Ten Items I Could Buy on eBay with the $1.52 I've Made This Month on my ING Savings Account.

* Disclaimer: Because this is a time intense list, a certain amount of leeway has been applied and items  are included that may actually be worth $1.52 in an alternative currency. Sorry for any disappointment that this may cause if you are actually trying to buy something for $1.52, but this doesn't allow for postage anyway so you must be prepared to pay a tad more anyway—you don't get something to $1.52 anymore, you know. Also, please keep in mind this is a list, not a factual guide.

1. One hundred and fifty-two hand carved wooden dog figurines. And very odd looking dogs at that. Postage: $8.73.
2. Twelve gold-dust lampwork glass rings. Large clunky rings with swirls of coloured glass in them, and yes, sprinkled throughout with what must, at the price, be genuine gold-dust. Postage: Free to the US and we are closer to China so, hopefully, also free to us.
3. A Homarid Spawning Bed, Magic: The Gathering, trading card. It wasn't quite what I imagined when I read the words 'spawning bed'—in fact I was a little afraid to click in case it affected my ASIO file, but it is more like a garden bed where you grow 'things' of, seemingly, the monstrous persuasion. Postage: free (it'd weigh all of a gram!)
4. Sixty Pastel Hands. This is a bizarre world. These are hands punched from pastel acid-free paper to use on your scrapbooking. I suppose it's not so odd when you put it like that. Postage: Sixty cents.
5. A Black Tie. Four inches wide. New and from Wrexham Ties UK which sounds fancy at the least. This is one pound which converts to approximately $1.52 Canadian. A bargain. Postage: Two Pounds to Canada. This is complicated international trading scheme isn't it?
6. Five hundred bb's for your bb-gun. You can get them in blue, green, orange and yellow. If you are feeling flush though, spend the whole twenty five dollars and you'll get a free pistol! Postage: $1.79. And gut instinct tells me this may be an American site.
7. A Gothic Victorian Steampunk Black Lace Bracelet/Cuff. That's good value. It's also a good idea. Mmm, the ever circling cogs are incorporating inspiration into ideas for [company name not yet registered] items. Postage: $3.50 USD.
8. Minus Anion Healthy Sports Wrist Watch in Ion Black. One: what do these sentences mean—I think it makes sense, but there is apart of my brain going 'alert, alert, con in progress'. Two: how do they sell these things so cheap. This is 1.13 euro to buy: in Europe, where its aimed, how much is the retailer selling it for? Something tells me not 2.26 euro. It's all wrong, and now that the Internet makes things both more and less invisible, you get the sense of its wrongness. Postage: Free from China to Europe.
9. A blue, white and silver striped top, collarless with tied sleeves. Reminiscent of an Indian sort of top. Second hand. It is size 26. I can't say why the seller is selling because it would make me a hypocrite. Postage $8.00.
10. One yard of pale cream Romney wool combed for spinning or weaving. Again, no idea what that means. Its wool. But you'll have to do something with it before you can use it. Postage: $3.50 US.

Number of items actually purchased: none!