[bazzais]

Everytime I go to the farm co-op I find myself walking around the tool section as per usual, then the screw and fastening section, then the battery section, fencing section, - then onto the paint section where for some reason I can always think of alot of things I could paint.  I generally buy a tin with the anticipation of actually coating something with it eventually - then I leave.  I then - Put the paint in the landrover, find it all weeks later under a seat or when I finally have a passenger in the back, then put it in a shed with all the other paints I have bought.

Nothing excites me more than when a new colour of oxide/farm paint comes into store.

I am just waiting for the day they start the range

- Vauxhall '1990s flame red' - in MATT
- Morris marina - Orange with rusty bits
- Ford cortina - shinny s**t brown

Baz

[mab]

My weakness is rubbish skips - All kinds of goodies in them - I just can't pass one by without a peek 

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[suziequeue]

Oh GOD!!!!.... and old oil lamps. I now have about 15 

I keep picking them up at our local antiques shop.

[Sandy]

bazzais, know the feeling, mab, I love getting anything free, I have a house full of pre used stuff and as we are a B&B people often ask me if I have travelled!!! very funny but some one did!!!!! I love solar lights too I must add and lots of other rubbish thats naff, this is a big house so good to collect things.....If I could I would go to antique shops, second hand shops and rubbish tips daily, love the feeling of free or cheap stuff!

[Sandy]

On second thoughts, being rich would be a handicap, I would not get so much enjoyment about getting cheap or free things, money is nice in the right amounts for you, not to much but enough to have fun and pay the bills

[Collie26]

Mines wellies and boots along with good working coats. Before i started shooting and inyo horses i had cheap and nasty wellies, now i couldnt do without my neopreme lined wellies!!!!

Boots i need a good sturdy pair to work in my hoggs, my little lowland boots for light walking in summer ect then i have my big and i mean big shooting boot which come to the top of my shins which i use in deep snow weve had the last two winters to go to school. The looks on peoples faces.... Priceless excpecially after being used to feed pigs and muck out in

coats well i have summer work coat, winter workcoat summer good/shooting coat and shooting winter coat all my boots ect and coats all shooting brands becuase i find they last longer !

[Roxy]

Oh GOD!!!!.... and old oil lamps. I now have about 15 

I keep picking them up at our local antiques shop.

Ooh ....same here - oil lamps, and also the old miners lamps - have a strange obsession with those.  Maybe I was a miner in a former life?!!

[Sandy]

Wellies? Me too!!

[suziequeue]

Ahhh - wellies.

I'm off to start a wellie thread 

[Sandy]

I Neeed some wellies, come on please show me wellies, I want red, pink and purple ones, neuprene and comfy...wheres the WELLISZ?

[Fowgill Farm]

[ I'm afraid and I've never seen a pink one... 

Most of the horsey merchants sell pink ones you can get matching grooming boxes, brushes etc all in a lovely cerise!!!
Mandy 

[Sandy]

Some years ago when we lived in a very horsey village on a horse route, people would pass buy daily and me and hubby loved an elderly gentlemans outfit as he rode past, he had stunning purple jodhpurs and ridding boots, they aer much more common now but then were unusual and I loved them, he always stopped to speak to us!!

[violet]

Boxes.

I'm obsessed with boxes. Always have been. From tiny pretty or funky ones to put jewellery in to ones to file away paperwork in ................................ now I run veg box & meat box schemes and I love nothing better than finding just the right box for the job - especially thrilling when it's been acquired from a wellknown supermarket - i have been known to come out with a trolley full of cardboard boxes & nothing else.

Though I can quite easily emphasise with everyone else obsessions to - nothin' like just the right thing for the job is there?
 

[plumseverywhere]

Hay and straw!!  I'm obsessed, what with prices going up sky high and us not getting any cut off our own land this year.  Everytime we go past a lorry with loads of hay bales on I swoon. On the way to Wales my eldest actually told me off because she's sick of hearing about how lovely it would be to have that much hay in our barn for winter. That and VERY green welsh grass - I developed a thing about that on holiday, ours is sort of brown at the moment (drought)
oh and Wellies, and anything made by Joules (my 4 daughters share that affliction too...)

[Sylvia]

My weakness is rubbish skips - All kinds of goodies in them - I just can't pass one by without a peek 

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Me too, I've picked up no end of good stuff.