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A 25kg bag of flour
Rose bush. Loads of gorgeous flowers on it. 🌹
Might wanna change this to 'Who cares what your best purchase during lockdown was? The Guardian.'
🤔 This x 3 😁😎✅
Was? It’s not over yet.
An exercise bike.
Purchase? During lockdown? I barely had enough money to pay my bills let alone splurge out on fancy items. No. Just no.
Rampant rabbit
A coffee maker
Books & £5.99 subscriptions to Disney plus to watch Hamilton.
Lots. Kettlebell (no other gym required), Ecotank printer (sp cheap for the kid's school work), 20Kg of Caputo pizza flour, 22Kg bag of cinema popcorn (they aren't open), Youtube premium via VPN, Speedminton racquets
Kaweco fountain pen
Not really a purchase but we were delivered a football which has provided endless fun for my mum with early onset Alzheimer's. It's been her number one activity throughout lockdown
Face masks 🤦♂️
The lockdown is not over in Los Angeles because the United States has done a horrific job at handling, or rather not handling, the spread of COVID__19.
A Minirig speaker. Bloody awesome sound, wherever I go. Music keeps my soul happy.
Yarn . Icelandic to be exact I have been knitting gifts for everyone
Kefir + Cadbury’s Dark Milk!
Anything from a smallbusiness
an indoor bike
Noise cancelling headphones ...and salad seeds. You can’t beat a nice quiet salad.
A new phone with a battery that lasts more than a few hours and that I can use for video calls.
Ooni pizza oven....awesome
Fish. Mackerel and whiting. Gut and clean them and cook them. Delicious
A gun
Fallout76 from Bethesda
Earplugs for when Trump speaks on TV.
Coffee beans
On line piano lessons
I use my slow cooker to make yoghurt and also cheese. Easy. What would these people do if someone did not make something they could but to do things. I must find something to sell to middle class people. Make a Mint.
Drugs and alcohol
Rice cooker or print making equipment.
That prostitute the night before lockdown was announced. Then there was no escape.
An electric piano so I could play with headphones and not drive my partner and neighbours bonkers. My learning has accelerated considerably now that I can practice more. It's exciting.
A Nintendo Switch
The food that was left when I got well enough to shop again.
A dildo
Books
A jigsaw puzzle. Haven’t done one of those since I was a kid. Walked by it everyday and added a few pieces. Mind settling.
Books, and less of everything else.
A 16kg bag of bread flour
Beers
Mini wine boxes. Lots of them.
Local cakes
New toilet seat👌🏼
Jack Daniels
Monthly cheese subscription 🧀 🧀
Vouvray white wine and Toscana pasta sauce from Lidl
Xbox one x
Not a purchase as such, but a donation to breakingbarriers charity that resulted in Juliet Stevenson recording for me three poems that I chose (by Duffy, Wordsworth & Neruda) & a personal thank you message. Beautiful poems beautifully read: I will treasure it forever 💕
Spectator.
A salad spinner 🙈
A floor loom.
It's hard to tell what was the best, but the worse was definitely a jar of Marmite
My favourite purchase before lockdown was Mango, Papaya and Passion fruit Onken Biopot Yoghurt. HOWEVER, now I can't get it at Tesco. Its never there. And it is important because it is a lifeline for people with eczema as it does amazing things to the microbiome and skin.
Skyrim
Uranium equites...
Jigsaw puzzles
CosimaDavies 👀
A bidet, we didn’t need any extra toilet paper.
Animal Crossing.
A white linen suit, because I had nowhere to go
I bought this wonderful Steinway built in 1922. Had the showroom all to myself!
Lentils, they lasted long time
D&D 5e
This badboy. I find it annoys and triggers all the right people.
Apple Mac Pro
A sewing machine to make masks (in France), and that has opened a lot if DIY horizons !
Not having to full the car up
Water flosser
Another gun.
A wireless vaccum cleaner
Nintendo Wii, and sports games
Serious walking shoes.
fresh sourdough bread from a local bakery. I live in a third world country and small I appreciate the little things in life🤣. oh yes the next best thing was a Second hand Lenovo think pad laptop for my freelance illustration work, Thank you hubby!!!!
My little garlic pot
A Fiat Punto!
Four 500 piece jigsaws.
A trampolim for my kid to jump and spend some energy and I joined him
My best purchase was (by FAR) not purchasing anything and learning in the process that I do not need to buy stuff to be happy and that most of the stuff I buy, I really don't need after all... A real epiphany!
Orwell’s collection
Masks.
McDonald’s home delivery
Not buying stuff
Amazon Prime subscription.
Alcohol.
Veg seeds
Eggs
These daily £6.99 from qualitysave for the first few weeks. Then they sold out 😒
A Nintendo Switch
Will not the scaremongering rag that is The Guardian
Resubbing my world of warcraft account 🤓
Vegetable seedlings until they got too hot and 'bolted' according to an expert. A jigsaw set and lots of books. All old school stuff.
A subscription to BylineTimes
Refurbished second hand high spec desktop PC bundle. I was nervous about using it from the security point of view but the company I bought it from has a good reputation and good trade history. I saved thousand of pounds (for now at least 😂)
The reduced price French red in McColls.
A 2020 calendar wall planner, binned last week
Kayak and painting by numbers for wet days 🥰
Peace
Hair Trimmer. 👍
An archery set. I started out trying to buy Swingball but Amazon had put the price up to £80.
Oh, and gloves and a face shield.
A keyboard. Relearning how to play has been a challenge, but a good one.
Masks
Time spent with my daughter
Masks and gloves
Weihrauch HW44 PCP Air Pistol
Hair clippers. I made such a mess of my hair with them, I'm happy to estivate until autumn when the patches of gleaming scalp should no longer be visible.
My husband
Green screen.
