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31 January 2018
#BabysFirstAmazon: interesting thing I saw on Twitter. What's the first thing you ever ordered from Amazon?
On my current account? The Pauper's Cookbook. The oldest purchase that I kept an email about was a replacement battery for a 2nd generation Roomba, but I dumped my pre-2005 mail archives.
Amazon says I ordered The Common Years [Paperback] by Cooper, Jilly in 2002. I have no recollection of this and cant find it on my shelves. Lovely book, a friend gave it to me, so no idea why I would have ordered it.
I was in college, and apparently it was "Buzzed : The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy". I only made two orders that year, and the other was "Herbal Remedies in Pots", which I actually still have and still have not put together a pot with herbal remedies growing in it.
Also, the thought of a year with only two Amazon orders is pretty amazing.