Well, this isn't good enough. Let's have a bit of fun, /OT
What's the best/most unusual thing you've ever bought for under a fiver?
Please try not to mention food.

Alt: Apart from houses and cars, what is the most money you've ever spunked on one item?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:32, 131 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Sympathy reply

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)

My stereo cost more than some of my cars
I don't think I've ever bought anything interesting for under a fiver. I've made some pretty spectacular eBay purchases for under twenty quid, though.
( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:35, Reply)

We've had some great buys at boot sales over the years.
Possibly my favourite was a doll from a 10p box that we sold for £600. Ah, good times.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:37, Reply)

I bought a pair of Ruark Ikon speakers for about 14 quid.
Handmade by proper cabinet makers, they are. Absolutely gorgeous things.

That doll was a bit spawny.
( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:38, Reply)

Yeah, if your speakers are shit, it doesn't matter how good your stereo is.
We've got some rather stunning 6ft flat speakers. They do sound a bit epic.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:39, Reply)

It's a subjective thing, really. After a certain point you're not going to get much benefit
from throwing money at stereo equipment.

Since the speakers I own are set up in the sitting room, I do like to have things that look good.
( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:41, Reply)

The thing that has served me best for under £5 is my CD wallet
I bought it for £1 to replace the £30 one I had that had fallen apart. It's lasted 7 years now.

Alt: My PC cost me £550, so I'd say that.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:36, Reply)

CDs are so 1995, man.
You want to get one of them new-fangled 3/mpg players.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:38, Reply)

I have an mp3 player, I keep CDs for the car, etc.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:39, Reply)

Luddite.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)

Haha

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:41, Reply)

i don't think I've bought anything interesting for under a fiver
Alt: an engagement watch
(DeeDee, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:41, Reply)

your mum

(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:42, Reply)

Which question were you answering there, Chomps?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:43, Reply)

I don't bother to read the actual post
what do you take me for?
(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Her lawfully wedded husband.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:51, Reply)

There's a disturbing image...

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:53, Reply)

Probably a record
Alt: Twice I have "spunked" more than £1000 on guitars I have fallen in love with.

*Edit* One of these: www.vintageandrareguitars.com/web/our-catalogue/gibson/semis/item/7164 - a 1964 one.
And one of these: www.rickenbacker.com/model.asp?model=360/12 - in black
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:45, Reply)

That second one is magnificent.
I saw a fantastic bass recently, whilst it's a fairly silly picture, I really like the look of the kit.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:54, Reply)

That picture is hilarious
If you buy that bass you should definitely take a picture of yourself with it like that.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:34, Reply)

Nah, had my opportunity to play bass a few years back
Very quickly lost interest and sold it.

The guy above is a band called De Profundis, tis how I saw the pic.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:39, Reply)

Fuck me I bet that Gibson was expensive
tennis boy collects guitars and he's had his beady eye on one of those for a long long time.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:03, Reply)

It should have been...
But I only paid about £1100 for it (about 11 years ago).
It is worth a lot more than that now though, I could probably sell the pick-ups for that amount today.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:05, Reply)

Bargain! Relatively speaking, anyway...
How many guitars do you own?
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:06, Reply)

Only four :(

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:09, Reply)

Two of which are very very nice though
I only have one, which I can barely play in any case, but the boy has 18 I believe. Crazy foo'.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:12, Reply)

18? *drools*
I came close to buying more when I had a more disposable income, but (somewhat uncharacteristically) decided that the sensible thing would be to get full use out of my existing guitars in order to justify further purchases.
On the positive side it meant I started playing them all more instead of using just one main one. On the down side it meant that I never did end up buying more guitars.
I've started collecting other instruments now.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:21, Reply)

He has too much disposable income
and a generous mother. He only really plays 5 or 6 of them, some acoustic and some electric. Having just bought a flat he's unlikely to be able to afford any more for the time being though.
What other instruments do you collect then?
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:23, Reply)

Nothing as lovely as the guitars, but so far:
A piano, a banjo, a violin (a family heirloom stolen from my sister), recorders, a fife, a ukulele, a couple of harmonicas, a pungi (a snake charmers reed instrument - sounds terrible) and a melodica.
My next purchase is likely to be a harmonium.
Or a bouzouki.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:31, Reply)

