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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2040 on: August 23, 2010, 03:02:17 PM »
Estate sales are the way to go not many people look really close at the books and most antique dealers don't know a lot about them.  My brother has thousand at his store only a few are worth anything
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2041 on: August 23, 2010, 04:02:04 PM »
Quote from: parts on August 23, 2010, 02:39:19 PM
A book person :thumbup:  I love books .  Were the ones you got expensive or did you find them at an estate sale or somewhere people did not concern themselves with the fact they are first editions.  My brother once got The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from the early 1900's all signed and in excellent condition  for free when they were tossing it out in the trash at the thrift store next to his store.  He sold them to a collector for over a thousand dollars

They were rather expensive, but mostly due to the expensive shipping. The J.G. Ballard book's shipping was 2x the cost of the book itself, which was unfortunate, but I decided to bite the bullet and go through with the purchase as I couldn't find a first-edition anywhere else in such good condition.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2042 on: August 24, 2010, 10:55:24 AM »
Essential oils and an electric vaporiser for my mum's birthday.
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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2043 on: August 24, 2010, 11:01:43 AM »
Quote from: Peter on August 24, 2010, 10:55:24 AM
Essential oils and an electric vaporiser for my mum's birthday.

Nice present. Do the essential oils go into the vaporizer, to scent the air, or are the two purchases unrelated?
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2044 on: August 24, 2010, 11:17:27 AM »
B'fast - a McD's hamburger meal
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2045 on: August 24, 2010, 01:58:57 PM »
Stick clips and insulation
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2046 on: August 24, 2010, 03:22:41 PM »
Lunch at McDonald's.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2047 on: August 24, 2010, 04:43:06 PM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on August 24, 2010, 11:01:43 AM
Quote from: Peter on August 24, 2010, 10:55:24 AM
Essential oils and an electric vaporiser for my mum's birthday.

Nice present. Do the essential oils go into the vaporizer, to scent the air, or are the two purchases unrelated?

Yes, the vaporiser is for the essential oils.  I've bought her oils before and she has some oil heaters that use candles to heat a shallow dish of oil, but the candles are a bit sooty and smelly and I think she'll find an electric vaporiser more convenient.  She particularly liked some orange oil that I got her previously, so I got her lemon and lime oils to expand her range of citrus scents, lavender to replace stuff that she's used up and also peppermint, rosemary and vanilla for variety.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2048 on: August 24, 2010, 06:39:33 PM »
Groceries
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2049 on: August 24, 2010, 06:55:44 PM »
Ham, cheese and turkey, cole slaw and potato salad from the deli with rosemary foccacio for a cold platter for dinner.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2050 on: August 24, 2010, 07:03:32 PM »
Quote from: Weakling on August 24, 2010, 06:55:44 PM
Ham, cheese and turkey, cole slaw and potato salad from the deli with rosemary foccacio for a cold platter for dinner.

Any leftovers?  :drool:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2051 on: August 24, 2010, 07:06:09 PM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on August 24, 2010, 07:03:32 PM
Quote from: Weakling on August 24, 2010, 06:55:44 PM
Ham, cheese and turkey, cole slaw and potato salad from the deli with rosemary foccacio for a cold platter for dinner.

Any leftovers?  :drool:

Unfortunately no.  I do have some peeled oranges I can  :plane: over.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2052 on: August 24, 2010, 07:08:04 PM »
Quote from: Weakling on August 24, 2010, 07:06:09 PM
Quote from: couldbecousin on August 24, 2010, 07:03:32 PM
Quote from: Weakling on August 24, 2010, 06:55:44 PM
Ham, cheese and turkey, cole slaw and potato salad from the deli with rosemary foccacio for a cold platter for dinner.

Any leftovers?  :drool:

Unfortunately no.  I do have some peeled oranges I can  :plane: over.

Excellent! You are most resourceful, and seem to have a well-stocked kitchen!  :thumbup:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2053 on: August 25, 2010, 07:10:07 AM »
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #2054 on: August 25, 2010, 07:12:04 AM »
Quote from: skyblue1 on August 25, 2010, 07:10:07 AM
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