Amazon: 75 Clorox handiwipes (reusable cloths). I can't buy them when I do on line grocery shopping and the one grocery store I go into from time to time doesn't carry them. It wasn't worth it to buy a package of 3 so I got the economical package. Should last me the rest of my life. In fact I told my daughter if something happens to me and she finds a huge stack of handiwipes, I wasn't losing it.

eBay: A new golf bag. Now if it would only stop raining, I might be able to use it! We've had between 5 and 6 inches of rain in the last two days. It's going to take a while before the courses dry out.

Amazon last order was K-cups. Great coffee at a great price. Ebay was pokemon fabric for a special little guy who wanted them for school.

I can't remember the last time I used Amazon. Probably when Ken was still alive...I bought books for him. He died in 2010.

I buy on eBay a lot. Last week I bought 2 pair of shoes and 11 waterlilies.

My last Amazon order was for refill rolls for the Foodsaver and a new shower squeegee.

BTW, Amy, I thought of you when I saw these the other day.

my last Amazon order was my book club book, The Vanishing Half , which is very good.

i don’t often buy from eBay but coincidentally I recent bought a top. I like some of the clothes from a company called Habitat. They aren’t sold in department stores, just random boutiques, so I looked for them on eBay. Found one I liked in my size, although once it arrived I realized I should have ordered down a size. It’s roomy but I’ll still wear it. Hoping it will shrink a bit when washed.

I bought some cute masks on Etsy.

Amazon - for mask making, I bought 50 lime green barrel squeezy clasps, so much easier than trying to tie a knot behind your head. And 40 yards of elastic. Now I have a selection of masks with bands/squeezy barrels, and masks with ear elastic. I bought enough to share, because buying a small quantity was almost as expensive as over-buying.

Amazon Kindle Unlimited - I "buy" books for zero dollars every few days during these pandemic months.

Ebay - when I use that, I look for "buy now" prices. Last purchase was an orchid, three years ago.

I bought two outdoor cat houses (for a feral cat we've started caring for) and a battery operated hedge trimmer.

Husband ordered a vise, and I got a book, recently.

I received a cotton storage basket with a drawstring top from Amazon last week to keep gloves, scarves, and hats in the hall closet. I am happy with it, and the basket looks so much better than the wire bin that I replaced.

I also gave Etsy some of my money recently. I purchased back to school gifts for my grandson who is in 2nd grade

https://www.etsy.com/listing/850846601/this-student-is-ready-for-virtually?ref=yr_purchases

and this for my daughter

https://www.etsy.com/listing/834249340/teachers-can-do-virtually-anything-mug?ref=yr_purchases

On Amazon, citric acid and fennel seeds. On Ebay a pair of crocs.

My very last purchase I received this week: a white towel bar for my bathroom. (I'm almost done painting and putting it all back together, should be done today). And a few weeks ago, I bought a Cuisinart waffle/grill maker as my previous one bit the dust after 15 years. It was $40 cheaper than Walmart! I wanted to buy local, but $40 savings is a $40 savings, right?

Amazon: a pair of replacement lamp cords, a bottle of Nature's Miracle Max, and a replacement broom handle (for outdoor broom). My next order will probably be evening primrose oil, which I take to control hot flashes.

I have my eye on a big cotton sun hat right now - much less $ than a very similar one at Macy's (actually, it is only a few $ less than Macy's would be with my reward coupon, but I would have to either pay a big shipping charge, or buy 2 which I don't need).

Ebay: a used Coach small crossbody -beautiful color (indigo) and I was looking for a blue like that in a small shoulder or crossbody - ideally about 9" x 5" x2-3". Unfortunately, the dimensions that the seller posted were incorrect - the purse is much smaller. I kept it anyway, figure I will use it sometime if not everyday. Before that, it was a replacement latch/handle for my vintage screen door (new old stock) and a battery/charger for a Shark broom vac. All last year, and I think those were the first since I bought the faucet for my ktichen reno there in 2013.

I find both ebay and Amazon to be good sources for replacement parts for older models of appliances and such.

Last purchase from Amazon was a gift for my Schwan man. He greatly admired the t shirt that DH was wearing with words and math symbols about eating delicious 'pi' on it. He is a really nice guy, so I ordered one for him.

