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Stupidest purchases while on lockdown!

Photo Egg
Photo Egg Posts: 12,137
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I need to put a child lock on my Amazon account.

Thank you,
Darian

Galveston Texas
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  • hoosier_egger
    hoosier_egger Posts: 6,808
    That and a wire coat hanger/rod will get you into a vehicle.

    Pretty good purchase of you ask me 
    ~ John - Formerly known as ColtsFan  - https://www.instagram.com/hoosier_egger
    XL BGE, LG BGE, Med BGE, BGE Chiminea, Ardore Pizza Oven
    Bloomington, IN - Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoosiers!

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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,465
    ColtsFan said:
    That and a wire coat hanger/rod will get you into a vehicle.

    Pretty good purchase of you ask me 
    hmmm...that suggestion will get you 5 to 10 in the crowbar hotel here...but, hey, no more punching the time clock or answering to that old lady. LOL
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • hoosier_egger
    hoosier_egger Posts: 6,808
    RRP said:
    ColtsFan said:
    That and a wire coat hanger/rod will get you into a vehicle.

    Pretty good purchase of you ask me 
    hmmm...that suggestion will get you 5 to 10 in the crowbar hotel here...but, hey, no more punching the time clock or answering to that old lady. LOL
    Hahahha! I haven't punched a time clock in years. You better keep that vette in the garage, Ron. You aren't too far away.

    You can buy vehicle lock kits, modern day slim Jim's, that consist of a plastic wegde, inflatable bag and a poke rod. I think I paid over $100 for mine years ago. Lock you keys in the car a couple times and it will pay for itself 
    ~ John - Formerly known as ColtsFan  - https://www.instagram.com/hoosier_egger
    XL BGE, LG BGE, Med BGE, BGE Chiminea, Ardore Pizza Oven
    Bloomington, IN - Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoosiers!

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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,465
    ColtsFan said:
     You better keep that vette in the garage, Ron. You aren't too far away.


    My doors are always open - or shouldn't they be? 

    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Photo Egg
    Photo Egg Posts: 12,137
    ColtsFan said:
    That and a wire coat hanger/rod will get you into a vehicle.

    Pretty good purchase of you ask me 
    Picked up 2. Will keep 1 in my shooting box to take to the range. Think it will be nice to fine tune the sand bag height.
    Thank you,
    Darian

    Galveston Texas
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,540
    edited April 2020
    I'm the opposite on this one particular purchase. One of my friend runs a Walmart here in MN. When I was shopping last fall in Walmart I took a picture of my cart and sent the text to my friends. I think I had something stupid in my shopping cart as a joke. I don't exactly remember what it was. I think it was some super lame shirt. As my friends saw the text from me they noticed a bunch of oil filters in my cart. They busted my b@lls for buying multiple filters at once. I was sick of tracking down filters. Especially when I have to go to 3-4 different stores to find one for my riding lawnmower. My friends didn't get it. 

    I made sure I sent a text yesterday to my friends asking who the idiot was last fall buying spare filters? Now I don't need to go out and risk catching anything tracking down an oil filter! 



    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Have "guns and dildos" on my Alexa shopping list.  Have half of that purchased already.
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,679
    WeberWho said:
    I'm the opposite on this one particular purchase. One of my friend runs a Walmart here in MN. When I was shopping last fall in Walmart I took a picture of my cart and sent the text to my friends. I think I had something stupid in my shopping cart as a joke. I don't exactly remember what it was. I think it was some super lame shirt. As my friends saw the text from me they noticed a bunch of oil filters in my cart. They busted my b@lls for buying multiple filters at once. I was sick of tracking down filters. Especially when I have to go to 3-4 different stores to find one for my riding lawnmower. My friends didn't get it. 

    I made sure I sent a text yesterday to my friends asking who the idiot was last fall buying spare filters? Now I don't need to go out and risk catching anything tracking down an oil filter! 



    I know the feeling. I generally buy enough oil and car filters to perform several changes without needing to make a trip to the store. The downside is that every time I sell a vehicle, I am left with a bunch of filters that I invariably forget about on the shelf in the garage. 
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,840
    RRP said:
    ColtsFan said:
     You better keep that vette in the garage, Ron. You aren't too far away.


    My doors are always open - or shouldn't they be? 

    Good to see you back here posting again Ron, in all seriousness.  I hope you and Pat are doing well there in IL.
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • Eoin
    Eoin Posts: 4,304
    nolaegghead said:
    Have "guns and dildos" on my Alexa shopping list.  Have half of that purchased already.
    Have you started getting Trump robo-calls now?
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Eoin said:
    nolaegghead said:
    Have "guns and dildos" on my Alexa shopping list.  Have half of that purchased already.
    Have you started getting Trump robo-calls now?
    I'm in a deep red state.  Robo-calls are all local politics for the most part.
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,397
    I'm about ready to order a home-barbering kit...

    "Dumplings are just noodles that have already eaten"   - Jon Kung

    Ogden, UT, USA


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  • brentm
    brentm Posts: 422
    edited April 2020
    @Photo Egg

    What are you doing with that airshim?  It looks like a handy tool to have around if you don't have helpers.  At first glance, it looks like a giant whoopie cushion.

    My stupidest purchase was "boom mat".  



