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paint.
good quality one coat stuff works far better than diy budget stuff.
So much this – how DIY stores are even allowed to sell that shit they claim to be paint is beyond me.
Cheese
Tea Bags
I'm not an expert, but maybe coke and hookers?
Cheese
Nah, hard no. The Aldi West Country Extra Mature Cheddar is the best Cheddar I have ever eaten.
Vibram soles, to continue the rubber-based contributions.
Windproof clothing: the better Pertex stuff (Montaine, Buffalo...) is more robust than the cheaper fabrics. I've got a great Aldi windtop that was £7.00. I'm sure it won't take the abuse that my Pertex stuff has.
Ice cream (I should really say gelato)
Men's suits - if you have ever had a handmade suit you will know why
Fabric: wool > cotton > nylon
This bag: https://saddlebackleather.com/leather-briefcase-cl which I bough 21 years ago (it wasn't quite so extravagantly priced back then). It is still in daily use, and it looks better now it's old and battered.
Cheese
Nah, hard no. The Aldi West Country Extra Mature Cheddar is the best Cheddar I have ever eaten.
Try some Isle of Mull cheddar from a proper cheese shop.
Try some Isle of Mull cheddar from a proper cheese shop.
Okay, will do– if you promise to try some of the Aldi stuff...
Ohh, and I recently got a selection of cheeses as a gift (which included a Cheddar) from The Cheeseboard in Harrogate. The Aldi stuff is better.
Cheese
Nah, hard no. The Aldi West Country Extra Mature Cheddar is the best Cheddar I have ever eaten.
I'll give you that, but even Aldi have cheap generic rubber block cheese.
Are we still discussing toilet paper?
It's a great name for bumwad.
"Wipes out shit in just one shot".
I'll give you that, but even Aldi have cheap generic rubber block cheese.
I really enjoy nice cheese and you absolutely get what you pay for. I've no qualms in forking out for the good stuff. However I do have a weakness for bright orange, rubbery Aldi red Leicester. Sometimes, for a quick snack on crackers or on toast with thin sliced raw onion and a splash of Lea & Perrins it just hits the spot. Don't judge me!
Beer - a proper IPA
Something like this
While no first hand experience, others think that the Ceramicspeed “dry” headset bearings for daft integrated headsets are worth it. As they go in dry, apparently they are fit and forget and mean it saves replacing bar tape and cutting brake hoses at each headset service.
The same person said the Ceramic speed pulley/jockey wheel was a waste of time, but did look cool!
I promise
I assume it'll be easier for you to source the cheese than it will for me - where can I get it from?
However I do have a weakness for bright orange, rubbery Aldi red Leicester. Sometimes, for a quick snack on crackers or on toast with thin sliced raw onion and a splash of Lea & Perrins it just hits the spot. Don't judge me!
Yeah, I am with you – I love good/fancy cheese but it is all good – I like 'cheap' supermarket Wensleydale more than the 'proper' Hawes Creamery stuff, and bog-standard mature Cheddar works better in a cheese and ham toastie or an omelette than the Aldi extra-mature Cheddar I mentioned above.
You might struggle John. You'll likely only find it in independent specialist shops.
You might struggle John. You'll likely only find it in independent specialist shops.
Hmm, it is available in my local cheese shop – I wonder if it is the the one I got for my recent gift?
it looks better now it's old and battered.
not sure it would be possible to make that handbag look worse
Sussex Charmer is our go to for cheese. Well worth the extra over supermarket stuff.
Surely expensive is subjective - unless you compare the exact same item?
Practically - I'd say nearly everything apart from utilities. Almost everything that has broken or worn prematurely has been 'cheap'.
Cost, quality and value is almost certainly built in to these things - not to mention exploitation if very cheap. Which means something has to give.
I would second hand made suits - fit better, look better and retain their shape for a whole lot longer. A classic case of “buy cheap buy twice"
I would second hand made suits
But it must be really difficult finding someone who is identical to you in all measurements who just happens to be selling a suit.
Ice screws.
Running shoes and socks for sure
Surely expensive is subjective - unless you compare the exact same item?
Expensive is broadly subjective regardless. Arc'teryx kit is 'expensive' viewed in the context of general outdoor kit and if your end use is walking the dog or pottering around Cotswold footpaths on pleasant, dry days. It's arguably rather less 'expensive' if you're caught in an alpine storm, high on some ridge and the quality of fabric and design - say, how well the hood functions in terms of protection with simultaneous visibility - is suddenly very important indeed. I guess that's also 'value', but that's slightly different again.
