The "I just bought..." thread.

[Captante]

Oh, I don't mind your posting it, I was only suggesting that it could be indicative of an overindulgence on your part. You misunderstood me.

I'm afraid that ship has long sailed in many ways!



EDIT: And here's my latest "indulgence". (I have a sad empty life lol)

Rubber Wood and Stainless Steel Drying Rack (Target)

 

[Muse]

Rubber Wood and Stainless Steel Drying Rack (Target)

I used to have one of those, used it a LOT, sat on the back porch. Whenever I washed stuff at home other than the laundromat. Now I have washer and drier but haven't used the drier in ~6 months... I generally hang my laundry out on lines in the back yard, the cloths pins trip!

Pray tell, what's rubber wood?

 

[Captante]

Rubber Wood and Stainless Steel Drying Rack (Target)

I used to have one of those, used it a LOT. Whenever I washed stuff at home other than the laundromat. Now I have washer and drier but haven't used the drier in ~6 months... I generally hang my laundry out on lines in the back yard, the cloths pins trip!

I was getting tired of using twine!

 

[Muse]

I was getting tired of using twine!

Pray tell, what's rubber wood?

 

[Captante]

Pray tell, what's rubber wood?

Incorrect punctuation?

(they forgot the comma)

 

[sdifox]

Rubber Wood and Stainless Steel Drying Rack (Target)

I used to have one of those, used it a LOT, sat on the back porch. Whenever I washed stuff at home other than the laundromat. Now I have washer and drier but haven't used the drier in ~6 months... I generally hang my laundry out on lines in the back yard, the cloths pins trip!

Pray tell, what's rubber wood?

Presumably where rubber comes from. You know, condom tree.

 

[IronWing]

Pray tell, what's rubber wood?

Pressed sawdust glued together with toxic sludge.

 

[repoman0]

I’ve tried twice now to be a cheap ass and buy a refurb and open box old model Dyson cordless vacuum on ebay, and both have arrived screwed up somehow or another. I’m giving up and buying the latest and greatest this weekend instead where I can just pick it up somewhere locally. Least exciting expensive purchase ever

 

[Muse]

Rubber, Wood and Stainless Steel Drying Rack (Target)

That is better than the one I had. Mine was all wood.

Um, notice, I added the missing comma.

 

[skyking]

I didn't buy it but brought home a truck and trailer load of tools and stuff from 3 houses across the mountains. My family is doing this mass exodus from rural and urban areas of central Wa and heading to small houses, apartments and condos in Seattle proper.
There's 14' tall scaffolding with wheels or adjustable feet, table saw shop vac, chop saw, planer, 24' ladder, etc etc.
There's a compressor that was my FIL's and went to my brother for 20+ years and is now back.

 

[Jon-T]

A machete. I have never owned a machete, I have no real need for a machete. I just felt that having a machete would make my life more complete.

 

[skyking]

Oh hey in that long list of stuff was a really nice double bit axe. I'm talking Paul Bunyan type of cutlery.

 

[Muse]

A machete. I have never owned a machete, I have no real need for a machete. I just felt that having a machete would make my life more complete.

I have one, inherited from my folks' house when they moved. I sharpened it up good but I have found it not very useful. What I bought over the summer, though, should be much more useful: an EGO string trimmer!

 

[Captante]

A machete. I have never owned a machete, I have no real need for a machete. I just felt that having a machete would make my life more complete.

Day comes you decide to go on a killing-spree you'll be one step ahead!

 

[IronWing]

Eva (technically, we didn't buy her, it was an adoption fee). She'd been in the shelter for nine months and has been a love sponge from the minute we brought her home. She's reorganizing the social order and will be top cat even though the boys are a lot bigger.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Lot of 12 2TB hard drives off Ebay. Going to upgrade one of my raid arrays from 1TB drives to 2TB drives and this was a decent deal. I looked into buying new much larger drives but was not ready to drop that coin yet. At some point I want to redo the raid 10 arrays and make them raid 5 or 6 though. Might lose a bit of performance but I can live with that for more space.

