What Is the Best/Worst Purchase You Have Made During the Quarantine?

I bought a fishing rod and lures/hooks/bait and a fishing license. Going fishing once a week has been a pretty nice break from working at home and the activity itself enforces 6ft distancing pretty well so I can have a friend meet me at a fishing spot. The other fishers at each spot are really friendly too and happy to share what is working for them.

I used to fish when I was really young, but I dropped it at high school to focus on grades. Now that I'm a working adult with a fun income and my own car, I'm having a blast exploring my own city and the outskirts looking for fishing spots, and finding new fish.

So far I've caught a few largemouth bass and a crappie!

I bought a new chair as my old one was starting to kill my back. I have a beautiful wooden table and chair set that works well as a writing desk for short periods of time, but was not conducive to sitting for a couple of hours. It remains to be seen if the chair is truly "comfy" but I have found my posture to have been improved a ton which is the important thing to me.

On an impulse I bought the DJI Mavic Mini and I love that thing so much. It's brought me so much joy.

As for worst purchase, I bought a new fridge out of an abundance of precaution thinking that I could store a lot of food but it sits 90% empty unless I fill it up with a ton of water bottles in my garage. Probably was an unnecessary purchase and I should've gone for a deep freezer if I was serious about trying to store food for long periods of time.

Best - A freezer we bought a few years ago and didn't really use much until recently. It lets us limit trips to the grocery store to about once a month.

Worst - $100 on Valorant skins. I knew I'd play this game a lot so I got some currency because they had a promo where you'd get 20% extra after the beta. Figured I would be a good amount of skins for it. Unfortunately time has reveled that Riot is one of the most selfish companies in the world and their pricing model is targeted directly at whales. Great game, but I'll never give them another cent until they bring their skins down to sane prices.

Two good purchases:

I bought a chest freezer. I was running out of space in my small freezer. It is extremely efficient, and I can store more food.

I bought more sun shirts to protect my skin from UV rays while I am out in the garden.

Worst - small power generator - world didn't fall apart..

Best - bag of real flour from small local mill. My Mom mastered baking real bread without yeast. Cheap, tasty, healthy, simple. Will never touch what they are selling as bread.

Got a hp x360 laptop right before the pandemic that was an excellent buy and build quality was the best of all the laptops I’ve ever owned.

Got my kid a cruzee balance bike and transitioned her to a woom bike. Both excellent products.

Some big bags of flour while experimenting with sourdough recipes for bread, pizza, pancakes etc. I've learned a lot about working with yeast and won't feel dependent to find it in shops anymore.

I purchased a combination standing desk and exercise bike. In my first two weeks I've run the odometer to 360 miles.

Found a great deal on a herman miller aeron. No more back pain, it's great!

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