What have you bought recently?

I had to go to the Toyota body shop because something is dragging when I go over speed bumps or down a driveway in the front of my car. Turns out it's the engine cover, she said it's common and they are ordering the part. Won't be as expensive or dire as I had worried it could be.

Stopped at Goodwill. Found a book, a butt or buttocks basket for $3.49 and a good sized stuffed fox for 99 cents. I like baskets and never will outgrow stuffed animals.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I found a first edition of Elsie’s Cook Book at the flea market yesterday for fifty cents.View attachment 178889
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Ah... Elsie & Elmer. This brings me back... During the 1970s I worked for an LA apparel company that had been bought out by Borden. They ran a thriving company into the ground in less than a decade by trying to run it using corporate strategies.

In any event, I was in my twenties, was at least as irreverent then as now, and good jobs were easy to find in Los Angeles, so I didn't give a flip.

I found this sign at a huge outdoor antique place in Connecticut. Carted it home on the plane and hung it in my office. When the Borden suits were in town they were not amused. Everyone else thought it was hilarious.

It hangs in my garage now...it's painted metal, about 2 feet in diameter. It picked up some baseball stickers in the intervening 45 years, but still looks pretty good. Our garage's interior walls are a time capsule of our lives.

Thanks for tweaking the memory, @Aunt Bea! I spent a few fun years at that company, made some good friends, and learned a lot, as well.
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Jules said:
‘Punnet’ - my new word of the day. Looked it up. Are they green fibre containers in the UK?
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No, Jules, the ones I bought from Sainsburys were plastic, but if I were to draw up to the posh shops in a chauffuer driven Rolls-Royce and have the doorman 'doff' his hat to me, then I might get those green fibre ones. :)

I like the word 'punnet' too, it sounds better than box. :)
 
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I used to have a big mongrel dog (Terry) and believe it or not, he loved cherries too. If he was in the back garden and I shouted "Cher-----rrries", he would come bounding in with his tongue hanging out and a big grin on his face. I would share my cherries with him, then he would go back to the garden farting, and taking the heads off my delphiniums with the cherry stones. :)
 
@StarSong I took a picture. It's a little dark but the flash made it too bright. The bigger one is the Goodwill find from yesterday and the smaller one is also a buttocks basket I got for maybe 2 dollars at another thrift store a few years ago. The small one states "hardwood 1986" and is probably handmade. It's the shape of the basket that gives it the name.
 

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@Remy and @StarSong
I learned to call that type of basket, an egg basket,
because one can gather or carry eggs in them without the eggs rolling into each other and breaking the shells, due to the ribs, in the basket structure,
which a larger grouping would be called rib baskets.

I never heard your name for them, Remy, but I can see how they got it!;)
I love the one in the foreground of your photo. There are fancier ways of joining the handle to the rim of the lower part of the basket, but all the ways are very good, imo. :)
 
hollydolly said:
Bunch of groceries today at the supermarket.. and they had some really cute little rectangular cushions too , so I bought one which is smaller and more suitable than the one I'm using, for between my knees when I'm asleep to keep the pressure off my lower back
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I keep forgetting to use mine and then complain when I wake with a sore back, lol..
 
My lunch this afternoon (except my tray liner was in English)
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Remy said:
@StarSong I took a picture. It's a little dark but the flash made it too bright. The bigger one is the Goodwill find from yesterday and the smaller one is also a buttocks basket I got for maybe 2 dollars at another thrift store a few years ago. The small one states "hardwood 1986" and is probably handmade. It's the shape of the basket that gives it the name.
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when I was around 13 or 14 years old these baskets became high fashion for girls to carry their school books in, instead of the usual satchels etc.. I've loved them since.
 
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Remy said:
@StarSong I took a picture. It's a little dark but the flash made it too bright. The bigger one is the Goodwill find from yesterday and the smaller one is also a buttocks basket I got for maybe 2 dollars at another thrift store a few years ago. The small one states "hardwood 1986" and is probably handmade. It's the shape of the basket that gives it the name.
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Now that you mention it, I can understand the origins of the nicknames. I've seen those baskets, of course, but never connected them to butts. From now on it'll surely be the first thing that springs to mind though. o_O
 
Jules said:
We were going to buy a new computer, planning on a desktop. Took our 7 year old laptop in and he suggested refurbishing it. It was high end when we bought it. It’ll be less money and should hold us for a few more years. By then there’ll be newer and fancier around.
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Great idea. Mind if I ask what kind of refurbishing they're talking about? New operating system (Windows 10 or 11)?

With computers, cellphones, TVs and most other electronics, ten minutes after you buy them their value drops and they're on the road to obsolescence. Usually true of vehicles, too, but not since the pandemic.
 
@StarSong, he’s putting in a solid state hard drive, adding a device for better wi-fi connection since it kept kicking out, putting the two partitions back into one and cleaning it up. We have Windows 10 & will stick with that. I rarely use that one but have to for this photo back up process I’m going through.
 
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@StarSong, he’s putting in a solid state hard drive, adding a device for better wi-fi connection since it kept kicking out, putting the two partitions back into one and cleaning it up. We have Windows 10 & will stick with that. I rarely use that one but have to for this photo back up process I’m going through.
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Even that simple cleaning, helps them to work much better, I have been told, regarding any electronics including inside computers. I agree with Starsong, it's great to have it pampered and refurbished, instead of replacing as often.
 

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