Useful thing at Poundlaaaahnd

[Des]

Picked this useful thing up at Poundland today, sorry, can't remember how much, but was certainly quite cheap.

 

[stuboy]

99p..lol

[Timewaster]

I've seen poundshop blade fuses before.

You push them into the fuse box and instead of the blades engaging they simply push the guts out of the back of the plastic casing.

 

Save your pound!

[mat_the_cat]

Scrapyard fuses are surely better value?

[Alexg]

Bargain! Picked up this in Poundland the other day, £15 for similar in Halfords. Their pack of 60 dashboard wipes are great too.

 

 

[barefoot]

You have to be clever at pound-land...

 

Paracetamol is 25p in the co op,

Perhaps it's not as good,

or perhaps not everything in the

Quid shop is the bargain it seems.

[Des]

I've seen poundshop blade fuses before.

You push them into the fuse box and instead of the blades engaging they simply push the guts out of the back of the plastic casing.

 

Save your pound!

Serves you right for driving something modern enough to have blade fuses, all modern fuses r shit, you can't wrap them in silver paper.

[Squire_Dawson]

Hehe, that's true. In one of my old car books, it advises making a temporary repair to a blown fuse by bridging it using some silver paper from a fag packet. Those circuit testers with the lamp are useful though, picked one up myself for a quid recently.

[Shep Shepherd]

Bargain! Picked up this in Poundland the other day, £15 for similar in Halfords. Their pack of 60 dashboard wipes are great too.

 

 

I have two of those. They work really well

[wackywacerwill]

We bagged 2 led lamps for that fancy under the kitchen cupboard lighting effect and some sticky back wood for cover the shitty gas meter cabinet in the hall. This flat is gonna look pure class when we eventually get it on the market.

[Dead_E23]

I've got a pack of cheapo fuses made of such thin metal that they fall out of the fusebox.  

 

However, if you twist them slightly so the connectors bend in opposite directions they'll stay in.  

 

They're ideal for troubleshooting the kind of fault where you blow about a dozen fuses whilst tracking it down - for example the front sidelight bulb on my Land Rover that shorted out internally and blew the fuse for the tail lights.  Less than ideal for long term use, due to the dropping out thing.

[FredTransit]

when you see em, foam rollers are always worth stocking up. Also silver wheel paint is exactly the same shade as me landliner camper. We have a 97p shop near us! Best buy there is ally repair tape.

[inconsistant]

Best I evah got from Poundland was a lovely USB powered lava lamp. Forget how much, etc, but it leaked, obviously. 

 

 

I'm sure by now the Chinese must be industrious enough to sort out their own landfill opportunities instead of shipping all their cheap badly made unnecessary cheap flimsy second rate cheap shite over here and using ours.

 

Still, it is a bargain tho, isn't it?

[retrogeezer]

ready mixed anti freeze at a £1 a litre is pretty reasonable.

[FredTransit]

Antifreeze concentrate is a bigger bargain, 99p for 500ml (£2 per L). Why pay for water?

Oh and I nearly forgot me other favourite, wiper blades! Can't beat 97p a pair can ya?

[beko1987]

I bought a stanley knife, some little plastic drawers, some of those extending snap off blade knives, furniture feet protectors for the laminate and sweets from paundlaand. None have disfigured me yet, although I did draw the line at drill bits!

[retrogeezer]

Antifreeze concentrate is a bigger bargain, 99p for 500ml (£2 per L). Why pay for water?

Oh and I nearly forgot me other favourite, wiper blades! Can't beat 97p a pair can ya?

Eh? That makes it the same price for an actual litre of antifreeze if it's a 50/50 mix in the pre-mixed stuff.

 

50p for 500ml of antifreeze and 50p for 500ml of water. No need to go home, just chuck it in the car in the car park.

[FredTransit]

concentrate is just that, the other stuff is 'already dilluted for your convenience' so you are buying less actual antifreeze.

[retrogeezer]

Yes, I know what concentrate is! But either way you are still paying a £1 for 500ml of anti-freeze but with the pre-mix you don't have to add the water yourself.

[Bobthebeard]

Mrs Beard bought some 'antibacterial toilet wipes' from Poundland. They cost £1 and were advertised on the packet as 'totally flushable'.

 

£135 to clear the blockage from the drain. Caused by toilet wipes.....

[saucedoctor]

Poundland have H7 headlamp bulds, 2 for a bin lid. I also got a 1.8 m 3.5mm stereo headphone cable - these are surprisingly hard to get. Belkin 1.8m HDMI cables, and 1.8m CAT5 crossovers as well. Bought a pile of those, and Air Dusters. Bought 15 of those! 10 x CR2032 batteries (for car key fobs and computer motherboards) are barganacious also.

[Bobthebeard]

If one considers what Poundland actually paid the suppliers for the stuff, add on their profit margin etc then go figure. .?

[Pillock]

I buy the rechargable batteries for Xbox controllers. £1 for four 800mAh - probably nowhere near that capacity but they last four days in a controller, take an hour to charge and compare favourably to the official rechargable kit at £20

[MrDuke]

I buy the rechargable batteries for Xbox controllers. £1 for four 800mAh - probably nowhere near that capacity but they last four days in a controller, take an hour to charge and compare favourably to the official rechargable kit at £20

 

To be fair, even if they were half that capacity and died after 10 recharges, they'd still be incredibly good value.

 

On a slight tangent, I'm not sure how Duracell et al manage to sell so many batteries when decent rechargeables, although pricey, are massively cheaper in the long run, and more practical. In my (small) camera, I use 2500mAh jobbies and can use it for hours on end - the one time I stuck Duracells in they were flat after about 40 minutes.

[retrogeezer]

and better for the environment.

[Pillock]

Cameras tend to like only the finest Duracell battieres. A bit like some cars running only on Optimax.

I find that if I put cheapie alkalines in my camera, they die after about 10 minutes. If I turn it off and back on 30 seconds later, I'll get another few shots. I can keep doing this for ages - it seems to drop the voltage too much, and it gradually builds back up over time. Still rubbish though.

 

For decent rechargables, try 7dayshop.com which have a pretty good name amongst photogeeks - even their own-brand stuff lasts a long time.

[FredTransit]

Yes, I know what concentrate is! But either way you are still paying a £1 for 500ml of anti-freeze but with the pre-mix you don't have to add the water yourself.

yeah but

1I am not carrying the water from the shop and

2 who pre mixes antifreeze?

unless you are draining some water out, theres only so much you can add to the rad, which will be less if you use the watered down stuff.....

[retrogeezer]

1I am not carrying the water from the shop and

 

LOL!

2 who pre mixes antifreeze?

 

Everyone! Concentrated anti freeze is supposed to be mixed with water before being put in the cooling system. It tells you to mix it on the bottle.

unless you are draining some water out, theres only so much you can add to the rad, which will be less if you use the watered down stuff..... 

 

 

Why add neat antifreeze into a cooling system that has mixed antifreeze/water in it? 

 

Either way, £1 for 500ml of concentrate is not cheaper than £1 for a litre of 50/50 mixed.

[TimothyClaypole]

If one considers what Poundland actually paid the suppliers for the stuff, add on their profit margin etc then go figure. .?

 

Back when I had a tv the boss of one of them was in China and looked to be asking either 33 or 66 cents as his price he'd pay for stuff.

 

 

I got some thin masking tape from one and I'm sure they'd not applied any glue to it, crap.

[Partridge]

Becko, Lanky Tim and other XM botherers can fill their baskets up with fuses...should keep them going for a weekend