JUNK FOR CHEAP
Jun. 26th, 2008 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2There's never a tool around when you need onE. This is especially true at work, where the only screwdriver around is one that J has with a wooden handle and a chewed up phillips head. I also have a really cheap (very small, almost toy-sized) adjustable pliers that I found laying around that I tossed into my desk drawer. There are times when people have needed it, as junky as it is.
I was thinking about this yesterday and I purposely stopped at the dollar store on the way home and picked up a $1 multiple head screwdriver and a $1 pair of needle-nose pliers. The pliers don't even fully close unless you really squeeze them hard. The screwdriver has 11 different bits. I had a little trouble getting one of them to fit in. With one fitted, there is room to store 4 on the handle. The others just lay around in your drawer I guess or get lost. The plastic part on the handle that stores the four extra pulls away from the handle quite easily. There's also a magnetic extension thing from inside the shaft that leans to one side.
Overall I'm not sure if I'm frightened about how cheaply made these two tools seem, or if I'm amazed that I could buy them for $1 each. I mean, what does $1 get you these days? Not even a 1/4 of a gallon of gas, for starters.
I still want to buy a larger set of beads for my nieces, but the cheap bead sets you can get at Walmart (for example) are far too cheap and junky to appeal to me. I typed "beads" into Google and hit a place called Shipwrecked Beads -- the largest selection of beads in the world (so they claim). Where is this place located? Lacey, WA. That's good because their minimum order from the web site is $25.00, and I wasn't planning to spend that much, but I might stop there on my way to Longview next week.
I was thinking about this yesterday and I purposely stopped at the dollar store on the way home and picked up a $1 multiple head screwdriver and a $1 pair of needle-nose pliers. The pliers don't even fully close unless you really squeeze them hard. The screwdriver has 11 different bits. I had a little trouble getting one of them to fit in. With one fitted, there is room to store 4 on the handle. The others just lay around in your drawer I guess or get lost. The plastic part on the handle that stores the four extra pulls away from the handle quite easily. There's also a magnetic extension thing from inside the shaft that leans to one side.
Overall I'm not sure if I'm frightened about how cheaply made these two tools seem, or if I'm amazed that I could buy them for $1 each. I mean, what does $1 get you these days? Not even a 1/4 of a gallon of gas, for starters.
I still want to buy a larger set of beads for my nieces, but the cheap bead sets you can get at Walmart (for example) are far too cheap and junky to appeal to me. I typed "beads" into Google and hit a place called Shipwrecked Beads -- the largest selection of beads in the world (so they claim). Where is this place located? Lacey, WA. That's good because their minimum order from the web site is $25.00, and I wasn't planning to spend that much, but I might stop there on my way to Longview next week.
