Most autistic thing you've purchased lately - c'mon feel the cringe

Automotive window tint installation tool kit.

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I'm in a hotel (hence the sheets-inspired backdrop) in Arizona in summer and my lil bitch car isn't equipped for the hellfire that rains down from the sky each day.

Am I going to install window tint on my whip? Probably not. Instead, I'm going to sell/donate my car and get one with A/C and, God willing, tinted windows.

BUT, note the sexy spray bottle, useful exacto knife heads and extension arm, *and* a skateboarding astronaut (!) kick-flippin' his way through space, these tools will certainly be used for something else becauseof the evident high-quality nature of the product, so that's a win in ny book.
 
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Lizard Pope said:
Two more salt cellars.
I’m at 27 now, each with a different salt/salt+other shit blend.
No, my sodium levels are at the low end of normal, why do you ask?
I’ve named most of them.
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This sounds like true passion; I'm intrigued.

Do you keep all the salt cellars on a tray so you can bring them all to the table at once? Or a lazy susan loaded with salt in the center of the table at all times? (If each of them is a different design, that would look cool as anything. I would assume you were a wizard long before I realized you were an autist.)

Or do you have the salt cellars on one shelf of a cabinet, maybe with a small dehumidifier? Or in a big wooden box with a lid, one that can be moved to the table like a tray would be?

I want to know more about the salt lifestyle.

Are you from Planet M-113?
 
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Aunt Carol said:
This sounds like true passion; I'm intrigued.

Do you keep all the salt cellars on a tray so you can bring them all to the table at once? Or a lazy susan loaded with salt in the center of the table at all times? (If each of them is a different design, that would look cool as anything. I would assume you were a wizard long before I realized you were an autist.)

Or do you have the salt cellars on one shelf of a cabinet, maybe with a small dehumidifier? Or in a big wooden box with a lid, one that can be moved to the table like a tray would be?

I want to know more about the salt lifestyle.

Are you from Planet M-113?
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I keep them on my desk, which is where I eat. Some on the front, around my keyboard and monitors, some on a tray (it’s a big desk, like not much smaller than my bed), a few on a small table by my chair.
There are two matching pairs (The French Twins and The Golden God & Five Star Man).
Don’t know if I’d call it a passion, just really like salt.
 
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Lizard Pope said:
I keep them on my desk, which is where I eat. Some on the front, around my keyboard and monitors, some on a tray (it’s a big desk, like not much smaller than my bed), a few on a small table by my chair.
There are two matching pairs (The French Twins and The Golden God & Five Star Man).
Don’t know if I’d call it a passion, just really like salt.
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When I was maybe 13, I bought a 4-pound mineral salt block at the feed store and kept it on my bookshelf, where I licked it once or twice a day to see if I could erode a groove in it. (Yes.) This was before we had the Internet, although there were some local BBSes.

Anyway, one of those Himalayan salt block lamps would be a fun addition to your collection, and you could lean over and lick it now and then to make it a custom piece.
 
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I wanted to get some decent cologne for cheap and found this "Mercedes-Benz Man" on Amazon that was 60% off the $100 list price. I don't really know anything about cologne but it had good reviews on some fragrance autist website so I bought it. I was still nervous because buying stuff like that without testing it in person is always a crapshoot. Plus it was cheap and I was worried about it being counterfeit. It shipped from Amazon's warehouse but was being sold by a third party. But it came today and smells great and it seems legit. I know that Walmart sells cheap cologne branded with shit like Ford and Camaro, but I guess Mercedes actually has a line of "real" perfumes and colognes that they sell in upscale department stores. Who knew?

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Lizard Pope said:
I keep them on my desk, which is where I eat. Some on the front, around my keyboard and monitors, some on a tray (it’s a big desk, like not much smaller than my bed), a few on a small table by my chair.
There are two matching pairs (The French Twins and The Golden God & Five Star Man).
Don’t know if I’d call it a passion, just really like salt.
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For any seeking more info on salt cellars, here you go. They look like they'd be comfortable holding a bit of snuff, too. Not saying you should take your life down that path, but it's an option.

Tax: Got some lovely perfume. This is XXV (25) for the company's 25th anniversary in 2008, which means they were founded in 1983 if you don't feel like mathing right now.

They have a 40 version for the 40th Anniversary (2023), which also contains 40% perfume oil. I also bought that, though it's currently en route.

What does 25 smell like? It smells kinda like champagne-infused sand. Blackberry to start, honeyed incense after an hour or so, then some lovely woods, florals, and resins at the end.

Folks say it's reformulted and weaker than the original batch, but I have only smelled this and it works for me.

My only gripe is that Amouage is an Omani company and I can appreciate human rights, so there's always a little internal conflict before buying something from them. Most of the time, empathy wins. This time, it didn't.
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The last of those Magic the Gathering cards I mentioned last page finally arrived, so now my Freya Crescent card collection I've been gathering for the past few months is complete.

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Top row is all card variants from the Japanese Final Fantasy TCG, including from the first Japan-only attempt at it with different card backs (a couple of those were particularly hard to find - I had buy the foil one from someone in the UK for $30 including shipping).
Second row is all card variants from the English TCG.
Third row is all the MtG variants in both English and Japanese. There doesn't appear to exist a foil variant for the Japanese extended art version. I ended up overpaying some for the English cards since I found out afterwords that the Japanese stores you can import Japanese cards from also carry English cards for even cheaper than local sellers. Shipping for trading cards from Japan is cheap too. Little tip for you.
Bottom row are from the Art Museum collectable cards Square released around 2000~01 with art of characters and scenes from the mainline games. The one on the right is a "crystal" variant on clear plastic instead of normal card stock, and was apparently a part of that Coca-Cola marketing collab Square was doing in that time period. I bought that particular one from someone in France. There's a weirdly high amount of French sellers with obscure FF9 merch (was the game particularly popular there or something?).

Tangent: Did you know there was actually a physical Tetra Master board game that was only released in Germany of all places? Crazy.

Related: Here's a couple other things I bought recently.
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On the left is an old FF9 themed postcard with Freya on it. Got it for $7 from a Japanese auction that no one else was bidding on. While not expensive it seems to be pretty rare and hard to find.
On the right is a PS1 memory card sticker I bought from some guy in Canada that I stuck in a trading card sleeve. I can't find any details about it online, but from I can gather from search results and cut-off text on the back of it, it looks like it was probably from a larger cardboard piece with stickers on it that came with a Japanese game magazine and someone cut it up to separate the stickers of different characters.
 
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I got a couple stakes with rings to prop up my weird basil plant that is now back to thriving but can't seem to stand upright. It got knocked over by a storm. The storm THREW IT TO THE GROUND. It survived and stood up but was still only back to the already caved in position it was in before that.

I have propped it up with stakes. This plant will survive goddammit.
 
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Steel bendable Straws, lol.
I drink everything out of steel tumblers and i love drinking with straws, but none of the solutions i tried satisfied me, because i want to be able to keep the straw inside the bottle when im not drinking
Telescope straws are never longer than 21-22 cm (???)
Silicone Straws are kind of stinky and gross
 
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