[Misc] What is the greatest purchase you've EVER made

[Mustafa II]

Whether it's 50p or £50k, what is the best purchase you have EVER made?

 

[Nicks]

Bought a one bedroom converted Barn just before lockdown.
Sold it 18 months later for £100,000 profit.

 

[BrianB]

My first record player , has led to a lifelong interest.

 

[thejackal]

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 .

 

[Paris]

An Albion waistcoat from the club shop five minutes ago.

 

[METALMICKY]

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]

Breville sandwich toaster. Far and away the most used kitchen gadget ever chez pasty.

 

[Justice]

What dog have you got?

What dog have you got?

A mental Jack Russell

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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.

 

[A1X]

Hornby OO gauge Flying Scotsman train set

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

The day I switched to a super king bed

Or the air fryer. Both game changers

 

[Eric the meek]

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.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

My sister bought me a Penguin paperback edition of My Family And Other Animals sometime in the 1960's prompting me to collect all Gerald Durrell's books that had then been published including the wonderful Bafut Beagles and a couple of subsequent hardbacks I had for Christmas. The little collection of 11 books were the only books from my peak teen reading years to make it through life to our current home in 2013. But my battered little much loved paperback that triggered it all was not to survive. Mrs Earle decided as it was my favourite book, it should be replaced by a new edition for my birthday and had already thrown away my treasured copy by the time I received my gift. I've never opened the new one. It stares balefully at me from it's place in alphabetical order amongst the other older Durrell's, still wondering if it will ever fulfil it's purpose.

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....

 

[DanR]

First car - Austin Maestro.

 

[WATFORD zero]

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]

A friend of mine has a 1970's Musicman Stingray. Sounds beautiful, looks like a toilet seat

Yeah mine's also a bit battered now. Those 1970s Stingrays are really effing heavy too.

 

[Morvangull]

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]

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 .

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.

 

[thejackal]

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.

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]

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.

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

 

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