What have you bought recently?

Jules said:
Thanks, Patty. I’ll look for it. No better chain store than SDM, especially on discount Thursday.
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Exactly. This is the kind of stuff you either find at some obscure health food store or farmers market so I was thrilled to find it at SDM which can be found anywhere.

After trying this I will never go back to body cleaners or shampoo again. Not needing to use conditioner leaves my hair cleaner and fluffier for a longer period of time. Even though I never added conditioner to my scalp, brushing and combing my hair would distribute it up there and after a while my scalp would look a bit greasy looking. This shampoo solves all that.

I hope you like it as much as I do.
They also have goats milk and other types which I will eventually try.

Please let me know what you think of it.
 

Amazon ordered one of these IPS 1080p laptops with a 25% discount for $189. Had been keeping my eye on amazon laptop prices for a couple months waiting for a sale. Most in this class are about $250. Already own a several year old $2.5k Dell laptop and an old HP desktop both of which have all my working software. The powerful Dell uses so much power, it really needs to always be plugged into AC.

This more portable, lightweight inexpensive laptop I won't need to worry much about losing or breaking, will be used when away from home or traveling and when I need something at home or nearby without cabling. Will not be putting anything sensitive on it nor using it for serious work so won't load major apps. Supposedly will arrive next Sunday 7/30. Will later report on how setup and functionality went. In the future, once I purchase large pc 8k displays, will buy a much more expensive high end workstation with DisplayPort 2.1.

CHUWI HeroBook Pro 14.1
Model Name HeroBook Pro Laptop
Screen Size 14.1 Inches
Color Space Gray
Hard Disk Size 256 GB
CPU Model Celeron N4020
Ram Memory Installed Size 8 GB
Standing screen display size ‎14.1 Inches
12.55"x6.91" 153 dots per inch
Screen Resolution ‎1920 x 1080 pixels
Max Screen Resolution ‎1920 x 1080 Pixels
2203 pixels diagonally
Processor ‎Intel 2.8 hertz celeron_n4020
RAM ‎6 GB LPDDR4
Memory Speed ‎2.8 GHz
Hard Drive ‎256 GB SSD
Graphics Coprocessor ‎Intel UHD Graphics 600
Chipset Brand ‎Intel
Card Description ‎Integrated
Graphics Card Ram Size ‎8 GB
Wireless Type ‎Bluetooth, 5 GHz Radio Frequency, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, 802.11bgn, 2.4 GHz Radio Frequency
Number of USB 2.0 Ports ‎1
Number of USB 3.0 Ports ‎1
Average Battery Life (in hours) ‎9 Hours
Operating System ‎Windows 11
Item Weight ‎3.06 pounds
Item Dimensions LxWxH ‎13 x 8 x 0.84 inches
Color ‎Space Gray
number of Processors ‎4
Computer Memory Type ‎DDR4 SDRAM
Flash Memory Size ‎256 GB
Hard Drive Interface ‎Solid State
Hard Drive Rotational Speed ‎6000 RPM
Voltage ‎24 Volts
Batteries ‎1 Lithium Ion batteries required. (included)
 
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Bought fly and wasp baits... I hang these half way up the garden... and I never get a fly near my house despite leaving my back door and windows open all day... . they last for a few weeks...before I renew them..

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....I also bought a Black trolley on wheels for the spare room.. I already bought one online which was cheap, and it wasn't up to the job, so I've paid out more money for a better quality one.. annoying as it is to pay twice..
 
At Sephora, bought a lipstick in the store, ordered a cream blush online.
At HBC, a bra at a heavily discounted price. Refused to buy another one that was $88. Will wait for a sale.
At Canada Goose, nearly bought a winter coat. The fit was great. I told the sales gal right from the start that it had to be a bright colour. You try on sample black coats and then they order what you want. Then she checked and they only had black or white. If she’d checked right from the start, we wouldn’t have wasted the time for both of us. Maybe she thought I’d change my mind. She seemed disappointed that I said no.
 
Seems I’ve bought so much that I forgot.

Got a new small Travelon crossbody purse. I wanted something smaller than my everyday one so I’d look a little more dressed up when I go out.

The silk pillowcase arrived but the second item, the silk night mask wasn’t included. I sent an email and left a phone message early Friday afternoon. Still no reply and I’m not happy. When I was looking at their site before I’d checked out the purchase, they contacted me several times.
 
Remy said:
I let my Costco membership go because I wasn't using it much at all.

I have heard good things about their eye glass department. My subscription is complex and so expensive at the eye doctor. I don't know if they could accommodate it there. I think you can take a prescription in from anyplace. Am I correct on that?

I could get a copy of my prescription, take it over and talk to them. If so, I'd be willing to get a membership again. I'd like a pair of readers. I have progressives but wouldn't mind some extra magnification. I didn't get a reader this time due to how much I paid for my progressives.

Who uses their eye class department?
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I've gotten my prescriptions filled there. How's this for complicated. My prescription is for progressive lenses and I wanted Transitions as well as the thinest lens possible. They did an excellent job of filling the RX and my requests. I like that they give you a cool case and eyeglass cleaning cloth with their logo. :) I love that I saved half off what having the glasses made through my eye doctor would have cost.
 
