Items that you are REALLY pleased that you own

[matty-hodgson]

Hey Matty,
what car you got?

oh it's only a 1.4 Fiesta Zetec
my first car though..
only passed on the 7th.

[autopilot]

How did you go about doing that?

[Elmer Fudd voice] Veeeerrry veeeerrrrrrrrrrry carefully...

[autopilot]

It's quality not quantity

...and a greenhouse. I win.

[staffsMike]

Wouldn't it be Vewwwwwy Vewwwwwwwwwwy Cawwwefully

[Knoxville]

Is it weird that I can't see George Bush Jr without thinking of that voice.

Be vewwy vewwy qwuiet we're hunting the axis of evil....

[TeePee]

It's like assembling a computer. You buy a bunch of parts, receiver, trigger group, barrel, gas block, etc, and then put them together. If you get it right you have a shooter. If you get it wrong you had a face.

[digit]

Have to be my car. Getting a bit long in the tooth now, just done over 100K, but if I didn't have it, I'd be lost frankly and unable to easily escape.

Agreed, its a convience I couldn't live without. Mine isnt yet at 100K but its fast approaching, 91.5k its on now and 10 years old

[kalniel]

Testes.

[99Flake]

My Hifi, even if I was in dire need of money I still wouldn't sell it. Nothing better than coming home after work, opening a cold bottle of Peroni and putting on a cd and chilling.

Something nice about having a decent separates system, looks nice in the living room.

[Tumble]

2) Polarised sunglasses. Only recently bought some, what a difference for driving!

Truth - I won't have anything else anymore, apart from the fact that they're better at protecting your eyes than normal ones, they reduce glare so much - you wouldn't notice how distracting the shine of car windscreens coming towards you is until you've had a pair.

They aren't so good for muddy singletrack under the trees though, the mud looks all funny and you fall off

[thestjohn]

To be honest, apart from the computer I don't own much nowadays. But I'm really glad I own my glasses. I am massively short-sighted, and had to pay an arm and a leg to get lenses that weren't so thick that I could deflect bullets with them, and a frame that didn't make my head droop with the weight. Considering the number of boxes collecting glasses I've seen in charity shops, I could be living in a country where I wouldn't even get the old NHS standard goggles I used to have as a kid unless they got donated. In terms of money spent versus quality of life I can't say I've ever had anything like them.

[bsodmike]

Keeping this as simple as possible,

* My Collections: Wristwatches to Fountain Pens and much more that it would take far too much to list...

* The Den: It used to be my childhood room; now houses my HT and computers etc. Spend most of my time here.

* My home (100% owned, none of those funny mortgage thingamajigs ) and estate left to me by my Dad.

[Mike Fishcake]

It sounds silly, but I really like my granite chopping board in my kitchen. Much better than any other one I've owned

[autopilot]

Truth - I won't have anything else anymore, apart from the fact that they're better at protecting your eyes than normal ones, they reduce glare so much - you wouldn't notice how distracting the shine of car windscreens coming towards you is until you've had a pair.

They aren't so good for muddy singletrack under the trees though, the mud looks all funny and you fall off

I thought polarised glasses were not recommended and did not work through the windscreen?

[dangel]

The wife.

She's bloody handy.

[Tumble]

I thought polarised glasses were not recommended and did not work through the windscreen?

Lies. They're great - they actually help you see through it, as on a sunny day the reflection of the dash on the windscreen is on such an angle that the polarising filter doesn't let it through.