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My unexpectedly awesome purchase has been a warm air blowing boot dryer. It's simply brilliant.
Come in from a ride or run, hose down shoes, pop on the dryer and boom, 60mins later dry and sweet smelling shoes. During the snow in was on constantly for boots and gloves.
I genuinely wouldn't be without one now.
So, what have you bought which is more awesome than that?
It's a rucksack, so falls at the awesome hurdle, but it's really nice quality for the price - and free delivery.
https://www.oakley.com/en-gb/product/FOS900302?variant=8056153164412
Ebike!
This. I've used it almost every day since March and spent hundreds of hours fingering away on it.
Boringly, my home office setup.
A proper office chair, laptop stand, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Made the many hours working from home much more comfortable.
Exceeded all expectations:
- Neck bends however you like and stays bent
- Single charge lasts for aeons
- Touch control works like a charm, no more feeling about for sharp little switches
- Dimmable
- Choose from amber, warm white or cool white
- clip is sensibly wide and has a strong spring
- Also has a grippy flat base so doubles-up as a mini table-lamp
Couldn’t be happier! I use it to clip on a book (doh!), also as a bedside lamp, and also as a soft night light to illuminate a drum kit when practising. It also works very well as an inspection light for dog’s earholes. Also have clipped it on to my collar angled down as a ‘take dog out to poo at night, light’, leaving. both hands free to bag poop! Also useful to faff around house in dead of night looking for lost things because I’m now (apparently) an old person who can’t sleep without first locating 2 part epoxy I mean my rucksack the good Tiger Balm, not the weak knockoff stuff.
A pair of Audio Pro A26 speakers. Much better than a soundbar for movies and a great upgrade from a single C5 for music. As sad as it sounds they also have a really nice remote. Nice hefty chunk of brushed aluminium.
A flickering thing that simulates a TV that deters burglars; the Planet X Tempest wasn't too bad either.
A Nintendo Switch
£15 Gumtree special desk a week before lockdown started as our company booted us out the office ahead of the curve.
@sharkattack - that’s a lovely bass. I had a Jazz Master years ago. Loved the sound and the thin neck. Best bass I owned and wish I’d kept it. Only downside was it went out of tune if you looked at it funny. I blame the huge lovely machine heads
If by this year you mean 2021 then it would be the only thing I've bought online, a Mystic PFD for use on my paddle board. If you mean in the last 12 months then it would be my Fanatic inflatable SUP.
Broccoli, love the stuff.
Full face dust extraction hood. Blows filtered air across the face and keeps you cool as welll.
Have I worn it as much as i'm supposed to and the entire reason for spending so much on such a thing ?, have I heck 😆 😳
Which boot dryer do you have? I'm a bit underwhelmed by mine which I've had for years. If I run it for 4-5 hours my shoes may get dry. It's possible this is because I'm using it in a cold garage.
A Westbeach sweatshirt off of Sportpursuit for £15. So cozy and comfy, perfect WFH wear 😊
Either my Kona Sutra LTD (in the last 12 months) or my Action Blanket in 2021.
Superficial, it is one of these.
Beer, lots of it 😀
Cube Editor, MRRP was £1600 i bagged one for £1000 now retailing for £1900.
Marin dsx1.....bought on a bit of a whim after reading a grand total of 1 stw user report. It's absolutely got me loving riding a bike again after over 5 years away!
"Strong Shit" coffee bags from Amazon... Might become my 38cm Primavera bars, if I can get around to fitting them.
My office pot plant, a Calathea Orbifola. Not killed it yet!
https://www.leafenvy.co.uk/collections/all/products/calathea-orbifolia
Considering non essential shops are shut then surely nearly all purchases are online.
Mine is a Shark stick vac. So much better than Dyson
Beer and lots of just like Woody
Also magnetic led lights for the kitchen cupboards
New telly and fancy new cabinet for it to go on!
My Coleman event shelter, some carabiner clips, some threaded sleeve inserts and some eye bolts.
It meant I could fix the shelter to the decking and have an outdoor room that stayed up all summer.
