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Inspired by [url= http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1jeyu1/what_inexpensive_item_have_you_bought_that_you/ ]this Reddit thread[/url], what are the cheap items (bike & non bike) you've bought that you rate & get a lot of use out of?
Subscriptions to online porn sites 😉
Eggs are pretty amazing if you think about it.
Petrol. Amazingly useful stuff.
I was thinking more along the lines of cheap gadget stuff, but hey eggs and porn are pretty cool too (and yep, am sure there's a website which combines them)!
jaffa cakes
LoveFilm subscription. Saved me an absolute fortune.
Haribo jelly babies, £1 a bag from poundland
A few from me:
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sumvision-Cyclone-Micro-Media-Player/dp/B0073DN8HE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375444365&sr=8-1&keywords=sumvision+cyclone ]Sumvision media player[/url] - around £30, plays back pretty much any file format - download films/tv shows and watch them via your TV.
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Folding-Speakers-iPods-Players/dp/B000A1QKNU/ref=sr_1_9?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1375444456&sr=1-9&keywords=speakers+portable ]£6 speakers[/url] - great for festivals, powered off AAAs
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/EasyAcc-12000mAh-External-Battery-Charger/dp/B008YRG5JQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375444517&sr=8-1&keywords=battery+usb ]USB battery pack[/url] - charge your phone several times over, cheaper/smaller versions also available.
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Sansa-Player-Expandable-MicroSD/dp/B002NX0ME6/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1375444637&sr=1-3&keywords=mp3+player ]Sansa Clip[/url] - £30 mp3 player, with microSD card slot (up to 32gb), can browse music by folders rather than IP3 tags - cheap enough so if you lose it, it won't really matter.
70p 2 meter micro USB to USB cables. Bought about 6, chuck them in every room of the house. Never far from a phone charger.
€12 watch from a service station on the way to Les Arcs. I bought it so I didn't smash my Suunto on the trails. The lads ripped me for my little girly watch and then spent the whole week asking me what time it was so we didn't miss the funi or the last lift. 😉 Best bit, I crashed three times and it still works fine.
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You can buy them from decathlon for £9. [url= http://www.decathlon.co.uk/ontime-110s-digital-watch-id_8242989.html ]Clicky[/url]
Sweets and chocolate. They make me feel so good.
Bike related, ASDA brand flashing lights. Cost about 27p for a pair, the lights last long time, rarely allow water ingress and will usually see a number of successive winters through. Where ASDA could teach the big name branded lights a thing or two though is the bar mounts. Presumably the ASDA ones cost 0.01p to make but they last forever, unlike one of the big name brands which will cost you about twenty quid and last five minutes.
And my ALDI winter jacket. Picked it up while I was browsing those big trays one day for about 15 quid, I haven't needed another warm winter coat for cycling for about 7 years because it's freaking ace. I keep thinking it'll need replacing each winter but no, it just keeps on giving.
Crank Bros Speed Lever - the very peak of gadgetery awesomeness IMO
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click click zip, tyre off. click click zipity zip, tyre on
Subscriptions to online porn sites
Can't believe anyone pays for porn these days.
My cats, ok they weren't that cheap, but they give me loads of happiness and whenever I'm in the house or garden they're always with me.
free berries on the side of the road where i ride.
Good allen keys. decent socks, but most of all, stationary. I love buying stationary. I have a fountain pen at the moment and buying fine ink for it is a luxury of little cost!
I bought some little ipod speakers on the way out to lake Garda this year.
For their size they sound fantastic and only £15 too!
Bell peppers stuffed with goats cheese.
Nom nom nom
Decathlon running socks. 5 pairs for about £7 I think (but I can't remember as they last so long I haven't bought any for years)
And Orangina. And those little coconut macaroon things.
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£8ish, last years, and available in less silly colours too if you're miserable like me 😉
Two black bottle cages from Sainsbury's for 46p each. Bargain.
GAP plain drew T-shirts. About £8 a pop and actually better than the big label jobbies I've had. I have about 5 now and wear them all the time.
T-bar hex and torx wrenches from Aldi/Lidl. I think they were under a tenner.
Also, my dog was very cheap from the RSPCA. He's given me 12 years of joy so far. [i]That's[/i] VFM.
Fish for one pound, available most good markets.
Bolls contour glasses for biking. About 7 quid and do the job just fine. Got several pairs.
This is a handy little gadget if you like cutting things...
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Eurosportplayer subscription for one month during July. the whole TdF, streamed in good quality with great commentary. Bargain @ 4.90 EUR
Bike? Good question. I get a lot of pleasure from the carbon bottle cages purely because they are carbon and it blows my mind that the stuff is so strong and springy, whilst at the same time is so light.
Non-bike? The cheap ceramic kitchen knives I got from Aldi a while ago. They were cheap, but so bloody sharp and my wife has yet to ruin the blades by the endless dishwashering. Either that or my topcats. Sleeping is so much easier if you can't see the sodding blinking streetlight.
Kitchen equipment - a flexible plastic bowl scraper. 75p off amazon and I can't imagine why I didn't have one before. Gets used virtually every day.
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tyre lever and saw guide above could do with links. can people please provide links? thanks. 🙂
just so i'm not all take and no give, my recent inexpensive awesomeness was these -
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50p each and we converted all the high power halogen lights in our flat to LEDs. £100 all in including bulbs. Super.
The 400 quid Honda Accord I just bought 54 thou service history ,goes like stink !!
Crank Bros Speed Lever - the very peak of gadgetery awesomeness IMO
I've snapped two of those and gone back to metal tyre levers for tight tyres.
