When I am hypomanic I get obsessed with a certain topic of interest and buy EVERY book there is on the topic.

I used to think "spending" had to involve outrageous amounts of money to be manic spending. But I guess not. It could mean spending more than you have (if this is out of character in the first place), and it could be the quality of spending - for example, are you frenzied and driven and frantic (yes), do you go crazy over one shop/e-shop (yes), do you have to have all of a certain thing (yes), do you end up in a position where you could open your own shop (yes) and so on.

During my last hypomanic episode I ruthlessly and frenetically purged my apartment of any non-essential pieces of paper (old bills etc). I replaced all the lightbulbs and bought about 50 additional ones. BUT in order to change the lightbulbs I decided I had to have my own stepladder (I couldn't simply borrow the one downstairs, no no). So I bought a stepladder and since I don't have a car I somehow carried it home through all the streets. And now I have this huge thing (I got the biggest and best of course) in my small apartment standing there like an eyesore. Sigh. Why couldn't I have bought a nice plant or something?