What products have you bought that were really CHEAP but have turned out to be suprisingly good?

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My pineapple corer. £1.99 from Asda - maarvellous!

Runner bean slicer. Also 1.99 from John Lewis, slices beans really fast, the perfect size.

Ikea plastic bowls, how did parents survive before these were around?

A cheese grater from IKEA.

Pizza wheel.

The ikeas chees grater wtih dish you mean? Good isn't it?

Tesco value fish kievs.

But they have vanished.

I have a blue ikea cheese grater that is about 10 years old - the lidis the grater, and it has a blue pastic tub underneath.

Thats the one Colditz. 'Twas tuppence ha'penny and has endured.

A tupperware boiled egg lifter outer.

Have looked tupperware site but to no avail.

You wait until the egg is boiled, take said lifter outer & scopp egg into egg cup, all without burning your fingers or getting hands wet

I never buy cheap

Just changing from a utensils theme here, Maybelline Great Lash mascara is the business beats those poncey £15 ones hands down. Barbara Daly make up in Tesco is also v good quality and cheap.

I thought maybelline was shite when I tried it, I have always used collection 200, and penny for penny, it's great.

Good grips potato peeler

fireflyfairy2 -is that called a spoon??

think boots no 7 is the best

like some other mascara with pink packaging that i cannot remember what its called. but about £10. very very good.

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the 'happy price' kids clothes on vertbaudet.

It may be Betty.... it may be

It's bright yellow...

Tesco hand blender...4.99 and it's great for pureeing baby food and soups/sauces

Brio style train sets/accessories... Loads of play value and cheap as chips and easy to add to

ooh, we got a 'brio style' trainset from ikea - cheap as, and DD adores it.

oh, and our car cost £300 and is great

ikea garlic press

A hand-held wooden citrus fruit juicer, about £2.

DS1s winter coat was £5 in a sale - thick brown corduroy with sheepskin lining. It will fit him next year too.

We bought DD1 the paint-your-own dome tent from Milletts for her birthday last Autumn. It was after the festival season so it only cost £30.