Now I have spoken about addiction before on my blog several times and what I think about it etc. Those topics are always heavy and hard for me to write. But I wanted today to write about addiction in a lighter way….
So here are a few things I am addicted to and when I say addicted I don’t mean jokingly….
Coffee: Have you ever tried to quit caffeine? That shiz is hard! I tried to quit once in grad school because I was getting constant stomach pains and honestly it was like having the flu for a week. Also I did research and according to my research and a Dr. I talked to getting off caffeine is harder than getting off heroin and has many of the same symptoms of detox. So here I sit…just addicted to coffee. To be more specific nonfat lattes. But lets be real….aren’t we all kind of addicted to caffeine?
Fox Mug for the win!
Netflix shows or anything that is a marathon: I don’t really know how to watch TV in a normal way anymore. By normal I mean one episode at a time. It just doesn’t do it for me like binge watching 20 episodes in 2 days does. A really likes Survivor but he didn’t start watching it till last season with me so now we are re-watching old seasons. Only takes us about a day to watch a season. Then there’s House of Cards which I watched completely in less than a week. So tell me here…do you have a Netflix problem?
Seeing things online and buying them: Not online shopping no no no…seeing things on Instagram, pinterest, etc and just feeling like “oh yes I need that too!” I think this one is pretty self explanatory. But lets be real here guys…do you have a problem with this? Do you buy things you see online? It’s OK it’s just between us ….
So let’s talk about it guys. Tell me an addiction you have?
Coffee, Netflix binges, cake…these are my addictions.
I feel you on the caffeine! I also have a problem with audiobooks! I hardly ever eat junk food (like chips or whatever) but if I do, I want a ton and I find myself craving it all day or for days. That’s why I have to stay away!
I’m just addicted to technology. At getting sucked into it. It’s bad. Haha.
Never have gotten into the coffee loving, but I will drink ginger ale all day if someone would keep buying it for me! Plus cookies. That’s my first true love. 🙂
I am definitely addicted to coffee, as much as I hate to admit it. I would say I am addicted to my phone, I swear I can’t go anywhere without it.
The caffeine and endless Netflix watching are both very real addictions for me! I must have a latte in the morning, and I can’t just watch 1 episode of a show.
Definitely agree with you on the Pinterest thing. I am having to budget for it now so I don’t go overboard. And I do have an addiction to hot tea, but now I am having to fix my iron levels and apparently too much tannins from tea can interfere with iron absorption. Eek! So I went from 6 cups per day (maybe more, maybe less) to 1 1/2 cups per day this past week. Probably better for me overall, but I LOVE tea and drinking something hot throughout the day relaxes me.
Coffee might be harder than heroine to quit, but at least it’s legal….I say keep drinking 😉
Coffee addiction is so real. I’m personally a fan of black coffee in the morning, cappuccino in the afternoon and a latte in the evening. Also, when it comes to online shopping my main vice is Etsy. I could spend hours on there!
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Love that mug!
I’m addicted to netflix, and hulu and most recently the app for our ATT Uverse as I can watch my shows on the go.
Coffee for sure!!!! I didn’t have any yesterday and everything just went to shit!
I’m drinking out of that same mug right now! Quitting coffee would be anything but fun, I’m sure! I definitely get sucked into tv show marathons, but if I watch too many episodes in a row I get bored by the end, so I really try and limit the number of episodes I watch…to like 5 or 6 at a time. LOL, which doesn’t sound like much of a limit 🙂
Oh my goodness I binge watch all the time. In October I cut cable so now I rely on Hulu Plus and Netflix, which really just feeds into my binge watching. Especially when I’m sick, that’s all I do, I swear!
This is such an appropriate post for me right now. I just cancelled my Netflix subscription when I realized how much series I watched over the winter. It had to go. After all winter of series after series and a 6 pound weight gain I went cold turkey. Now I am getting more sleep and doing more in the evenings. I feel so much better and my head is not clogged with all that series episode crap I was watching. Once you give it up it helps you sleep better. I do not use caffeine of any kind so I do not have the coffee issue. I also gave up Pinterest entirely! It is such a huge time waster and I am on a strict self enforced budget so it was to tempting and depressing to see all the things I cannot afford. I do not miss it. Again getting much more done after opt out of Pinterest. I do have a addiction to technology, so I limit my social networking to less then 30 minutes a day only total but am in a serious love affair with my smart phone , Instagram and my kindle. I sleep with my phone and kindle next to me.! Seriously that is bad. I need to put them in the freezer at night and get over it LOL
Umm…all 3 you listed!! And painting my nails. And devouring new books.
Addicted to coffee and Netflix. Yep that’s me!
Hear you on the caffeine/coffee! Someone told me to give coffee up for Lent and I laughed in their face. It wouldn’t be a pretty sight!
I’m addicted to books. I have so many books I own I haven’t read yet because I keep seeing other books I want to purchase or rent from the library. So I just kind of overwhelm myself a bit. lol Here I am with about ten books I have purchased and have not read yet because I can’t keep myself away from the library. 😉 But isn’t it a healthy addiction? If there is a healthy addiction at all?? lol
Instagram caused me to almost go broke! Every time I saw something someone had posted I would run out and buy it, thankfully I have been able to break that addiction and at least spend a day or 2 thinking about if I really need it.
Caffeine for sure. I don’t mind though.
I don’t drink coffee or tea, so no addiction there. I also have Netflix but I barely have time to watch it. I spend too much time on my computer writing, reading, surfing. So I guess you could say my laptop is my addiction. Oh, and chocolate too. 🙂