One is old; my blender. I LOVE my blender. Actually, my blender is a double good bargain, because I didn’t even buy it. My ex gave it to me. Sad that it’s the best thing he gave me, but really it’s been useful, so I suppose I shouldn’t complain. Over the years I’ve used this blender for…

• Making the obvious – smoothies, mixed drinks, milkshakes, etc.
• Making homemade baby food.
• Making homemade beauty supplies – lotions, face scrubs, etc.
• Creating soups out of leftovers.
• Crushing ice for parties – slow, but cheaper than buying ice.
• Making homemade paper out of recycled bills and other scraps.
• Making tons and tons of homemade ice pops.

The blender is about 7 years old and I use it all the time. It’s in perfect shape, and has saved me money in numerous ways, so I always recommend that people get one.

My other best purchase is far more recent. It’s my digital camera. It cost a lot (for cheap me) and it took me years, literally years, to make myself buy it, but I should have sooner. I used to have a basic load film in camera, and of course you have to buy film and batteries. After it broke I used disposables for a while, which sometimes take terrible pictures.

With the digital camera I do have to buy photo paper for it, or pay to have pictures made, but it’s a killer bargain over developing film that you’re unsure of. With the digital camera I only pay for photos I love, not half developed, too sunny, red eye nightmare pictures. It’s been great. I really love my camera; maybe not as much as the blender, but close.

Which two purchases would you say have saved you the most money over the last ten years?

[image via stock.xchng – not my blender because it’s red – I don’t do red)

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