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A stylish new wallet from Tom Bihn in Seattle. Mine's the plain red one (with black trim and "sapphire" blue interior).

http://www.tombihn.com/Merchant2/images/wallets1.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 May 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

dinner

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 May 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I pair of pants with a 32 waist.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 3 May 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

new docs
sandwich press
new sheets
new frypan
expensive breadknife

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 3 May 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

John Mayer's Heavier Things. I had just returned a ton of records so I didn't even have to give actualy money for it. Aside from the two singles it's pretty disappointing, but it feels good to finally know.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 3 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Tea.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 3 May 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

A toilet roll holder and a folding table from Ikea. £19 for a folding table. Didn't help when the parents in law cooed that they'd bought the same one for £6 'in the sale'. Grrr.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 3 May 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Liquid eyeliner, a tweezers and a brown paper bag full of vitamins and supplements - I'm gonna get healthy/expensive piss, dammit.

― penelope_111, Monday, 3 May 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

brown boots.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Monday, 3 May 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I've sort of been coping with the end-of-semester stress by turning into a consumer whore. In the last couple of weeks I bought:

a messenger bag (used, $10)
a pair of pants (er...used, $10)
a CD mp3 player (new, $70)
a pair of black loafers (used, $10)
a love seat (very, very used, $10)
an awesome green lamp (used, $4)

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 3 May 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

an A+ in ghetto fabulous studies 4033 (priceless)

― LC, Monday, 3 May 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The lamp and the love seat are pals:

Okay, sorry, I think I need to go to bed.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 3 May 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i haven't bought anything for a while (apart from food and gas) due to general lack of funds, but i'm about to buy volume one of the complete little nemo in slumberland, which i just found for $4. that def. cheered me up.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 3 May 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

3 pairs of retro knickers for a tenner in M&S, a half price jacket in H&M, a sky/navy stripey t-shirt and a pair of knee socks with cherries on them.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 3 May 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I lied.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 May 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ugh, I've bought so much stuff recently that it actually makes me feel a little bad, but it's mostly gifts, so I'll find a way to manage.

*reproduction of antique map of Cornwall for my dad
*reproduction of antique mat of Indianapolis for my mom
*briefcase for mr teeny's law school graduation (the real killer at $400 but boy it's gorgeous, it's an Atlas)
*wireless network receiver for TiVo (also TiVo plush doll, ack!)
*magazine subcriptions to entertainment weekly, vogue, the new yorker, and the economist for me

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 May 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thefourthrail.com/images/reviews/120202/gothamcentral1.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

A CaseLogic case for my mp3 CDRs -- long overdue and they helped clean up the piles of random discs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

heatproof baster for barbequeing meat.

― Willdabeast, Monday, 3 May 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Kids in the Hall season 1
Breakfast at the Original Pancake House yesterday

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

a couple CDs,
both just one dollar each but
damn it didn't work

let's active cypress
was a little better though,
new loretta too

actually best:
re-started my therapy
(not "bought" but still good)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

fried balls of smoked haddock w/little green salad @ the pub near school. i took out papers i had, and underlined things with an air of importance.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I pair of pants with a 32 waist.

The very odd sequel to I, Robot.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

For no immediately apparent reason, I bought a vintage mason jar yesterday, then went home a filled it to the top with the countless little 1" punk rock pins that had been cluttering up the drawers of my desk. It now looks like something Grandma Moses would have on her shelf....were she a big fan of the Misfits, Killing Joke, the Circle Jerks and the Plasmatics.a

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Some epoxy putty, which will be used to plug up the holes in the roof over my front porch where shit tons of carpenter bees live. Er, lived.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

a stack of extremely cheap wordsworth classic editions from the strand bookstore (the forsyte saga, the tenant of wildfell hall, the mill on the floss, lady audley's secret, the moonstone). also, a ticket to see the saddest music in the world.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 3 May 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought new glasses that apprently make me look like a 'west-LA hipster,' which I take as a compliment.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 3 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

a Washburn Force 4 bass guitar with a neck-through body and active Bartolini pickups.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 3 May 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

a smoothie to fool myself into thinking im healthy.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 3 May 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Vacuum Cleaner

― sexyDancer, Monday, 3 May 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of books from eBay, including 2 by Stephen Jay Gould which make me happy whenever I look at my bookshelf.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 3 May 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Have I told my secondhand Stephen Jay Gould story?

