MINI-CONTEST #3: Full Upvote For The Winner (2 Hour Limit): Geekiest Thing You Bought

in #contest7 years ago

Hey people of steem,

How are you days going?

This contest will be for two hours and the best answer will get an upvote (with some runner-ups). Please spread the word, well if you see this in the first hour :p

Today's question:

What is the geekiest thing you spent money on? It can be anything from a collectors' edition of a game, to a figurine that costs more than you want to admit to something more extravagant. I am sure we all have our purchases, the ones we hide when company comes over :p.

Go geeks

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English longbow at a renaissance festival.

You got the win because not only is it a bow but its for a renaissance festival. And I'm a little jealous :p.

Ha! Thank you @whatageek I shot it everyday for six months before I cracked it. Worth it!

Sick!

I was never really a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh, but long ago I stumbled across this cool Yu-Gi-Oh golden (NOT real gold ;)) millennium puzzle necklace in shape of the Eyptian pyramid with the eye of Horus on it.

It cost "only" about 10$, which I bought from my pocket money, but I tell you, I kept it like a treasure and wore it everyday. I cajoled myself into thinking that this is a magical artifact, so mesmerized was I by the colour, shape and energy of it. What also was a trend at that time was collecting Pokemon stickers( I was addicted!!), so whenever we had some sticker competition going on, they didn't want to have my sticker as my stake but my Yu-Gi-Oh necklace!! They were looking at it like a greedy pack of wolfs! Yet fate was in my favour, for I put it at stake once but didn't lose.

Do I still have it?

No, about one year later it fell through a sewer grate because stranger on the street overlooked me and bumped into me, hence inexplicably loosening the necklace from my collum right into the sewer grate...don't even ask for my consequent state of mind...😏

Runner up upvote for a tale of growing up geeky :p

I bought a suction pad that was supposed to slim the hips. Ha ha. It is stuffed in the back of the wardrobe. Hips still need to be slimmed down

lol how would that even work :p

Heat up and stick on. Trust me, no amount of heating and pushing down did the trick. Even gave myself a blister . LOL.

lol.. tough to beat that.

Runner up upvote :)

I was the proud owner of a Star Trek uniform including Vulcan ears in the sense of Spock ears and wore both with pride last Halloween. Unfortunately, I lost one of the ears that night. They don't go well with being drunk.

lol at least you had fun. Maybe if you win you can buy one ear :p.

That's exactly why I'm here :-)

Runner up upvote :)

Wohooo the podium! Thanks a lot!!

lol your responses make me laugh

A bought a Harry Potter ripoff stick.

When i was younger i used to play everyday Silkroad Online and one day they publish a new armor but in order to obtain it you needed to pay REAL money, so i asked my dad some money and i ended up spending 80$ in the game... and guess what, i dont even play Silkroad anymore hahaha

so i have and are still playing Runescape, but back in the day when i was what 10 or 12 Runescape published a book. you could not get it in my country so you had to import it. i ended up asking my mother to track down a book and i ended up paying well above 250% for it at the time... i still have it somewhere l0l

lol awesome. I always liked those game books.

The geekiest thing ,i have done is had made a bid of 3000 bucks on cricket match as in our country we are so much with cricket and i really lost them...but who cares it is all about inner warmth ,that night i really had 4 shots..

my geekiest thing was convincing my parents for buying a desktop, it took me years to convince them, and lastly i left my food and starved for days just to make a pressure on them and force them to buy one as i was really in need of it coz i had not played any pc games till then, i was eager to know how does it feel to play and get involved in such activities, i even destroyed some of my personal stuffs to get my frustration out, at last they got convinced by me and brought me a desktop back in 2009

I remember saving for like a year when I was like 13 or so, to get this bad boy. Took lots of sweat, tears and letting some sweet pleasures go.... But I finally got it. Was at my parents a few weeks back, and I saw it... Gave me memories and a good laugh. Mortal Kombat was a big deal in those days. I présent to you, SEGA mega drive 2.... It lives on! HahahaIMG_20180430_201232.jpg

Oh really i have the same nintendo player ....oh man....awesome.....
I used to play duck hund with this....lol...i was with milk teeth...

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