Your Strangest Thing

[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.