Can't believe anyone pays for porn these days.
I was thinking more along the lines of cheap gadget stuff, but hey eggs and porn are pretty cool too (and yep, am sure there's a website which combines them)!
If you want the really good stuff such as Petrol, eggs and pron all combined, you have to pay 😉
Pedro's star wrench with 4,5,6mm Allen heads!
Greggs cheese and onion pasties. 2 for 99p. Be still my beating heart (and expanding waistline) 😀
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Bike related - My first Smart lights. about ten years ago, I reckon. I think they were 40 quid, the battery weighed the same as the bike, but it opened up the world of night riding. I used 'em for years. For the amount of pleasure I got, per quid spent... absolutely unbeatable. Decent LED lights are ridiculously cheap nowadays too
Oh wait - I've got another.
2 x 12 pack of Durex in Boots for £9 🙂
Bombay mix from the local newsagent. 46p for a bellyful.
wrecker, you want to get on amazon for the £1.95 premium 200gsm fruit of the loom jobs. 21 colours and mildly associated with slavery, I'd expect, but probably no more than the Gap ones.
My cheap useful thing is a £14 240V inverter for the car. (Belkin, aAazon). Lets you use normal wall chargers for everthing: laptops, phones, cameras, 300W max.
And "used - like new" CDs off amazon too. Cheapest way to buy music.
[i]2 x 12 pack of Durex in Boots for £9 [/i]
A lifetime supply for £9! Bargain.
Speak for yourself!
Better than rags and tougher than kitchen roll. Perfect.
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reggiegasket - Member
Better than rags and tougher than kitchen roll. Perfect.
Rolling your own eh? 😀
Cheap Chinese MTB lights - £28 for the 2 year old ones, less for the newer ones - bought so many I could light up Sheffield at night and still not event close to the price of the ones in the mags.
A salad leaf spinner from John Lewis. It was only a few pounds. It's great if you 'grow your own'.
Costco/Kirkland merino trail socks - my walking/cycling/everyday winter sock of choice
Some please shout me when they are back in stock, my membership has lapsed.....
Earl Grey. Music.
£30 Lidl bike stand.
2 x 12 pack of Durex in Boots for £9
Shit I'm never even going to break even on the vasectomy!
People actually pay for condoms??? You do know you can get them for free, right??
Rachel
2 x 12 pack of Durex in Boots for £9
What's the best before date? For some of us that would be a life time supply.
People actually pay for condoms??? You do know you can get them for free, right??
And if you look around you can often pick them up second hand.
Ingram shaving cream from Boyes.
Best stuff i have used and only £1.50 a tube...
You guys crack me up, hahahah 🙂 🙂
OK I got another.
Tiny Mordaunt Short Speakers on a bookshelf for £1.
Listening to New Order through them - Priceless.
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Electricity. It's pennies but it does so much!
Oh nice one. I need rubbers soon and blue workshop towels.
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Today - felt tacks.
Not very much for a big bag of lots.
Tesco Value Hand Mixer: £4.99
Mrs GTTH has now lost the "I need a Kitchen Aid mixer for £400" war by proving she can make the most amazing cakes with that little thing.
Philips docking station so I can use Planet Rock/internet radio as my alarm in the morning.
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It's the bloody mothership o.O
[i]The 400 quid Honda Accord I just bought 54 thou service history ,goes like stink !! [/i]
Great cars. Barges though. The engine has more torque than the Queen Mary.
A metal disc, same size as a pound coin that fits on my key ring. Has saved all the hassle of getting a pound coin, which I never seemed to have, for the supermarket trolley........... All for 35 pence!
Stw digital subscription loads to read where ever i am especialy now that the app works 🙂
35p Woody? You was robbed I've got about half a dozen that were free, only know where 2 are though.
Wahl clippers, £40 about twenty years ago. Lifetimes supply of hair cuts, bargain.
Obviously not recommended if you're a floppy haired fop or trying to look like one direction but gold dust for skinheads.
On a hot day...
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samuri - Member
2 x 12 pack of Durex in Boots for £9A lifetime supply for £9! Bargain.
I can understand having 'a' spare whilst you are waiting for your usual one to dry after washing it out - but 23... That's just wasteful.
Middleburn cable oilers are one of my favourite cheap purchases.
Rotring ArtPens, like a fountain pen only betterer, and last for ever.
DenTek Complete Clean Easy Angle Floss Picks
Great and only £4. I love a good pick at my teeth.
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Aeropress. Two years of espresso based drinks for £20. Just discovered it's not dish washer proof though...
Ah, forgot about the aeropress. Fantastic bit of kit for by few quid.
Handpresso.
Not cheap to buy, but saving £1/day on works espresso has made it free after a few months
More please (with links too please!) - this is a good thread. 🙂
I am now followed by Durex adverts all around STW 🙂
EDIT: Another real contribution - Primark boxers. Never seem to need anything else, and they last well.
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Quite like this too, it's not great, but it's OK out of a Stovetop Moka widget and wakes me up.
Dairy Milk
Beer
Good allen keys. decent socks, but most of all, stationary. I love buying stationary.
How do you get to the till?
Spotify subscription, £5 / month for music 24/7.
3-for-£1 bags of kids sweets at asda... enough E numbers to run a nightclub.
The internet, about £5 / month.
No-one's said STW Premier Sub! 😯
going to see MACBETH at the Globe on the 17 Aug for a fiver
cable/zip ties - big bag for a quid at a quid shop, so many uses.