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Things of beauty which were expensive and you didn't need but you bought anyway

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Sax

14:33 / 05.11.04

A faux fur throw from Habitat. £130.

Sax

14:38 / 05.11.04

And I realise that the topic title and summary reads a bit funny, so I'd like to point out that I didn't actually buy Anna de Logardiere, thing of beauty that she undoubtedly is.

Benny the Ball

14:46 / 05.11.04

My housemate just bought a really nice leather satchal - really nice - £160. I'm coverting it.

I bought a nice paint brush, but have never painted anything in my life.

Apart from that, I'M STILL WAITING TO GET PAID Arghhhhhhhhh! (see rage thread).

iamus

17:04 / 05.11.04

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Despite its general moral reprehensibility, it is as exqiusite a piece of videogaming as art as you are likely to find.

The fact that purchasing it also facilitated buying a Playstation to play it on (adding to the fact that I am unemployed), made it both expensive and unnecessary.

Mourne Kransky

20:13 / 05.11.04

thing of beauty that she undoubtedly is

and absolutely necessary.

My favourite were the ridiculously expensive pewter Daleks G bought me for Christmas. Theoretically a cruet set but that would just be silly.

Mourne Kransky

20:37 / 05.11.04

And here is one of the lovely little pewter fuckers:

sal-in-ate!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:34 / 05.11.04

2xThrobbing Gristle CD box sets, at a total of £325. 34 CDs.

Mourne Kransky

21:45 / 05.11.04

Ah, but they gave you so much throbby gristly pleasure... ...for days on end! It would have been like me buying all the 3 DVD boxes of Star Trek TOS that are out, which I haven't been profligate enough for yet. Nor rich enough.

Tryphena Absent

22:26 / 05.11.04

I'm not using my garland lampshade at the moment and actually it wasn't that expensive but...

Conran Habitat production version of garland light. Dutch designer Tord Boontje is known for intricate, organic designs. He created the Wednesday light, a kind of wreath made of plaited flowers and leaves that attaches to a suspended light bulb, and Habitat commissioned him to make an affordable version for their stores. The result was the 1.5 meter long metal Garland, made by photographically etching stainless steel, a process normally used to make electronic components.

Saint Keggers

23:54 / 05.11.04

Vertigo Tarot. It was 80$ plus tax at a time when I was struggling to keep my hands on 2$...

unheimlich manoeuvre

00:48 / 06.11.04

Dhalgren by samuel delany, brand spanking new, published by vintage.
£12.99 in paperback, pretty steep.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:08 / 06.11.04

No way, man, Dhalgren's a necessity.

Goodness Gracious Meme

11:02 / 06.11.04

ooh! Garland Lampshade, lovely.

hmm. Bear in mind that my finances are extremely tight/utterly buggered to bankruptcy*

Thus, putting my spending £18 on a *second-hand* Adidas tracky top is a bit unwise.

But I love it soooooo

I am also seriously considering blowing £45 on this. (not entirely worksafe, it's pic of a vibrator, sorry, 'personal massager')

And if I had it, would happily spend *£130* on these.(nor this, it's an fetish shop)

So I'll be back once I've got 'em, living in a cardboard box/racking up the court judgements, but happy, damn it...

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:00 / 06.11.04

In the last fortnight:

One of these.

One of these.

One of these.

Fortunately, none of them very expensive, but all pretty much totally unnecessary. I could maybe have made a case for the printer, but could alternatively have tried a bit harder to fix my old one...

I suck, basically.

Spatula Clarke

16:24 / 06.11.04

One of these, when I didn't really have the money:

From the days when console hardware showed evidence of actually having been designed. The size of three CD cases stacked on top of each other. Game carts that look like credit cards. A console so small, a few years later they stuck a screen on it and called it a handheld.

Along with this:

The cover of which clips onto the interface unit and turns the lot into a tiny plastic briefcase for ease of transport. Gorgeous controllers, too. If we had a :wub: smiley, I'd be using it now.

Triplets

18:04 / 06.11.04

This is fun, but none of you can complain about being poor until pay day.

Lilly Nowhere Late

19:13 / 06.11.04

DHALGREN is my favourite book of all time, ever.

Whisky Priestess

19:26 / 06.11.04

Xoc, you are this man:

and I claim my five pounds!

