By that I mean ‘purchased’ you dirty person you.
I bought a Portable DVD player (with TV tuner and NES emulation capability) from e-bay.
I also bought some DVDs - Independence day, Amelie, Full Metal Jacket, Rendezvous de Belleville, Jacob’s Ladder.
Well, DVD’s have turned into a bad-habit routine purchase of mine, despite the Netflix subscription. I tend to rent titles I wouldn’t ever buy in the first place, and haven’t cut back on buying all that much. So I’ve recently bought Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere DVD set, as well as the two-disc Invader Zim set.
My next big-ticket purchase is likely to be The Prisoner DVD mega-set.
Come next pay day (or probably sooner as I’ll get impatient) I’m going to buy myself a new printer and some new running shoes.
How does NES emulation on a DVD player work?
As Homer would say: “Somehow!”
There’s a CD that comes with it with 400 Nes games on it (there are 100 built into the machine too)
When I put this CD into the player I see a DOS style file browser. When I press enter on the game of my choice on the right hand side it begins. Simple as that.
I did the deed today. I’ve been avoiding this purchase for a good 2 - 3 years. I now own a cell phone that takes pictures. That wasn’t so bad. I even got a “deal” on it. They had a promotion and it wound up costing only $52.00.
But, it kills me to sign a contract for 2 years. And I did. I also agreed to spend $50.00 a month on the bill (eek that comes out to a $1,200.00 agreement). I even agreed that I might spend $65.00 a month on this phone if after 60 days I decide that the internet feature/photo thinggy is worth it.
I had to do it because my job now is on the road and I drive a 14 year old car. I’m also moving out and decided I could probably live without a land line. Figured the 25 bucks savings on a land line would be best invested in a better calling plan.
I’m dying to play with my new phone, but the guy said to initially charge it for 8 hours.
Four chinchillas, two enormous cages to house them, every chinchilla toy under the sun … and enough pellets and hay to fill a large room.
Yet another addiction underway … :rolleyes:
Julie
I bought clothes. Tons and tons of clothes for my new job. Yes, I could have saved a ton of money and just gotten some scrubs to wear like some of the other girls do, but where’s the fun in that?
Last week I bought two tickets to Paris for my parents for their 45th wedding anniversary.
Furniture, lots of it.
I’m nearing the end of The Renovation From Hell® and finally about to really ‘move back in’ to my own house, we’ve been subsisting with very little stuff for two years while everything was redone. Turns out the nice handy garage in the back yard where our bedroom sets and living room furniture and extra clothes, books, videotapes and all that have been stored? Leaking. A lot.
Distressing stuff, especially since it’s not covered by my insurance, being a normal wear and tear roof leaky sort of issue. I simply hadn’t noticed, since the garage has been just a storage facility and I never had a need to go look at all the possessions I had no room for.
So, I had to decide between routing thru the extended family’s basements and doing early American garage sale chic, or being like damn near everyone else I know and going into debt. This was an issue for me, I’m allergic to interest payments and was quite accustomed to my position of moral superiority that I’d never do something as silly as finance furniture, one waits until one can afford to purchase such things.
I hit the Memorial Day sales and now have a gorgeous bedroom set I loooooove, beautiful cherry tables and Queen Anne chairs that coordinate with a clearanced sofa for my living room, and a basic but nice oak set in my son’s room that will likely go with him to college in a few years. Now I’ve just got to make myself pay it off before the ‘free’ period ends.
I bought a PDA and an MP3 player last November. In March, I bought an Altec Lansing 4.1 speaker system for my room.
I have been contemplating a PS2 for a while now, but it’s waay too expensive in to buy in India (with import duties, it costs us about $450, excluding memory card and extra joystick).
Instead, I might get me a half decent mobile phone - my current one is of stone-age vintage. Approximately.
12 8ft oak railway sleepers and 10 tonnes of sand.
Yep, we’re levelling our garden (which has resembled a small field on the side of a mountain since we moved in two years ago). Sleepers will be the retaining wall and we’re going to backfill with sand.
Aiming to have a patio laid in time for my birthday party on July 11…
- Digital camera. (An Olympus pocket-size job, not a professional model.)
- Clothes: two pair of Gap flat-front black trous, two T-shirts and a pair of sorts from Uniqlo.
- Shoes: a really nice pair of brown whole-cuts.
- CDs: The super-deluxe two-disc version of *Sweetheart of the Rodeo * by the Byrds, and the extended release of Marshall Crenshaw.
Well seeing as I was out of work for 5 weeks with a broken shoulder I had to console myself with :
new digital camera (Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z2)
An XP 2800+ processor + Asus motherboard
Tickets to World Rugby Sevens matchs in Bordeaux, France (NZ won) 
Earlier this year I bought a red velvet chaise lounge. I’ve wanted a chaise lounge since I was 8. (I’ve wanted an E-type jaguar since the very same year but the odds of me being able to afford one of those any time soon are slim.) I love lounging about on it with a good book. I turned one room of our apartment into my own space which feels great, because my husband has a fantastic design eye and his design concepts tend to dominate the rest of the place.
Are you growing yourself a coat? I swear, if I could afford it, I’d grow me a set of chinchilla sheets. Softest fur evah.
Oh…and I spent $130 on flowers yesterday. They’re beeeeautiful.
A few months ago I bought a widescreen plasma tv, and a digital TV receiver, plus new furniture to place it all in.
Softest fur ever … sweetest, most lovable and trusting little animals ever … nasty Kalhoun. 
A limited edition Louis Vuitton bag that I’ve been wanting for awhile. I’ve been periodically taking it out of its dust bag, looking at it and sighing happily, then putting it back.