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Just thinking earlier about genuine bargains. Things that provide value to you far in excess of what you pay for I.
Mine is radio 4. In fact the whole BBC.
Yours?
I play far too much xbox, so games like COD, Battlefield 3 and Forza 4 that I spend hundreds of hours on each are great value at £30 each.
BBC6Music.
Radio 4 - Agreed in full! Also, vast amounts of BBC4 as well.
Tae Kwon Do training in Edinburgh. £30/month for upto a potential 7 sessions/wk.
Podcasts . Some fantastic music and shows for nowt.
Or Tae Kwon Don't, for £300/month. (sorry)
Agree on BBC. Huge bargain for £12 a month per household.
Milk
Fly swats from Tesco 2 for £1, I'm about 50 to 1 against them at the moment. One got me o Monday though, the little bugger!
[edit] mosies that is.
The NHS.
Haribo.
My Burton Day Hiker rucksack that I bought for £35 in a snowboard shop in Croydon back in about 1997. It's been to the top of mountains, far flung beaches, resided in 5* hotels and cockroach ridden hovels. It's totally indestructible, and carries everything I ever need. Best £35 I've ever spent.
Tesco Jaffa cakes
hammers,
beer,
cheese,
live music,free in pub,
dogs.
Marmite
This is boring but the best £30 I ever spent was a second hand washing machine. Bought it 3 years ago thinking "if it lasts 3 months I'll be happy". Only had to replace the hose so far. Yay !
Passata, 29p from Aldi, the base for so many tasty dinners.
Legal services & xtr.
Actually internet porn - free!
Decent food - not the stuff in packaging which is shite, expensive and bad for you.
Alpkit stuff - Gourdon rucksacks specifically - great all round packs.
New Balance trainers - top quality running shoes, can be had from their sales outlet in Keswick for peanuts, or from a TK Maxx near you if you're lucky.
Squire guitars - quality now almost as good as the American made stuff - more innovative designs too.
This 'n' That curry caff in Manchester - best Indian food going, stuff yourself stupid for a fiver.
Joseph Holts beer - award winning real ale and bloody good lagers - all under £3.00 a pint.
Rega turntables - sound great, last forever.
Roberts 'Classic' radios - as above.
My dog. Cost £150 as he was the last of a litter (Cocker/Lab cross), 1 year old ball of fun, costs a bag of food a month and the occasional flea tablet.
The view for certain rides
given their absoulute bomb-proofness - Vans trainers from the early 2000's 🙂
Broadband.
Wilson Socks
Postage stamps.
Everyone has a downer about Royal Mail and complains when they have the audacity to add 2 pence to their service but they seem to forget that for less than the price of a Mars Bar I (in Cornwall) could post The Bike Chain (in Edinburgh )a letter at 7pm and he'll have it by about 10am the very next day.
That's amazing.
P.s - the service isn't even restricted to ONLY sending stuff to The Bike Chain. There are, literally, 1000's of people you can post letters to 🙂
Free Internet porn, who needs to pay for it.
Koka noodles at 25p each are cracking value.
Toby Carvery, there are a few near us and at £3.69 with all the veg you can fit on a plate all day 6 days a week, prob my best value thing of all.
My bike, gets me from a to b with minimal cost annually.
Free Internet porn, who needs to pay for it.
Koka noodles at 25p each are cracking value.
Toby Carvery, there are a few near us and at £3.69 with all the veg you can fit on a plate all day 6 days a week, prob my best value thing of all.
My bike, gets me from a to b with minimal cost annually.
I'd agree with above though, I'm happy to pay my license fee for radio 5 alone, radio 4 is a bonus.
This forum.
Seriously. The amount of advice coupled with decent entertainment I have found here goes beyond price.
Johnnies
onions
4 pack of childrens water pistols from the 99p shop
Super unleaded
1996 Honda Civic 1.4 3 door
Sheila Pearson, 3 Bacardi and cokes and a bag of chips and she'll let you do owt...
🙂
Lard
A postage stamp
Bike locks from the pound shop.
Phone chargers from the pound shop.
Rear lights from the pound shop.
Own brand fig rolls.
Smartprice tea towels.
