What have you bought that you are very thankful you did now we are housebound?

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Me - my nespresso latissima coffee machine. Having a nice coffee is really helping me get through the day. Albeit I will need to cut down on the lattes as getting a bit fat(ter). Am so grateful decided to get one in Jan

Also - my two nice big Le creuset pots that I actually got as a wedding present but have been using even more than usual

Oh and jigsaws and board games for older teen/young adult children. Also a good distraction.

@Bridecilla it wasn't exactly cheap but we bought it through a company selling equipment from gyms that have gone bust so it could have been much worse

So glad I didn’t get rid of the trampoline like I was considering in February.

Who gives a crap loo roll delivery & brexit stash meant I didn’t even have to think about all that panic buying.

And my parents bought a stash of their interesting recycling for the kids as ‘junk modelling’ the last time we saw them the week before lockdown. I so nearly threw it straight in the bin when they gave it to me but thank goodness I didn’t - dc have been using it loads!

Toilet rolls from Amazon

Brexit stash inc. lots of soap, flour and yeast
Tympanic thermometer
Snack pots (Sistema colour coded ones)

I'm glad I learnt to make my own bread and am a decent cook.

DH buys from an organic wholesaler in bulk with his work colleagues. Got an order of bread flour, plain flour, yeast, pasta, pulses, rice, passata and other bits a few weeks before lock-down. Kids will be master bakers by the time we emerge.

Definitely the milkman, did it earlier this year for eco reasons and now it saves lots of shopping trips. Also very glad we had building work to separate our previously open plan living and dining rooms. Working from home would have been a disaster as we’d have had no private space.

Also glad for our who gives a crap subscription too!

A cross trainer! Got it really cheap on eBay in November and picked it up not really expecting us to use it but thought it’d be good for winter..It means we haven’t had to go out at all as we have a small garden for kids to play in and cross trainer for our exercise.

As we’re in a very high corona case area it makes me feel more safe.

Oh and I’m also glad I bought and stashed Easter Eggs before lockdown so I don’t have to face judgment by going to buy some!

Dog(a few years ago)
Piano(old and needs tuning but DC can play it properly)
New kitchen (last year)

Borrowed a laptop from work when lockdown looked inevitable, thank goodness. Also glad to have stocked up on children’s craft bits.

Oh and very glad we hadn’t quite got round to knocking down a wall downstairs as DD home from uni and we all need our spaces.

Upgraded to fibre broadband a couple of weeks before lockdown, seeds, gin, paint.

Brexit stash! No one is laughing at me now!
Also lots of cgp books to keep school work going, ordered when things started looking bad in China.
Dd had a laptop for Christmas v glad we don’t have to share.
Children have been playing with lots of their old toys that I had been meaning to get rid of!

We got a puppy in january - hes keeping my dds more entertained than I ever could!

Books and jigsaws from eBay and a Kamado bbq

Ds2 had a birthday party planned right in the middle of all this, which we've had to cancel of course.
However I'd been slowly buying extra of things for the party - extra flour, icing sugar and butter for the huge cake we'd planned on making. Extra frozen food for the party.
As it turns out having extra baking supplies in has been very useful! We've done several baking sessions.
Also ds2 decided he didn't want a big cake and instead wanted rainbow cupcakes. Now I have used a bit of every colour from a food colouring set I bought a year ago on line. I'd only wanted one colour, but they had an offer on the set.. yada yada.
They're bloody good food colouring and the rainbow cupcakes came out very well!
DH also bulk bought some cat litter before lockdown on a special offer. Good idea.

Been so grateful for my brexit pantry. Which is basically my normal well stocked pantry but I had built a years worth of coffee, hair dye, cleaning products, tea, sugar etc. Didn't need to visit the shops at all until 2 days ago since before the stockpiling numpties descended.

Always have a well stocked cocktail shelf, am very grateful for all these spirits seriously! Had such a craving for an Aperol spritz last week. Yesterday discovered past me bought a brand new full bottle that is there waiting for me. Thank you, past me.

Feeling v glad for the craft cupboard which is a huge ugly, teak thing with various compartments and full to the brim with creative stuff. It was the cupboard for the sort of mum I thought I would be, making stuff with the kids every weekend. Turns out I've just mainly been slowly adding to it for 8 yrs. But now we use it most days in lockdown.

The best item is probably my multicooker, it's called a pressure king pro and is a copy of instant pot. I have never made something in it that didn't taste good. It's brill.

Downsides are I'm gutted we never could afford to sort the garden to a decent state. We are chipping away at it but there is little more we can do now without being able to go to tip to discard a lot of rubble and soil and also hiring in some big ass tools. So it will have to just wait at least we can sit outside so feel v lucky for that.

TRampoline, slide, basketball net, sand table, water table etc everything in the garden that entertains the children, I feel so sorry for families without a garden.

All of the things we bought for projects around the house and never got around to starting - keeping us busy now!

Two freezers in my garage ready for Brexit.
4 boxes of Clairol Root Touch-Up

Can I nominate two? Not recent purchases but one was a keyboard (a piano type) which we bought DS for a Christmas present a year ago. He's been teaching himself different pieces by watching YouTube over the year but these last couple of weeks he's really picked it up and he's playing every day.

And the PS4 we bought him two birthdays ago. He used to use it ad-hoc but the last few weeks he's been having a regular hour or two on it playing with friends. They get their school work done and sit down around 3.30pm (as school would normally chuck out). They've decided the time between them, DS told me they decided on that time as it's the end of the school day so it's 'their time', something to focus on and time to look forward to. They chat on line whilst they play so they've been keeping each others spirits up - one of their friends was very down last week so they were all telling her 'virtual jokes' to cheer her up and 'talking' things through.

Her mum text all of the other mums to say how much it helped her, probably more than she and her DH could, because she knows her friends are still there for her. It just helps with the isolation.

Our house. We moved at the end of last year. If we had been living in our old house right now my mental health would be shot.

We bought teenage dd her own printer a few weeks before the lockdown. She's been doing a lot of college work so that was a good investment.

I'd bought myself an exercise bike when I was on a fitness kick a few years ago but it had been sat in a corner for a very long time, collecting dust and taking up space. Thought about selling it but now I'm really glad that I didn't.

A new Samsung tablet.
Pharmacy mistake provided me with excess medication to last 4 mths.
I experimented with bulk buying online in November and have a spare room full of pasta, loo roll and powdered milk, amongst other things!