Haha, and can you actually play any of them?
Apart from the recorders, anyway.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:36, Reply)

Actually the recorders and fife are the ones I am worst at
All the stringed instruments are fairly easy for me, apart from the violin which I just haven't had enough time to learn (for my current purposes I use it as a drone instrument, which only requires me to play one note).
Instruments which require blowing are a different discipline, which I am still trying to develop.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:42, Reply)

I feel your pain
I have a saxophone which I rarely play because it depresses me how bad I am (so I never play it, so I never get better, of course)
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:47, Reply)

The best thing you can buy for less than a fiver

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:47, Reply)

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:49, Reply)

When I smoked you could still buy twenty cigarettes for under a fiver.
I was in a newsie the other day and they've gone up to over seven pounds.
( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:50, Reply)

Jesus
I remember when I was a student working in a corner shop, a pack of ten was £1.23 and a pack of twenty was £2-something.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:51, Reply)

When I was in sixth form, a pack of ten was a quid fifteen or so
and twenty was around three seventy.

Yup, it was actually cheaper to buy two packs of ten. Weird.
( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:53, Reply)

You could get 20 Dorchester for 1.99 then. I persuaded my parents that I needed £2.50 lunch money a day - the other 51p went on a mars bar.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:54, Reply)

When I first went to uni the local garage insisted on a minimum spend of a fiver to use switch.
It was just over £2.50 for 20 Marlboro Reds, and that is how I ended up smoking 40 a day for the duration of my time there.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:03, Reply)

When I was at school we would cobble together a quid between us for 10 Embassy No1s

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:52, Reply)

I pay £4.50 a pack from a dodgy newsagents on murder milethe Kilburn High Rd
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:53, Reply)

Try buying from one of those machines in a club/pub
£9.60, and it wasn't even a full deck of 20, it was 12 or 15.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:02, Reply)

Alt: probably an engagement ring when I was 19
Excellent use of however much it was
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:48, Reply)

a tenner, probably.
You could have been a trophy husband to a high powered lawyer by now.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:50, Reply)

A watch that I can never be arsed wearing.

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:53, Reply)

I've never bought an expensive watch,
I always lose my watches. I'd just as well take the money and burn it.
( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:56, Reply)

something about arse fisting

(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:57, Reply)

OPEN GOAL

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:58, Reply)

THAT WAS HER FIRST MISTAKE

( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:59, Reply)

I don't know, gain a reputation for using frozen shit as a dildo
and suddenly you're being accused of all manner of perversities.
( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:59, Reply)

My piano, probably
£1600 of loveliness, not that I play it as often as I should. Oh, and I had surgery. That was expensive.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:01, Reply)

Why did you go private?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:02, Reply)

Wasn't fat enough to be treated on the NHS
postcode lottery and all that. Still the best £6500 I've ever spent though.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:06, Reply)

Ahh, yes I dislike that actual measure.
It encourages people to become more unhealthy and risk further complications so they can get treatment. NICE are apparently "looking at it" but who knows.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:08, Reply)

Yes, I could have put on a stone and risked my health further, just to meet the criteria
but there's still no guarantee I would have been treated, and there's waiting times etc etc to consider. I pre-arranged the loan, had the consultation and had the surgery the week after; I knew if I waited and thought about it I'd chicken out of it.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:10, Reply)

Hopefully as techniques get developed and more surgeons get experience
costs will go down and then the criteria get loosened.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:14, Reply)

Possibly
the number of ops on the NHS has quintupled over the last three years or something daft, a lot more people are doing them. But it's not the easy fix you think it might be, it's still bloody hard work and a lot of people who have it done don't realise that beforehand.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:16, Reply)

That's true, done well it's a net saving to the nhs due to the reduced risk of long term conditions.
But without the consultaions information and follow up it's totally useless.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:21, Reply)

It does sound hard work
it wouldn't work for me I don't think
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:31, Reply)

Having paid for it myself
and virtually bankrupting myself over the course of five years to pay the money back, there was no fucking way - NO fucking way - that it wasn't going to work. I'm more paranoid now about my weight than I ever was when I was fat.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:34, Reply)

That's a fairly compelling reason :)

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:05, Reply)

Thank fuck for that.