My thread answer: birthday presents and the My So-Called Life boxed set (kind of for "work," mostly that's just an excuse).

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 3 May 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Lady Audley's Secret is awesome. yay victorian novels!

I bought.. uh.. a three-ring binder to get my notes in order (hopefully). Some wicked vintage 70s platform wedge sandals (thrifted).. and a funky navy/black pleated skirt (H&M).

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's hear the Stephen J. story!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

$20 suit & tie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's hear the Stephen J. story!

Yeah, seconded.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a great story, but it's a story:

A professor of mine and Gould were visiting another biologist while they were in town for a conference, and said biologist had small dogs -- lots of them, like eight, all of them extremely hyper and people-oriented. So, Gould and the other biologist get into a discussion of adaptationism and Gould's spandrels paper, and in its own civil, professional way, it's getting very heated -- so my prof, who's a philosopher of biology but not a biologist as such, hangs back and has a seat on the couch, where she's batting dogs away and trying not to get fur all over her clothes since they're going straight to the conference, and she'll be presenting stuff.

The conversation is going on and on, and there's a dog humping her leg, so she looks up to the table where Gould & Biologist are sitting, hoping she can like give the appropriate look that means "help your dogs are humping my leg," without offending this bigwig biologist she only sort of knows.

The biologist is sitting perfectly untouched, but Gould has been swarmed by the dogs, so that from the tabletop upwards he looks perfectly serious and composed and engaged in the argument -- but below the table, he's constantly grabbing dogs by the scruff of the neck, yanking them off his legs, and tossing them aside, one after another, as they keep coming back to try to hump him.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

chicken vindaloo with pilau rice from Hilmarton Tandoori

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a good story made better by Ken's x-post.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

wholesale absolution!

― Aaron A., Monday, 3 May 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

6 lp jim reeves box-set for £2.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

a 6-pack of Natural Light tallboys.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Monday, 3 May 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

bubblegum pink sneakers with crimson laces and embroidered flame-style thingies on the sides

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Sunglasses.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ace cast-aluminium cooking pot with useful clear pyrex lid. I am infatuated and am now using it for everything, including scrambled eggs. When will the heady rush end?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Buying a new toothbrush usually makes me happy. For some reason I find red toothbrushes more heartening. Oh, and socks.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Buying anything just makes me feel bad lately. Apart from Matt's birthday Private Eye sub I guess.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

I bought a digital camera.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

pixies tickets

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought a shirt in tk maxx too, it's blue with checks.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

A way cool Paul Smith dual layer jacket that I won't see for another 2 weeks.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Marc Almond's new book make me feel better about myself, I wonder.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

a lego formula 1 ferrari car.

also i just ordered Orbitals last ever album, The Blue Album. Although this is far from insignificant.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

CAKES

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

excellent, I approve of CAKES!

I thought about a silly army cap that was in the window of the army surplus store, but I didn't. I still might.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got blonde-ish highlights put in yesterday. Does a haircut count as an insignificant thing? It certainly made me feel better about myself.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i bought stuff to make my room smell nice, and they work

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

if we're being zen, then yeah, everything is.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

a round of golf

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

pixies tickets

argharghargharghargharghghghhh (/jealous pixies-less frustration)

to answer the question: my stripey summer shirt

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

tomato seedlings

― Maria D., Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

insignificant things that made me feel somewhat better but now make me feel somewhat worse: 9 pack of Magic Hat

― Maria D., Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

wine

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two shotguns

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York for 40 cents.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

a sad panda ice cream bar from dickiee dee, i ran out from the house, pumping my arms in order to get it.

― anthony, Friday, 4 June 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

that stephen jay gould story is amusing, i'm actually currently trying to finish up reading his book "the Structure of Evolutionary Theory".

I recently bought a "like new" copy of Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy online after having a CD-R copy (which I burnt from a copy checked out from the library!) for a while. Is that album even in print anymore? I couldn't find it anywhere.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

a while ago, I nearly bought $475 chloé jeans. then i thought better of it.

anyhow.

i just got some overpriced crap from tatty devine.

