What was the first thing you ever bought on amazon?

[TellingBone]

Was looking for something in 'your orders' and idly clicked the drop-down box to look at previous orders by year.

Mine: 2001 - The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams et al

Women beware women - Thomas Middleton Sept 2005.

First year of English degree

Fame DVD

3 Dec 1999 I bought a CD of the Elgar Cello Concerto

"The Return of the King", JRR Tolkien, waaaaay back in 2003

2009 - I was 18 so probably had my first debit card.
Statistics book for my university course, and Christmas presents for my boyfriend (a cricket Wii game, the Chris Moyle Album and a London underground themed board game)

Mine was a book called “The Countryside Ideal”. It’s a book about the British idealisation of the countryside and the historic and cultural reasons behind that.

And before anyone says that’s very niche...when my DH moved in with me, he brought only a handful of books. One was his very own copy of The Countryside Ideal 😮 I’m fairly certain there can’t be many household with multiple copies of this riveting read!

@Gerla

Actually finding it quite depressing going through these past orders. So many things bought and then not used...especially books about completing your PhD and furthering your academic career....back when I still thought I might have a career!

I do sympathise. I felt like that for a while.

I “lost” several career years to caring, when I’d have preferred to have juggled on (mainly due to misogyny in the social care, education and health systems, but thats another thread). Then I lost some more time to illness.

Is your situation along those lines?

Don’t give up. It’s never too late for study. Nor work, and sometimes self employment is a good solution.

It goes, back as far as 2006 - Cloud Atlas. I know I've ordered things long before then - maybe I had another account!

Ghost Whisperer Season 3 DVD back in 2009!

@RickiTarr

Thank you! I did actually get the PhD but it was just impossible for me to use it without moving to another city and I couldn't do that with young children - and now I am just too old and out of the loop! I hope you managed better than I did.

I'm now looking at all the orders of miraculous hair products that I bought in the hope that they would reverse alopecia. They didn't! Actually, I think the moral of this story is to stop buying things thinking they can change your life!

Dec 2003

Scart to Scart Lead

A knock off replacement sky remote in 2009

A special edition tin DVD set - Wrestlemania 24 in 2008.

I assume I bought it for now DH, it still lingers in the cupboard 🤣

[quote Gerla]@RickiTarr

Thank you! I did actually get the PhD but it was just impossible for me to use it without moving to another city and I couldn't do that with young children - and now I am just too old and out of the loop! I hope you managed better than I did.

I'm now looking at all the orders of miraculous hair products that I bought in the hope that they would reverse alopecia. They didn't! Actually, I think the moral of this story is to stop buying things thinking they can change your life! [/quote]
Oh well then you’re Dr Gerla.

There’s quite a lot of regaine foam and caffeine shampoo on mine too, actually. We live and learn!

A Tassimo coffee machine, Star Wars Trilogy DVD and Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss (which I have no recollection of). All December 2005.

Trust Us, We Lie - A Heartwell Ending CD 9th Aug 2006

Apr 2003 Fools Garden dish of the day CD

The Return of the Naked Chef recipe book and Downunder by Bill Bryson, both on the same order in July 2000.

1999 - it was a mouse that Amazon paid for because I was helping them set up scripts for their customer support team.

2007 - two weeks after I went to uni so probably coinciding with my first student loan payment

300 on DVD, a Babyshambles CD and SingStar for the PS2.

@FreeAt50

Baby Mozart on VHS

VHS in 2002!? Surely not!

@FreeAt50 I posted just before you - I bought 2 Narnia VHSs in 2003! No idea when we graduated to DVD here

Two books about losing a parent and bereavement in general back in 2004 when my dad died.

2007 the little book of whittling
For my sons birthday! Aged 10

Where The Wild Things Are - 2009 so my DD would have been three . Was her favourite book for years and the book is still on her bookcase

A Kindle in 2011, was for my dad for his 60th.