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Sometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
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I bought the cheapest corkscrew in the shop. It snapped on the first bottle of wine, making it impossible to get to the grape booze inside. Waste of money and wine.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:47, 13 replies)
use a coathanger like a normal person

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 14:08, closed)
Coathangers don't even get you slightly drunk.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 14:19, closed)
Depends - done right the blood loss can make you pretty giddy.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 14:47, closed)
what, you've never distilled a coathanger?

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:19, closed)
^goes to Nandos on a posh night out

(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 19:15, closed)
^Aspires to go to Nandos for a posh night out

(, Sat 28 Jun 2014, 12:09, closed)
i have never been to nando's
nor am i likely to
(, Sat 28 Jun 2014, 12:50, closed)
^Still banned from every town and city centre in the whole of the UK.

(, Sun 29 Jun 2014, 16:06, closed)
Why didn't you just use a sword to chop the neck of the bottle off?
I swear, sometimes I think that you're the WORST. SWASHBUCKLER. EVER.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:33, closed)
every washing machine comes with 4 free cork screws
fact
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 18:10, closed)
I don't have a washing machine.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 20:09, closed)
Oh that baldmonkey...
/ac
(, Sat 28 Jun 2014, 12:09, closed)
I bought a cheap corkscrew once
The screw part went straight as I attempted to extract the cork.

One option is always to push the cork into the bottle. Another involves a shoe and a wall.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 21:13, closed)

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