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and you had to use it in the next two hours. What would you buy for yourself. Let's pretend that you can't buy a gift for someone with it.
Would you buy an expensive book, a tool, an appliance, food, or ...? I chose amazon because they have everything.
Would it be different from what it would have been when you were fifty or sixty? I'm assuming all of the people in your home are old. I'm emphasizing this to try to discourage younger people from responding which would taint the results.
Here are some likely items for me. Let's assume that you can buy more than one item or buy a more expensive item and pay the difference. But let's limit the cost of a single item to $100 so that we don't make the gift card irrelevant.
I bought the first item a few minutes ago which probably inspired the thread. I buy the cherries regularly so I probably wouldn't choose that item.
Because I would like to watch tv again, especially in the winter when we are trapped inside. We can't get anything with just an antenna, we asked about Dish and Satellite, but we are stuck with cable because we get our internet though them. There's a Roku for $30 so I guess that's the model I'd get.
I refuse to pay umpteem $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to the cable company to watch the trash that comprises most of tv offerings these days and I've heard that with the Roku box you can get quality programming. I'm trying to make sure I could get up to date LIVE news too. Right now I think our tv probably has cobwebs on it.
One other thing from Amazon -- they have something that will allow you to watch British videos (or is it CDs?) without paying a fortune to have then converted to American format. dh has a huge collection of Winston Churchill and WWII that he has always wanted to watch with me.........Amazon has something that only costs $30.00 and will do the job.
I have stopped buying books. Amazing. I used to buy books before I would buy food. It's due to age. I've been selling some of my books on ebay and have sold most of my collection of beautifully illustrated children's books.
So far I can't bear to part with my gardening books and my art books. That includes all the books on antiques. I won't buy more books and take up more space with books as I can order them from the library or get them for kindle.
I have a kindle also but don't like it, prefer real books.
If I won a $50 gift card to Amazon it would be gone in seconds. I spend way too much every week on Amazon... pharmaceuticals, books, toys for the grandkids, art supplies... It would just get sucked up and be gone.
La Scala opera collection, will serve me tlll I die.
Outstanding RAI television archive filmings of performances from the Teatro alla Scala of 11 different operas.
Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Samuel Ramey, etc.
For me, books. Books are the only thing I've ever purchased on Amazon. Don't purchase them real often because I am a heavy used of libraries, but sometimes there are books that I want/need to have permanently to hand.
Hearing aid batteries, a couple of packs of Depends, and some Icy Hot patches.
I am downsizing, and only buy what will fit in my cubby at the nursing home.
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