovereign citizens on YouTube. Totally addicted.
I like going to department stores and organizing the candle wax melts, toys and the cosmetics. No, I don't want to actually work at these places. I already work in retail with part of my job putting away items and sorting. But the way I like to organize is usually considered too unproductive for the workers to be allowed to focus on, and I love seeing a tidy store.
My boyfriend is 'addicted' to ranch and I love to tease him for putting it on everything he eats lol
Probably those who have that don’t want to talk about it here.
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