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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MemoriesMy mum bought me a double divan when I was 16. It was lovely to have a big new bed all to myself, but then I got a girlfriend.
It lasted 11 YEARS!!!, right through the "Teenagers fucking like rabbits" stage and the "Just got engaged and can't keep your hands off eachother" stage. It struggled through two house-moves and the associated "Celebrating our newfound privacy and freedom" stage. It even staggered throught the "Making a baby" stage, but by then it was on it's last legs (I know - it was a divan with no legs).
In the end it matched your description perfectly. The neighbours must have hated it every time I got nookie. It was truly awful, but we still missed it when we went on holiday!
Thankfully it was replaced during house-move #3 with a nice wood -read: Ikea MDF- box frame one, but the new one broke (I'm a big lad and would sit on the side to put my socks on *Crack*, so now we have a nice metal one and I doubt I'll have any other type.
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