Frivolous purchases...

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Now, I'm not normally someone who needs a lot of stuff, and most of my non-food shopping comes from charity shops anyway - it's good recycling, good for the charity, and cheap.

But I've just made a frivolous purchase in Cath Kidson. A bag. How very womanly, I know, not like me at all. I saw it last weekend, and couldn't justify buying it to myself. But with some Christmas cash burning a hole in my wallet, I happened to be walking past tonight and thought, "sod it, I'll treat myself". It's not even all that practical, might make a travel washbag perhaps.

It's pretty:

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But that's not why I bought it. I fell in love with this chap on the other side:

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So, what's your best frivolous purchase? (Bike bits aren't frivolous unless you didn't really need them, or paid a humungus amount for them out of lust....)

 

[CopperBrompton]

Silk shirts are extremely practical: when travelling on business, I wear nothing else. They roll up into almost zero space, and 20 mins in the bathroom with a hot shower running and the door closed removes what few wrinkles they get when rolled.

And £25? I paid £4 each in Cambodia, and £6 each in HK. :-)

 

[Hacienda71]

I once paid £120 for a Dolce and Gabanna shirt. I have to confess in the last six years to wearing it no more than three or four times. Not because I don't like it, but it is a very fitted cut with a slight elasticity to the fabric, if I have any excess weight on it looks wrong. i.e. fat around the waist. I have been tempted to sell it, but always dream of being able to wear it again

 

[Night Train]

I bought a Land Rover Discovery front axle yesterday.

 

[Milo]

Buying albums is a curse if I walk into a shop I have to walk out with something.

 

[ASC1951]

Silk shirts are extremely practical: when travelling on business, I wear nothing else.

Wot, not even a wide belt and spangly knickers?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I'm always buying frivolous things. Probably my most recent one was my banjolin (a cross between a banjo and a mandolin), but you could probably put most of my non - guitar stringed instruments into the frivolous category.

 

[Downward]

A fair amount on some Oakley Nanowire 2.0's which I sold a year later for £175.

 

[Tollers]

I've countless things like this. Im a bit of an over enthusiatic gadget freak. This is one of my favourites....you can never have too many lenses...

 

[longers]

I bought five pencils today when I've still got half a dozen at home not finished yet.

 

[Tollers]

I bought five pencils today when I've still got half a dozen at home not finished yet. Money to burn.

I have the same issue with condoms!

 

[Downward]

Are those VR lens worth it over normal ones ?
Someone is looking at a basic Nikon SLR but it comes with VR lens or with the normal ones

 

[CopperBrompton]

VR is worth 2-3 stops. It was definitely worth it when acceptable noise levels topped out at 800ISO, but now you can get good results from 3200ISO it really depends how low the light levels will be for the stuff you shoot (and, of course, how still the subjects of your photos are, since VR can't help with moving subjects).

 

[Tollers]

Are those VR lens worth it over normal ones ?
Someone is looking at a basic Nikon SLR but it comes with VR lens or with the normal ones

It's not so simple to answer that Downward. VR (and VRII) is very uesfull on longer focal length....especially over 70mm. Below that it's a bit of a marketing gimmick and a wider aperture becomes more usefull (although limiting the focal range). If you ever need advice, feel free to PM me.

Tollers

 

[Night Train]

I bought five pencils today when I've still got half a dozen at home not finished yet.

I did that on my birthday. Didn't get anything else.