What have you bought recently?

A mattress. I've been sleeping on rubber mats on the floor or ground for years (off and on). But the past couple of weeks, my back has been bothering me. I believe it can be remedied through exercise, but that might take a while.

Only one furniture store in town. I paid CAD 300 plus tax. If I stay here for 2 years, that's less than 50 cents a day. Not too terrible.

Today I brought it home in my car and struggled it up the stairs. This evening I'll set it up and try it out.
 
NorthernLight said:
A mattress. I've been sleeping on rubber mats on the floor or ground for years (off and on). But the past couple of weeks, my back has been bothering me. I believe it can be remedied through exercise, but that might take a while.

Only one furniture store in town. I paid CAD 300 plus tax. If I stay here for 2 years, that's less than 50 cents a day. Not too terrible.

Today I brought it home in my car and struggled it up the stairs. This evening I'll set it up and try it out.
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well carrying mattresses upstairs is not going to do your back any favours at all..:p. .. however I do hope that sleeping on a proper mattress brings you some relief for your pain
 
hollydolly said:
well carrying mattresses upstairs is not going to do your back any favours at all..:p. .. however I do hope that sleeping on a proper mattress brings you some relief for your pain
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Had to be done. They would have delivered it, sometime next week, but I wanted it now.

Making it (tucking in the sheets, etc.) is a bit tricky too. I'm just glad I didn't buy a mattress with memory foam; those were even heavier!
 
A new used truck...

Bought another truck, and took the wife to the dentist to have some teeth pulled, and yesterday ran around to get the insurance set up and pay for the truck...

Thursday around noon, I was sitting, watching TV..when my wife came to me and said she found a good truck... my reply to her, was I didn't know we were looking for another truck... We have a 2006 Ford F150 Lariat with over 350 km on it, which is around 217 miles... and still runs like the day I bought it, and runs like a new truck...

The one she pointed out to me is a 2008 Ford F150 Lariat with 140Km which is about 86 miles. It's like a new truck. My 2006 is a 4-door cab, this one is a super cab, which has the small doors on the back... It has a sunroof, electric windows, air, and leather. Like my other one..4x4 like the other truck. They are pretty much identical trucks, just different size cabs. My 2006 has a 5'4" box pn the back with a hard tunnel box cover. This one has a 6' box, with a soft tunnel cover.

So,, they want $12,000 for it. So I call my brother because he lives close to where the truck is for sale. I call him and ask him to look under it, check out the engine, and make sure the air and heat work... check the engine... I ask him to take it for a test drive, and get back to me, while I sit in the dentist's parking lot waiting for my wife while she gets some teeth pulled out... He calls me about an hour and a half later and tells me the truck is solid, in mint condition... So I thank him. I call the Lady who is selling the truck, I told her I will buy it, and that I will email her $2000 and would be up tomorrow to pay her (Friday)...

Now here comes the fun stuff... We have one of those banks that have no building, they are up somewhere in the sky. So I called them... telling them I need to take $12,000 out of my account. So they tell me, ok, they can get a certified cheque ready, and have it couriered to my home for Monday... I said that is no good because the truck will be gone by the time I get the cheque... So... Here comes the fun part... I have a $3000 a day withdrawal on my bank card at an ATM... So he tells me to go to the bank machine for the bank I use, and take the money out of it, they will lift my limit for a one-time only to $12,000... So I say to him, ok so if the ATM runs out of money then what... He keeps telling me not to worry about this, and asked what time I would be back in my home town... and I reply in a couple of hours so he tells me I'll be able to do this till 8:00 that night...

So my wife has a mouth full of gauze, I can hardly understand a word she is saying to me...I go into the bank, put my card in the ATM and ask for 12,000 bucks... The machine says a lower amount, so I try $10,000, and then $5000, and then $2000... So out comes 40 Fifties... So I do it again... and I whip back out to the truck... and hand my wife the $4000 in fifties... So I go back to the machine... and I take the rest out, and now we look like we deal drugs, cuz my wife has the 240 Fifties in a bag, the pile of 50's is about 3 inches tall... So we go home... I get her cleaned up, and in her jammies so she can relax. I am in the kitchen counting the 50's in piles of 20 fifties for $1000 in each pile which I paper clip each of the 12 piles... I stick it into a plastic bag. and my wife says bury it into the freezer... I call the Lady back, and told her, that I would not send her the $2000 down, and she thought I changed my mind. I said no... But I am bringing you 240 fifties... So now make the story little shorter, she asks me on my way up if I could stop at the garage and pick up the safety... I did... I got to her place, took the truck for a run, came back, tried my luck and said would you take $11,000 for the truck... She says no, she's firm on the 12... I said ok... So I hand her the bag of money... told her, I counted it 3 times, my wife counted it three times... and told her I was going to take my truck to go and get insurance on it, and the plates...

So, my other truck is sitting at my brother's today, it will drive it back to my place next week, and get his wife to follow him so he has a drive home. and the new truck is in the driveway...

I now understand why some people drive a backhoe into an ATM and take the whole machine, I honestly did not know that those machines have that kind of money in them...
 
Today I bought loads.. I bought a bottle green long sleeve shirt/blouse.
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A pair of Mom jeans.. in one store.. then in Costco, along with a kings ransom of groceries ( see this thread... https://www.seniorforums.com/thread...o-vegans-and-vegetarians-look-away-now.74840/ ) I bought a new hallway rug... it's really beautiful and soft, like the coat of an Angora Rabbit, ..... and a Giant pack of Kitchen rolls ... then as if I didn't spend enough, I bankrupted myself by filling my tank up with Petrol at Costco garage, which thank the good lord is 12p per litre cheaper than my local garage..
 
@hollydolly That shirt is exactly what I'd have bought. Color. Style. Perfect. Mom jeans? Do you mean high-waisted skinny jeans? I've grown very fond of mine. Much more comfortable than the low-slung ones (they're called mid-rise...pffft) I've been wearing for years and years. It's hard to wear jeans that hang around the hips when you've no hips! I always had to wear a belt to hold them up and felt positively strangled.

@NorthernLight Tickled for you that the mattress suits you. Could be that the "give" in the mattress allowed your body to relax and the mattress to form itself to your body, rather than lying on a mat on a hard surface. There sure isn't any "give" on a hard surface! I'm glad that you're getting restful sleep and are now mostly minus the backache.
 
Georgiagranny said:
@hollydolly That shirt is exactly what I'd have bought. Color. Style. Perfect. Mom jeans? Do you mean high-waisted skinny jeans? I've grown very fond of mine. Much more comfortable than the low-slung ones (they're called mid-rise...pffft) I've been wearing for years and years. It's hard to wear jeans that hang around the hips when you've no hips! I always had to wear a belt to hold them up and felt positively strangled.
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Yes high waisted Jeans..but not skinny... straight legs..:D. much more slimming than skinny jeans, which I can't stand tbh, they make everyone's legs look like drainpipes..
 
hollydolly said:
Yes high waisted Jeans..but not skinny... straight legs..:D. much more slimming than skinny jeans, which I can't stand tbh, they make everyone's legs look like drainpipes..
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Love that top, style and color. I bet it will look great with jeans or those new leggings you bought. You have a great sense of style!
 
Kitty litter, kitty food, kitty treats, Ensure (it's what's for breakfast at 4am because who wants food at that hour unless they've been out being "overserved"), multivitamins. Talk about an exciting list!!!!

Tomorrow I might buy some more $5 iris bulbs and a chrysanthemum or two. Might. Depends on how I feel at noon when I'm done at work.
 

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