What I Spent, Part 1

First of an occasional (and shallow) series; with all prices in rupees
On Jan. 30, my second day here, I bought the following:

• Towels at Home Stop, a kind of Indian Bed Bath and Beyond:
  219 ($5) and 210. The old-fashioned Bombay Dyeing store wanted 600 at first -- I think that was my clue that I should have started haggling. Instead I just retreated and went to spend too much elsewhere.
  
  
• "Genuine" Swatch watch, bought on from a very persistent guy on Brigade Road, 475. He'd suggested 1200 at first.
  
  
• Year-long membership in the British Library
  Nothing, since they wouldn't let me join without proof of my address. That'll be a little tricky.
  
  
• Super-huge road atlas of Bangalore and a cookbook of South Indian cooking, which looks a lot more ambitious now than it did in the store,
  200 and 89.