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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.
Oh my goodness. I would love to see your house. I only have ~3,000 books in my house, more on my Kindle. They are everywhere: on top of doors, in the washrooms, in the bedroom, in the library, in the family room, in the kitchen. When my husband and I got together, I told him I came with a little over 1,000 books. Then my father died and I got 600 more (most of his books went to the National Library, then to a collector, the rest was divided in between the 5 of us, and the balance was given to a thrift store). I bought some in between and I'm still buying some now. I need to stop.
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I have done this all my life. A book is like having a good friend with you. Often I would prefer the book in all honesty.
I always have one on my iPad, a different one on my phone, and a physical one. I read 3 different genres to not confuse the stories.
Yessss - Fantasy people, I reccomend Brandon Sanderson. The guy writes faster than I can get my hands on his books. Seriously, like 4 major novels/year and they're all my favorite of all time
Reading is an ongoing power struggle between me and my teachers…
YESSS SAME!! We just finished moving the rest of our storage into our house and my husband was like WTF IS IN ALL THESE BOXES and I'm like DON'T DROP MY LIBRARY A*****E!!!
I have an upstairs book a downstairs book and a book in my car for when I'm out. I can read anywhere, anytime and never get distracted.
I got back into reading when I started watching Outlander. I was curious if there was more background on some characters. There must be more to that story. 10 books about 500-800 pages. Always loved time travel stories Quantum Leap, Stargate, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
I don't know if I've developed adult-onset ADHD, but I can't focus on one solitary activity anymore. Even when I'm home watching TV, I have my show/movie playing, checking emails on my phone, playing Hay Day on my niece's iPad.
I have honestly decided my reading is a bona fide addiction. It's not good if it stops you from work, love, play etc.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges
Love to read but I don't keep books anymore. I never re-read them. I pass them on. So many books I can't decide so I go to goodreads.com
I love using Goodreads. I’ve read so many books that I’ll pick up a new one, thinking I haven’t read it before, only to check my Goodreads list and realize that I have already read it. That website helps keep track of the madness!
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God I love reading. I'm completely lost if I find myself in a situation without a book.
I wish I read fiction more than I do these days. I read a huge amount, but generally current affairs. Which is frankly rather bleak. But I do want to know what's going on in the world around me. I got home at 5 today, spent 2 hours reading the news (I don't do social media) and finally I'm getting to Bored Panda. I kinda miss books. Need some recommendations.
But since I got the ability to hear audiobooks during my work, it read less books by myself... And because of bored panda and Reddit
To be honest, I loved books since kindergarten and read a lot but I think I am not concretely addicted to books but to stories. So audiobooks, theatre, movies, games and music with a story do it too and I never get enough. I prefer the feeling and small of a real book over everything else but since a year I am to exhausted to read that much... Which makes me sad...I carry a heavy book with me since a year ( I won't leave the house without a book) but I don't read it... It's a shame....
Load More Replies... I'm not sure how I would survive without reading something every day. Now that I'm retired (I retired really early), I'm a professional reader. I read books given by publishers and authors and post reviews on different planes on the Internet.
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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 😆
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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