What's been your weirdest purchase lately?

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As the title suggests... let's hear about your random midnight online purchases. I think my most unnecessary (perhaps not weird) purchase has been one of those pancake batter dispensers, simply because I was fed up of what a mess we made on the ONE Sunday in forever that we made pancakes.

4 stainless steel balls

A potato bag.

I ordered a really cheap crappy pot of slime in my sleep

A wicker onion storage thingy and some stainless steel straws, with tiny brush. Oh, and a 3 foot tall twisted green glass decanter.

My weirdest lockdown purchase so far is what dh now refers to as my 'boob light'. It's a pair of lights on a bendable thingy that sits round your neck. I wanted it for knitting in the evening, as the lights in our living room aren't very bright.

Is it a Witney blanket @Iwalkinmyclothing? They're great. There are collectors, prepare for a bidding war. Hope you win.

Boob light sounds amazing linguist

@SharpieInThe no I don't think it is, but I am now stalking a few of those! Thank you for the new target of blanket lust :)

I've just bought a skull. It will be delivered on Monday along with a small porcelain teapot and milk jug.

Amazon is my friend
A Steel rule for work
A vacuum prosecco cork for home...

A metal fat ball holder for feeding the birds.
All manner of stuff to start a junk journal scrapbook. Except the scrapbook itself because I can't decide what upon I want.
A V shaped pillow. It's bliss.

@thequeenofsandwich which is your prosecco cork please? Our normal ones don’t hold in the fizz and I can’t drink a whole bottle in one evening

I can’t drink a whole bottle in one evening

Reported. You have no business being on Mumsnet!

The Usborne book of cassette recorder fun.

I bought the above book on eBay as I loved recording as a child; in this book I read about things I should have tried doing, such as wildlife recordings where you put a microphone inside an umbrella to focus the sound of birdsong. This book also had the line "then try to coax the cat into purring".

A microwavable heat cap (and deep conditioning treatment) as I use lockdown to embrace and develop my natural curls after 20 years of blow-drying straight.

• can’t drink a whole bottle in one evening

Reported. You have no business being on Mumsnet*

Nonsense, if you drink so much as a thimble full more than every leap year on mumsnet you are most definitely an alcoholic

An electric weed burner. Very addictive. Burnt all weeds on the drive, patio and ugly weeds around the edges of the lawn.

A nail grinder thing for my dogs. They hate clippers. They'll probably hate this too but they're turning into the canine version of Edward Scissorhands.

God I haven't bought anything fun at all

A wig. To see what I'd look like with a new hair colour.

Literally just ordered a box of cedar cubes from Amazon, despite the reviews telling me they don't work, because I have a mothy situation going on.

@Bluebellpainting Uh-huh, that's what he SAYS. I'll bet he wants to build a sandcastle.

A kg of dried mealworms for the birds, which I have to soak in warm water to make them suitable for baby birds - and then drain in my sieve, yuck! - having nothing else.

Now need an extra sieve!

This thread is such an inspiration!

Not online, but Aldi's Aisle of Random'

A set of interchangeable needle files.