My typewriter
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I just got a manual typewriter. It's a Hermes Baby from around 1949.
I didn't have any idea about typewriters (except for some experience
with a boring electric one), but as soon as I saw it at the store
its grey color and small form factor called out to me. I gave all my
money to the seller and took it home. It was only when I arrived
that I had a chance to look it up and learn the manufacturing date
of the machine and that the Hermes brand is quite popular among
collectors and hence overpriced, too (but not in my case since I got
it locally). Not bad, I say! I'm so happy...

I always wanted a manual typewriter, but not to write without
distractions or to collect them or anything; I wanted one because
they're complex machines that don't require electricity. The way it
works inspires awe; it's fourteen thousand times better than a
boring old computer, and, despite being 80 years old, it will still
work in 80 more years... to think smartphones can barely withstand a
single day without charging and once you drop them or look at them
wrong they break into a trillion pieces. :D

...

It smells kinda weird, though.