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

19:26 / 06.11.04

This:

These:

This:

These:

And this:

Yup, all of 'em this month. Just trying out a new credit card and yes, I can confirm that it works.

My PC is truly a thing of bass-shaking, directional-sounding, polygon-processing, RAM-pounding, laser-tracking beauty.

Goodness Gracious Meme

03:01 / 07.11.04

You people obviously all have alot more money than me. and I hate you.

I spent wildly and unjustifiably on some nice cheese, you bastards.

Whisky Priestess

10:51 / 07.11.04

Well go on then, post a picture ...

I bought the below three years ago, knowing that they would come in handy some time. (They did). At £25 they were not that expensive, but quite expensive for such an utterly frivolous and not immediately useful item.

Whisky Priestess

10:52 / 07.11.04

My collection of feather boas and showgirl headdress, on the other hand, were a legitimate business expense.

alas

11:02 / 07.11.04

Do services count as a "thing"--like getting a massage. A thing of kinesthetic beauty it is. I'm going in tomorrow so that a woman with peasant, bread kneading hands can touch every part of my body with a mildly sadistic force. Well, almost every. As much of my body as she's allowed to touch in OHIO, for now. I think the right wing is thinking of requiring women getting massages to wear burqas soon, and to disallow the massaging of any part of the body that might be considered erogenous, so it'll just be elbow rubbing from here on out...

$75 just for an hour of attention. And lately I've been thinking about a pedicure...

Also, I bought a thing called a "Writer's Block" in Bisbee, which is a hippy artsy town in Arizona. It was something like $250. It's a handmade wooden cube about four inches on a side, with a little screen on the front that displays a different combination of two random phrases every so many seconds - as the name suggests it's supposed to provide inspiration when you're blocked. It's something I could duplicate with a Perl script in about five minutes, and yet as soon as I saw it I knew I had to have it. I don't regret it at all. Apart from its utility, it's also got a superb retro feel to it.

Website (mine doesn't look like the one they have there - but then they are hand made)

Moderator note: Link above forbidden

iamus

23:56 / 15.08.06

I bought myself a jen-yoo-ein silver-topped cane, like what a man of class in a top hat and tails might carry on his person. It makes me feel dapper and has a very satisfying swoosh noise when it cuts through the air.

Next up is the top-hat itself. Can't have a cane without something for it to doff, don't you know?

£20 haggled down from £25. That is if you count haggling as...

"Gonnae knock a fiver off of it for me?"
"Aye, why not"

I also bought a beautiful hand-carved chinese small chesty-box thing with all sorts of lovely leafy design all over it and an odd sort of landscape picture in the lid. I'll need to post some pictures of that one. £60 from the same guy. A tad more expensive but I love it.

Mistoffelees

00:06 / 16.08.06

I bought € 513 shades last week, that´s about 350 british pounds?

I´m really curious how long I need to accidentally sit on them.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

09:16 / 16.08.06

Got me a pair of these beauties in the sales last week - in no way essential, but in every way vital.

lonely as a cloud...

09:55 / 16.08.06

Oh, where to start...

My PSP. It's pretty and white and shiny, but very superfluous as I also have a PS2, XBox and PC. And quite expensive. But it does mean I can enjoy video games without leaving my bed.

redtara

10:59 / 16.08.06

I can sleep with two babies on this baby. It costs £375, but when i got it it was only £275 BARGIN!! Might have to sell a kidney next time there is need for emergency money though... On the bright side I will be able to recouperate in comfort.

iamus

23:24 / 30.09.06

As promised above, here's some pictures of the chest...

It gets used to house all my I Ching stuff. Coins, yarrow sticks, books. The table below it only cost £20 and it gets used for The Tea mostly.

Olulabelle

23:43 / 30.09.06

redtara, your chair purchase makes me cry.

Spaniel

07:13 / 01.10.06

Tara, my Dad's gota chair just like that one, so I know just how bloody excellent they are. Money well spent in my opinion.

08:02 / 01.10.06

Knee-length double-breasted black velvet jacket. Which is logically twice as good as the knee-length single-breasted black velvet jacket which I already own.

Liger Null

14:42 / 03.10.06

A tooled-leather Art Nouveau sketch journal by Oberon Design, $56. Apologies for the bad scan, it really doesn't do the thing justice.

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