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What was the best thing you bought during lock down

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  • 16-01-2021 9:16pm
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    kerryjack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭


    Mine was 4 smart television for kids bedrooms, cheap babysitter and a 35 mil spirit measure cost 2 euro for my evening tipple I used to have a heavy hand.


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    Username here
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭Username here


    kerryjack wrote: »
    Mine was 4 smart television for kids bedrooms, cheap babysitter and a 35 mil spirit measure cost 2 euro for my evening tipple I used to have a heavy hand.

    How much for the babysitter?


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    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Plug in heated car seat. Far cheaper than heating the house and great for my back as I cruise in 5k laps!


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    Doctor Roast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 325 ✭✭Doctor Roast


    Guerilla glue seeds


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    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,824 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    kerryjack wrote: »
    Mine was 4 smart television for kids bedrooms, cheap babysitter and a 35 mil spirit measure cost 2 euro for my evening tipple I used to have a heavy hand.

    English fanny measures.

    Drink up, you're in your Aunties.

    I bought chloroform and some zip ties. The peace is bliss.


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    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    A ferociously expensive soldering iron from UK. Arrived shortly before the Brex :)


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,140 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Shares in Ryan Air.


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    Snotty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Snotty


    A shed, need a place to get away from wife and kids :)


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    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,790 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Pair of Asics running shoes


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    17larsson
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭17larsson


    I bought a Kindle in March just as things were starting to get hairy.

    Best thing I ever bought. I've read close to a book a week since


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    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,660 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Food


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    Gooey Looey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Gooey Looey


    Some Bitcoin and Ethereum


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    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    kerryjack wrote: »
    Mine was 4 smart television for kids bedrooms, cheap babysitter and a 35 mil spirit measure cost 2 euro for my evening tipple I used to have a heavy hand.

    I never allowed kids have tvs in bedroom. No regrets, didn't want them stuck In bedrooms not interacting


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    Str8outtaWuhan
    Registered Users Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Str8outtaWuhan


    A wife


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    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    A bike.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Copious amounts of drink.


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    [Deleted User]
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    A bird feeder

    Ive turned into some weird ould lad now,

    Taking pics and looking up what the different birds are,and buying different types of seed for em


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    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,718 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Replaced the dining table with a pool table, love it!!


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    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,981 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    On the practical front... laptop to wfh.

    On the fun front...a virtual wine tasting.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,790 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Deleted User wrote: »
    A bird feeder

    Ive turned into some weird ould lad now,

    Taking pics and looking up what the different birds are,and buying different types of seed for em

    Yes I've had one for a while but now that I'm at home I can look at them all day.
    You see the different bird hierarchies where I live, seagulls are top of the food chain and can take whatever they want whenever they want, but they don't show up that often.
    Starlings are nutjobs.
    I love magpies, I noticed lately that they get bits of food and they hide it in my garden for later, under bits of bark or leaves, really smart. They also dip bread and other stuff into water I leave out to make things more palatable.
    The highlight of the summer was when there was a sparrowhawk ripping a smaller bird apart on my back garden wall, I nearly died with the excitement.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Yes I've had one for a while but now that I'm at home I can look at them all day.
    You see the different bird hierarchies where I live, seagulls are top of the food chain and can take whatever they want whenever they want, but they don't show up that often.
    Starlings are nutjobs.
    I love magpies, I noticed lately that they get bits of food and they hide it in my garden for later, under bits of bark or leaves, really smart. They also dip bread and other stuff into water I leave out to make things more palatable.
    The highlight of the summer was when there was a sparrowhawk ripping a smaller bird apart on my back garden wall, I nearly died with the excitement.


    I had today,for first time a robin eat the fat balls.....and have a cluster of wrens,but they never eat seeds etc i notice....but when i move the sticks from the stack to light the fire,they swarm to it after bugs etc i presume


    An endless amount of chaffinches and gold finches,they love niger seeds and fat balls

    Theres also 2 doves about,i just throw them rolled oats on the ground,......though i read some where that your not supposed to feed the small birds,too long into the spring/summer as they dont get enough protein etc for the young off it


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    Thelonious Monk
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    Blue tits are cool, I haven't seen any gold finches yet unfortunately. I love wood pigeons they're so stupid and dumb looking and fat, but any time I try and give them food they fly away and others eat everything before they come back, idiots.
    Just around the corner from me we get flocks of brent geese feeding, they fly right over my house, wek wek wek wek wek wek, these fellows come all the way from Greenland every year, to Raheny of all places.
    I'm going to get binoculars eventually, this is where I'm at.


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    tabby aspreme
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Blue tits are cool, I haven't seen any gold finches yet unfortunately. I love wood pigeons they're so stupid and dumb looking and fat, but any time I try and give them food they fly away and others eat everything before they come back, idiots.
    Just around the corner from me we get flocks of brent geese feeding, they fly right over my house, wek wek wek wek wek wek, these fellows come all the way from Greenland every year, to Raheny of all places.
    I'm going to get binoculars eventually, this is where I'm at.

    Leave out cabbage or kale leaves for the wood Pigeons, or grow them some Wheatgrass if you want to spoil them


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    Thelonious Monk
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    tabby aspreme wrote: »
    Leave out cabbage or kale leaves for the wood Pigeons, or grow them some Wheatgrass if you want to spoil them

    Would they eat lettuce? I have loads in fridge. The sign in my local park says not to give bread to the ducks, give them lettuce it says. So I brought some down a while ago and they saw me and all came over, threw the lettuce in, they sniffed at it and turned the duck armada around, zero interest.


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    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,863 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Large monitor which has been brilliant when working on laptop at home.
    Also upgraded to a kindle paperwhite (got very cheap in Amazon sale) and much prefer it to my old original kindle.
    The fact it has a backlight is great as well as being waterproof so you can read in the bath.


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    Pipmae
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    I bought a bird house feeder from https://www.electric-fence.co.uk/. I love it. I've loads of birds. I agree the thickest are the wood pigeons. The most nervous are the collared doves followed closely by the blackbirds. The blackbirds and thrushes LOVE grapes. I cut them in half to make sure they're not a choking hazzard. They gobble them up.

    The tit family are the bravest. They are so fast.....

    The nyjer seeds are a waste. In general none of my birds are bothered about them.

    The suet balls brings out the worst in all the birds. They scrap over them even though I refill them regularly. It's like their cocaine.....

    I bought an outdoor pizza oven that I love too. An Ooni Koda 16 - massive hit.


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    #27
    SineadSpears
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    €550 Threadmill - used twice :pac:


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    #28
    vurstflavor
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    500 condoms 10 cents each


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    [Deleted User]
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    vurstflavor wrote: »
    500 condoms 10 cents each

    Look at you, with your fancy ****.

    Cheaper than washing two loads of socks a week in the washing machine, or using up your emergency supply of bogroll I suppose.


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    #30
    Gamb!t
    Registered Users Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭Gamb!t


    Paint !


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    #31
    Shoelaces
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭Shoelaces


    Squire Classic Vibe Jazzmaster


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