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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Pound shop beats WickesAs a typical bloke, I like to buy tools. Powertools are especially exciting, although any tool I have the vaguest notion of using at some point during the remainder of my life, I'll buy to stow in the depths of my shithole, erm garage.
Hence, browsing "Everything's £1" and purchasing a medium size bricklaying trowel to sit unused for about a year. When beginning my landscaping / bricklaying project I obviously needed to splurge on a great deal of materials and new tools. Since I was in Wickes, I picked up a new bigger trowel (lovely, as I was to be laying a LOT of bricks.)
The project gets underway and the expensive trowel from wickes works well, although makes my wrist ache a bit through the weight of cement carried on the elongated 'blade'. Within a few courses of bricks, the handle decides it no longer wishes to be attached to the blade and promptly works free, I had a rummage among my 'crap' and produced the poundland trowel which was not only more comfortable to use, but has been effective through 95% of the work so far and shows no sign of failing to complete the task.
Sometimes (admittedly rarely) you don't get what you pay for.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 15:10, Reply)
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