My wife is addicted to Neopets!!!

ARGGGH!!! Anyone got anything I can get so that I can cure her of this latest craze?!?

Or will I have to wait 5-10 years before it dies out like the last one did?

"No children, mommy is just busy making her latest concoctions. No Jonas, you may not have a minty bruce muffin." LOL

Try finding something else to consume her time...i.e. making a website, if she likes it she'll get off neopets and do that (it worked with me when i started my new layout)...if you want it to be off the computer, find something like cooking/sewing/pottery or you could just do certain club type things together...in other words get her addicted to something else... :)

or.. just addicted to neopets yourself, so you wont think of it as that big a deal lol. (it's easy)

why don't you get her started on making graphics or doing something active. hey, actually, its not a bad thing to be addicted to Neopets! my friend and i are! nobody cares,except my dad. we fight over the computer sometimes. lol. today, *sniff* i think i sprained my ankle, again!

Take away the internet? That's what my dad does...though I don't think that would work too well. It depends on how addicted she can get to something. If she can get pretty addicted, then it could take a while, but if she goes through addictions fairly quickly, then I wouldn't worry about it.

Also, you can always talk to her if it becomes a problem. Ask her to limit the amount of time she spends on Neopets to a set time, like 2 hours or something.

And if nothing works, as the saying goes, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. ;)

Well, it's weird, that's all. She makes references to things she gets and I have no clue, and I'm not into these kind of games anyway. Just RPG and some acing adventure/fighting games. I should point out that I'm not actually complaining, I just thought you guys might have a light-hearted suggestion (or something funny) to add.

As for taking away the internet...WHAT ARE YOU NUTZ?!? ROFLMBO!!! :froggie2:

April would kill me for sure!

Well, something else just occurred to me: These games are somewhat educational, riggght? So, it engages her and everyone else quite academically. So we aren't "technically" wasting our time by becoming brain-dead computer junkies without a life to call our own, are we?

Just a thought. And thanks for all who took a minute of their time to respond.

I feel much better now.

Sky

As for taking away the internet...WHAT ARE YOU NUTZ?!? ROFLMBO!!! :froggie2:
I'm a hazel nut actually. :D I'm always watching out for squirrels, so don't tell them I'm in here.
*hides from squirrels*
My dad always takes away the internet when I'm on Neopets for too long, usually because I'm supposed to be doing homework. Like right now for example...
*scampers off to do Brit Lit Homework*

I could think of worse things she could be addicted to ;)

Oh sure! Add fuel to that fire!!! LOL :buckt:

SS Princess? I had to "kick" (yes, that's kick) the wife off this morning when I was taking Butter butt (our cocker) out for her morning walk. I'm usually on the computer in the morning writing and surfing the net (checking e-mails from the day before), finish what I do by six and let her have her three hours of Neopet Central.

But she yanked on my chain saying, "Well, if I'm on it now, I won't be on it later!"

I'm like, "Honey. You are usually on it later on during the day anyway. Mornings are usually my time to get my writing quota in on my books and anything else I have to do before you clock on."

Suffice to say, she wasn't thrilled. But as the husband and man of the house (that's a debatable issue BTW), I had to put my foot down on something.

You need time on the computer too? Get another computer.. lol!

Crash your computer,lol.
Worked for me...

YEAH! Crashing your computer might work...it did for me^^..LOL:hehe:

Neopets is very addicting, lol. I don't go on it anymore, but what I did to stop was... well, I didn't exactly.. My dad did. He accidently got rid of a dll file I guess, and we lost internet access for a while. When we got it back, I was able to get Adobe Photoshop, and once I learned how to use it, that became addicting. Well.. I'm not much help. Either way, I became addicted to something. Or, you could try to password protect your computer so only you can access it, I guess.