Similarly, really good quality knives are 'expensive' per se, but less so if you're a professional chef who's going to be using them seven days a week, 365 days a year than if you're someone who cooks 'properly' once a week. The knives and the price are the same, the context is different. What is 'expensive' in that context is arguably relative.
People often conflate 'cheap' with 'good value' - the classic on here is to argue that, say, Rapha bib short are poor value because you can buy something from Aldi which does a reasonable sort of job for a lot less, but if you regularly bash out 200km rides and your shorts are the difference between being comfortable and being very much less so, then your idea of 'value' shifts. I bet I could sell you Rapha shorts at full price at the point where your Aldi ones suddenly feel rather less than great.
Bogroll be damned! Wet wipes are where it’s at, and expensive are definitely superior to cheap. We’re currently at my mother’s place in Cyprus which has its own septic tank so we’re not allowed to use them and it’s the thing I most look forward to after any trip here…
Wet wipes are where it’s at,
Fatbergs are where they end up being at !! Bidet FTW. Or at least, for a clean poo hole.
Plane tickets. We flew Jet2 rather than RyanScare or Sleazyjet this year and it’s a much more pleasant experience. I’ve only ever flown business class once, with BA, and it was short haul so not the true experience but I’d love to do a long haul flight in proper business just once.
Assassins
I learned that lesson the hard way - theres a bloke down the pub say's he'll kill anyone if you pay him £500. Turns out if you want someone in particular killed... that costs a lot more and is definitely worth leaving to the professionals. Someones definitely dead, I've just no idea who, meanwhile my arch nemesis continues to taunt me by being alive.
Running shoes and socks for sure
I tried a pair of £15 Lidl "Premium Running Shoes" yesterday.
Not absolutely terrible, in that they have decent support - but rather clumpy feeling and the insole needs trimming because the edge gave me a blister. And the laces kept coming undone. I will try my plantar insoles in them and swap the laces.
Can definitely see the value in my mid-range Mizunos by comparison though.
Fiskars scissors.
Bogroll be damned! Wet wipes are where it’s at, and expensive are definitely superior to cheap. We’re currently at my mother’s place in Cyprus which has its own septic tank so we’re not allowed to use them and it’s the thing I most look forward to after any trip here…
JFC. the message isn't getting through is it? Theres nowhere you should be flushing wet wipes, septic tank or no
Panniers.
you want something rigid enough not to get tangled in the spokes.
some mounting hardware that won’t snap off.
i bought a pair of karrimor panniers in ‘94.
they detached from the bike as I pedalled through a gate, and the only way to stop them taking the spokes out was to mount a pair of oven shelves to the rear rack.
Olive oil
Balsamic vinegar
Epoxy resin & hardener
Carbon Fibre specific scissors
Sellotape / Scotch tape
3M (almost anything they make)
Anything you keep and use a lot rather than use once or twice and throw away
Hooker - less likely to get a nasty disease, robbed, caught up in a bad situation with her fireds or, depending on the school you went to, find out she is someone you went to school with*.
*Happened to a friend apparently and put him right of his stroke when he realised, not helped by her asking if his Mum was still okay
Have we said saddles?
Especially road bike saddles.
Cambium C15 vs. the Planet X standard issue Manhood Mangler (or whatever it's called) it replaced. It wasn't until a few days riding back to back I realised quite how bad it was.
No blame on PX the bike is built to a price but just ouch!
You know how you can buy a bike without pedals? I think we need to do that with saddles to stop me binning cheap nerve annihilators.
wheels
Izal Medicated is more expensive than the usual stuff.
Isn’t that the slippery Teflon-coated stuff we had at school? Which seemingly did little more than smear it around rather than wipe clean? 😖
Gardening tools, non-powered type.
Spades
Forks
Rakes
Especially Secateurs. However, I feel that cheap ones are needed as that way they are cheaper to replace when Mrs Seadog throws then in the garden waste bin... again.
Wet wipes are where it’s at, and expensive are definitely superior to cheap.
Mate, go buy a Toto bidet seat. Literally my favourite thing in our house. Only downside is that I don't want to take extended poop breaks at work anymore because I miss my lovely heated ass washer 😥
wine- to a price point, and restaurants.
Sadly, wine and cheese.