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

36 replies

Lilliput · 03/03/2007 11:21

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serenity · 03/03/2007 15:00

The IKEA mini whizzy thing, £1.99 and makes brill cappuchinos and frothy milkshakes and means I can have hot chocolate without finding lumps of unmixed powder.

IKEA kids plates, bowls and plastic cups.

IKEA bath mat, less than £2, longer than average so covers most of the bottom of the bath (Boots extra long mat is about £10) and lasts longer than every other one I've tried before going black and mouldy.

Fonk · 03/03/2007 18:28

pmsl

pruni-WHAT do you think I look like?

do you think I wear kafkans and shop in ya shops?

Pruni · 03/03/2007 18:30

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ejt1764 · 03/03/2007 18:34

apple chopper from ikea - gives wedges and cores the apple - pure genius!

crunchie · 03/03/2007 18:39

As others have siad IKEA bowls, plates, cups,and cutlery. IKEA cheese grater - even kids can use it without grating fingers.

ASDA smart price tomato soup - 19p and my kids prefer it to heinz, ASDA SP Passata - 34p a jar

Those plastic clip thingys for closing bags, stops 'pea spray' in freezers

ASDA SP nappy sacks in teh car for dog poo and sick

Fonk · 04/03/2007 07:04

at big knitted jumpers

oh crap, how have I been putting myself about

pruni I think you wear Arty Scarves. was pondering this last night

NappyChange · 06/03/2007 14:17

2True make up from Superdrug. 3 items for £5. Eye pencils and shadows v v good.

mumfor1standfinaltime · 06/03/2007 14:26

A lasagne ready meal from asda, in green box, can't remember exact one. Had it for tea last night.
Put it in the oven thinking 'oh well may as well have that sloppy lasagne for tea' as I was on my own. It was bloomin' lovely. It actually tasted like a lasagne..amazing!

Gingerbear · 06/03/2007 14:31

£1 plastic step stool from pound shop - for getting up onto toilet, washing hands in sink, climbing into bath, table for doll's picnic, extra seat for tiny guests etc, etc.

For DD's use obv

Bozza · 06/03/2007 14:36

I agree with quite a few on here - Ikea plastic bowls, cups etc, and definitely bath mats - I used to stock up on them until DS took to sitting at one end of it and DD at the other with the entire bath mat between them. Smartprice passata another good one. Also got a set of two white oven dishes from Ikea when I was a student in 1992. They lasted 15 years but have now cracked so I have replaced them with the exact same ones for £2.99.

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