What have you bought recently?

A body pillow that was quite costly. My last one was just not giving me the security that I needed. lol Next, I'm ordering a pillow case and/or cover for it. One little problem; this pillow is 5 feet long. I'm 5'2".

Need to start looking for birthday gifts for hubby's grandson and my g-niece (Lucy Jo).
 

Land! Substantially increasing our acreage. Actually it is just one acre, now we have a total of just under 3 acres, not a huge plantation. Also bought 5 acre-ft of water rights with it. You have to have the water rights or its just desert.

We live in a place that 10 or 20 years ago was all agricultural, mostly peach and other fruit trees. It is now rapidly being built out into suburban sprawl, lots of McMansions going in, move every day. Doing our best to slow that process. We have a bit more than an acre of peaches now, the new acre is in tomatoes and squash right now. We will probably keep it that way for a while anyway.

Truth is we have a farmer who kind of share crops, he tends the crops and sells them, most of the rent we get is all the peaches and whatever else he has we can eat. I just play at being a farmer. He also takes care of the new acre, so it will be simple.

Problem is farmer turns 90 in two months, tells me he plans to farm to 95, hope he can. His younger brother, 89, helps when he can. I know the day is coming we'll have to figure something else to do with it. I have learned from him that farming peaches and produce is harder work and takes more skill than I had appreciated.

Picture is a few years old, the peaches are much larger now.

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Just the same old stuff…….groceries, meds……
But…..
Because I very seldom buy cold cereals, I bought raisin bran…..didn’t pay attention to the shelf price because I don’t carry my glasses with me……big shock when I checked the receipt at home……625g box was $9.49 😳😳😳😳😳.

Gas has been $1.64 per litre for the last month…..has now gone up again to $1.87 per litre…..don’t need any yet.

I’m very surprised prescription drugs have not gone up……and you know what……chocolate hasn’t gone up either……might need to stock up on that instead of real food.
 
officerripley said:
This was "discontinued, out-of-stock, don't know when or if it'll ever be back in stock" and then Amazon finally got it again & it arrived today, yay!:

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I already had one of these without the removable, extendable pole and just love it; that kind of clothing-iron handle on it is the most comfortable I've ever used for my little, old, arthritic hands, mainly to clean our granite shower with. And now I've got the one with that convenient removable pole so less bending over.
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Looks like a great tool……have you ever tried any kind of steamer tool, for showers, tubs, floors, wall etc.
The first one I got was an upright, that I use for floors, then invested in one thats similar to a canister vacuum, great for everything……walls, floors, showers tubs, small attachments included, I do my oven with. Saves on cleaning products.
 
Yesterday I bought 6 bone-in half hams. In the coming weeks I'll cut them up for freezing (and eat some of course). I've been waiting for them to go on sale for Canadian Thanksgiving. Super cheap and delicious (not too salty).

Today I bought 36 pounds of ground beef. It's sold in 3-pound packages, which is perfect because I cook 3 pounds at a time.

I also bought some pork ribs for snacks, and beef liver for tonight's supper.
 
NorthernLight said:
Yesterday I bought 6 bone-in half hams. In the coming weeks I'll cut them up for freezing (and eat some of course). I've been waiting for them to go on sale for Canadian Thanksgiving. Super cheap and delicious (not too salty).

Today I bought 36 pounds of ground beef. It's sold in 3-pound packages, which is perfect because I cook 3 pounds at a time.

I also bought some pork ribs for snacks, and beef liver for tonight's supper.
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Gosh.. do you have a whole room set aside just for your freezer ?
 
Blessed said:
I think she has to eat a heavy meat diet because she can't tolerate other foods due to a health condition. I don't have a large freezer but I do keep it filled with meats that I buy on good sales. Added benefit, I don't have to leave the house if I don't want to.
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yes I know she has a heavy meat diet.. but I don't think I could possibly get 36pounds of meat in my fridge.. , and certainly wouldn't have enough space in either of my freezers.. unless they were empty at the start
 
NorthernLight said:
No, all I have is a fridge. (The hams are hiding at the back of the lower section.)
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I don't have a big freezer but have two good size fridges, one in the kitchen, one in the laundry room. Between the two I have enough freezer space. I will say mine are not as neat as yours. I do try to keep it organized. Keep the different meats separated so I can see when something is getting low. I also have frozen veggies in one area.
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MickaC said:
Looks like a great tool……have you ever tried any kind of steamer tool, for showers, tubs, floors, wall etc.
The first one I got was an upright, that I use for floors, then invested in one thats similar to a canister vacuum, great for everything……walls, floors, showers tubs, small attachments included, I do my oven with. Saves on cleaning products.
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No I haven't tried that. Does the steamer work good on granite? We have to be careful, they told me to not use any cleaner stronger than glass cleaner on the granite but heat is not supposed to bother it.
 
officerripley said:
No I haven't tried that. Does the steamer work good on granite? We have to be careful, they told me to not use any cleaner stronger than glass cleaner on the granite but heat is not supposed to bother it.
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To be honest…..I don’t know anything about granite, other than what you said about cleansers.
I would try a small area, just to test……granite goes through a lot, with grinding, cutting, polishing, which all causes heat.
 
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