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  • You can buy half holes, but you'll probably find it cheaper to buy whole holes and cut them in half... image

  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    Pansyface LOL image

    Stokes, save some money and use the middles from a pack of Polos image 

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,009

    If you look around our house you'd probably agree with "Just about every piece of exercise equipment ever made".  I've generally expended more calories putting the ****** things together than using them image

  • Which bit is the hole is it the part cut out from the inside or the bit of fresh air left behind bit like the chicken and egg , now my brain hurts.image going to have a lay down

    If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    I like zips for chocolate but then I do buy chocolate chips in 2.5 kilo bags.

    Mini plastic greenhouses - I've had 5 in all from different manufacturers and in different sizes and none have withstood more than half a spring gale without blowing over or losing their top or getting their frame bent or broken.   I now use the racks topless for stacking plant pots.

    Bulb planters - when the soil is fit for them to be useable it's just as easy to use a trowel.  When it's not the soil either clags and sticks and won't come out or else it's too stiff to turn and twists the wrist or the handle and, in any case, I like to put daffs and tulips and alliums deeper out of harm's way.

    Min max thermometers that die at -20C.

    Holey jeans - the hole is usually at the knee so no good for gardening on my knees which is how I do close weeding and planting out of smaller plants.

     

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887

    pointless inventions: caffeine free tea and alcohol free wine/ beer.

    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,009

    "alcohol free wine / beer! !!!   Go and wash your mouth out this minute.  Using such disgusting language on an open forum.  image

  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    Totally agree about the gym equipment. Gym Membership is also totally useless, the minute I join I seem to stop going and end up paying a fortune for something I dont use. 

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Pansyface, I'm intrigued.   Being left handed myself, how does a left handed dressmaking tape go?   Backwards?   From 60" to 0"?   I'll swop you your inherited scissors!   No, just joking.   But if you have used them you must realise how we 'cackhanded' people struggle in the ordinary world.   Thank goodness chequebooks are going out of use, because trying to lefthandedly write cheque details up against the thick spine of an almost finished chequebook was very difficult.

  • Lloyds (I think, but it could be RBS!) do a left handed cheque book oneofseven, which opens the 'other' way and has the Stubs on the right. 

    They don't do a left handed paying in book though - read into that what you like...!

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