My Recent Online Purchases - What Were Yours?

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    That's pretty cool.

    Back in the 70s I worked at an animal shelter outside of DC. I got a puppy, then I got a kitten, then I had to quit.
     
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    HAAA! :D That's why I don't volunteer at any animal shelters. They are all irresistible. I just contribute to the bake sales when they have them.
     
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    The feral cats eat nearly half of it because my cats turn down much of what they get.
     
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    You feed them to well ..:) ..however when I had a silky terrier she’d pick up her plastic bowl …take it out to the lawn and watch the birds eat her food
     
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    I bought a new Mother Board to get my down computer up and running again. Prices are starting to drop finally and instead of using the same motherboard and cpu as the two new machines I built last year I have stepped up and gone with the newer chip set board the B550 for AMD and soon I will get the Processor a Ryzen 5 5600X, the other two machines last year were both Ryzen 5 3600. I still need to buy new RAM for the new system but on a good note I can use the RAM from one of my 3600s to get the new machine running and setup properly. I miss using that machine because it was the fastest I owned even with ten year old technology it was faster than the new machines. Prices still remain higher than when that system was new 10 years ago. Graphic card prices are dropping each day and hopefully one day no one will need a bank loan to buy a graphics card, beware of a used one because the bit coin crowd punished what they bought to use as miners. The card companies started to cater to the miners and released cards that had no video out since it wasn't needed, but they began to get hard to find and buying normal cards made it impossible for simple gamer and workstations to buy. Even today they are asking 3 times too much for the latest cards and the people who actually keep these card companies alive should let them sink a while and teach them a lesson. There is a lot of people out there really mad at these companies who made it hard for the real customers to buy good cards. I couldn't afford the best cards and bought AMD cards but they still cost me almost 800 for 3 identical cards. They do well for what I do so I'm happy
     
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    Hinges for my chest cooler.

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    I had the thing sitting on my deck drying out, and the wind blew it down the stairs. $20 gone due to weather.
     
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    Finally found some doggie diapers for Radar, bought on Amazon. But once again do not fit. He managed to wee in one as I was trying yo make fit. Washed but vendor wont take return. Tryin g to sell on Nextdoor - not working. One of our Roku's went out, so a new one should be here Saturday.
     
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    Oh bummer ... I hate wasted money and calories:(
     
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    I discovered that Walgreens Online sells the vaccinium oxycoccos cranberry extract for cheaper than Walmart does, AND it is Buy One/Get One <50%>, so I stocked up.


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    I also bought a couple of things of dental floss to hit the Free Shipping minimum.


    FoodSaver has had the Accessory Vacuum Hoses on back order for months. They got a real design issue problem and LOTS of angry customers. I did a review on their website with a work around (including pics) and they took it down. "Call Customer Service so we can help find a machine that meets your needs."
    I received an In Stock notification email so I immediately grabbed 5 of them. I just went on their website to grab this pic and they are already Out of Stock again...folks are grabbing them while they can. I hope my order is really being filled.

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    FoodSaver used to be the premier brand of vacuum sealer, but no more. These cost $3/each, and if you use the machine as much as I do, you could go through 3-5 of the per month (without using my work-around), they're that fragile.
     
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    That is why we stopped feeding our barn cats outside; it attracted feral cats and other critters.
     
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    We started using the small, rechargeable hand-held sealers for jars and such. It seems to work as well as the big one and you don't have to get the big thing out.
     
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    I tried to buy a new small laptop on Amazon, but they don't ship to Alaska, so I will have to get it shipped to a daughter's house on my next trip out.
     
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    Macy's VIP sale sucked me in again, so I have a new handbag on order, and some bath gel stuff. I also ordered some "Hyland's Natural Cramp Relief" stuff that was recommended to me. I'm having those weird muscle cramps in my trunk and around my shoulder blade like I had last year. :(

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    It contains Cinchona Officinalis (from Quinine Bark) and Magnesium Phosphate so hopefully it will help.
     
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