What have you bought recently?

hollydolly said:
where did I miss you've got a new puppy ? 🫣
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Oh no, Holly. No new puppy. It's just for my little dog for when weather is bad and I don't want to take her for a walk. No fencing here and dogs are not allowed off-leash. At night, I can let her out while tethered, but I stand in the doorway. Or, if it's late and I'm dead asleep.

There's an area in the upstairs hallway for this, out of the way.
 
One of the things from Costco was a pumpkin pie. $6.99 for a monster sized pie. A fellow shopper took it upon herself to tell me it was too big, not healthy, too whatever, it would take forever to eat. I’m not sure what her issue was with me buying a pie. It‘s Thanksgiving here on October 9th. It’s pie season.
 
In 2014 upon release, bought, the Sony A6000 digital ILC camera that replaced my bulky heavy Wisner Expedition 4x5 film view camera. Since then, Sony has upgraded that model several times. As a serious photographer for 4+ decades, outside my hardware electronics career, it is one life area, I have been willing to spend significant money on and time on. Of course have since bought numbers of APS-C lenses thus am quite invested in that popular system.

Sony recently released the A6700 camera body for $1400 that includes a focus bracketing, a key function with my photography since I focus stack blend shots to create highest resolution images. Note I also column row stitch blend images using a manual panoramic head. Today, I Amazon ordered the body from their Sony Store that will arrive in a couple weeks.
 
I ordered a mini-spindle of 15 blank M-Disc DVDs. You need a capable writer drive and software, but the discs they burn are good for "1000 years" if not scratched, bent, or stained. Normal DVD drives can read them.

I am trying to organize a lot of stuff like pictures, videos, writeups, and lists covering genealogy and family events like graduations, weddings, whatever. They hold 4.7GB of data so before burning as a normal DVD-ROM a lot of "staging" of the data is needed.

I figure by sticking to very common file formats and writing the discs in normal "single session" form the odds of them lasting maybe 30 years and still being readable are good. While most people probably won't have DVD drives by then... there are places today who can take stuff like VHS tapes and transfer them to digital media, so in 30 years it should be possible to find somebody to transfer the DVD data to future storage devices.

I need to find some sort of hard bound "book" I can stick 2 to 4 discs into like an album for storage. Make two copies and give them to 2 kids to hang onto.

I doubt I'll need 15 blanks, but the 3-packs cost over twice as much per disc. This way I paid less than $4/disc. But then maybe I'm just cheap.
 

What have you bought recently?​


Yesterday, I only went out for a jar of blackcurrant jam.
Coming home and turning into my pathway, the bottom of the bag burst open and the jar of jam hit the deck, smashed and spread over the path and when I'd cleared it all up, I returned to the little shop and it was closed.

I just had butter on my toast this morning. 😊
 
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dilettante said:
I ordered a mini-spindle of 15 blank M-Disc DVDs. You need a capable writer drive and software, but the discs they burn are good for "1000 years" if not scratched, bent, or stained. Normal DVD drives can read them.

I am trying to organize a lot of stuff like pictures, videos, writeups, and lists covering genealogy and family events like graduations, weddings, whatever. They hold 4.7GB of data so before burning as a normal DVD-ROM a lot of "staging" of the data is needed.

I figure by sticking to very common file formats and writing the discs in normal "single session" form the odds of them lasting maybe 30 years and still being readable are good. While most people probably won't have DVD drives by then... there are places today who can take stuff like VHS tapes and transfer them to digital media, so in 30 years it should be possible to find somebody to transfer the DVD data to future storage devices.

I need to find some sort of hard bound "book" I can stick 2 to 4 discs into like an album for storage. Make two copies and give them to 2 kids to hang onto.

I doubt I'll need 15 blanks, but the 3-packs cost over twice as much per disc. This way I paid less than $4/disc. But then maybe I'm just cheap.
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You need something like this probably..

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Georgiagranny said:
A case? :ROFLMAO:
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Yep! I knew someone was going to question that purchaxe GG! 😅 C n M are my new favorite thing, but I hate plain popcorn (go figure). Anyway, Dollar Tree sells boxes that are twice the size of what our neighborhood supermarket has, for the same price. I don't drive anymore and I'm not about to have my son, who sometimes works long hours and does most of my Costco & Walmart shopping, run to the DT every time I want C n M.

I decided to order from DT.com which requires buying products by the case. There are 12 C n M per case. Best by date is almost a year, so I'm set for a while. We are so used to buying in bulk being Costco shoppers. 🤗
 
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Yesterday I got the groceries.. and filled up the car with a tank of petrol... almost bankrupted me... but as I had my Supermarket Gift card, I used it to buy a mint green wool V Neck jumper.. and also a Royal Blue long sleeve T-Shirt . One of the conditions of the gift card is that it can't be used for fuel.. or else that's what I would have used it for... I can never understand that condition
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Yep! I knew someone was going to question that purchaxe GG! 😅 C n M are my new favorite thing, but I hate plain popcorn (go figure). Anyway, Dollar Tree sells boxes that are twice the size of what our neighborhood supermarket has, for the same price. I don't drive and I'm not about to have my son, who sometimes works long hours and does most of my Costco & Walmart shopping, run to the DT every time I want C n M.

I decided to order from DT.com which requires buying products by the case. There are 12 C n M per case. Best by date is almost a year, so I'm set for a while. We are so used to buying in bulk being Costco shoppers. 🤗
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Costco shopping has trained a lot of us to buy in bulk. Most of us have learned the hard way to not bulk buy on impulse though. I remember buying a case of V-8 there about 25 years ago. Wound up throwing nearly all of it out. Not sure what made me think we'd become V-8 drinkers...

I had to look up C n M. Is it roughly an adult version of Cracker Jack? I love popcorn, but not so much caramel corn - I don't like sticky foods.
 

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