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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Racist thumb protectionAh the summer holidays of 1985. I was 8 and my brother was 5, and one of the days my dad took the day off to look after us.
He decided that we would visit Stratford Upon Avon as it was just down the road and it was borderline educational.
On getting out of the car, my dad delved deep into his pockets and gave us both two hundred pence. A fortune for a tiny child in the eighties. He told us that we could spend this money on whatever we wanted, but that it was the only money we'd be getting off him that day.
In one corner of the car-park we'd pulled up in, was a stall selling tourist trap nonsense. Ye Olde Maps, Shakespeare Mugs, Union Jack T-shirts and the like.
My brother wandered over to the stall, and returned having spent his entire £2 allowance on...
...a thimble.
But this was no ordinary thimble, for it was adorned with a portrait of none other than Prince Phillip.
He still maintains that it was a worthwhile purchase.
To be fair to him though, I can't even remember how I spent my two quid.
(, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 18:10, Reply)
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