Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])

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Just got my first tank up and cycling, it's an Aquatropic 110ltr, with amazon swords, java fern, moss balls, a few rocks and a piece of bog wood. Still not decided what I'm having in here yet, though there's time to figure that out while getting the water chemistry sorted.
 
Decided the previous Van i picked up wasn't going to be big enough having actually got my hands on it. Luckily as it was family, we'd had the discussion when i picked it up. He said i could take it and then make a decision once i got home and would delay transferring the V5 etc as it's covered under his work insurance. I just needed to Tax it.

It drove great and i went to Liverpool to pick up some car seats for the Jeep in Spain (part of the reason i need a bigger van - I've also bought a soft top roof and centre console!)

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Saturday i went and bought a bigger Van. Cycled to Blackpool to pick it up in ******* rain. Drove "ok" when i tried it. Only has 5 gears vs the 6 of the Mercedes and feels more like a van. But storage space is massive and it's over a grand cheaper than the Mercedes version. Has been an ex trades van though and was considerably tattier so needs a decent clean.

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The radio is also a horrible thing to use after a few journeys having to rely on it. Usually ending up just driving in silence. So bought a Bluetooth Aux thing and phone holder

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Then for the ferry we need to muzzle the dog. Not sure he's a fan of the hannibal lector look. Need to keep putting it on him every day or so to get him used to wearing it.

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Bought an i5-7500T to replace an i5-6500T.
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Which I've put in a little Dell Optiplex 3050.

It's an increase of 500 MHz over the previous CPU.

The next generation CPU also means that this 16 Gb of memory I bought runs at 2400 MHz instead of 2133 MHz. I only had 8 Gb before.

(I accept the memory isn't actually visible here, that's because it's in the PC already).
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And to give it an extra jag, I replaced the 128 Gb SSD with this.
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That's given a nice disk performance upgrade.
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CPU was thirty quid, memory was thirty quid and the nvme was thirty quid. I think that's three nice, relatively cheap upgrades.
 
R-evans said:
Bought a muslin cloth. Technically I bought it months ago, but have only needed it in the last week.

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Congratulations!

Bit of advice, buy everything you can secondhand from places like vinted. The little buggers grow like bad weeds and they will ruin outfits like they are going out of fashion. When you paid £1 for a babygrow its not quite so sad. Oh and vanish oxy-action is magic.

All my advice is poop related.
 
fez said:
Congratulations!

Bit of advice, buy everything you can secondhand from places like vinted. The little buggers grow like bad weeds and they will ruin outfits like they are going out of fashion. When you paid £1 for a babygrow its not quite so sad. Oh and vanish oxy-action is magic.

All my advice is poop related.
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Haha thanks. We tried napisan after recommendations but I'll grab some vanish if it isn't cutting it.

Luckily we have what must be about 150 items of clothes for him and we haven't purchased a single one. A few friends have had boys recently so they gave us things by the bag load. Should be enough for the first year, by which point they'll be giving us the next lot of clothing. We've been very lucky.

In fact the only thing we have bought is a pram and them muslin cloths. Everything else was given to us. We'll be taking friends out for dinner as much as we can to say thank you.
 
R-evans said:
Haha thanks. We tried napisan after recommendations but I'll grab some vanish if it isn't cutting it.
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We stick napisan into every wash because we use reusable wipes for their bums so I think it probably helps with the cleaning/disinfecting. We use vanish when we have had an explosion and an outfit is going to be ruined and simply washing it won't work. The powder works amazingly well if you clean the worst off the clothes and then leave them to soak in the stuff for a few hours. Almost magic in its ability to lift stains.

R-evans said:
Luckily we have what must be about 150 items of clothes for him and we haven't purchased a single one. A few friends have had boys recently so they gave us things by the bag load. Should be enough for the first year, by which point they'll be giving us the next lot of clothing. We've been very lucky.
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Same here, people have given us a lot of new clothes up to one year but we have had bag loads of clothes from friends and family. We have twins so you can never have too much. I think on a bad day we have been through 8+ outfits.

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I'm convinced that nobody has bought baby clothes for years, they all just get passed around. My daughter spawned nearly a year ago and the amount of stuff she was given is incredible. She's already passed loads on.
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You say that but I know far too many people without much money that spend a lot on brand new clothes. Other children have pooed on them and you wouldn't want that would you? :rolleyes:

Some of having a baby is enjoying dressing them up in silly but cute outfits and I indulge my partner in that a fair bit but there is a line. Usually that line is about £8 for an outfit!

In general, baby clothes are surprisingly well made IMO.
 
New baby advice stops at "get a poo bin", followed by "ignore all advice and do what you think is best, then learn from any mistakes". But definitely buy a poo bin for those 3am nappy changes....
 
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