Battle Bots, Ebay Edition
Back when eBay was young, I was drinking A LOT with friends while bidding on a used folding kayak.
I got angry with a competing bidder and wound up paying a lot more than I would have sober. (I later learned about sniping services. I rarely buy things in online auctions anymore, but that may have been the last time I was foolish enough to watch the end of an auction and try to outbid someone who was likely a bot.)
The kayak still cost much less than a new one, and I used it for about a decade before selling it to someone else.
Paddling around Cape Cod almost always beat any gym workout I can remember.
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Hubbard’s Cupboard
Shortly after I moved into my new apartment I was stressing over how there wasn’t much counter space or cupboard space in the kitchen. A few nights later I was two sheets to the wind and I bought a really nice kitchen hutch on Amazon. It’s perfect and has room for all my pots and pans, microwave, and toaster oven.
I guess maybe that’s not so much “awesome” as “practical and necessary.”
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The Belle of the Book
A subscription to early readers books, like Dr. Seuss and whatnot, for my one-year-old. She loves books and now I don’t have to read the same 6 books over and over aging. Plus, it’s like reliving my childhood.
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