Jules said:
At HBC, a bra at a heavily discounted price. Refused to buy another one that was $88. Will wait for a sale.
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I read about your bra shopping and the Temu comment by @hollydolly. Thought I'd answer here rather than on the what-are-you-doing-today thread.

My last bra shopping occasion was over six years years ago. I bought a couple of comfortable bras that both happen to be Playtex. They fit well and offer good support. Just checked my history - I've been buying them (on sale) from Amazon since 2017. Fortunately, both styles come in nude, black and white. Roughly $20 regular price.

My strategy - when I'm a few months from needing a new one or two, I add them in my shopping cart and then immediately shift them to "save for later." Whenever I go to my Amazon cart it tells me whether prices on my save-for-laters have gone up or down. When they go on sale, I pull the trigger and buy them.

Lots cheaper, they arrive right at my door and I'm saved the chore of bra shopping.
 
Per above post:

https://www.seniorforums.com/threads/what-have-you-bought-recently.42032/page-295#post-2604892

Amazon delivered that CHUWI HeroBook Pro 14.1 laptop this afternoon. Let it's battery charge a couple hours then powered it up and began going through the Windows 11 Microsoft account license and setup stuff. Didn't understand correct security network standard options setup. Initially my home wifi network would not accept the correct password. After going through some unintended processes, it seems to have discovered the correct settings, probably by reading interface registers. So entered the password and was soon on the Internet. Then began a multi-hour windows update and driver update period. At one point that became stuck. I X'd the window, rebooted, re-entered Windows update and it continued from where it left off. Soon was up and normal. Set up some basic display stuff (1920x1080) and personal folders then downloaded Irfanview 64-bit. Copied a token number of my large images onto a USB drive that then loaded onto that new display screen from Windows Explorer.

And YES! My images look nicely impressive on that new FHD IPS 1080p display. Colors are of course a bit less impressive than on my external $2.5k Dell 24" UHD display but didn't expect that. Also display colors appear close to normal neutral so won't need to bother with color calibration. Tomorrow will add and configure more stuff.
 
Per below thread have now completed most of the setup on the $187 cheap new Windows 11 pc I received yesterday. Added a bunch of desktop shortcuts I frequently use and system tools like cmd prompt and sysinfo from the System32 folder. With limited SSD memory of 256gb, cannot load some large programs I use on my Dell laptop like Google Earth and MS Office programs. My home Netgear wifi now has 4 devices beyond the AT&T router firewall. Keyboard feel is mechanical clunky and as all laptops, has a touch pad. Generally hate using anything but a mouse to move around on displays but will continue to use the awkward touch pad for now since I won't be doing any serious work with this pc but do want it to be able to read and view files out remotely.

Loaded Irfanview (freeware image viewer), Pixia (freeware image editor), Free Excel viewer, Adobe Reader (PDF reader), so now still have about 200gb of free space.

https://www.seniorforums.com/threads/what-have-you-bought-recently.42032/page-295#post-2608638
 
Today I bought a white long sleeve v neck cotton shirt /top... along with a couple weeks worth of groceries..

Should have filled the tank, but it was raining so hard I couldn't be bothered to stop and fill up at the garage.. .
 
I went to Aldis and bought all kinds of healthy food.
Also found a pack of two silver "satin" pillowcases for about five dollars. When my grand girls are here they love to sleep on my satin pillowcases so I got them their own.
I think Monday after lunch is a good day/time to go. They were stocked well.
 
A blogger raved about two products, a sunscreen and something really weird. When I get it, I’ll tell you about it. It’s coming from China so it’s on a slow boat and we’ve had port worker strikes.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I've gotten my prescriptions filled there. How's this for complicated. My prescription is for progressive lenses and I wanted Transitions as well as the thinest lens possible. They did an excellent job of filling the RX and my requests. I like that they give you a cool case and eyeglass cleaning cloth with their logo. :) I love that I saved half off what having the glasses made through my eye doctor would have cost.
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Thanks, yes, I'm progressives also. But I think I could benefit from a little magnification. For reading and crafting. I just don't want to pay for another pair of glasses through my eye dr. So expensive! I too get the thin lenses which add dollars.
 
Remy said:
Thanks, yes, I'm progressives also. But I think I could benefit from a little magnification. For reading and crafting. I just don't want to pay for another pair of glasses through my eye dr. So expensive! I too get the thin lenses which add dollars.
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I also get my lenses thinnined..I get the maximum thinning..I think it adds around £60 to the price..
 
hollydolly said:
I also get my lenses thinnined..I get the maximum thinning..I think it adds around £60 to the price..
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In addition to the appearance, I wonder if that thinning the lenses, also makes them weigh less.? Do you think so?
(@Remy and Holly and others?)

If so, that might be something I should remember to look into,
having my ongoing pain issues, in face and nose.
 
MS Office 2021, plane tickets to Pensacola, Florida to look at a few homes my realtor picked out for me and a new pair of Oakleys, or Overpriced seunglasses.
 

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