    For the wife's car.  She really likes her CR-V (and I do too, it's paid for).  But she wants a Volvo XC90.  I told her I'd turn her car into a Volvo and to "watch this".

    She's actually perfectly content with the CR-V, the only major complaint is road noise.  And after research, it turns out the ceiling in the CR-V has no sound deadening material in it.  And to be honest, the doors sound like tin cans when you knock on the outsides of them... well, they did.  My arms finally healed up from the doors.  

    Car is now in the garage, with the battery disconnected.  Waiting for me to get the courage to pull the headliner and install their 4mm product (I used their 2mm on the doors).

    It actually did improve the interior sound quality just doing the doors.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Botch said:
    I'm about ready to order a home-barbering kit...

    ....bowl...scissors...
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  • brentm
    brentm Posts: 422
    edited April 2020
    Botch said:
    I'm about ready to order a home-barbering kit...
    Yeah, it's not that hard.  I finally got the courage a few months ago and haven't looked back.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewJDxnYkNU

    A cheap clipper set with guards, a nice pair of German shears and a comb.  I do the top and side transition with these shears.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Professional-Dubl-Duck-Scissors-5-5/164111562729?hash=item2635cfb7e9:g:3nQAAOSwOGFc1MiT

    Wife helps with the neck line.  And it's really strange at first in front of the mirror.  Your brain tells your hand to move in the wrong directions... but you eventually remap things.


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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,216
    Botch said:
    I'm about ready to order a home-barbering kit...

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  • brentm
    brentm Posts: 422
    DoubleEgger said:

    It really was a brilliant invention idea.  Cutting your own hair is a mess!
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  • Gulfcoastguy
    Gulfcoastguy Posts: 7,347
    I remember when my mom bought a device that was a double edged razor blade inside of a comb back in the 70’s. I thought all of my hair was going to be yanked out by the roots. 
    I have been tempted to buzz mine, no telling when Floyd the barber will open back up.
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  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,173
    Claude Monet 1000 piece puzzle. Should have got the 500 piece. This f'n pandemic will be long over before we get this one done.


    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

    Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
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  • sumoconnell
    sumoconnell Posts: 1,932
    Gulfcoastguy said:
    I remember when my mom bought a device that was a double edged razor blade inside of a comb back in the 70’s. I thought all of my hair was going to be yanked out by the roots. 
    I have been tempted to buzz mine, no telling when Floyd the barber will open back up.

    My mom had one too.. that dang thing.  It didn't work for sh!t, so she went against the grain one time out of frustration.  I can still feel it.


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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    northGAcock said:
    Claude Monet 1000 piece puzzle. Should have got the 500 piece. This f'n pandemic will be long over before we get this one done.


    My wife and girls will work on puzzles for days. If I get started I can't stop. 

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,397
    For the masochists:
     

     
     ;) 

    "Dumplings are just noodles that have already eaten"   - Jon Kung

    Ogden, UT, USA


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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    I haven't gone to a barber in forever. For years, I cut the top and sides with scissors only. Wife did the back, hating every minute of it. At some point, she just refused... so I bought some Wahl clippers (not cheap ones) and guards and learned to cut the back and neck. I use the clippers on the sides a bit, but the top is still done with scissors.

    If I recall, the clippers were about $100 (I think I bought them in about 2003 - still work like new), the scissors, $50. Expensive, but not compared to years of barbershop prices. I recall the last time I paid for a haircut, it was $30.

    Is it a pain in the butt? Pretty much. Do I sometimes get a little shaggy because I put off cutting it? Yep. I need a haircut now, but I'm not going anywhere these days so it doesn't matter!

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,397
    edited April 2020
    I wear my hair "high and tight" and should be able to cut my own hair, but a coworker (CMSgt in the Reserves) does, and his looks okay in the front and usually laughable in the back.  I did have to chop back my eyebrows but I can give the head a few more weeks.  I hope.  

    "Dumplings are just noodles that have already eaten"   - Jon Kung

    Ogden, UT, USA


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  • rifrench
    rifrench Posts: 469
    I also have a Wahl clipper set, but I only use the clippers with the lever pushed down, then lift lever for back of neck, etc.  If I keep it cut, the damn CPAP mask straps don't leave a "hat mark". 
     1 LBGE, 1 SBGE, 1 KBQ and a 26" Blackstone near Blackstone, Virginia
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  • TN_Egger
    TN_Egger Posts: 1,120
    I go to the Glitz School of Cosmetology.  $6 to let a student train on you.  I'm about a month overdue now and really shaggy.
    Signal Mountain, TN
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  • scdaf
    scdaf Posts: 177
    I used to pay to have my hair cut in a "shag" which is just all your hair cut the same length, with no taper.  Saw Flowbee ads on tv and noticed it would do exactly that, so I bought one about 30 years ago and have not been in a shop since.  Clippers on the beard, Flowbee on the hair, money in the pocket!
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  • brentm
    brentm Posts: 422
    The trick with the fade is to learn that your head is not perfectly contoured.  So a guard alone will never get you that perfect taper. You gotta freehand it a little bit to compensate.

    I probably need some hair cutting cape to make it less of a PITA.  https://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Cloak-Umbrella-Barber-Stylists/dp/B0142DWW1K
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  • lkapigian
    lkapigian Posts: 11,549
    Haircuts Meh, new world problems............Norelco for me every AM,easy peasy 
    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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