What have you bought recently?

A Fizz drink-I like the professor made with Sprite Zero and sugar free syrups 😍
 

A new dress - drum roll please - with pockets. It’s a lightweight wicking material. Of all the places that I’d never look, we were in a sporting good store for DH. He actually suggested we walk through the store. I convinced him to try on some shorts - that deserves a drum roll too. He was ready to leave (it had been all of ten minutes) when I spotted the dress. Paid full price & that deserves cannons being fired off.
 
Jules said:
A new dress - drum roll please - with pockets. It’s a lightweight wicking material. Of all the places that I’d never look, we were in a sporting good store for DH. He actually suggested we walk through the store. I convinced him to try on some shorts - that deserves a drum roll too. He was ready to leave (it had been all of ten minutes) when I spotted the dress. Paid full price & that deserves cannons being fired off.
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Pockets... It's all about having pockets, isn't it? My summer skorts and shorts ALL have pockets.

By the time my granddaughter turned four she'd figured out that she doesn't want any pocketless pants or shorts. Her line to my daughter, "If I don't have pockets, where will I keep my rocks?"

A wise child.
 
I bought a little red & white cardigan from M&S yesterday....

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...also some water spray bottles for the garden weeds.., and pretty pink one for my dressing table because O/H broke mine while using it to spray the white fly on the lupins the other day
 
hollydolly said:
Woohooo...congratulations.. how long before you move ?..
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Don't know. I'm reluctant to give up my Ozark home. (tree's, green, nature). For the time being, we'll keep both and maybe sometime in the future, we'll decide. The last time I had a house in Florida, I jumped off it a bit too soon, and wished I had kept both.
I dug out Margo (the motor home and we're prepping it for a run down there. :)
 
Monday, the new central AC was installed.....i think that qualifies as a purchase....got it, paid for it. 😉

Wednesday.....yearly eye exam.....last two years there has been some change, but didn't feel it was enough for new lenses.
This time, updating my lenses.....the last time my lenses were changed was in 2016......so i think that was pretty good.
BUT
I have 2 pairs of readers, and i pair of bifocals.......my frames were all in good shape......
BUT
To change my lenses only in my readers, with anti scratch and anti glare was to be 328.00 each set...😲😠😡😫 x 2
BUT
A new frame and lense package that was offered was to be 238.00 each.......guess which one i chose......it's a shame, my frames were still perfectly good.
Not sure what i'm doing about my bifocals yet.
So. Spent a lot of money this week

I'd rather do what i call fun shopping.
 
yesterday I bought.. 3 summer tops .. and because of covid we're not allowed to try them on in store..I discovered when i got home 2 of them do not fit... so they have to be returned..annoying because the store is a 40 mile round trip...

Bought a little costume jewellery Diamanté and Pearl bracelet...

Talking of specs...I don't know if I mentioned it already, but I bought myself a pair of prescription specs online for the first time... .I'd hummed and haaad about it for years...

They were about a third of the price of my opticians.. but the customer service was not good, and I waited much longer and many phone calls to get them after the time they stated they would be ready, before they finally arrived..and altho' they're pretty the nose bridge is too tight so I can't wear them for long..

I'll stick to my optician in future...
 
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Automatic watering timer for my wife's herb garden stopped working. Replaced it with an Orbit easy dial timer. $26.00 & 20 minutes to remove old one & set new timer.

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I try to buy locally, but I spent over 2 hours looking for a new purse (because my old one was falling apart) at the local mall and some stand alone stores and couldn't find what I was looking for. I got on-line at Amazon and found exactly what I wanted in a matter of 5 minutes. It was very reasonably priced (some at the mall were over $200) and I received it in 2 days.

Actually, the choices I found around town were very limited. Maybe they just aren't restocked completely after the pandemic.
 
caroln said:
I try to buy locally, but I spent over 2 hours looking for a new purse (because my old one was falling apart) at the local mall and some stand alone stores and couldn't find what I was looking for. I got on-line at Amazon and found exactly what I wanted in a matter of 5 minutes. It was very reasonably priced (some at the mall were over $200) and I received it in 2 days.

Actually, the choices I found around town were very limited. Maybe they just aren't restocked completely after the pandemic.
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I think that it's more those same stores are selling their stock online,sometime under the name you recognise and sometimes under another name... ..It's a great pity that we have to buy online, but as you say sometimes it's hardly worth the shoe leather to go and search down an item and come home empty handed...
 
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