Mustafa II
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Whether it's 50p or £50k, what is the best purchase you have EVER made?
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[Misc] What is the greatest purchase you've EVER made
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Nicks
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Bought a one bedroom converted Barn just before lockdown.
Sold it 18 months later for £100,000 profit.
Sold it 18 months later for £100,000 profit.
thejackal
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My Musicman Sterling Bass Guitar, circa 1995 for an entire year's student loan. Have played proper big gigs and recorded with it all over the world. Can be heard on various commercially available recordings. My baby 
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Paris
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An Albion waistcoat from the club shop five minutes ago.
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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My Musicman Sterling Bass Guitar, circa 1995 for an entire year's student loan. Have played proper big gigs and recorded with it all over the world. Can be heard on various commercially available recordings. My baby
Continuing the guitar theme I would count my NUX Mighty Plug Headphone amp. For only £50 it provides silent practice complete with an array of amp simulations, effects, drum machine and YouTube streaming. The family and neighbors alike are happy and the bulky Fender combo is resigned to the loft. Sadly my playing has not improved!
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Breville sandwich toaster. Far and away the most used kitchen gadget ever chez pasty.
Justice
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I have been pondering this thread for some days. A good one @Mustafa II
It would have to be a book. And it would have to be the first of a series. And it would have to be a series I have re-read, in order, from the start, savouring all the smells, tastes, violence and joy of being alive.
So it is a toss up (several coins needed) between Northern Lights, Casino Royal, A Man Lay Dead, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Bat, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Philosopher's Stone, and A Study in Scarlet. I don't do High Brow. Life's to short.
It would have to be a book. And it would have to be the first of a series. And it would have to be a series I have re-read, in order, from the start, savouring all the smells, tastes, violence and joy of being alive.
So it is a toss up (several coins needed) between Northern Lights, Casino Royal, A Man Lay Dead, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Bat, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Philosopher's Stone, and A Study in Scarlet. I don't do High Brow. Life's to short.
Hornby OO gauge Flying Scotsman train set
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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The day I switched to a super king bed
Or the air fryer. Both game changers
Or the air fryer. Both game changers
- Aug 24, 2020
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From a family perspective, it would be the house I live in. We have lived, laughed and loved here since 1995, raised a son, and made many happy memories.
From a financial perspective, it must also be the best purchase on that front as well, but we didn't buy it for that.
From a financial perspective, it must also be the best purchase on that front as well, but we didn't buy it for that.
Fignon's Ponytail
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I bought the Bafut Beagles from an Oxfam shop a while ago for £1. Yet to start it though.
With the good weather peeking its head out more regularly, I reckon now is the perfect time to open that copy of MFAOA....
- Jul 10, 2003
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My Musicman Sterling Bass Guitar, circa 1995 for an entire year's student loan. Have played proper big gigs and recorded with it all over the world. Can be heard on various commercially available recordings. My baby
A friend of mine has a 1970's Musicman Stingray. Sounds beautiful, looks like a toilet seat
thejackal
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Yeah mine's also a bit battered now. Those 1970s Stingrays are really effing heavy too.A friend of mine has a 1970's Musicman Stingray. Sounds beautiful, looks like a toilet seat
Morvangull
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It's got to be my Local Government pension I paid into, as it now gives me a comfortable standard of living in my retirement.
£1.99
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- Mar 3, 2008
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May i ask what strings you use, flats or rounds? I have a Music Man Stingray Special and am so undecided on what strings to put on it.My Musicman Sterling Bass Guitar, circa 1995 for an entire year's student loan. Have played proper big gigs and recorded with it all over the world. Can be heard on various commercially available recordings. My baby
thejackal
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Always rounds on that bass as they help give it that classic metallic Musicman sound. I hollowed out the nut and used it with a BEAD tuning for a few years but eventually got over all that ridiculous nu metal rubbish and put it back to stock.
£1.99
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- Mar 3, 2008
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Thanks for getting back to me
Think I shall go back to rounds on the stingray. It's costing me a bloody fortune in strings
