Your frivolous purchases, stuff you don't need...

Your frivolous purchases, stuff you don't need...

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Pesty

42,655 posts

256 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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i expected everybody to have bought the lidl compressor and associated tools and 20m pipe.

if it hadnty been a very expensive few months i would have. and never used it once smile

JonRB

74,518 posts

272 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Pesty said:
i expected everybody to have bought the lidl compressor and associated tools and 20m pipe.
I'm probably going to pop down and buy it tomorrow. paperbag

Pesty

42,655 posts

256 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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lol I was very tempted but Id only ever use the torque driver for taking wheel nuts off. its not like I do that every day.

JonRB

74,518 posts

272 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Pesty said:
lol I was very tempted but Id only ever use the torque driver for taking wheel nuts off. its not like I do that every day.
That's probably all I'll use it for too.

Plus, I already have a mains-powered compressor, only it's a small briefcase-sized one with no tank that's only really good enough to inflate tyres with. smile

Edit: Having said that, it's a right faff to use and the rubber hose is perishing. A compressor with a tank and a 20M hose is something that could live in the garage and not have to move since the hose would be long enough to go to the car. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! biggrin

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

123 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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A big axe from aldi. As they were cheap and thought it handy to have as I have a lot of trees
Cue actually trying to chop a trunk in half.

Gave it ten mins and got my petrol chainsaw out. smile


I was waiting for a road rage incident after I bought it. As I had it in the car boot for an afternoon and thought I'm nicely tooled up !


I also looked a nutter in aldi.

My only purchase being an axe. And I was in a suit.

Several people asked me if I was going to murder someone.

I said we will see how the week goes.

illmonkey

18,177 posts

198 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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austinsmirk said:
A big axe from aldi. As they were cheap and thought it handy to have as I have a lot of trees
Cue actually trying to chop a trunk in half.

Gave it ten mins and got my petrol chainsaw out. smile


I was waiting for a road rage incident after I bought it. As I had it in the car boot for an afternoon and thought I'm nicely tooled up !


I also looked a nutter in aldi.

My only purchase being an axe. And I was in a suit.

Several people asked me if I was going to murder someone.

I said we will see how the week goes.
Do you like huey lewis and the news?

JonRB

74,518 posts

272 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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illmonkey said:
Do you like huey lewis and the news?
hehe

Don1

15,939 posts

208 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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I'm thinking newspaper on the floor. Newspaper on the floor, and Oliver's Peoples tortoiseshell glasses. Fresh orange juice, the free radicals are good for the skin. Did anyone hear that cavemen had more fibre in their diet than we do?

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

123 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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JonRB said:
illmonkey said:
Do you like huey lewis and the news?
hehe
I do.

Weirdly I refilled my suit pocket with my business cards today

Now you mention it the poor card quality and depth of ink started to make me somewhat perturbed

I keep getting these uncontrollable feelings ......


JonRB

74,518 posts

272 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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I've let you all down, I'm afraid.

I went to my local Lidl and they didn't have the smaller compressor at £89, only the larger one at £149 and I *didn't* buy it.

Nor did I buy an Impact Wrench (or, as Edd China calls it, a "Windy Gun"). Even though I have always wanted one.

I did buy a new tyre inflator attachment for my existing air compressor though because the hose is perished on my current one and also the gauge isn't very accurate. So because I kind of need it, it's ineligible for this thread.
The knife sharpener block was frivolous though.



So, as I said, I let you all down. paperbag

TwigtheWonderkid

43,327 posts

150 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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I went out today to buy some coleslaw, and came back with said coleslaw.....and a 5ft replica human skeleton. As you do.

Don1

15,939 posts

208 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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That's OK. I went out today to post a letter and change the battery on a watch. Came back having purchased this:


gaz1234

5,233 posts

219 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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Don1 said:
That's OK. I went out today to post a letter and change the battery on a watch. Came back having purchased this:

What is it

GOG440

9,247 posts

190 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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gaz1234 said:
Don1 said:
That's OK. I went out today to post a letter and change the battery on a watch. Came back having purchased this:

What is it
A bike

HTH

Don1

15,939 posts

208 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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Mondraker Foxy Carbon. Lovely bit of kit. smile

JonRB

74,518 posts

272 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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Don1 said:
That's OK. I went out today to post a letter and change the battery on a watch. Came back having purchased this:

Good heavens. I may not know much about bicycles but that seems like an ultra low-ratio gear set. Can you cycle up vertical walls on it?

VEA

4,785 posts

201 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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Jesus... How much?

digger the goat

2,817 posts

145 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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JonRB said:
Good heavens. I may not know much about bicycles but that seems like an ultra low-ratio gear set. Can you cycle up vertical walls on it?
Not without pedals he wont !!

Don1

15,939 posts

208 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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Jon - loads of gears on the back.

VEA - a lot. But Lady G said it was OK, so it was done.

Digger - hehe

slinky

15,704 posts

249 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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Don1 said:
VEA - a lot. But Lady G said it was OK, so it was done.
This much?
http://www.silverfish-uk.com/ProductDetail/8765/15...
?

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