What have you bought recently?

Bought new speakers for my computer and a case of dog food and camera/mic for computer. Had heck of a time getting the dog food. First Amazon third party vendor cancelled my order due to lack of product. Alexa still tells me it will be delivered 'today', every day. Gotta figure how to get that stopped. Ordered dog food from Walmart warehouse but was only able to get 1 case. I wanted 3. It was Alpo and couldn't get but 1 case. Guess everyone is fixated on having dog food for the lock down period now that they have their toilet paper and guns!
 

I ordered some face masks from Amazon. Will be a while before I get them, but a friend is making me some. Other than that, just essentials to get me by. I wanted to get some crafting stuff, to pass the time, but the brick and mortar craft stores are closed, so I may look around online at Michaels or AC Moore.
 

Aside from the supermarket shopping.. I bought some cloth masks, a while back but they arrived from China today... and the elastic cord I bought from Amazon to make my own masks was supposed to have arrived today by 8pm, and it's just gone 8 now, so I can't see it coming now ...
 
We're waiting for our masks to arrive from Wal-Mart .. to see if they are up to par. Apparently, some masks made in China (as these are) are tearing and elastics are coming off. I wanted to order some to send a long-time health forum friend who lives in Arkansas. She told me they are having to make their own out of cloth, but she doesn't have a sewing machine or the know-how.
 
I love reading but all those libraries in a nearby city are closed. So I ordered a KOBO e-reader for my birthday so I can get free books from our library. Didn't want Kindle because I don't want to be a slave to Amazon.
 
I ordered repair parts for my 20 year old Weber Gas Grill. Amazingly, they still make the parts.

Things just seem to be breaking or wearing out at a faster rate now that this virus has arrived.

But at least I won't have to do this repair job under a cramped kitchen sink this time.
 
Pinky said:
We're waiting for our masks to arrive from Wal-Mart .. to see if they are up to par. Apparently, some masks made in China (as these are) are tearing and elastics are coming off. I wanted to order some to send a long-time health forum friend who lives in Arkansas. She told me they are having to make their own out of cloth, but she doesn't have a sewing machine or the know-how.
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WE can't buy masks here Pinks, .. they're just not available unfortunately, so I had to send to China, but I'm keeping it in the packet hopefully sterile until I need it,, but it looks like it should be ok, quite substantial cloth ( I do have several D-I-Y maks that we had in a packet we bought last year and we've been have been using on our forays to supermarkets up until now )..... I can't use a sewing machine... I'm going to make masks for us using a Yotube video, for ''No sew, face masks''.. there's quite a few so I'm just going to follow those instructions, and hand stitch the elestic on myself, and hope for the best..
 
@hollydolly
My daughter's mother-in-law is making cloth masks. Daughter could make them too, if it comes to that. I don't have a sewing machine anymore. I may have to look at YouTube videos too. I see all manner of masks on people .. white, green, blue, black .. let us know how you do with making your own.
 
Pinky said:
@hollydolly
My daughter's mother-in-law is making cloth masks. Daughter could make them too, if it comes to that. I don't have a sewing machine anymore. I may have to look at YouTube videos too. I see all manner of masks on people .. white, green, blue, black .. let us know how you do with making your own.
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I will.. if the flippin' elastic makes an appearance of course... . I'm going to make mine out of some brand new never worn T-shirts that are too small for me..
 
Due to the lockdown, I am turning to Amazon for things I would normally buy in stores. I really needed a new dish drainer, my old one was, well, OLD. So I ordered one and it came yesterday. A first for me was that attached to the email notification of delivery, was a picture of my package at the front door. BTW, it was on Prime, and only took 3 days to arrive.
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Marie5656 said:
Due to the lockdown, I am turning to Amazon for things I would normally buy in stores. I really needed a new dish drainer, my old one was, well, OLD. So I ordered one and it came yesterday. A first for me was that attached to the email notification of delivery, was a picture of my package at the front door. BTW, it was on Prime, and only took 3 days to arrive.
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oh yes they often do that here when they leave something on the doorstep...take a picture of it then post it on amazon along with the delivered notice...
 
Bought some new lightweight Wireless Bluetooth Headphones for me ... they are surprisingly good quality for the price.....they arrived this morning, and I only ordered them yesterday

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Headphones...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=EGNFX6BRZ11JY7XNME3G
 
I replaced my 30-year-old clock radio. I found one at Target. I really needed the "nap" feature. I can set the radio to play for 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes & shut off. I need it to drown out tinnitus, or I can't fall asleep.
 
I love gadgets.

I bought an endoscopic camera so I can run it down drains and see any clogs. It transmits wirelessly to a tablet. 30' long. Handy for all sorts of stuff.

I bought an Infra Red gun so I can point it at my wood stove, heat registers, etc and tell the temp. Fascinating technology. I've learned that some objects are near-perfect transmitters of heat on the infra-red scale, while others are very poor at it (emissivity.)

I finally bought a moisture meter for my firewood. 10 years of heating with wood and my cheap a$$ finally broke down and bought one! It's real handy to have. Helped a lot this past season.

Let's see...I bought a pizza docker not too long ago when I made crackers for a church function and that made it easier...and I make pizzas.

I bought a new car last year and installed hood struts on it a couple of months ago. Got them on Amazon for under $30.

I buy all sorts of stuff on line. Walmart is my only local store. I could drive into the next biggest town, but that's over 25 miles away and since Sears and Penneys closed, there are no department stores there to attract me.
 
Marie5656 said:
Due to the lockdown, I am turning to Amazon for things I would normally buy in stores. I really needed a new dish drainer, my old one was, well, OLD. So I ordered one and it came yesterday. A first for me was that attached to the email notification of delivery, was a picture of my package at the front door. BTW, it was on Prime, and only took 3 days to arrive.
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I never had them do that!
 
I ordered from Amazon a bag of coffee beans and a bag of Brach's hard candy for my candy dish. I also broke down and ordered underclothes and nightgowns from Woman Within. I hadn't had new ones in a number of years now and starting to see tiny holes in my old ones.
 

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