On Ebay: Kilim Lumbar zippered pillow cover, 12"x24"

From Amazon, Bathroom fan digital timers, night light

My last Amazon order, a book and gel pens.

I used to love clothes shopping on Ebay, especially 1940s through 1970s vintage. Lately I have zero interest in clothes, probably because I'm not going anywhere. Amazon has been mostly for drugstore items because there is no drugstore anywhere around here. Last order was contact lenses fluid, vitamins and color safe shampoo. BTW, I just tried the hair color from E-Salon and so far it seems pretty good.

Got a couple sets of silicone mesh mats for my dehydrators. They are very nice.

I bought two outdoor cat houses for cutie :)

Very exciting: 8 gallon filter bags for the central vacuum.

I started to order a dozen new undershorts for DH using Amazon, but found them for less direct from Jockey. They arrived in two days, shipped USPS from the plant in southern Wisconsin to our home in northern Illinois. (DH asked our longtime mail carrier about conditions. He threw up his hands in frustration and said it's a big mess, with orders countermanding previous orders, etc.)

I'm not finding a replacement cotton/polyester seersucker zip front long robe with elbow-length sleeves. Found one, but one reviewer said she'd bought the item twice, only to have the zipper fail on both...which is the reason I need a replacement. (Zipper 'teeth' separated from the binding part.) Not sure paying $50 would guarantee better!

Amazon - Three different types of Skechers shoes, Clinique foundation, Cat litter bags for Genie litter bucket and a pair of Lee pants.

Today I am awaiting an order from Amazon for Lipton Decaf tea bags. Every store has been out of them since early April and I've tried repeatedly to order online and each time it's cancelled. I saw two sites that offered a box of 72 tea bags for $45. Ridiculous!

Socks, I have ordered from Abe Books & usually check the price there, too. The last book was between $3-4 cheaper on eBay. Lately, I've found the best prices on eBay--the last 3-4 books. You just never know so I shop around.

We ordered 6 new lawn chairs to replace the worn ones out back and a new fire pit for the backyard. Also a last minute purchase of birthday gifts for the 6 year old twin grand kids. I love the fast shipping on most items. I've never used eBay, I don't get into the bidding situation.

Can't remember when I last bought something from Ebay, probably 10 or more years ago.

Do free E-books from Amazon count? I get them almost daily, other wise my last purchase from them would be a couple of pair of jeans a month or so ago.

Rusty

Chisue, must it zip? This one at Vermont Country Store is nice quality although it snaps.

I just bought robes for mother and a sil who wanted one for travel but from Lands Ends, cotton knit and wrap, full length. I have the same for travel myself, lovely soft fabric and folds down to little for an overnight bag. Not that I'm doing any traveling recently ;0)

treble hook safety covers [100 count]

fishing hooks [500 count]

pizza peel [20 x 20]

vertical waffle maker

For those buying from abe.com, just be aware that they're now owned by Amazon, and as a result the prices are all over the place. Many listings are not from actual booksellers, but by resellers using algorithms. The condition descriptions, not to mention the editions, are often wrong. Be very careful from whom you buy.

If you want an Amazon alternative, bookshop.org gives a portion of their proceeds to independent bookshops.

morz8 -- Thanks so much for searching for me. I prefer long and zip-front. (I have actually bruised myself with snaps -- pitiful huh?) Maybe I'll order another Destructo-Zipper robe at $30 and consider it a 'rental'.

Pkponder, unlike years ago when just about everything on eBay was an auction, now most have a listed price along with the notation, "or best offer". So you see the price and if you want it, you buy, or you can make an offer, which the seller may or not accept. Often they will counter offer. Only once did I make an offer...on an old gate topper that was off a chain link fence and was alligators. They wanted something like $250 for it. I made an offer, and the seller countered. It was still too much, so I passed. Later found a much better one....bigger alligator and much cheaper and I bought it.

I never, never do the bidding thing on eBay. Only the 'Buy it Now' or, once in a while on a big ticket item, 'Make an Offer'.

Bookwoman, I think I can pinpoint the time when Amazon bought Abe--prices seemed to increase both places. The last few times that I've bought a used book, I tried to find it with who I thought was an individual and, if multiple offerings, from whoever was closest to where I live. This last book said it had 'been read once by me' and was only a couple of states away.