( girlinthehole, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:16, Reply)

You're nowhere near fat enough, missy.

(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:18, Reply)

I am for someone 5ft.
I just need to crouch down when the surgeon measures my height.
( girlinthehole, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:20, Reply)

Pfft!
I think he'll spot that, what with him being medically trained and all.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:21, Reply)

Your teeth will be out soon enough, the weight will drop off

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:22, Reply)

I can still suck the filling from inside a pie Rory.

( girlinthehole, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:23, Reply)

You can always do what that 'fattest kid in the world' did
and stick your mega-sized McDonalds meal in a blender and eat it as fat soup. *shudders*
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:27, Reply)

Why is going down on a old woman like eating a cheap pie?
You've got to break through the crust and the jelly before you can get to the meat.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:32, Reply)

Fuck, what a question.
Nothing I can think of so far, the car boots are all shit round here.

And the most spent in one go? No more than £150 for a laptop which the seller thought was knackered. No, it wasn't, he was just an idiot. Still whirring away happily two years later.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:11, Reply)

What was wrong with it, and how did you fix it?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:33, Reply)

I got a dress for four pounds once
it's lovely and has lasted really well

Alt: Probably a couple of hundred pounds on a dress.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:12, Reply)

Oh, this too
I've had some belting bargains off ebay for under a tenner. Probably not as impressive as yours though as designer and vintage is largely a mystery to me...
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:13, Reply)

Knowing what to look for helps
and searching at odd times as well
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:26, Reply)

I frittered away a couple of grand on some cunt of a merkin.
I kick myself at least once a month for that stupidity.
( girlinthehole, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:14, Reply)

Kick yourself again now.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:15, Reply)

*kicks*
I deserve it chompy.
( girlinthehole, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:16, Reply)

Why? It wasn't your fault he turned out to be a douche.
Live and learn (how to cut his brakes).
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:17, Reply)

sparkly long pink false eyelashes
they look like gay tarantulas.

oh god, where do i start? at least al isn't here to pour his sanctimonious steaming piss over everything money-related!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:18, Reply)

The story about the neon bar sign amused me
drunken ebay purchases are the worst.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:19, Reply)

yeah, not my finest moment
and now i have my IPAD, the potential for buying crap when i get bored waiting for the bloke to go to the bar or something has been trebled. gash.

i also got 15 BNIB benefit lipglosses one night. and i am so paranoid about people sharing food/drinks etc. i had to throw them away just in case they weren't really BNIB (they weren't shrink-wrapped or anything reassuring).
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:21, Reply)

Your immune system must be weak and limp wristed.

( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:25, Reply)

I just did a tiny officelol
for some reason I can see this happening very clearly.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:25, Reply)

I remember a thousand pound handbag for one thing.
A bag of sand on a sack for keeping makeup in.
( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:20, Reply)

Ha! I spent £100 on a bag once and thought I needed locking up.

( girlinthehole, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:22, Reply)

which one?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:22, Reply)

I despair

( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:24, Reply)

Under a fiver?
I am genuinely very fond of the Marvel Heroes Chess Set that i got at a car boot for £4.

I mean, I can't play chess and I have nowhere to display it at the moment, so it's been in a cupboard ever since, but I like it.

Most I've spunked? I've spent thousands on comics over the years, but although that's one collection it's not really one item, so I'd guess my bed, actually is probably the most expensive thing I've ever bought.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:22, Reply)

i'm fairly sure you'll have spunked on that too

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:23, Reply)

look, those
sticky pages on Catwoman #176 were there when I got it, OK?

oh...you mean the bed...
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:24, Reply)

yes
yes i did
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:26, Reply)

Well...*cough*...
I knew that...um...ooh, look, a rainbow!
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:29, Reply)

Have you got the Judge Dredd duvet cover on it?

