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Part Worn Tyres.(unpredictable and often incorrectly fitted)
Petrol (Tesco silicon issue years ago).
PSU's (BANG),
Game/Software keys (No refunds if errors)
Trainers (last 2 weeks)
Guitars
Beer...
Got a 4k TV recently, it's a re-badged Vestel and the panel is actually nice - but really should have spent more on a Sony one with USB recording and 4k Netflix built in as they're going to cost far more the add on than the price difference. Though we'll just do without as ever.
Bought some "cheap" £90 Ikea chest of drawers. 3 of them.
Most of the drawer fronts have had to be stuck back on, buts have fallen off of them. Never again.
Oh, also, getting a smaller SSD for the PC. Never thought I would fill up 120gb with just apps.
Absolutely right. Solicitors you always need better than the opposition. You do get what you pay for as with most things.Originally Posted by virtuo
Nothing recently, but I worked out a few years back that while sometimes a cheap item really is a bargain, often, it's just cheap for a reason. Case in point, food processor. Item 1, cheap, mediocre, works .... sort-of, kinda. Item 2, MUCH more expensive (like £400 as opposed to £40), but works incomparably better, and as a result, is used more. The £400 was a hell of a lot, but it works so well. The £40 one really was £40 wasted, so actually, far poorer value.
Buy right, buy once. Buy cheap, buy over and over again.
Oh, and completely agree with earlier comments about mattresses, shoes, tyres, etc.
Wireless headphones a number of years ago. I really didn't do myself any favours with those in terms of comfort, due to the very tight fit and small earcups.
I purchased one of the first digital cameras available many years ago in a clear out scheme for £99. No external memory about a 128mb internal memory. Absolute rubbish. Waste of money.
I bought a generic battery for laptop. It didn't last long.
That is my general motto too, with some exceptions, namely computer parts that tend to be sufficiently well made to last until obsolescence and beyond.
One thing I've learned though, is that a lot of outdoor activity items *will* wear out, sometime much faster than you might expect (or at least I expected). An example close to me is snowboard boots. Regardless of whether you go mid-range or top of the line, you'll probably want to retire them after a full season (80-120 days). You might stretch a second season but definitely no more. For the casual rider who go on a shortly holiday trip every year, they may get 10 years lifespan, but if an instructor will replace them after each season.
Anyway, I had to think pretty hard as I rarely go cheap, but I finally thought of something. Clothes-peg. I bought two packs of 20 plastic pegs at the equivalent of Poundland here in Japan (works out more like 70p), and most of them seem to snapped within a year of use. What I haven't figured out, is whether there is something about plastic that makes them brittle eventually when left hanging outdoor, or does it only apply to cheap plastic? At any rate, I've replaced them with wooden ones (also acquired in the 70p store, but I think that they came in number fewer than plastic ones) and so far so good.
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
Most plastics don't react well to UV light, if you leave them hanging in the sun they will go brittle and snap. It's unlikely you'll be able to find pegs in UV resistant plastic, you're better off with wood.
Underpants.
Actually I think you made the right choice. Sony TV's apart from the very high end are no where near as good as the cheaper opposition, they're just trading their brand name and have been for many a year. Plus if you get Netflix from say an Amazon Fire TV you'll have a much better viewing experience than you would getting it via a Sony TV. (Much faster & slicker app on the AFTV). Plus you get all the other wonderful stuff with an AFTV, much more than you'll get via any TV app. Obviously there are alternatives to an AFTV e.g. Chromecast, Nvidia Shield, Android boxes etc.
Ah, so it's the UV. I was wondering if it might've been the humidity or something. The cheap wooden ones doesn't seem to clench as well as the cheap plastic ones but they should be enough to stop my clothes flying away..
I'll also say that there is also diminishing returns once you get to pretty decently made items. Someone buying £450 snowboard boots thinking that it'll "save money" by lasting 3-5 times longer than a £225 boots is going to be sorely, sorely disappointed.
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