NASA
Since sitting on the hall floor in school back in 1969 and watching the moon landing on TV, I've been mesmerised by all the space programs
AFAIK they cost me nothing - bargain 😀
Hashem's falafel resturant in Amman, Jordan. I can feed and water the whole family for eight quid - a bargain.
And Radio 4. My link to sanity via a Roberts Internet radio - expensive but worth every penny. I even have a licence for the TV in my house back in the UK despite it hardly being watched, but that a (small) price to pay.
Is that three things? Am I allowed three or is it like Desert Island Discs where I can only keep one luxury?
North Face belay jacket I bought about 6 years ago.
I wear it for everything from sitting in the house in winter before the heating kicks in to sleeping in it on mountains in -20.
It packs down into it's own pocket and comes with me pretty much everywhere I go. Washes well too.
I'm afraid it is bike related and it's a pair of Lusso thermal bib tights bought well over 20 years ago and worn every winter.
Radio 4 is of course this countries finest achievement and totally free if you don't wish to watch television.
Leatherman - disproportionately useful for it's cost, particularly when you pick one up from the states for the equivalent of about 20 quid.
mountains , ride walk or ski they always make me happy 😀
This game, you only have to spend money on it if you want new skins etc - http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/
BBC x million.
I'd forego beer before the licence fee if it came down to it... 😯
NASA
I read recently that the entire NASA programme, everything ever dating back, what, fifty years plus, cost the US less than it spends annually on defence.
I'd concur that's a bit of a bargain.
Leatherman - disproportionately useful for it's cost
They get expensive when you start giving them away to airport security 🙁
I read recently that the entire NASA programme, everything ever dating back, what, fifty years plus, cost the US less than it spends annually on defence.I'd concur that's a bit of a bargain.
Yeah, but everything seems a bargain when you compare it to the most expensive thing on earth!
2012 = $707.5 billion (compared to the next largest of china at 143billion)
Uni, so that my entertainment and dining options aren't restricted to free Internet porn and instant noodles (unless I want them to be).
6 music
squeezebox touch (bought half price from amazon) so i can play all my music wirelessly through my speakers, and also listen to 6 music through the day.
ickle dab adaptor for the car, with magnetic aerial (bout £75 all in) so i can listen to 6 music in the car.
(do you see a theme running here?) 😀
massage sponges from home bargains 3 for 59p!
Hair dye from aldi
agree too with bbc, radio 2 is my favorite.
Those rubber mallets you can get for a quid...a must for any toolkit!
Porridge oats...cheap as and the breakfast of champions!
Tiger - Is this you?
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Lots of things..!
Dominos 2 for tuesday, or even better their vouchers 50% off!
Tescos roll-over chocolate cake 25p (its not very big but common, it's a cake!)
My flight deals off skyscanner.com
My ferry deals off www.aferry.co.uk or www.ferrysavers.co.uk
Cocktail happy hour at Franky and Bennys (£2.50 each!)
The list is endless.. I love a bargain!
Badminton set from SportsDirect.
4 bats, 4suttles, net, line markings, all for £12.99.
Something that keeps,my kid happy and outside in the garden.
Speaking of keeping the kid happy - Xbox games for £3 off Ebay.
Squire guitars - quality now almost as good as the American made stuff - more innovative designs too.
That'll be squier and well yes and no depending on what it is and where its made
Dominos 2 for tuesday, or even better their vouchers 50% off!
Except that, round here at least, Dominos pizzas start at more than twice the price of the independent takeaways, so even at half price, two-for-one or whatever, they're more expensive. And horrid.
Same for pizza hut.
Epiphone guitars and the BBC (radios 1,3,4,6 and occasionally 1xtra) are my good value things. Especially since 6 sorted Saturdays out - 3 hours of Gilles Peterson followed by 3 hours of Craig Charles, worth the licence fee alone, that.
Thanks Neil
Internet Pron
Hatsan Escort Pump Actions
Vanillaroma Magic Trees
Tesco Face wash
the real winners here are those poor folk that are just to lazy to work and live on benefits, free house, and money!
I can't think of much bike-related that IS good value.
LoveFilm. One of the last true bargains left. 10 quid a month, On average 4 DVD's/Blu-Ray's a week plus all the streaming on my PS3. I haven't bought a DVD for months, saved me a fortune!
Civilisation 4. Cost me a tenner, I might never stop playing it, must have sunk hundreds of hours into it. Marvellous.