~I need a 12 step program~

Hello !! My name is Gloria and I'm a Dishalis...Hi Gloria lol!!! Oh Yes!! your my friends so I know I can confess to all of you...ha ha!! I don't know when this happen to me at first it was just having lunch and shopping with the girls and I would just buy one little dish...you know just to remember our lunch date with....Then a tea room opened in town and I found myself checking out the tea cups and pots and thinking what harm could it do to have them to take home and maybe a dessert plate or two after all you need a few tea things just in case someone wants a cup of tea and a pretty plate to set out some cookie with right !!! Then me and my friends started going to the consignment stores you know just to look around and see what they had..... And I would have to buy just a few more....Now just for a rememberance.....

Then I started buy dish sets....

Oh and then the silver hit me and I figured what harm could a few pieces do after all it would look pretty with my dishes.....

I did walk away from these.....I patted myself on the back

Then I started looking at even bigger dishes....

Then I found myself going out looking at dishes myself.... I was no longer just a social dish buyer....I mean what harm could that do right...

I found myself loving to touch them to pick them up and turn them over to see who made them...checking out to see if they were oven proof, dish washer safe etc...I found myself at the grocery store trolling the dish aisle instead of buying food....I found myself hiding the dishes in my food cart under paper towels in case I ran into a friend at the store....

Oh I tried to look at other things when I went out shopping...I did... I swear it did...But I knew it was getting worse...As I was buying more dishes and hiding them in the truck of my car, in the closets, under the beds, under the drapes, Not telling my children about them......Lying to Len about them when he would find new dishes and I would tell him "Oh those old dishes I had them for years" I found myself late at night when he was in bed stalking Ebay looking for more dishes....

I found I was buying dishes for my daughters and grand daughter because no one wants to dish alone....But every time I would go out and see dishes my hands would start shaking and my heart would beat faster...I would tell myself " No Dishes before 5pm" You can be just a social dish person.....Then I seen these and girls I found myself slipping.....I told myself Control Gloria you can do this....After all it's the Holiday's and the first of the month Just breath and walk away "YOU CAN DO IT GLORIA" lol !! But then the dish devil started speaking to me again....Devil said come on Gloria do you really need to buy Christmas present for your daughters you did that for years and look at all that money you wasted on toys they just broke and how about all those Barbie dolls you bought Dawna when she was little and just chewed the feet off of them...so does she deserved a gift now at her age and after all her husband can buy her a gift....And Len does he need that cable bill paid for the month...he did just find with Rabbit ears on his TV before you met him...and the Electric company do they need your money this month ??? You have left over candles from last Christmas that will give you light....And at Thanksgiving you can just make the family Grilled cheese with turkey sandwiches....It almost the same and with the candles lites and on these pretty dishes they won't notice....its almost a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving.....

Oh!! Yes the devil made me do it...Just look at these..

Each plate has a differ farm aninal on them....These are called Farm Toile

Got me a service for 8

I want to Thank my family for now understanding about the Christmas gifts you won't be getting now....What do you mean you want more than a lousy Christmas Card...And don't think I don't hear the whispers behind my back about an intervention and sending me to Betty Ford...and YOU still think I would buy you a Christmas present ??? I promise you I will get help the first of the year lol!!!

May all of you have a GREAT weekend on your side of the mountain....Now I need to check and see if I have enough dishes for Thanksgiving dinner ha ha!!