What’s the last thing you bought online?

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  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,715 Online Community Programme Lead
    A Flash Speedmop - although it's just highlighted how deceptively grubby our floors always are! :smiley:
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    My Mum wants a new cheese plane so I decided to get her a nice one from a specialist cheesemonger in London (Paxton and Whitfield) for Mother's Day.

    The problem is it costs £21 and this company gives you free delivery if you spend £40 or more.

    I think I will have little choice but to top the order up with some cheese.
  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,715 Online Community Programme Lead
    Well, I just had to Google what a cheese plane was!
  • Ironside1990
    Ironside1990 Online Community Member Posts: 223 Empowering
    A box of Lindor chocolate and an 8 pack of Dr Pepper.
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 13,068 Championing
    A book that my colleague from a co-production sub group I go to about keyworking 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    I just got an email offering me the chance to enter a draw to win a £1000 bottle of cognac for £8. There are 145 tickets going for £8 each so £1160 total, the cognac RRPs for £1130 so they are pretty much getting retail price for it, they aren't inflating the price to sell more tickets.

    I am really tempted but I don't play the lottery or gamble and I am wary of wasting the money. :D
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,532 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    I play on a couple of raffle sites and have had stupidly good luck so far.  Though I've still not won that trip to Japan.  :D  I will say, only buy tickets if it's money you can afford to lose. 


  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    I know that phrase well from the stock market and such but never really understood it! I can afford to lose a given amount, but I still don't want to!

    Since I cut down my alcohol intake I suppose £8 is maybe 2 days' surplus money that I previously would have spent on alcohol, so I'd be buying quality and not quantity? :blush:
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,532 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    I've always allowed myself £5 a week 'play money' for stocks and raffle tickets.  I'm not exactly a big spender.  :D  

    Saying that, the last thing I bought online was 5kg of peanuts in the shell, so I can feed my growing jackdaw army. :) 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    Just finished off a bottle of whisky (it lasted several months, used to last a week) and replaced it with a nice sounding single malt that I haven't tried before.

    Drinking much less has its advantages as I wouldn't have been able to justify getting something like this before.

    Looking forward to trying it... :yum:




  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 4,728 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    I bought a new foot for my sewing machine and some vitamins :)
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 60,087 Championing
    Coffee capsules
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    Ha ha @Ada

    That's nice @woodbine :) 

    @Rosie_Scope oh nice you have a sewing machine, do you use it often? What do you like sewing? My Mum has a sewing machine that we got her for her birthday but doesn't get chance to use it much. It's only a basic one but it's a very useful tool. I helped my Mum remember how to use it as I learnt how to use a sewing machine at school. I remember my sewing teacher tell me I was the best male student she had ever taught!!!! I don't know if that would be allowed these days! That said, I took it as a compliment instead of looking to get offended as is fashionable today. :blush:
  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 4,728 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    @66Mustang, I use it a fair bit. I often help a local theatre making costumes for productions, and I do alterations and make clothes for myself or friends. I only have a basic machine too but it does the job! Brilliant that you were good at it at school, it's a great skill to have! Even just knowing the basics is useful and opens up so many possibilities :)
  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 765 Pioneering
    Coffee pads, low carb bread, wheelchair tyres & tubes, also some Flexyfoot crutch ferrules as I nearly had a fall because the main cup came out, but can't complain, they've lasted about 10 years.
  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,301 Championing
    Tumeric essential oil .
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    I had delivery of my whisky a few days ago.

    I have only had 2 drams so far but it is very nice. On my first sip I was unsure because I could definitely taste the fact that it was 46% alcohol and not the standard 40% (I am relatively new to whisky and have only tried 40% whiskies up to this point). However on the subsequent sips I was able to put that to one side and it has rather a lot of nice flavours.

    The only thing I am a bit miffed about is that there is a competition on now whereby every purchase enters the buyer into a chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to the distillery in Scotland, with eligible purchases beginning the day after I purchased!!!
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    An extension cord. Currently sorting out a new computer set up!
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    That's exciting @Hannah_Scope I quite like computers, what sort of computer are you getting?
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @66mustang I like both the mac system and windows, so I bought a new screen from HP and upgraded my Mac Mini, bought a HDMI switch and will set up both systems on one monitor. 

    I like to craft but find half of my software's are better on PC and the others better on mac. Hoping it will be a space saver! 

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