What's the last thing you bought?

Ooh... *bookmarks this page, and the site you linked*

Thanks for the tips. Very much appreciated. :D

I never actually realised how much being lazy and opting for pre-built actually adds up. XD

René wrote:If you get a cheap power supply, it might not actually provide anywhere near as much power as it claims, and if it fails, it could take all your other expensive parts with it.

I learned this the hard way.

I discovered this amazing 1€-shop, where literally EVERYTHING is for 1€. It's not necessarily good quality, but I bought a pair of scissors, a bin, a paper notebook, two drinking glasses and 3 lunchboxes for 7€, so that's really awesome!

desolation wrote:

René wrote:If you get a cheap power supply, it might not actually provide anywhere near as much power as it claims, and if it fails, it could take all your other expensive parts with it.

I learned this the hard way. :shake:

This is partly what puts me off building one myself. That, and I have really bad juju. :P

Kingsleyer wrote:I discovered this amazing 1€-shop, where literally EVERYTHING is for 1€. It's not necessarily good quality, but I bought a pair of scissors, a bin, a paper notebook, two drinking glasses and 3 lunchboxes for 7€, so that's really awesome! :awesome:

Tch. That's not fair. We only have, like, £1 shops. 99p shops if were lucky. Those €1 shops are a whole 20p cheaper than our counterparts. Rip-off Britain strikes again. :(

Kingsleyer wrote:I discovered this amazing 1€-shop, where literally EVERYTHING is for 1€.

We have Pound Shops and 99p Stores everywhere. I went to an 89p store in Dorset once as well

Severelius wrote:My town has a pound shop and a 99p store literally across the road from each other. Which was odd until it became hilarious on account of them starting the shittest arms race ever to out-do the other one. So the pound shop is now offering everything for 97p while the 99p store is at 95p.

It's the most British stand-off in history.

All made possible thanks to workfare.

OK, a slight over-simplification just to get in a small political grumble.

But seriously, fuck workfare.

I have multiple 1€ stores on the main shopping street 10 walking minutes away. I think there's 4. The last two can-openers bought from them both broke within a week though, so next time I'm getting a proper one.

The crazy thing is that the 1€ stores are sometimes more expensive than other stores. Things like glasses, notebooks and most notoriously food items can cost more than twice the normal retail price because people just assume it must be cheaper and buy it without comparing.

Severelius wrote:Shows how much I care about any modern events or anything of the sort that I had to Google workfare.

I know several people who have been subjected to workfare, and have been threatened with it myself. It's a fucking disgrace.

nearly £100 worth of Primark clothes >.< oops. Easily done.

3 ceramic pans and a new can-opener! Everything for under 30€.

Those are cute as fuck

xyz72 wrote:3 ceramic pans and a new can-opener! Everything for under 30€.

And your knife is purple! Now you just need something red and something blue.

c1ask0 wrote:

xyz72 wrote:3 ceramic pans and a new can-opener! Everything for under 30€.

And your knife is purple! Now you just need something red and something blue.

My spatulas are blue and red. (And elastic.) And another knife is orange. And two more are green.

I....may or may not really like having pops of colours while cooking.

xyz72 wrote:

c1ask0 wrote:

xyz72 wrote:3 ceramic pans and a new can-opener! Everything for under 30€.

And your knife is purple! Now you just need something red and something blue.

My spatulas are blue and red. (And elastic.) And another knife is orange. And two more are green.

I....may or may not really like having pops of colours while cooking.

You need to keep buying cookware until you have the same number of each colour. While you're at it, branch out into pink. You are gay after all.

I just read that my favorite white trash beer Pabst blue ribbon plus others are being sold to some god damn Russians. So I decided to buy one last case while its still American.

i bought Godzilla on blu-ray... watching it now actually.