What is the best thing you ever bought.

And what is the one thing you wish you had bought?

 

I could say the engagement ring for my beautifu wiife  of 30 years but my motorbike is amazing!!!

 

Last January I sold a house in the UK and realesed GB 100K. If  had bought Bitcoin I would be sitting on abought GBP 500K profit - <deleted> !!!

 

Over to you.....

A dictionary.

49 minutes ago, MarkT63 said:

What is the best thing you ever bought.

 

No need.  I have my health.

 

49 minutes ago, MarkT63 said:

And what is the one thing you wish you had bought?

 

No need.  I have my health.  

20 minutes ago, Leaver said:

 

No need.  I have my health.

 

 

No need.  I have my health.  

Cheers!

The best thing I recently bought would probably be the bottle of gin I picked up in lotas..

Haven't opened it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

 

The best thing I never bought would have to be the six cans of tonic water that I forgot to pick up while I was there.

1 hour ago, MarkT63 said:

What is the best thing you ever bought.

And what is the one thing you wish you had bought?

My retirement in Thailand.

Don't wish anymore I'm grateful for what I have already. 

Best thing I ever bought?

 

That was my early retirement courtesy of some advice from an aquiantance/friend in Oz - Bob ....He retired in his early 50's & sold orchid's out of his home as a past time to keep busy....

 

He took me aside & asked if I was retired....I said no.....He advised me to find a way if I could as they spent too much time watching old work mates keel over & die before they could retire.....

I studied up and found out he was "dead" accurate.....

Within 2 years I retired - and I never looked back.....

I'd say buying myself MY TIME (left) to enjoy and extend the few last chapters was the best value/purchase I could have made.....

I've had a lot of material things things/toys/horses/art/RVs/properties/etc through hard work - but always on somebody else's schedule/demand....

 

Of any of those, the one thing I wish I'd held onto was a 31' Airstream which I made good use of, sunshine & snow with weekends overlooking an "alpine" lake.....Me, my daughter, (and a lady of choice) = many happy times....I liked that funny shaped aluminium can....

22 hours ago, Solinvictus said:

Cheers!

 

The rest pales into insignificance, compared to your health.  

The one thing I wish I had bought was Fender VI bass from Eric Haydock formerly of the Hollies in 1971

The best thing I bought was a Fender Jazz bass in 1972, and its still going strong.

Vibrator.

8 minutes ago, Andyfez said:

Vibrator.

Is that the best thing you ever bought or the thing you wished you bought? Actually bought would imply you partner needed it and stuck around. Wished you had bought would mean your partner left you...

A divorce!

After 3 divorces, the best thing that I ever bought was my sex-doll....????

2 minutes ago, simon43 said:

After 3 divorces, the best thing that I ever bought was my sex-doll....????

 

Why not buy a live sex toy for a couple of hours. You don't have to marry every woman you have sex with.....

A small electronic tuner which clips to the headstock of my guitar. Being completely tone deap, I wish it had been invented sixty years ago. 

9 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

 

Why not buy a live sex toy for a couple of hours. You don't have to marry every woman you have sex with.....

A 'live' sex toy can land you in jail in Laos....  Besides, my sex-doll doesn't have a mobile phone and never uses Facebook.....

Best thing I bought . Can’t remember her name !

Worst thing I bought was a week in Miami. Truly overrated dump !

17 minutes ago, jesimps said:

A small electronic tuner which clips to the headstock of my guitar. Being completely tone deap, I wish it had been invented sixty years ago. 

How stupid can you get...me I mean....played for years tuning by ear....must have sounded awful.....then, like you, bought a tuner....doh!!!

Not wealthy.......but bought two Range Rover SVR's...5 liter, V8, twin super chargers..... one for me, one for the wife......and yes I have a small one.

 

Bought tax free and sold a year later for a ridiculous profit.......could not afford to buy these in the real world.

My house would have to be the best thing I bought. It is not a particularly great house and I was in two minds on whether to buy it or not - but it has turned out to be far and away the best thing I ever bought. It has soared in value and will essentially allow me to retire in Thailand 10 years earlier than I had expected.

 

As for a smaller item, my MacBook Pro. Still going strong after 7 years and has given me zero problems (which I cannot say for every Windows computer I owned the previous 20+ years).

A membership card at Eden Club.

Earbuds that translate 40 languages, including Thai.

Now I will know what those market ladies / bar girls / shopkeepers / anyone else is saying, without them knowing it's being translated directly into my ears. Win!

 

https://timekettle-wt2edge-earbuds.kckb.st/44b3d920

     The best thing I ever bought was my first  condo in Reston, Virginia, where I was working as a very lowly-paid state worker and renting an apartment--which weren't cheap to rent in that area.  I borrowed the money for the down payment from my Dad.  I fixed the condo up, sold it at a profit, paid off Dad, and bought another. Did the same thing a few times.

    Hit the jackpot (for me) with maybe my fifth Reston condo.  The rich people next door wanted to put two condos together so they bought mine and I made a $70,000 profit.  Not a lot of money, I know, for many but for me, making about $25,000 a year at the time and living in a very expensive part of the country, it was a godsend.  Suddenly I wasn't living paycheck to paycheck, hoping nothing expensive broke.  Had I kept renting rather than buying that first condo, I doubt I'd have ever gotten ahead.

    As to what I wish I had bought, back in 2003 I bought a new VW Beetle and it came with an Apple Ipod as part of a promotion between VW and Apple.  At the time I didn't know much about what an Ipod was and didn't really see a need for it in my life so I sold it to one of my colleagues at work.  Pity I didn't say at the time, instead, hey what a great invention, let's buy some Apple stock.   As an aside, I am using a 2009 Ipod in my car to play music since the car didn't come with a CD player.  Still works perfectly.

     

2 hours ago, jesimps said:

A small electronic tuner which clips to the headstock of my guitar. Being completely tone deap, I wish it had been invented sixty years ago. 

If you are tone deaf, why does it matter if the guitar is out of tune.   LOL

4 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

If you are tone deaf, why does it matter if the guitar is out of tune.   LOL

so that others don't run screaming into the street??

2 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

 

 You don't have to marry every woman you have sex with.....

Wish you had told me that back in 1981 ...... and again in 1994 ...... and again in 2007 .... and again in 2015 ................

On 2/26/2021 at 10:05 PM, MarkT63 said:

What is the best thing you ever bought.

And what is the one thing you wish you had bought?

1) My Thai wife, best 100,000bht I ever spent.

2) 10,000 pounds of Microsoft shares in 1990 (would be worth 1,000,000+ now).

6 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Wish you had told me that back in 1981 ...... and again in 1994 ...... and again in 2007 .... and again in 2015 ................

where were you in 1969? The summer of love.

My pushbike. Bought it in the states, fixed it up to my specs, and it gets me to places like this just today:

 

Just now, 1FinickyOne said:

where were you in 1969? The summer of love.

8 years old, probably playing with Meccano or Scalextric ..... or myself ....