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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Teenagers nowadays!Why, they don't know how good they have it! Back in my day we loved going to school! We'd walk five miles through the snow to get there with nothing to warm our hands but a baked potato- and that was our lunch. Then we'd walk the five miles back through the snow to go shovel sidewalks and driveways with a broken chunk of plywood to help out our elderly neighbors and do our own laundry and go to bed at 7:00 like we were supposed to do! We didn't have newfangled things like TVs in our day- we read from the Bible and praised Jesus while we did! Teenagers nowadays are spoiled little whiners who need a good stropping with the belt!
Seriously, though- consider for a moment the difference in prices from the 70s compared to today. That £50 doesn't buy anywhere near the amount of stuff it would have then. By 1970s prices, I should be considered to be comfortably well off, instead of struggling to make my mortgage payment and driving a battered old VW diesel. So the £2 you spent on dinner and comics and earrings would today maybe buy you a comic and a candy bar and no more.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 9 Jan 2008, 16:19,
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