Ebay-- haven't bought anything there for probably 5-8 years. I did try to buy a book this spring. It was listed as "like new" even though the photo showed it had a round water stain on the cover, as from a cold glass with condensation that ran down to the book.

I opted for "buy it now," and the seller contacted me to ask if I had seen the stain. I told her that I had and so I understood it was not really in like new condition. She then canceled the auction, did not sell to me, and removed the book from ebay. Oh well, finally found the book elsewhere.

I order a lot of various things from Amazon. My last order was Biscoff cookies and a nicely spiced herbal tea.

PattiG, I love that!

I had to look it up, as it has been three months, but the last thing I ordered from eBay was a white "fishing" cap, which I wear in the pool or in the patio to protect my head from the sun. At my last dermatologist visit, I had a small something-or-other frozen off the top of my head, and so I guess I need to keep my head covered. This was the first one on the top of my head.

I tend to buy more from Etsy, and the last thing I bought there was a collection of antique mother of pearl buttons, which I plan to use on shirts that I am making. I received from soft, white Irish linen from a fabric web site (since my favorite fabric store for buying linen in L.A. is temporarily closed), and I have already drafted the patterns for shirts for my brother and me. I will start on those in a week or so - I left my patterns in Cathedral City, and I'm thinking that I should make copies of them to bring back. My drafting paper is in CC also.

I bought an additional sewing machine from Wawak (cheaper than Amazon), along with some additional thread and extra sewing machines, plus I ordered replacement knives for my old serger from Amazon, which I should receive tomorrow. My new serger is in CC along with my 30-year-old Viking sewing machine, which is better than the new Brother embroidery machine I bought.

I need to have sewing projects to do at this time to help me keep my sanity.

chisu, have you considered replacing the zipper on your robe?

It used to be that things like that were repaired and mended. Now, we just put things in the trash when something goes wrong.

I have the advantage of being one who sews, anyway.

I recently replaced the elastic in a couple of hubby's favorite shorts. The items were well made and still have a lot of wear left in them, but he elastic had given out. I simply picked out the elastic that was sewn in and made an old fashioned casing to run new elastic through.

If you don't sew it might not be an option for you. Too bad that so many things go into the trash when there might be an option.

It is dismaying that when you replace something that the newer version is often not as good as the old one. I think that there are many who would attest to that. It seems that more and more, the quality just takes a nose dive.

That bidding business on eBay involves much too much correspondence to be of any use to me. That is like some gambling game. I don't like it at all. I just want to purchase, not play silly games.

So you're taking in stray alligaters now, are you, Marilyn?

With regard to quality taking a noose dive. They started building refrigerators about 80 years ago.

Many of the ones built about 60 years ago lasted for 40 years. Many of the ones built in recent years only last about 10 years. I've told this story many times in recent years, and many listeners add, "If you're lucky!", or a similar comment.

As millions join the middle class in the third world, think of the precious resources required developing raw materials, hauling, manufacturing ... and after only those few years' use hauling to recycler or scrap.

World population 1 billion a few hundred years ago - now over 7 billion, many foresee going to probably 10 billion within this century.

Humans have caused the extinction of many plants and animals: are we going to do it to ourselves, before long?

ole joyful

Alligators are one of my favorite animals, Joyful.

I used to feed the fish in the bayou and Sh*tbird would come up also.

I never bid on eBay, Dallasannie. Most listings aren't auctions any more.

It has been a very long time since I bid on ebay, so perhaps the process has changed. They used to offer a "bid assistant" that you could turn on, enter the maximum price that you would be willing to pay, and the "bid assistant" would take care of countering other bids by whatever increments the auction had (50 cents to a dollar IIRC) up to your max. If the auction hit your max, you would be notified and given the option to increase it. Is that not available now?

