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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Christmas tat againMy Dad and his missus are never prepared for Christmas bless ‘em. No, they spend 51 and a half weeks in blissful ignorance, letting the passing weeks and months wash over them, before panicking and wondering what items of the accumulated crap they’ve collected over the year could make reasonable gifts. My dad has various part time sales jobs, for which he shells out a small fortune on goods and then fails to manage to sell. Honestly, he has an entire back catalogue of Dorling Kindersley reference books piled high in his spare room, not to mention a pile of clothes that are now hideously out of fashion.
Anyway, a couple of years ago he surprised me by getting me one of those spankingly cool remote controlled Daleks, which I thought was particularly insightful of him as I’d been holding off on buying one myself. Come the usual Christmas day chats with my brother and sister, however, it transpired that their gifts were not so well thought out. No, my brother got an Avon smellies set (pink, for women), and my sister got something that she’d bought for my stepmum the year before.
I can’t remember what I got last year, but it was supplemented by my stepmum with a faux-diamante encrusted (plastic) keyring with a letter ‘C’ attached to it. My name begins with an ‘M’…
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 7 Jan 2008, 9:40,
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