The last thing you bought?

[Aeolienne]

From Tesco: shiitake mushrooms, Parma ham, miniature bottle of rosé wine (White Zinfande), ginger teabags, diced onion.

 

[Mr Allen]

From CEX last night, a DVD boxset of all 4 Karate Kid movies for £1.50.

Today I've booked 2 Uber Taxis to a meeting at Autism Plus and back home.

 

[Nitro]

A set of size 1, 2 and 3 Morse taper release drifts.

 

[Aeolienne]

From Morrisons: 568ml milk and a Nakd "Bakewell tart" bar.

 

[Mr Allen]

2 Coffees in a local Bar, and a week's worth of Lottery tickets and this week's TV Choice (all next week's soap spoilers).

And yesterday Dad bought my week's shopping, would've bought it myself but annoyingly there was considerably less loot on my card than I thought there was, so it got declined at the Checkout, so I had to phone me Dad to bail me out.

 

[LadyBird84]

Tickets to a museum.

 

[GrownupGirl]

A 10$ Tim Horton's gift card to give to my social worker for Christmas and an LOL Surprise "Under Wraps" doll.

 

[Aeolienne]

From the Co-op: vacuum-packed cooked beetroot, a punnet of strawberries, porridge oats, loo paper, a fennel bulb, cotton wool pads and a bag of conference pears.

 

[GrownupGirl]

A plush Pac-Man that makes different sounds from the arcade game, and a 25$ gift card from Canadian Tire for my dad at Christmas. He really likes shopping at Canadian Tire.

 

[Mr Allen]

An Orange J2O at the Theatre yesterday afternoon.

Booked a Taxi to go back home, originally I booked an Uber, but I cancelled that because I wasn't paying extra due to surge pricing after 5 PM, so I booked a local firm Excel, damn thing didn't turn up though so I had to cancel that as well and walk in the freezing cold for a Tram back home.

Never using Excel again (in theory, knowing me I'll ring them again next time I need cab after 5! Last 3 out of 4 times I've used them the driver ain't even turned up!)

 

[Kyou Nukui]

Bread, because I didn't need eggs this week.

 

[Aeolienne]

From Sainsbury's: anti-bacterial multi-surface cleaner and a packet of Ape Snacks coconut bites.

 

[LadyBird84]

A couch.

 

[Aeolienne]

A book from Wordery (I'm boycotting Amazon)

"Amazon will go bankrupt", says Jeff Bezos
Hardy ha-ha.

 

[GrownupGirl]

A jelly roll at Tim Horton's.

 

[Mr Allen]

"Amazon will go bankrupt", says Jeff Bezos
Hardy ha-ha.

Wordery are ab Amazon reseller so you're still using Amazon

 

[Aspie_With_Attitude]

A double Quarter pounder, a McChicken burger with medium fries and a sugar zero Coke from McDonalds.

 

[Nitro]

This Quinn electronic bolt torque transducer with programmable visual and audio alerts:

It converts any socket style wrench into a torque wrench when it is necessary to assure a fastener is tightened properly.



This combination adjustable wrench with a half inch drive ratchet head:

Both new tools combined to use them as a torque wrench:

I always wanted an electronic Crescent hammer I can torque lug nuts with, and now I own one

I might just have too many tools.
Na, one can never have too many tools

 

[Mia]

A beautifully made vintage quilt at a second-hand store for fifteen dollars. It makes me sad to see such beautiful things valued for so little and not treasured by families. The one I bought is a depression era quilt in this same pattern, the squares are blue and the green in this quilt is made with yellow fabric, the background is white instead of red like this one.

 

[sidd851]

A beautifully made vintage quilt at a second-hand store for fifteen dollars. It makes me sad to see such beautiful things valued for so little and not treasured by families. The one I bought is a depression era quilt in this same pattern, the stars are blue and the green in this quilt is made with yellow fabric in mine, the ground is white like this one.

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Hi, Mia.
Instead of sadness that some family did not treasure this quilt,
consider that the family probably let this quilt go to find a better home.
I shop almost exclusively at thrift stores for many reasons---
not least among them that the manufacturing of clothing and textiles
extracts a huge environmental toll.

Whilst shopping in these thrift stores, I am often overwhelmed with the
possible histories of the items that I see. I can get "lost" for quite some time deducing some,
imagining yet more, of the past lives of these items and their givers.
Some induce sadness, some melancholy, triumph, nostalgia, joy, --- the list is nearly endless.

No matter what I may think of an item and it's possible history, or those that relinquished it,
I know, without a doubt, that it took an act--- not a passive "allowance"---
for it to end up in the store.
Somewhere, someone felt that someone else may want, or even need this item.
I have seen some of the greatest joy wash over a person finding a simple item like
the one that you found--- It may have been their only shelter against a long cold night.

And so, when I must eventually finish my "shopping", and leave the store, I am always left with
a powerful sense of love.
Charity is love.

Don't be sad for perceived neglect--- be joyous that you are able to safeguard such a treasure---
and then rejoice again when you are able to pass the love that this quilt has accumulated
on to another appreciative soul, knowing that you have imbued it with some love of your own.

Think I'm going to get dressed and head down to the thrift store, now.
Who knows what'll be waiting there, for me.

sidd