Cheap TatOneEyedMonster remindes us about the crap you can buy in pound shops: "Batteries that lasted about an hour and then died. A screwdriver with a loose handle so I couldn't turn the damn screw, and a tape measure which wasn't at all accurate."
Similarly, my neighbour bought a lawnmower from Argos that was so cheap the wheels didn't go round, it sort of skidded over the grass whilst gently back-combing it.
What's the cheapest, most useless crap you've bought?
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chthonic, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
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monopolyThe problem is that most people dont have an alternative.
I live in the country where I grow some veg for myself, although not enough to live off, and the village has a few shops that sell local produce and a butcher that sells localy reared meat, which is all very "The Good Life", but most of the population live in towns and cities. Big cities still tend to have small independant shops, but they are often a chuff to get to or park near and can be dear. people go to the supermarkets because they can take the car, park easilly, buy a weeks worth of food and houshold stuff under one roof and have a mcdonalds when they finish shopping.
Most smaller towns now have a supermarket on the outskirts and a highstreet full of building societies and shoe shops because the local shops went under.
You CAN still get good local food, but it takes effort and people are too lazy. Also, they want strawberries in midwinter and argentinian beefburgers because the tabloids sway so much between saying BUY BRITISH and Dont buy British, its wiggling with BSE.
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