― mandee, Friday, 4 June 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

sour skittles

― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

A nice new pair of Nike hiking boots (though they squeak a little) a half-bag and a Snickers bar.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

asparagus!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmm, we had asparagus last weekend. Fresh organic sparra grass from Wiltshire farms. It was the most delicious thing I'd eaten in ages.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

MMMMMM!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ooooh! I just got my DX Pow3r juggling balls - they're like normal ones but full of TINY STEEL BALLS that make them insane heavy. I am an exercise juggler! I will have BICEPS! Truly, it is awesome.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF? But well done!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.oldnavy.com/assets/product/big/ona223157-04b.jpg

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

a giant pair of pants apparently.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

my two major girlish indulgences (i.e. things i always have to keep buying no matter how many i already have) are lipstick and purses. tonight i was carrying a perfectly good purse INSIDE my messenger bag, and for any sane person that should be enough, but this little fellow called out to me from inside the goodwill on livingston street and i couldn't resist:

http://southsidecallbox.com/images/newyork/purse.jpg

― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Awww. V. cute.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought an ENORMOUS cuddly Tigger from an Oxfam shop yesterday. They're about £60 new, and it was in there for a fiver, so I couldnt' really say no. Howevere, I have no idea what to do with the bloody thing. Tigger pie would be quite unwholesome, and he looks really out of place in the living room.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

milky green tea bubbletea

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to buy a skipping rope yesterday, but the Lonsdale shop was sold out.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

a carving knife and a bottle of 32 sodium amytal tablets

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

two for tuesday pizzas from Don Corleone's.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Didn't buy it, but I've been playing this Easybeats best-of a lot.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought a Gameboy Advance the other day and the re-release of Zelda (the NES version), and it's been very satisfying indeed.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought a minimiser bra about 40 minutes ago. Now my tits actually fit in my clothes.

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't buy it, but i inherited a magnavox hi-fi that seems to be from the early/mid '60s. love it. and a pair of stylish mid-century-modern lamps, too.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Thrift adventures.. A 50s screenprint Darlene cardigan, a 50s Ballantyne cashmere sweater (may resell, it's an odd green/yellow heather that I now suspect doesn't suit me), and a neat slate grey straw tote bag with red/yellow/green details. Total for this, about $19. yay!

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I "bought" (well, used a gift voucher) a granite mortar and pestle, and a backpack picnic set for 4, and a pasta machine! My inner foodie is excited now and I wanna go on a picnic.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Tarkus.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought a jacket that matches a skirt that I had bought earlier. These purchases alternately fill me with apprehension. My sister just showed me two coats she got last Friday for $50. One is just perfect. I'm slightly envious. She said there was another houndstooth coat on sale, but they probably won't have my size.

― youn, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

A Hard Candy make up kit, simply because I've never found an all-in-one set in which I like every single colour before. Even the blusher is good. I got 500 extra Boots points for it as well.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

these:
http://www.schuhstore.co.uk/images/product/3404981620.jpg

(so, a tiny sneaker then.)

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

all via internet 2nd hand:

a "warpspeak" toy megaphone

a meaningless t-shirt that fits me well:

and, haven't got them yet, some scouts sew-on patches:

aw an owl, a big moon and a timid scout

yes I know it's a creepy org

this one is actually where I'm from

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

a photo of my flatmate's mother

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

my img tags (photobucket) are disappearing!?

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

img tags don't work... to post pictures... do it like this

ihttp://theurlofpicture.com/here.jpg

i.e. type in the picture URL but put ihttp instead of http. and then the server will automatically turn it into a img tag (this is done so that it can restrict size of images)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

More Pan edition James Bond novels. Although someone had already cleaned out the majority before I got there.

― cis (cis), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Xmas presents for other people.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure your Christmas presents aren't insignificant Mark!

But yes, same answer for me really.

― Archelll, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Ken C
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/terabithian/warpspeak.jpg
the warpspeak

scout patches:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/terabithian/cooinda.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/terabithian/owlcamp.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/terabithian/lwolf.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/terabithian/waimea.jpg

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

a new black angora sweater. because i don't have enough black tops.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

a tv.

― lucifer, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/terabithian/warpspeak.jpg

omg cuspidorian i also have that exact warp speak thing!!! i used it in a gig in glasgow once, when you said "Thanks Ken C" and posted that picture i was hoping you meant that you saw me use it once and it inspired you to get one.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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