Salt Lamp Obsession Drives Floridian into Debt

Published

June 26, 2019

Nikkita Walker is a contributing writer for Credit.com, specializing in topics on budgeting and managing credit. Nikkita has been a professional writer for over seven years, and has worked in the finance industry since 2019. Nikkita graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in English and a minor in Sociocultural Anthropology. When she isn’t researching recent developments in the financial world, you can find Nikkita reading a Terry Pratchett. (Making Money of course.)

Himalayan salt lamps are massively popular decorative blocks of pink salt with a light bulb fit inside. They can be found for sale in a whole slew of places from the American Museum of Natural History gift shop to Gwyneth Paltrow’s pseudoscience mecca Goop. Frankly, they’re everywhere.

One man in Florida took his love of salt lamps, some would say, too far. Jim Roberts has been featured on TLC’s television show, My Strange Addiction. Roberts has purchased over 2,700 salt lamps. These lamps are over taking his living quarters and worst of all ruining his credit. He has spent over $20,000 on his obsession. Now Roberts has battle his way out of debt.