What have you bought lately?

We have three cars, manufactured in 2007, 2017 and 2022.  Colorado levies an ownership (personal property) tax based on the value of the vehicle, which depreciates over ten years.  The two newer cars cost over $1000 (each) for first-time registration, which included the one-time plate fee and a $30 donation to Rocky Mountain National Park.

dmv.colorado.gov/group-special-license-plates-new

After nine years (registration is in advance), one pays the minimum ownership tax of $3.  Annual registration also includes a road and bridge fee (based on weight, I believe) and a Keep Colorado Wild pass (voluntary $29), which covers admission to any state park.   We have elected to pay that on the two newer cars.  The oldest car has Amateur Radio Call Sign plates that costs a bit more annually.  For all this, we paid (from oldest to newest) $68.77, $259.52 and $561.24 for this year.

The latest six-month insurance premium for all three cars was $1868.64 for full coverage.  Like Karen, we could have chosen cheaper policies, but opted for higher than legally minimum liability coverage.

Seems all you usaers are getting charged an awful lot more than us... 

Still, your fuel is virtually free.

Maybe it all balances out over the year.

 Some years ago my printer died, and a friend sold me her used industrial printer for £5. It was intended as a temporary as it was a bit rough around the edges. It was so fast and efficient. I had it for a few years. Finally my daughter damaged it, so you had to hold the lid down to use it. I gave it to a friend who got another two years out of it lol.

After that I was hooked on industrial  printers, as I found that a refurbished one was cheaper than a brand new non industrial one. The one I have now is about 9 years old. The cartridges cost £20, but they are huge, and last for ages.

It has got a bit finicky with printing onto cardboard, you have to feed it in one sheet at  time, but on paper it is as good as ever.

I have an Epson laser printer which I got when it was being thrown out from work. A ruling came round departments such that everyone had to use the main network printer (cost cutting) so all the individual laser printers were outlawed.

I use it sparingly as the cartridges are quite expensive, although it is a very good printer.

I was trying to print a nine-page PDF, double-sided. I sent one print job, and went to pick it up later. There was quite a lot of paper in the output tray! It printed two pages, then half of one, none of the next, then repeat...over and over. Once, it got to pages 5 and 6, but never farther. Power cycling the printer didn't fix it, either. I ended up having to send nine different one-page print jobs.   The print heads were fine. It wasn't low on ink, either. So, yeah, it lost its mind.

Lottery tickets.

Im glad its not just me. My canon has a fit everytime I change the ink cartridge it claims there is no ink, it cant print etc etc .. I swear refit the cartridge cross my fingers and most of the time thats enough...

Has you home printer never failed?