The fun part is going to be testing these one by one. That might take a little while lol.

 

[IronWing]

Eva (technically, we didn't buy her, it was an adoption fee). She'd been in the shelter for nine months and has been a love sponge from the minute we brought her home. She's reorganizing the social order and will be top cat even though the boys are a lot bigger.

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Eva has the Siamese talkiness, keeping up a running monologue as she wanders about the house checking things out. She also sings for a bit every night, once everyone else is asleep.

 

[MrSquished]

Closed last Thursday on a garaged parking spot on my block. It's inside a 20 unit condo building, garage has a total of 12 spots. Secured. Clean. Built in the last 20 years, steel and concrete building. 30K plus closing costs. Under market value by minimum 5k but closer to 10k. I could flip it tomorrow for 40K. This developer didn't really advertise it, just with a sign by the building I walk by every day with my dog, but on a super quiet street. Super lucky break.

Better than paying 300 a month for private garaged parking. In less than 10 years this will pay itself off, then it's just building equity. Can sell it or rent it if not needed. Only have to offer it to current condo owners for 2 months before I can sell it to anyone.

 

[skyking]

I know it is common where you are, but this country lad finds your purchase most interesting

 

[MrSquished]

I know it is common where you are, but this country lad finds your purchase most interesting

lol yeah even the suburban boy in me who grew up 16 miles from here had no idea about parking issues in the urban areas. but once you live in an urban area, you figure it out quick. This wasn't too common as a lot of condo buildings make it much harder for a non-owner to buy a spot, if at all. I don't live in the building. If I ever sell my place, just being able to offer a spot with it adds a lot of appeal to the listing, besides tens of thousands of dollars. I just have to offer it to the building owners for two months. That's the only by-law I have to deal with.

Not far from me it's 50K in another neighborhood for a garaged spot. In Manhattan, six figures.

But crunching the numbers, in just over 8 years of renting at $300 I would spend 30K. So it's a smart financial move. Even if the housing market cools off, parking spots are still at a premium. It's not like they build extra of those over the years. Or I can just rent it out. Easy decision. This was the absolute only price I could buy it though, any higher I'd have just had a dream.

By me parking is not bad during the day. Other small towns and neighborhoods by me can be pretty bad all day, to terrible, like in Hoboken. But around 5-6pm by me it starts to get tough to find one. By nighttime it's really hard to find a legal spot. Plus street cleaning is a bummer.

 

[UsandThem]

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-animals-2018-remix-album-review/

 

[Red Squirrel]

Turns out buying hard drives off ebay to expand a raid array was not the best idea. I took my chances but in hindsight I should have paid more and buy 4 6TB or 8TB drives and I could have expanded one of the other raid arrays which has 4x 3TB drives in raid 10. The array I was planing to expand has 9 drives so I need at least 9 good drives to do it.

After testing all the drives I only ended up with 4 usable drives (pass smart test and zero smart errors). 3 failed, and the rest passed the test, but have errors.

Not a total loss though. I will just use these for backups instead of expanding the raid. Been meaning to do that anyway as I really should have more backup copies of everything.

 

[Meghan54]

1995 - Nitro Bass Boat - 17' - 115hp Mariner

www.azbasszone.com

Almost exactly like this one…1995 Nitro 170DC. (17’ dual console) w/115hp Mercury 2 stroke. Needs all new trailer wiring and a new coolant routing cover gasket incompetent (rearmost of engine—plate with thermostat in it.) Blowing water out all around the #1 spark plug. Looks waaay worse than it is. Does cause a nice drop in price when discovered…owner honestly had no idea it was leaking.

Nice fun fall project.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Planned on just buying the Porter...
Wasn't passing up 1L of ZH for $12 and VOB 100 for $15 or the BFP for $25

 

[NutBucket]

It's the season...