Your Strangest Thing

[dex]

Well it might not be the strangest thing, but I got a Cyclops fluid trainer last year for $100. Now at the rate I've been actually using it, it's down to oh maybe $20/ride? OUCH! It's just that I have to move so much furniture to use it - I'd rather bundle up and ride outside. I really need a bigger house.

That reminds me. I ordered a CyclOps magnetic trainer from eBay last year, but the seller accidentally sent me the Fluid2 instead. Given the weight of the item, they decided it was less hassle to let me keep it than to send it back to them and then send out the right one. Score!

[teigyr]

Dex, you have a gift with being sent the wrong item Maybe I will have you do my ordering for me.

I've bought some Italian movie posters from films by a director named Dario Argento. I have attempted to buy a snow globe with a scene from Fargo in it. I wanted the leg sticking out of the woodchipper because I remember when it was sold with the movie and I didn't get it. D'oh. I still don't have it.

[dex]

Dex, you have a gift with being sent the wrong item Maybe I will have you do my ordering for me.

It's so true! My friends tease me about it quite a bit, actually.

(It happened again today. I came home to find a package of stuff I'd ordered last week from a UK based store. They put an extra set of bottom bracket cups in the package. I'll contact them tomorrow to see what they want to do about it.)

[badgercat]

Making costumes is one of my hobbies, so I've bought a lot of random stuff (wigs, shoes, stockings, other accessories), but on its own none of it is too off-the-wall. Probably the oddest individual item was a cheap red fedora hat that had a blue sequin band and feathers...

...but I ripped the sequins and feathers off, replaced it with a plain black fabric band, wore it with a red trenchcoat, and was Carmen Sandiego for Halloween.

[malkin]

We sold Beeman's gum for a while.
It was back in the day when just buying something on ebay was much more of a thrill than buying it at the dime store.

The wierdest purchase at this household was a Violin-Uke. My husband actually got in a bidding war over it. That was back in the day before I taught him how to bid.

[mayanorange]

Growing up in a family that treasure hunts the auctions and garage sales every weekend for cool old antiques as our entertainment, when I first discovered eBay I went a bit impulsive and ended up with a wooden pipe organ pipe. I have since sold it and the little one my dad found one day to add to my collection (buy one thing and you're now 'collecting'!), but they were fun to hook up to the vacuum cleaner to reverse-play them! My hoarding gene is strong, but I've learned to sell a few things occasionally.