Best lockdown purchase

SmallTown

SmallTown

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So we are nearly a year into various lockdowns and restrictions. What is the best thing you’ve bought in that time?
For me and all my working form home it has to be my Asus portable monitor. Means I can sit anywhere in the house and still have a multi screen set up for work. Handy for anyone who travels and is restricted by the small laptop screen too
 
For relaxation: Celestron EdgeHD 8 Telescope, nothing is more relaxing than sitting in the garden on a summer eve, looking at planets, and galaxies and drinking some wine.

For Exercise: Bowflex SelectTech weights, means I can have a full selection of dumbbells from 2kg to 24kg in a small form factor, takes up about 1 1/2 square feet of space, instead of 30 individual dumbells.
 
Work-l would agree about the larger screen.
Personal- since January I've taken a one hour Spanish class every work day in the morning at 07am and have pre-paid for them until May.
Not expecting to be fluent but nice to be doing something I've talked about doing for years.
As they say, slow and steady does seem to win the race.
 
Mine would have been a new Canyon road bike, had it not been out of stock for about a year :mad:
I'm starting to wonder if they're still actually making bikes :unsure:

Maybe not best, but the thing I've been most surprised by is my silicone oven glove, it's miraculous, just get one.
 
The Acapella vocal app, which has allowed me to indulge my passion of arranging and singing harmonies - with myself :geek:

I've also been paying through the nose for deliveries of imported soft drinks from the US. Sodas have always been a passion of mine but I refuse to drink artificial sweeteners, which rules out most of the rubbish sold in the UK these days. To get proper sugar and proper taste you have to look elsewhere, and it can get a bit pricey but it's a nice way to treat myself during lockdown.
 
3 months prior to first lockdown we gave up one of our two cars, and made huge savings over the last year by not running two vehicles.

Put that money into the house which has allowed us to achieve loads.

for work and gaming, my 38 inch monitor is pretty tasty. I have a gaming pc which are in I’ve probably spent about £4k on the but paid it out of buying and selling various goods so it’s been nice having it for free

In March I bought a koda 16 pizza oven and have made hundreds of pizzas in that time, really good for the garden when it’s sunny.

All our finance is now paid off (just stuff like doors) credit cards are cleared and we have built up a decent set of savings. We overlay our mortgage by £350 a month end going to increase that now
 
TheFair86 said:
3 months prior to first lockdown we gave up one of our two cars, and made huge savings over the last year by not running two vehicles.

Put that money into the house which has allowed us to achieve loads.

for work and gaming, my 38 inch monitor is pretty tasty. I have a gaming pc which are in I’ve probably spent about £4k on the but paid it out of buying and selling various goods so it’s been nice having it for free

In March I bought a koda 16 pizza oven and have made hundreds of pizzas in that time, really good for the garden when it’s sunny.

All our finance is now paid off (just stuff like doors) credit cards are cleared and we have built up a decent set of savings. We overlay our mortgage by £350 a month end going to increase that now
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I had an ooni 16 oven delivered last month and am looking forward to putting it to use.

Looking back (with the benefit of hindsight) I wish we’d handed one of our cars back. It’s been pointless having two sat on the drive.
 
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