What did you buy today?
 

a time-wasting curiosity thread! ta da!

So, weekends are my days to get household shopping done. today I bought:

--a bright blue plastic adirondack chair. They didn't have the ottomans for it, so I also bought
--a tiny kids bright blue plastic adirondack chair. to put my feet on.
--rubber interlocking padding for my concrete patio when I work out
--Three Cups of Tea Book for my granddaughter's birthday, 'cause B&N didn't have the Howard zinn book I wanted
--cat food, hair color, liquid plumber. How fun!

Do you mean like the puzzle mats?

I bought Microsoft Office Pro Plus, for $10, and just finished installing it.

I bought a cake mix and frosting for my stepdaughter (couldn't eat the cake myself, but I had several forkfuls of frosting straight out of the container,) plus I happened to pick up paper towels and napkins while I was there. They didn't have the other things I wanted.

yeah, I guess they interlock like puzzles--for workout floors

Keryx got a bunch of books at yard sales, and I got a frisbee. And I hooked up with an old acquaintance today.
And we got a bunch of fruit and garlic stuffed olives, and garlic cheese bread.

Good for her fargon! Books anyway they come are great.

@ cloud. I bought cat food and liquid plumber too! I discovered Science Diet. They are on the 5th bag of it and they are doing great. Slimming down and getting all healthy and they should. That stuff is expensive but worth every penny. Well maybe not too expensive considering the price of the fattening hair falling out over the counter grocery store products.

I didn't buy anything today but yesterday I bought five $1 dollar notebooks a pack of pens.

Last weekend I found a steal chair for $29.99. I am not in the position to buy an anti-gravity chair but it looked like a good knockoff and at $40 percent off. Patience pays off. lol sometimes.
I had been waiting to find a chair on sale for months.

yum @ fargon. and sorta yum @ Clod, but -- icing/frosting is better on cake.

@ skysidhe -- I just dumped one like it in the trash and bought the new chair to replace). After a year (or two--can't remember); the metal parts were broken, the fabric discolored, and the webbing rotted. I just can't keep anything good out there; the conditions are too harsh!

2 paint brushes.

USB cable

Out there? Well if it rusts there then it will rust here double time.

I bought it at Ace hardware. I think they are still on sale and at that price everyone can have one. lol

I don't like plastic too much. I get all obsessional about the dirt that attracts to it. I would be cleaning it all the time and that would annoy me.

I think I can handle the rust a little better. I'll just call it a patina. :artist:

I am glad you found some comfy chairs though. I know that is what is mostly out there these days. I did see some nice tomato colored ones. I like those but white? no way.

What are you painting?

What are you hooking up?

J's camera. It has a micro-USB connection.

Technology just keeps changing doesn't it.

I'm painting on my house above where I've been fiddling with a stone splash zone/entrance.

Well of course, but I can't eat the kind of cake she wanted, and she wouldn't want the kind of cake I can eat. It was frosting-out-of-the-container, or nothing. I chose frosting. :)

Sounds nice! Maybe we all can see it sometime.

Dinner, large with x-cheese, pepperoni and mushrooms, going to pick it up now (they don't deliver but they're worth it)

Ooh, technically bought two days ago, but just got a shipping notice for: a Japanese tsukemono, aka pickling press. I desperately want to duplicate these pickled vegetables we get at our favorite Chinese place, without having to go to the Chinese place.

I hope maybe you can post some of your successes. I am intrigued. Plus I like pickles.

Groceries, so here we go :

Tomatoes (fresh, dried and canned)
Pasta (fresh and dry)
Parmesan
Chicken cutlets
Turkey cutlets
Pork ribs
Turkey drumstick
Sausages
Olives (green and black)
Flour
Butter
Sugar
Clotted cream
Canned fruits
Garlic
Seasoning mix
Chocolate with a touch of pimento
Milk
Etc...

Will do. Of course today I got distracted and started leveling ground for the goat barn... hmm... building permit? I'm still thinking that's un-American.

Good start, needs more red meat. :)

Looks like a mighty delicious haul.

There are so many things Un American these days.
They way I am feeling I would do it without a permit just as a form of anarchy.

Seriously, you need a permit to build a barn? It must be pretty big then?

