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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The other dayI took care of someone who had survived the Russian Revolution, Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, the siege of Leningrad, Stalin again, Krushchev, been a refusenik, emigrated, survived Reagan and both Bushes. I felt like I was touching living history. I had the strangest urge to fall to my knees, bowing and say, "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy!"
Really--this guy was incredible and he'll die with not a single story written down. SO WRITE ABOUT YOUR GRANDAD!
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