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:24, Reply)

I used to,
but he looks scary and gave me nightmares, so i went back to my Snoopy one.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:25, Reply)

Cor, bet you've still got your laminated judge Anderson pics stashed under the mattress

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:27, Reply)

I have a lovely chess set at home
Nowadays, I only play about once a year, but I absolutely love that set. I've had it for about 16 years now.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:26, Reply)

My chess playing is so shit
I was once beaten by an eight year old boy with severe flu.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:27, Reply)

I got mine at Camden market
soapstone and wood. It's attractive, although crude. But that's ok as I never play chess.
( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:28, Reply)

I played a few games online recently
but all I really know is that the horsey thing can jump sidey-ways and the little fellas don't last long.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:29, Reply)

Backgammon set for 50p at a car boot

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:42, Reply)

I think my watch, cost about £1.50 in a junk shop.
I think even with the new strap it needed I'm still under a fiver, it's just an old wind-up Timex, but it keeps very good time and the battery never runs out.

Alt: Probably a holiday I didn't want to go on or something else the ex really loved. For myself it's have to be my phone which is totally ace and worth it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:35, Reply)

Best value under £5 - piece of piss: LSD.
What a fucking bargain. I always said ecstasy should have been £2 and acid £15. Now E’s are so shit they actually are £2 but that’s by the by.

At the Treworgey Tree Fayre acid was 90p. Ninety pence, for eight hours of mind-expansion and utter hilarity. Bargain of a lifetime.

(until you go mad)
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:17, Reply)

We used to regularly get tabs for free from a guy called Eddie
Some fool kept entrusting him with a sheet of tabs to sell and he would always make the mistake of taking one before he went out. He would then be so keen for you to join him that the price could always be negotiated, often down to nothing.
This was good for a while until he was run out of town.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:27, Reply)

Ever smoked DMT?
Jesus fucking Christ. Makes 8 hits of acid* feel like half a shandy.


*the largest dose I've ever had
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:40, Reply)

Never, but sounds like terrifying fun.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:42, Reply)

It's incredible. Truly.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:44, Reply)

this isn't fun

(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:38, Reply)

Dunno, I managed to get a cheap shot in on Beegeebee

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:40, Reply)

Sorry I am too busy to regale you with my 'trademark wit' today.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:41, Reply)

They've revoked your trademark again?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:44, Reply)

satay-day night fever

(Quinton had to abandon other account as i broke it, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:44, Reply)

Staying a chive?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:46, Reply)

Yay.
Our saviour is here.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:48, Reply)

Lock up your daughters
your daughters his sister
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:51, Reply)

He already did.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:51, Reply)

Hello Bertram Russel.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:49, Reply)

No real names on the internet thanks.

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:52, Reply)

Samantha

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:52, Reply)

Herb Alp-bert.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:52, Reply)

Bert Cobain

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:56, Reply)

I'll never beat 'Ol' Bertie Bastard'.
*sigh*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 16:00, Reply)

Honeymoon easily, still paying for the fucker

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:53, Reply)

UR Shrien Dewani AICM'too ill to stand trial' my fucking chin.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:56, Reply)

But I'm terribly depressed*

*that the useless bastards didn't stick to the plan
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 16:00, Reply)

OH MAN
I'm totally really really fucking up the cab office where I used to work, people call up at least every few hours trying to get cabs for prices 4-5 years old. I told them if they pay the bill I'll shut it down. "But the company shut down, it's a new company", so I said "No, you bought the company, when you did, you bought that debt with it.", he said "No, it's a different company", "If you're not swift cars anymore, then you have no problem with it staying online then".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:57, Reply)

Can you show me how to get porn on my computer please Gonz?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:59, Reply)

I've read this a few times now
and it still makes very little sense.

In other news, afternoon Gonz.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 16:00, Reply)

Something about there never being any bog roll at the cab office he used to work at

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 16:01, Reply)

Good afternoon, B3th.
I just did a SAD FACE, I forgot my Dad's birthday this year =S
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 16:03, Reply)

awwww
*hugs*
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 16:07, Reply)

They haven't paid him for a website he made for them 4 to 5 years ago.

( Kroney, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 16:06, Reply)