Ah, ^ just reminded me, I have a joint first. The other is a Mil-Tech flecktarn poncho/tarp. Now am 100% waterproof. Have some alu tent-poles from an old Vango that I plan to cut down and use to create an ‘alpha tent’ from the poncho.
Hopefully will make a nice lightweight bikepacking and hiking option
A gilet...not a riding one, got a few of those...just an every day insulated gilet.
Should’ve gotten one sooner, I’m practically living in it.
A 12*8 express power shed. Partly because it's a really neat way of buying a modular shed that you can self assemble in a day and you get to tweak the layout as you go.
Mainly because I have chucked all my tools in it and I now have the old log cabin style shed for relaxing in away from the house and doing hobbies.
Hopefully will make a nice lightweight bikepacking and hiking option
I'd take the weight penalty and take a decent tent.
I'm either my wee bitmi drum pad and some sticks, gonny start learning the drums. Or my sony xm4's.
I’d take the weight penalty and take a decent tent.
Yeah i'm not really seeing where the advantage is there. I get a poncho from a waterproof layer but that looks rubbish compared to a 3x3 tarb and single pole.?
New smart TV - 4k is awesome!!
And these LifeLine Pro Sliding T Bar Hex Set - great quality and a really good fit.
I’d take the weight penalty and take a decent tent.
I’ve got that option also, but for a summer-autumn one-nighter or even a spot of rainy afternoon r&r/picnic, etc etc
I like the thought of a no-fuss emergency shelter. Was purchased primarily as a poncho which it excels at, so nothing to lose 👍🏼
The Tefal Optigrill XL ..Yeah Baby.
We toasted our way through the dark months 🙂
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Custom paint job 🙂
Only based on purdyness.
ZTTO 9-50 cassette. Probably made of cheese but purdy cheese.
Either my shoe dryer, or my house extension.
One rather pricier than the other. Both rather good.
Some touring skis right at the start of the year from the helpful folk at Braemar Mountain Sports. Made all the better by tho volumes of snow we had in the Pentlands this year!
Close second is a Fyne Ales mini-cask club subscription... Mmm... Jarl...
"This year" 2021, or the last 12 months?
i didn't actually order it myself online,and it hasn't arrived yet,but a planet x spitfire ti road bike 🚴
i seriously cannot wait to get it and start riding 😀
It’s only March so I’m not sure but my nephew was fair chuffed with the PS5 I managed to get him.
A kitten
i didn’t actually order it myself online,and it hasn’t arrived yet,but a planet x spitfire ti road bike 🚴
i seriously cannot wait to get it and start riding 😀
Hey, what?! Awesome 😃 New bike day thread when you get it please.
We got a new small table + 3 chairs for our kitchen-diner last Spring. It fits perfectly and has been in constant use as a dining table and a desk ever since.
A set of Rock Shox SID Ultimate SL fork. Damn there light at 1300g, can't wait for the new frame to be built.
The Cayuga duck eggs we hatched..
Vegan Sunday roast burrito via just eat yesterday, drooling now just thinking about it
Probably the mixed 18kg of lego + instructions. Kept the kids and me (mostly me) entertained for hours, sorting it, building it, ordering missing pieces etc etc.
Will probably have it to sell most of it soon as don't have room for it.
Last 12 months - all the bits to build a new bike for the boy, some of it sourced from nice people on here. I ordered some Lego but I was a bit underwhelmed with Ecto-1 to be honest.
2021 - Tamiya TT-02 Subaru Impreza - still not finished
Ordered online and collected in-store (does that count)? A PSVR headset. WT actual F!
That and a great new outside security light that is perfect for my needs and also fitted perfectly onto the holes I drilled for the last POS light that prematurely failed and always was rubbish.
Hopefully my best online purchase will be the trail running shoes that arrived yesterday. Lovely pair of Hoka Mafate Speed 3. Unfortunately after my vaccine jab yesterday I'm running a fever so I'll have to wait til after the weekend to try them out.
This year, as in 2021, a pair of Macna Fulcrum Nighteye motorbike trousers. Can't use them because we can't go out motorbiking but they let me dream of long-distance tours down to the south of Spain.
