The 'What Did You Buy Today' thread

2020-05-25 12:47:39

#7051

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +654|4083

SuperJail Warden wrote:
There is a lady on Etsy that I buy custom made MTG boxes from. The missing white part is my name. I actually bought 5 but I can't get the fifth right now for a picture. I ordered four more custom boxes from the lady which means hundreds of more dollars wasted on Magic the Gathering.

I bought a computer program to catalog my entire MTG collection. At less than 5% of the entire collection cataloged, the value is already almost $300. What an a absolutely embarrassing money sink.

I just ordered 6 more boxes for a total of $240. This is why I don't criticize girls buying hand bags or shoes. They buy shoes, I buy boxes to hold cardboard.

2020-05-25 13:32:04

#7052

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5722|London, England

$40 for a box she bought for $4 and put some paint on?

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2020-05-25 13:45:11

#7053

uziq: Member; +518|3816

it's decorative wood burning. i thought it was paint at first, as well.

2020-05-25 13:54:34

#7054

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +654|4083

My name and the symbols are burned on. The angel symbol on the white box is a custom design and the dog burn is from a picture.

She is probably making a decent amount of profit but her cost is more than $4. The box, paint, shipping cost, and her time are more than $4. It probably takes at least an hour to burn my name and images and just as much time to paint it. Besides I don't have the skills to do custom wood burning. And stocking up on random paint I will never use again is wasteful.

I am okay with the price. $40 for a custom designed piece of work that I will keep for the rest of my life is worth it. $40 is a few drinks at the local bar or a shitty video game I will play once and not like.

2020-05-25 14:10:03

#7055

Larssen: Member; +99|2251

I was about to go off but remembered I spent over 1k on fitness equipment at the start of this pandemic. You go buy those boxes man.

2020-05-25 14:12:12

#7056

uziq: Member; +518|3816

£1k is a very reasonable investment in any scenario for that stuff. it's your health. i would easily spend £1k on a desk/chair set-up as well.

2020-05-25 14:19:28

#7057

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5722|London, England

I spent ~$11k on wood, tools and hardware.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2020-05-25 14:33:58

#7058

Larssen: Member; +99|2251

I guess. Sometimes I forget it contributes to health

& 11k shit lol. I reckon you had been planning this no?

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2020-05-25 14:38:48

#7059

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5722|London, England

Larssen wrote:
I guess. Sometimes I forget it contributes to health

& 11k shit lol. I reckon you had been planning this no?

Vaguely. I wanted to do something like this for a while, but no definitive plans. After two weeks sitting at home I'd already added electricity to my kitchen island, cleaned the basement, cleaned the garage, potty trained my youngest, and needed something to keep me busy. This did the trick.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2020-05-25 15:39:30

#7060

uziq: Member; +518|3816

read hegel. initial outlay is $45. much better than a deck.

2020-05-25 16:00:46

#7061

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +654|4083

Etsy is just the coolest market place of thing. I really like the concept of Patreon too. It's a shame if you think about it that in the more open days of the internet in the late 90's and early 2000's all that was really created as a bunch of massive internet companies that came to dominate various sectors of internet commerce. Meanwhile creative and artistic people needed to wait decades until sites were created where they can directly sell their goods and art. And still these sites like Patreon and Etsy only exist because Amazon Web Services host them and credit card companies process their payments.

2020-05-25 16:44:36

#7062

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +654|4083

Here is my collection of unsorted Magic the Gathering cards. I put a dollar as a scale of reference. Each box can hold several hundred Magic cards. The larger box below it is just as full with boxes.

Do you guys want to see my 20 sided dice collection?

2020-05-25 16:47:53

#7063

Pochsy: Artifice of Eternity; +702|5907|Toronto

I guess for artists to have a shot at direct sales they needed a few things to line up: the underlying tech needed to be affordable; they needed enough internet users comfortable with purchasing from unknown sellers; they needed reliable and fast door-to-door shipping to make the supply chain work.

Honestly I'd say this is about as early as it could have all come together.