I bought most of my wall art, mostly paintings, on ebay, mostly from British and Danish sellers.

dallasannie -- I agree about trying to make do/use up/etc., but I'm lucky if I can see well enough to thread a needle to replace a button. No sewing machine 'in house'. The Destructo-Zipper Robe (Miss Elaine) was only $30 and the 'seat' is already looking a bit thin, so it's time for a new robe...if I can FIND one, now that summer is winding down.

eBay has evolved from just being a bidding site. Lots of vendors use eBay now like they would Amazon. You can bid on an item, or just pay the listed price. I've bought a few new masks recently from eBay, and didn't bid. I just paid the listed price. It's called the "buy it now" price.

From eBay's website:

Just put in another order. 😳

Two more waffle makers.....but they are not for me! I sent pictures of my waffle iron collection to my mom and 2 sisters in our ongoing group text, and one of those said sisters informed me that her kids were bemoaning the fact that THEY didn't have cool waffle makers,so what was I to do? Leave them bereft and waffle maker-less?!?!?

So the niece got a heart one like mine, and the nephew got a star wars millennium falcon shaped one. Had them shipped to her house. I am rather annoyed that they won't be there on the same day,but whatever. Also, a few more window clings for Halloween.

Since etsy has been mentioned as well, I bought some window decals from there recently, and will be contacting a seller to make me a custom decal that reads:

" Abandon all hope,ye who enter this forsaken place." To put on one of the windows of my office doors for Halloween. And another that will read: "Beware,mere mortals, of the evil that lurks beyond this door." Or something like that. I hope they can do it in some spooky font. Just need to get back to work and measure the window so I know what size to order.

I never bid on eBay. If I can't just buy it,I let it go..... Most items have the buy it now option.

Amy Lou, you are such a thoughtful aunt.

Amazon will be delivering English Breakfast tea ( was looking at reviews since I wanted a stronger EB tea, found a promising review, love the ease of clicking on the Amazon link,) vanilla, and rock candy stirrers.

joyful, I remember when televisions were called "television sets" because they actually did have a set of tubes in them. Then, it was shortened to "sets". Those old TVs lasted for decades! And, they were repairable.

Now the technology has changed and my TV is almost out dated despite it being only a very few years old.

Refrigerators were much the same, as you said.

Vacuums were repaired. For some unknown reason vacuums and sewing machines came into the same repair shops. Even Sears used to sell the vacuums and sewing machines in the same department. I used to sell them. I never saw any relationship between the two except for the fact that both of these things were largely used by women. Think that has anything to do with it?

I have stepped aside from much of that consuming and have simply opted out from owning things that I can do without. That includes a toaster, microwave and automatic coffee maker. I just got tired of replacing and throwing away all the time. To put in a microwave in my kitchen would have required too much remaking of the kitchen space since it was built when microwaves were still sitting on little carts in the kitchen. I just said "no". I don't miss it one little bit, at all.

My first microwave lasted for over 12 years. It was an Amana and I think that I am correct in remembering that it was made in the US. I think it was called a "radar range". Things began to change right about that time....early 80s.

Nice to see we're all keeping the economy going. :-)

I've always bought a lot on Amazon, and since the pandemic started that has escalated--plus now I also order from Walmart's website. I have a credit card for each, so I get points or cash back.

Most recent Amazon order included art supplies, a toy for my infant grandson, a shirt for his brother, and Photo Magenta ink for my photo printer. From eBay I ordered a lightly used copy of Martha Stewart's Pressure Cooker Cookbook and two new-with-tags shirts for the third brother.

Fun thread!

from Amazon I got this water mat for my great niece for her first birthday. It's the same one my granddaughter Chase has and she loves it.

Just got more tea, Earl Gray this time, from Tea Pigs, plus a bunch of Terry Pratchett books for my boys.

Amazon just came back. Apparently one of the boys ordered The Count of Monte Cristo.

A USA pan fluted cupcake pan and a jellyroll pan, raw cocoa powder, and bulk flax seeds.

Just now saw this thread. In August, from Amazon, I received a hamburger/meat chopper, a lucite turntable, and a can of oranges to make orange marmalade. Also in August, from eBay, a baby carrier and a gym play mat (expecting a great grandgirl).

My last order from amazon was a stainless steel dish drainers and a giant jug of Orville Redenbacher popcorn kernels.

My last few ebay orders were homemade face masks in cute materials, and a couple of parts for a breville juicer I bought at a yard sale for $5. The juicer model have is $150 online. The parts were maybe $25 for both.