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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Student furnitureIn our barely inhabitable dump of a student house, we removed the doors from all the kitchen units and for the price of a pack of screws and a few cheap metal brackets (about a pound, IIRC), we constructed ourselves a handy coffee table. Far more sturdy than the crates/breeze block options that most of our friends seemed to go for.
Bargain!
Also, the till monkeys at Homebase etc. never used to check the lengths of cable/chain, so we'd grab ourselves a few extra metres and tell them whatever.
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reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 11:50,
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