The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families

2020-05-25 17:01:14

#7064

Pochsy: Artifice of Eternity; +702|5907|Toronto

So Mac has shared his favorite boxes, and now I think it's time I shared at least one of mine. When I travel I like to try and buy a box of some sort that in some way is local. I have Italian leather boxes with gold gilding, Guatemalan boxes with textile inlays, Azorean ceramics with beautiful hydrangea painted on it, etc. But my all time favorite box that I've collected is a yosegi 14-step puzzle box from Japan. I got the box from the craftsman who made it in a small workshop at the base of Mt. Fuji in Hakone. I literally made my wife take a 3 day detour just so I could be the one to hand the man who made it the cash.

It looks like this:

https://www.logicagiochi.com/media/catalog/product/cache/2/thumbnail/1200x1200/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/y/o/yosegi_21_steps.jpg

This is how they are made:

And yes, they legit play that music in the front of the shop.

The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families

2020-05-25 17:13:57

#7065

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +654|4083

Thank you for posting your boxes. Here is a boxxy in return.

2020-05-27 04:39:15

#7066

uziq: Member; +518|3816

i bought a clothes steamer.

https://steamery.co.uk/cirrus-no2-steamer-black

https://cdn.steamery.se/site/assets/product_img/147/cache/cirrus2-black-1_w1000.jpg

i've sort of always wanted one, being too lazy to do laundry and iron all the time, but was put off by the initial outlay. this one has come out of my unused May beer budget. i have some long dry-clean-only trenchcoats that always routinely end up creased and crimpled after a week of commuting, and they are a pain in the arse to iron and clean. this looks like the ticket.

Last edited by uziq (2020-05-27 04:41:56)

2020-05-27 07:57:06

#7067

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5332|Dundee, Scotland.

A car battery. Fun.

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2020-05-27 10:59:05

#7068

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|7106|London

I bought a car battery today too, my battery is completely dead and my car hasn't been driven for months. I'm seriously concerned I'm going to have all sorts of mechanical issues when I start it up... fingers crossed

2020-05-27 11:01:46

#7069

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,988|6996|949

start it up and drive it around the block every two weeks or else you are gonna have a bunch of issues.

Do you still have a maserati?

2020-05-27 11:03:21

#7070

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|7106|London

yeah, I've been saying I need to sell it for 2+ years now

2020-05-27 11:07:57

#7071

uziq: Member; +518|3816

Dauntless wrote:
I bought a car battery today too, my battery is completely dead and my car hasn't been driven for months. I'm seriously concerned I'm going to have all sorts of mechanical issues when I start it up... fingers crossed

take it to the mcdonalds drive thru m8. they're re-opening soon.

2020-05-27 11:19:38

#7072

lil_droo: Member; +20|1859

Dauntless wrote:
yeah, I've been saying I need to sell it for 2+ years now

Don't u have a lambo too? I thought it was u or maybe some other rich British dude that had a few crazy cars. Was it toilet sex?

How do u like your Maserati? Fuck I want a supercar so bad but I doubt I could ever afford one. I've gotten to drive some pretty cool stuff before though. Going back to a normal car sucks so hard

gang shit

2020-05-27 11:21:14

#7073

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,988|6996|949

if you an afford a $4k note, you can afford a maserati.

2020-05-27 11:25:28

#7074

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7101|Cinncinatti

Dauntless wrote:
I bought a car battery today too, my battery is completely dead and my car hasn't been driven for months. I'm seriously concerned I'm going to have all sorts of mechanical issues when I start it up... fingers crossed

It's a Maserati they aren't known for reliability.

lil_droo wrote:
Dauntless wrote:
yeah, I've been saying I need to sell it for 2+ years now
Don't u have a lambo too? I thought it was u or maybe some other rich British dude that had a few crazy cars. Was it toilet sex?

Don't know Dauntless' car history but TS is correct.

2020-05-27 11:35:08

#7075

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,988|6996|949

Dauntless had a BMW before the maserati.

Sell it!

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