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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Some shit called DignityI once bought a Deacon Blue tape from Woollies in the sale bin (this being a brave new world of compact disc technology) for 50p. 3 years later I gave it to my brother's girlfriend for Christmas. To be fair she did have a car with a tape player in it. One side played backwards apparently - she even tried to take it back to the shop to exchange it although I had 'mysteriously' lost the receipt. Unsurprisingly they weren't having any of it.
I also bought my entire family zoids one year which they considered cheap tat - although it was actually quite expensive tat. Next year they all got whimsical fairies in a jar. It's nice to know that there is a bottom drawer in my relatives houses full of shite bought by me.
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Woolworth Smells of festive spices, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 10:23,
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50p?That's a bargain son! I saw Deacon Blue live in Glasgow the last two years and they're great!!
BTW: One side played backwards because the tape must've been ejected and turned over. The tape player starts to go the opposite direction automatically so if she takes it out and flips it then it's like a kind of double negative effect. My mum had a similar tape player in her Volvo. Nowt wrong with the tape though. Great Band!
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