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Stuff you've bought and then wonder why?
  1.  A steam cleaner.  It sits in the garage.  I have never used the darn thing.  
  2. One of those mini food processors.  I have one (seemed like a good idea at the time).  It is in my kitchen cupboard.  Another candidate for the charity shop.
  3. Expensive hair dryers - it has taken me years to realise that a £20 hair dryer does the same job as a ten times more expensive branded model.  But, nope, I am not parting with my two expensive hair dryers.

 

I love my steam cleaner, I recommend you try it.  I also love my mini processor. my list would be

Kitchenaid - My kitchenaid mixer would fall on that list, the thing is so heavy and takes so much volume nine times out of ten I just use my hand mixer.

Waffle Maker - made them once.

Food of the world cooker -  basically four little pots on a hot plate so you can make 4 small portions of indian food... never used it.

Spiraliser - yup, who knew courgetti was a fad?

Kitchenaid Blender - sized for america and incredibly powerful.  I am confident I could blend a person in it just fine.  Just too damn big, I end up using my  mini ninja.

 

 

Got a fancy toastie maker (to replace the £9 Argos one from 2001). It's shit. Wrong size for bread. Also makes waffles. Except it takes about 20 mins to make 2 waffles badly. fook that. 

An inflatable paddle board. I love paddle boarding, but it turns out I much prefer going somewhere and hiring one at vast cost so I don’t have to battle with deflating it and getting it home and drying it for next time. 

  1. Hugh's stock tips. 
  2. "I love Russia" t-shirt "bought" in lieu of having change of a £20 from a failed paralegal cab driver. 
  3. Cleaning services in London @ £15 per hour. Jellymonster just keeps a slave in the basement and saves a packet. 

I bought one of those vegetable slicer things, when I found out how sharp the blades were I became scared of it so never used it.  So I bought a handheld blender instead but can't bear the thought of having to clean it so it's still in the box...

I had a Hello Fresh subscription but was always too tired after a days work to cook... so cancelled that in the end too

upgraded my MIG welder to a mega number with a pair of fans. TF was I thinking. The little one I had was perfectly serviceable and has only stopped due to overheating when I was doing a mega job on a set of floor pans.  It's not like I am working as a welder for a living.

I know exactly why I bought it, so not quite on point.  But my 80 lb class Biscayne marlin rod sits forlornly in a corner, dreaming of the day it'll return to bright blue skies, deep blue water and bending on massive fish.  

@oldgrumpy, I use it for EVERYTHING.  

Steaming the toilet bowl, it gets right under the rim.  

Steaming the bath and shower, gets rid of all residues and is super shiny.

Steaming the hob and oven.

Steaming around the taps to get rid of limescale.

Cleaning the windows.

Cleaning the skirting.

Freshening the sofa and carpets.

Any nook or cranny cleaning.

My wife is the queen of buying useless shite that gets used once (if at all):

  • steam cleaner (for clothes)
  • soda stream machine
  • popcorn maker
  • waffle maker
  • vegetable mandoline
  • robot vacuum cleaner

 

I use my carpet cleaner all the time, because I have a mud magnet dog.  I don't even have carpets, just rugs.  I still end up using it at least once a month and when she gets through the after walk containment area and tracks her paws over the living room.

do you remember the good old days when a popcorn maker was a saucepan with a little oil and a lid and when it stopped hitting the lid, it was ready.

How lazy and pampered have we become?

My grandmother used to bake soda bread (brown and white), scones, apple tart, pavlova and lemon meringue every Sunday and all she needed was her trusty kenwood chef, so I looked at getting one for myself... holy crap do you know how much those things cost????

I've just ordered a new oven because I can't be arsed cleaning the old one (I broke the door hinge the last time and it took me three days to get the door back on, now it desperately needs a clean and I really can't be bothered with the fight)

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Mutters - wtf is a MIG welder in itself let alone with a pair of fans?  Please do enlighten me

Sorry, busy wiv stuff. 

There are various types of welding equipment. They are distinguished by their method of producing an electrical arc and delivering a melted alloy to the weld seam. A standard arc welder uses disposable rods with an electric circuit through the rod to the item being welded. It tends to produce a flat weld but it can also be brittle and oxydises so much of the melted rod falls away or has to be chipped off as an ashy oxide. Also you can only deliver a weld pool for as long as the rod depletes.  A MIG (Metal Inert Gas) has two differences. It runs a continuous feed of a wire of welding alloy through a hose into a hand-held ‘gun’ around which flows a shroud of Co2 or other inert gas. That allows the weld to fuse the contact and build up on the weld point without oxidising. No ashy crumble, harder and more of the weld material is turned into weld seam (as less is lost). Is better for longer term, harder joints which wont rust away. 

See also TIG welding and plasma welding for course module 2 and 3

 

Constant use of a MIG welder eventually causes heat issues in the metal box containing all the electrical equipment and feed motor. Fans cool those as you go, so you can weld for longer. 

TIG uses argon as its inert gas. T is for tungsten as the arc producing wire. 

Welcome to Welding club. 

I actually don’t do this. I have very little surplus. Kitchen equipment kept to a minimum. Decent, well reviewed and used frequently. I don’t have a welder or any other electric tools. 

I bought a workshop polishing machine. Havent used it much but it has been missing from my bench. It is part or the arsenal along with the bench sharpener/grinder, vice,  

Crikey - just crikey.  I don't do electronic stuff.  Quite frankly, I die beside it rather than read about the stuff.  But, I will believe what you say.  I really will.  I promise you.

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