So, I ordered a few fun items from the hyped shopping app Temu. Here's how this went down.

Me:Honey, have you ever bought anything from Temu? I'm thinking of getting this.[I showed her a screenshot of an OUTATIME license plate from Back to the Future.]

Her:No, but my friends have, and they say it's like another AliExpress...

Her:Ever heard of a site named ? They did an article on it.

Her:I'm emailing you "Is Temu legit? What to know about this wildly popular shopping app" by Jada Jones.

My wife was very amused with herself. Jada's article gave me enough confidence to place an order with a company that was spamming ads, but that I'd had no personal experience with.

The OUTATIME license plate was all of$3.98 and having long loved Back to the Future, I thought it would be perfect above my laser printer in the Fab Lab. I also decided to buy the ECTO-1 plate from Ghostbusters.

Also:I bought 4 brand-name tech gadgets on Temu for work. Here's how it went

Even though these items were coming to the US all the way from China, shipping was free if I was willing to wait a little while. But then I ran into a snag. My order was$7.96 and Temu has a minimum order of$20. That wasnotobvious anywhere on the site before I gave up my credit card digits.

But what the heck? The fanboi license plates, if they didn't suck, were a good enough deal. I just looked around for something else.

What I found was a Lego kit for the WALL