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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A Blue Peter 'make' is better constructed!This weekend I bought a whole load of flatpack furniture from Ikea, B&Q and Homebase for my new flat.
You'd think I'd have learned from the previous 3 times I've done this that the whorehouse pickers are paid less than minimum wage to pick'n'pack the kits so don't give a toss: Half the shelves haven't been drilled, the chairs have got Imperial bolts and Metric nuts, and I haven't even unpacked the table from the box yet!
Anyone got a spare tube of 'No More Nails'?
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Student furnitureIn our barely inhabitable dump of a student house, we removed the doors from all the kitchen units and for the price of a pack of screws and a few cheap metal brackets (about a pound, IIRC), we constructed ourselves a handy coffee table. Far more sturdy than the crates/breeze block options that most of our friends seemed to go for.
Bargain!
Also, the till monkeys at Homebase etc. never used to check the lengths of cable/chain, so we'd grab ourselves a few extra metres and tell them whatever.
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reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 11:50,
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Homebase kitchen cabinets...Oh, there's a saga there. Sadly for this QotW, it's neither funny nor interesting... though I admit that that hasn't stopped me so far.
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Enzyme is in ur [noun]z, [verb]in' ur [noun]z, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 12:00,
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ImperialI'm not sure how you got Imperial fasteners unless the stuff was thirty+ years old.
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