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.

4 of your english pence!

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