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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Cheap boots (partial RP)As a weedy sixth-former, working in a tile yard was probably a non-starter. Days 1 and 2 not too bad, but was told in no uncertain terms that the trainers I had on were inappropriate footwear. My Dad went and found the cheapest work boots he could find. They seemed to be made of the same textured, very slightly flexible plastic that car dashboards are made of.
Cue day 3, the hottest day of the year so far. Me and my mate from school had to load a whole roof's worth of slates onto the truck by hand. BTW, I now had my lovely new, cheap boots on.
At the end of the day, I went to bed and slept for 24 hours, then couldn't get my socks off because the blisters on my feet had burst, dried and glued them on. I had to soak them in the bath to get them off.
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Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 21:52,
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Cowboy...that's why he died with his boots on
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seeballs Doo da da doo da da doo da da doo, da da doo da do, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 22:13,
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i had some booots like thatthey were given to me by a job agency, lucky for me i had left them in the shed when i went to uni and my dad chucked them, not so lucky when i came home and went back to the agency
extra lucky when he had to stump up the money for a new pair as i was starting a job tomorrow and needed some, not one blister the whole summer praise macro and its work wear
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Reme Philips laid an epic dump on, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 8:37,
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