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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I can't believe it's not chocolateMy mum proudly wheeled out a box of chocolates this Christmas. You'd have thought the Magi had come bearing gifts to our living room, so ceremoniously did she unwrap them.
"Truffles!" she exclaimed with tidings of great joy. "They only cost a pound!"
My eyes lit up. I daintily prised a cocoa-dusted delicacy from it's little papery nest and popped it into my mouth...
...and immediately spat it out again with a resounding "WAAAAAUUUUUURRRRRGGGGHHHH!"
No wonder they were only a pound. They were from sodding ASDA and the major ingredient was listed as "vegetable oil". "Cocoa flavour" was waaaaay down the list. ASDA had wasted their time and my mum's money on making replica chocolate truffles that a) didn't even contain chocolate and b) taste like the devil's oily vomit. Why? Why even bother?
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 13:24,
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maybe........they were decorative?
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Why indeed?I guess they only need to sell one box to every 100th person in the world and they are rich.
Why even bother, though, is one of my thoughts when I occasionally encounter crap like that. I think about the fact that someone, somewhere is making this shite. Ordering the substandard ingredients, mixing it halfheartedly together, packing it, wrapping it, shipping it, doing the paperwork, and all for a product that is so appalling that you would never buy it again.
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