Your best buys of the plague year

[Fedayn]

Went to John Lewis in Kingston yesterday to get a butter dish and the clothes sale is incredible. Bought three jumpers-£69 down to £14, £65 to £13, £49 to £20.

It is, Fjallraven t-shirts, £47 down to £12/£13. The Fjallraven jacket I go £169:00 down to £63. And yesterday picked up a Boss tshirt £90 down to £36

 

[Chairman Meow]

Ah yes. Just before we bought house with pool, we had a holiday in Bali. Excellent timing really, hadn’t had a foreign holiday in years, as we live in furrin lands now.

 

[Smangus]

Cheese, White Lake Diary lushness. Not cheap but I'm saving money on travel and going out so sod it .

 

[thismoment]

I’ve been treating myself to chocolate and fancy picnic type snacks for the weekend as part of my weekly shop. Not usually what I’d buy but it’s a nice treat as sort of gives me something to look forward to.

 

[Cloo]

Forgot my other best buy - 3 bamboo fibre bra tops, sold at local health food store. So fucking comfortable and it's really not like my boobs need underwiring.

 

[Badgers]

A kite

 

[mx wcfc]

Forgot my other best buy - 3 bamboo fibre bra tops, sold at local health food store. So fucking comfortable and it's really not like my boobs need underwiring.

I have no experience of bamboo fibre bras, but I have had bamboo socks, that my toe nails have gone through in a few wears.

 

[Marty1]

A new van

 

[Saul Goodman]

You'd be amazed how much the smell of someone else's farts gets to you after a few months of lockdown.

 

[Reno]

A box set of all five Phantasm films to pass the evenings.

 

[Cloo]

I have no experience of bamboo fibre bras, but I have had bamboo socks, that my toe nails have gone through in a few wears.

Not much chance of my tits wearing through these!

 

[Fedayn]

A box set of all five Phantasm films to pass the evenings.

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There was 5 films?

 

[Reno]

There was 5 films?

Yup, the last one was from 2016 and it’s little more than a fan made movie, even though Coscarelli was still involved. He directed the first 4 and they are of variable quality but always fun.

The first one scared the shit out of me when it came out in 1979. Otherwise I’ve only seen part of the first sequel before and I watched all of them last week.

The Phantasm films used nightmares as the basis for horror films a few years before the Nightmare on Elm St. films and they still feel more unsettling now. Unlike Freddy, The Tall Man never turned into a clown.

 

[kalidarkone]

Got an inflatable drive away awning reduced from £540 to £329.

 

[Rebelda]

I discovered vegan almond magnums, that was a game changer. Otherwise my best practical thing was a gift, beautiful scrubs made for me by Boudicca and Biddlybee sent me some masks when there weren't any <3

 

[blameless77]

So, what purchases have served you well so far?

My top buy has definitely been stupidly expensive Mahabi slippers - my feet get cold easily, so I need something on them, and I've basically lived in the buggers as they are ridiculously comfy and you can even nip down to the corner shop on them without feeling daft.

Subscription to Down Dog yoga app also got more than its moneysworth.

Why are you so very annoying and smug?

 

[8ball]

Why are you so very annoying and smug?

The charm school called. Your refund is in the post.

 

[The39thStep]

This manual orange/pomegranate press has been fantastic

 

[Roadkill]

A WiFi range extender, so I do actually have a reliable internet connection in the office.

 

[Poot]

Why are you so very annoying and smug?

Why are you so very childish and confrontational?

 

[Badgers]

A pork pie

 

[DotCommunist]

I got a pair of black hiking boots and a mummy style sleeping bag rated for -10 degrees. Imma take that with a pinch of salt and assume it'll start to feel chilly at -2. Also a waterproof bivvy type sack, I wanted a goretex one but all they had were ropey ex military ones with loads of repairs at my price range.

 

[sojourner]

New fridge (but the old one died so had to really).

Arizer Air 2 vape - it is the fucking bollocks

Second-hand mountain bike for £60 off Gumtree

Tiger socks

Pair of Skechers - comfiest things ever and I am really particular about footwear.

 

[campanula]

weed seeds.
Chelated iron - looking at my yellowing chaenomeles and magnolias has made me a little bit ashamed.
A massive, second-hand 5mx5m gazebo...which will be repurposed into a fruit cage after yet another year of supporting gigantic broods of obese blackbirds, with not a single cherry heading mouthwards.
A rotary cutter - dozens of masks made for family and neighbours, cut out with blunt kitchen scissors, sent me scurrying towards Sew Essential - how did I manage without one?

 

[Marty1]

This isn’t a buy for me but I get to use it - the gf’s new exercise bike finally arrived.



It uses air as the resistance.

 

[scifisam]

A pork pie

I don't believe you

 

[SpookyFrank]

A set of kettlebells, some gym matting, and an outside wall mounted pull-up bar. Not sure I've bought anything else that was lockdown specific.

I went to decathlon a day late pre-lockdown and everything heavy had been cleaned out

I'm currently using a large brass doorstop in the shape of a horse in lieu of a kettlebell.

 

[Cloo]

Why are you so very annoying and smug?

Well, I work very hard at it and if you do, so can you, random poster.

 

[editor]

Why are you so very annoying and smug?

Unwarranted personal attack? Take a thread ban.

 

[spanglechick]

Why are you so very annoying and smug?

I wasn’t going to get involved here, but checking back through your posts* I see you’re no stranger to telling other posters off when you think they’re out of line.
This is an unprovoked personal attack. Cloo may have responded below with far more grace than you deserved, but the fact remains that it is completely unacceptable to insult someone’s personality, based off an entirely pleasant and innocuous OP. Perhaps you don’t value basic courtesy. Perhaps you were drunk (started early? very late night?) but Cloo is a well-loved member of our community, both online and in person for well over fifteen years and she deserves to be defended from nasty attempts at bullying.

*I went looking through your posts because I genuinely thought a drive-by spite-bomb like yours has the hallmarks of one of our past man-child trolls.