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 hate poundlandToday i had the pleasure of dragging my self out of bed at 4am to go to work in a kingdom of crap known as a pound store. I'm an auditor for a fairly big inventory specialist group and was sent on my way to a store in SE London with my waistcoat and tool belt like thing. Seven hours i spent in that store, doing the shop floor first which was fine although it was pretty surprising the amount of people banging on the door at half eight or whatever time it opens demanding to know why we wouldn't let them in. How desperate must you be to rush out in the early hours to get to a pound shop?
Upstairs it got worse.. i was put in the toiletries section and i can honestly say i'm not so keen to buy my super cheap hygiene/beauty products from them now (everything was coated in grime and dust and smelt horrid). Boxes and boxes of stuff chucked in with all sorts, old sun cream lotion, glitter gels, shaving foam had exploded leaked and soaked into every crevice it could possibly sneak into. Out of date chocolates/drinks spilling out of boxes with new ready for shop floor stuff. In a word .. GROSS. Not to mention all the rat traps under the shelving and racks. Oh and not forgetting the rat/mouse poo that was in these boxes along side all the delightful little items they sell for a pound. Nice eh?
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Threnody - Is a filthy, filthy bibliophile & you love it, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 16:12,
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Surely...In your line of work you must also be aware of the countless department stores / supermarkets etc whose warehouses / stockrooms are of an equally squalid state, despite the goods being punted on to joe public at an astonishing mark-up?
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CurrysUsed to work as a contractor for said electrical store, and you should have seen the state of the store rooms. Some corners were no- go areas, and health hazards- after 3 years of drilling the places, they advised our company that they *may* have some asbestos in areas. Which areas? "Not too sure". Thanks a fucking lot, so thats one painful wheezing death, with a side order of crohns disease from the rats.
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Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 2:16,
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