What's your best purchase under £50?

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  1. Skinner

    Skinner Well-Known Member

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    1st battery hand drill. Netto £24.99..battery wer size of a margarine tube and took 5 hrs to charge for 2 hrs use...lvd it after all them yrs of putting screws in by hand..had it for years.
     
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    Wife’s wedding ring 49 years ago
     
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    Gally Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    Good shout.
     
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    I've had one for 13 month. Tomorrow I finally have reason to use it. If I can work out how lol
     
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    Car or engine?
     
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    I have never once needed to saw a chain.
     
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    Car, and it had a bit of test on it!
     
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    Acido Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Err pass lol, I can't think of any. :rolleyes:
     
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    Styptic pencil to stop shaving nicks bleeding (used to laugh at my dad 40+ years ago) but can't do without it now.:D (about a fiver)

    Screenshot_20250220_001932_Amazon Shopping.jpg
     
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    Base layer from Aldi half price of any motorcycle brand twice as warm
     
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    I used to work with an old guy...when a nose or ear hair got a bit long he'd singe the end with a lighter....very neat and tidy....I tried it, now perhaps I lacked a bit of skill, but my nostril went up like a Californian Bush fire.
    Never done it since.
     
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    'Apple' air pods from Chiang Mai. £25.
     
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    Dunt aif sting though.
     
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    back in the nineties
    bought a grey nicholls giant off a team mate for 20 quid coz he was skint and liked his ale.
    went on to score a load of runs with it .
    still sits in its own place in me garage at the side of a warrior i had carved in its same shape, not quite as good but not bad.
     
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    A dodgy firestick
     
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    A pair of mittens in Disneyland Paris. I was absolutely freezing and they didn’t have any gloves. They have completely and utterly changed my life. My Reynaud’s is almost under control when I wear them on all but the worst days.

    My multimeter, obviously, it’s amazing the amount of things I’ve fixed because of that.

    A meat thermometer. I used to overcook everything ‘just in case’, or cut something open and it’d be undercooked and then back in it would have to go and everything it touched washed. It takes a few seconds and all the guesswork is gone, perfectly cooked food all the time for about £2 from Amazon.
     
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    Pair of Crocs
     
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    I bought a pair of red or dead boots, I reckon around 1994ish in the sale for £40. Comfiest footwear I've had and still going strong 30 years later.
     
    DannyWilsonLovechild, Feb 20, 2025
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    A packet of condoms about 1 and 6 pence back in the late 60's just thinking if I had not bought them.
     
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