This year, as in the last 12 months, I managed to get a Ryzen 5600X and RTX3070 for MSRP before everything went batshit crazy for gaming PC stuff. Linked up with the Oculus VR headset it's quite the experience, especially Star Wars Squadrons.
boot dryer link please franksinatra
Before lockdown bike madness kicked off I got this
£1900! Total Bargain
(I mean obviously I spent nearly a grand buying other bits but that's not the point)
boot dryer link please franksinatra
I posted this on the last page but here you go. I got mine for about £50 on Amazon but price seems to have gone up there.
In 2021 so far: A Tech 21 Sansamp Bassdriver pedal, allows me to make all sorts of fun rumbly noises. (Nice Jazz Bass BTW Sharkattack). But most of my Bass bits from the local music shop but they're not a Tech 21 seller so went online.
In the last 12 months, a big old Weber gas grill and smoker box, purchased right at the start of lockdown and being able to kill a whole day smoking a pork shoulder or a brisket made the Summer of Covid a lot more bearable, eyeballing offset smokers now.
It's not recent. but 2 things that have got me through lockdown (both online purchases) are:
and the Kinu Phoenix
House extension bought online ?
You must have had a LOT of cardboard to get rid off !!
Psvr headset too, even if SW squadrons gives me motion sickness. Looking down at your legs in a smoke filled x wing cockpit whilst your astro mech fixes it was worth the expense.
A new guitar that got me back into playing again.
Or my titanium chop sticks.
Probably the Wattbike, all four of us have been using it, especially as it came in 4 weeks not the stated 10-12.
@eddiebaby Surely you need some carpet, just in case that lovely finish catches on the concrete?
Carpet? In my bedroom? You southern softy...
Shimano bleed funnel thingy £2.95 cant believe how i've been pissing about with syringes for so long
Oh & a MSI 3060 12gb Gaming X Trio GPU
£3k on a second hand bike is a bargain these days eh? And that's before prices went crazy? Jeez.
£3k on a second hand bike is a bargain these days eh? And that’s before prices went crazy?
No £1,900 for a new bike that was originally £2,700 is a bargain.
The fact I upgraded it doesn't really have any bearing on the value of it.
@racefaceec90 All good thanks, but less of the pleasantries and more of titanium bike goodness please!
So chuffed you're getting back on the bike - and what a way to do it.. I'm eagerly awaiting the new bike thread 😃
Spent a decent amount late last year on new hifi stuff that has been (probably) the best online purchase ever but for this year it has to be a simple Kambukka Etna insulated mug that I can throw in my pocket/bag/car/bike and have a decent coffee wherever I want without the hassle of spills or drips/leaks.
@richmtb wasn't meaning to piss on your chips, I just haven't really paid attention to bike prices for a long time.
A new Henry vacuum cleaner and a Dewalt 18v multi-tool.
Rock n roll 🤘🏼
Errrrr, three bass guitars. Fender were doing free lessons and I'd always fancied learning the bass. Cautiously I spent 50 quid on an old Encore P Bass, and found it very playable, but badly shielded, so I upgraded the pickups to Wilkinsons and replaced the pickguard and rusty bridge. Then I got the bug and dropped on a used Modern Player Jazz bass.....Fender loveliness with twin humbuckers.... found that incredibly playable but after a few more months realised I badly needed (wanted....) a proper Jazz to see what other tones were available, so I ordered a Player Series (Mex) Jazz Bass. They've certainly helped me through the long days at home.
That Whyte is lovely, bugger, a brain worm.
Best purchase? Echo Dot 4 (I know, I know, late to the party), was astonished that it plugged straight in and played lossless through the stereo.
Dumbbells and a Kettlebell. Helps keep me sane. I’d like some heavier ones and a bench but there’s bugger all out there at the moment.
Best purchase for me has been one of those massive fleece-lined hoodie blankets for my wife to sling on in the evening. Its stopped almost all whinging about how cold the living room is (thermostat on 21) while I sit in my t-shirt!