Hello June Bug, Open Eyes, mgran and Queen,
I wanted to thank you for your original post June, and the replies. I have a similar issue I'm working through at t he moment but didn't want to hijack thread so have started a new one.
I was wondering also if OCD is involved somehow in the purchasing/expelling cycle for you June? I obsess over much smaller and cheaper (thank goodness) articles, such as a book or a pair of shoes, and will obsess about it, dream about it, think about it, price it in as many different places to make sure I get the best deal, and even when I think I see it at the cheapest that I can get it, I'll still go and check at another store 'just in case' its cheaper there now, missing out on the original special, to wade myself through the whole pricing search again - and the whole process can take months. Once I have finally, FINALLY, made the agonising purchase, I bring it home and stick it on the shelf or in the cupboard or in the shed, depending on what it is, and simply forget about it. I say agonising because I don't seem to get any real joy out of any part of the process, not even at the actual purchase point which is still clouded in doubt and anxiety, but obviously I must to continue to put myself through it - there's always a payoff somewhere, just got no idea where it is! Anyway, my T says this is another of my OCD symptoms is the obsessive thought cycle, and wondered if you could relate.

Thanks again for posting,
kp