Footrest, Wide screen monitor, puzzle
Complete kit for gel nails; lamp and all. A fairly profesh looking manicure never has been more fun.
Nespresso machine
And a second parasol for the patio so I could work outside most of the time.
My ring light.
A facemask.
Definitely the shopping trolley to haul local goods home
Two therapy blankets and a bottle of gin
ducklings!
This book
Flour
Cannabis, get baked and chill
A weighted blanket 🥰🥰🥰
A skipping rope. And many many bottles of wine.
A divorce lawyer.
Divorce papers
160 packets of SeabrookCrisps 👍
ebike!
Your mum
An OO Gauge Battle of Britain class loco, which I have stripped and I am in the process of rebuilding.
All the vodka
Kindle Unlimited
Grass seed
New vacuum cleaner
Plants for the garden
An Afro comb your keep my hair tamed😂😂
Basketball net-stand for my son!
A standing desk for my home office. I have a bad back and it helps a lot.
15 pallets to make my new garden furniture out of.
Flour
Dyson cordless vacuum cleaner V10 and Aerofit Treadmill.
Rosewater, suffering from hidradenitis supperativa,its fair clearing that up
Chickens
Measuring spoons in cup measurements (was tired of converting, easier to follow american recipes now)
Telegraph
I'll decide once I'm sure that this is all over.
A piano
I turned into a peppermint tea drinker and got the best from ChashTea
A blow up sex doll - no question. 👍🏿
Flowers
I bought this amazing anal probe from lovehoney. Smashes the g spot every time.
DeFi cryptocurrencies 🤑
A bike...to offset the affects of my second favourite purchase, sainsburys triple chocolate cookies...which were to offset the saltiness of leisurely long lunches. Etc etc. It was a vicious cycle of offsetting. The bike hasn’t really worked though. I was expecting too much of it.
Just went back into lockdown. Checking out these sweet deals on Wayfair.
A hot brush has been invaluable.
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This - discovered I had to be really specific when describing my new hobby to people....
A couch
Tweezers!
1)my first guitar (£60) and started lessons. Need to upgrade the guitar already. 2)The electric scrubber 3) a variety of lights for online discos
Bushmills
Native instruments traktor S5
New pillows for my sofa.
Samsung Galaxy Smart ⌚
The Times
£1000 worth of storable food, for up to 25 years.
Discovered Odoban Concentrate and will never go back. 1gallon makes 22 gallons of odor, mildew, virus and bacteria killing bliss. You can also use it to soften and make your clothes smell nice.
A tent so I can camp in the garden with my 4 year old.
3 bedroom house
A copy of the guardian. Do I win something? If not. It was really a KitchenAid stand mixer
Must be nice to be able to afford anything other than food essentials!
I bought that crazy Burrito/Tortilla blanket and let me tell ya! 😆
Largely ill-advised and purchased late at night. Best: pyjamas for my granddaughter; The Night Fly by Donald Fagen; Go Tell It On The Mountain and chocolate covered figs for a friend.
Sure as Grud wasn't spuds. I anticipate some beautiful new baby spuds from my compost heap!
This book about making bread without all the fuss and myths:
2 grams of class A's
A years supply of bog rolls
Oculus Go. I’ve been virtually all over the world 🌎
A Discworldshoppe jigsaw puzzle.
Liforme yoga mat
Nespresso machine
A new house
An electrically adjustable gaming desk for work and for fun :)
A flight ticket to The Bahamas.
A pair of sneakers that don’t fit
Condoms
I enjoyed not buying anything except essentials So food ( every 10 days)
Ableton Suite, Native Instruments Komplete Ultimate CE + S49mk2, Reason 11, Valhalla Room, Udemy tutorials
Bike ^-^
Best purchase is no purchase. Save your cash.
Hair clippers. And the self-styled crude mohawk cut looked rather good I thought.
Hair clippers.
Subscriptions to various quality independent investigative journalistic organisations. You know, the ones that have presented the truth about the coronavirus, instead of the one-sided, govt.-following sternographers like the .
A swimsuit
Our allotment! Took it over in February.
Echo dot ❤️
Hot tub
Buttermilk 😂😂
Bigger cafetière
Hair Dye
The Plague. By Camus.
Not purchasing was my best purchase. Get off the consumer conveyor belt.
AcornTV
Tea
A gun
£1.50 large plastic black bucket. Add on to get free delivery from a website. It’s been a bath, a one child paddling pool, a mud kitchen, a cricket wicket, a step, a potion cauldron and much more. Incredible value for money.
Two new curio cabinets, one for the guest bedroom, and one for the dining room.
Concrete slabs
Dried worms for the birds.
Coffee machine
A mask.
Dominions 5 - Warriors of the faith
A cider press
Fleshlight
Aero Press - coffee like I remember
All the flowers for my garden.
Food
A desk and a bottle of uppers.
Some zcash mudderfarkrs
a rope and a stool
A massage collar.
A brand new Kindle (old one on its last legs). Books are my oxygen and they've saved my mental health during lockdown.
This sign.
Toys for my little girl. With all normal development opportunities removed, we had to put in a lot of effort to keep her happy and occupied.
Lots of hand sanitizers
“Was”? It is all officially over with now then? Exceptionally confusing times.
The question implies this is over. It isn't. Not by a long shot. Posing these types of questions with this sentence structure plays into the Govt narrative that it is business as usual. I'd expect better from
Cargo bike.
A can of beer.
This, and the rather beautiful piece of furniture on which it sits.
30g of weed just before a 3 week lock down, saved my sanity.....
PASTA
A mask
Cannabis
A fucking mask. That should be most people's responses.
a hollyday
This cat brush
A new bra.
16 grams of coke and a massive dildo off amazon
Trampoline
2 bottles of Johnny Walker Black.
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