Cheap things you bought but DO like
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Condi said:
P-Jay said:
Jamescrs said:
OpulentBob said:
A £900 brand new Chinese moped. I love it, traffic is no longer a thing, alleyways are my friend (pushing the bike 20m through an alley can avoid about a mile driving round the roads), park it anywhere, 3 quid to fill up, less than £60 to tax and insure for a year. For getting from one side of town to the other, it's brilliant. No CBT required. And I can take a pillion (slowly). Best bit of bargainomics ever, AFAIAC.
Why is no CBT required? I'm glad to hear the £900 Mopeds are unreliable death traps though, I'm dying to find a way to make the commute more fun once my Daughter is old enough to take herself to school.
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Region Essex. Innit fam.
Bill said:
jimmytheone said:
Fed up with cheap plastic beach spades, I invested in a roughneck mini spade, carbon steel blade and fibreglass handle that’ll cope with Hebridean & Cornish beach digging. Serious digging, think multiple dams and channels stretching 100s of metres.
So impressed I went back for 3 more for the kids to use.
Off to buy a grub axe version this afternoon
Aha, snap! So impressed I went back for 3 more for the kids to use.
Off to buy a grub axe version this afternoon
TorqueDirty said:
Vandenberg said:
A roughneck mini mattock from Wickes for £10, it has become my go to garden.
Vandenberg said:
TorqueDirty said:
Interesting thing to make in to a garden. Is it laid mainly to lawn or do you grow vegetables on it too?
Would say about 60% lawn the rest is veggie beds and flower/shrub beds. Most recent job was to dig out a mature shrub with limited access.I even bought my MIL two of them as a xmas present, which she also loves to use.
It's not often I will rave about a product but the Roughneck mattocks are simply brilliant for the money.
I was very lightly taking the pi*s. You said it had become your "go to garden" rather than your "go to garden tool" so I was wondering how you actually make a mattock in to a garden.
Not doubting that it is a very good tool - but as a garden I suspect it would be something of a compromise!
- 'Magic' clothes brush, the kind with the swivelling head. £4.50 or thereabouts.
- Non-genuine M-Sport gearknob without the M badge. Shorter than the standard gearknob and in far better condition. £11.
- Refills for my Fisher Space Pen. I like, but don't love the ink. One of the Diplomat refills smudged less. £5.
Cheap "Kiwi" brand kitchen knives from Thailand. Around a tenner or less.
I bought a few more than two years ago following a comment on Pistonheads
I bought a few more than two years ago following a comment on Pistonheads
ac13 said:
A left field suggestion is Kiwi and Kom-Kom knives. I'm just a keen amateur, used various German and Japanese makes even made a few knives using O1 steel, built my own furnace, (but that is another story), but just for a laugh I tried the Kiwi brand knives, particularly this one.
https://www.chopchopchop.co.uk/173.html.
I now find that I use this more than any of the other knives. It is very thin, very easy to sharpen and slices really well rather than chops. It probably wouldn't work in a commercial kitchen because you would have to resharpen them a lot but here is an old review.
https://www.tactical-life.com/tactical-knives/cred...
When using them, they still "feel" just as sharp now as my couple of Global knives - now demoted to the back of the knife block. https://www.chopchopchop.co.uk/173.html.
I now find that I use this more than any of the other knives. It is very thin, very easy to sharpen and slices really well rather than chops. It probably wouldn't work in a commercial kitchen because you would have to resharpen them a lot but here is an old review.
https://www.tactical-life.com/tactical-knives/cred...
Secondhand Estwing geology hammer, bought for £1 from the mum of a mate in 1990.
Saw me through a degree, a masters and a PhD. It’s utterly beautifully made. Everyone else had a £20 piece of crap they had to replace regularly.
(BTW, wear safety goggles, and preferably a full suit of armour, when trying to get a sample of Shap Granite.)
Saw me through a degree, a masters and a PhD. It’s utterly beautifully made. Everyone else had a £20 piece of crap they had to replace regularly.
(BTW, wear safety goggles, and preferably a full suit of armour, when trying to get a sample of Shap Granite.)
OllieJolly said:
One of these. Less than £5, I don't think there's a surface in the house/car that I haven't tried to use it on.
I even tried it on the cat, and disturbingly I think she liked it.
I hope that doesn't get taken out of context...
Levin said:
OllieJolly said:
What is it, though? You mentioned using it on surfaces in the car and I'm getting my hopes up it's something decent for interior fabrics.
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