Tell 'em to take it up with the goats.;)

Chicken, spices, wine, and charcoal. I am doing a slow cook jamacian jerk on the grill. YUM!

Clod. Why not an old crock or churn?
3-6 packs of beer. dry on sunday here.

nothing.

Pimento? Pimento to me are red things that go in cocktail olives. Or cheese. I've had chocolate with chiles in them. Maybe a terminology problem?

Actually, it'll only be 20x20 so I'll call it a shed and act surprised later.

I bought a charm bracelet from The Phantom of the Opera. It has a music sign, a charm that reads "The Phantom of the Opera" (natch), a rose, a charm that reads "Prima Donna", a phantom mask, and a heart that reads Think of Me.

It was a nice show. :)

I don't have one. (And if I did, I'd still have to find another one about the same shape and size to make a weight on top of it.)

Mushrooms, 9 corns, 8 avocados, 2 corn chips, and snacks to send to an old dude down south.

A 50 inch Plasma Hd TV

Beer, tequila and cat food

ah . . . the 3 food groups?

and @ zippy--whoa! I think you win the "today's most expensive" prize

BTW, I tried out the interlocking rubber mats out on my patio tonight--works perfect! I'm curious to see how long they'll last out there.

Still got faith in Plasma, huh?

It Flows Better than LCD Or LED
oh and with a 600mhz refreash rate V a 120 - 200 Mhz if is WAY sharper !!
IMHO

yea that cat is going to get messed up

(pink bouncy laf!)

1) went to a farmers market and bought a cantaloupe, carrots, and a bag of fresh picked rosemary. dunno what I'll use all that rosemary for, but it was only $1 and I liked the guy.

2) Bought a silver cuff bracelet (size large!) and steel necklace (really love their steel jewelry) from QVC. They're having a special--5 "easy payments" today only on EVERYTHING! Pretty good deal, and I've been wanting to try out the easy pay thingy. Thought about buying a new desktop--but decided on something smaller.

ETA: 3) and a watch, also from QVC. I've been needing a new one.

Note to self: no more QVC today!

Salads for the lot of us
$20 labor out of the boy for landscaping work in the hot and humidity
$2.99 on-demand animated movie for the toddler

Today, haven't bought anything.
Yesterday, bought some soft pretzels at the Nats ball game.

big spender ;)

done with the stain

Griftopia looks very nice, as usual.

Thanks boss, a lovely day doesn't hurt.

splash zone?

Did you use a sprayer?

Snow piles up along that wall, which was wood to the ground due to a print reading error by my concrete guy (cousin). Now we have a rot proof "splash zone."

Paintbrush per previous "What did you buy?" response.

ah, I get it. don't usually think about snow around here.

I also bought a suet cake and put it out for birds this morning. . . only to realize that it's not for warm weather and will probably melt and drip all down the tree. duh.

Oh well, maybe the birds will eat it all up before it does that--they're certainly going to town on it now.

yep.
Lovely, I like the wood and the uniqueness of it inside and out.

You stained without getting any on the white window and door frames - that's pretty good.

Is that the solar collector/heater on the left?

Can we all come live at Griftopia? Something about it always seems so peaceful. :)

Man you must not mind being at the top of a ladder!

I'm happy for you.

Good call(s) all around.

Nothing again so far.

But I may require beer later.

Also have three books in my Amazon UK cart -may or may not happen today.

And I need to order a swim team tank top and one or two team hoodies -that has a good chance of happening this evening

No stain um... visible.
Yeah, that's the collector.

Me and Merc and Redux doing our morning meditations together, serenity now. :facepalm:

I've learned to be cool with heights, but today was just the lower story.

How is the solar collector thing working out? One of my neighbors was considering getting one.

It is difficult to quantify. Nothing too dramatic in terms of the whole house since the passive solar face already does a lot for us on sunny days but it does take the edge off the basement room it is plumbed to. On a bright sunny day it will lift that small insulated room maybe 20 degrees F. When the ceiling and finish work is done it'll be interesting to see how it holds heat. I guess an insulated house with poor solar gain or tightly insulated workshop in an unheated building would be good applications. Since it draws from the floor it is heating the coldest air in the space, so that is pretty helpful. I wouldn't over sell it but it is a great feeling when you hear the blower come on knowing the sun is the only input post manufacture.