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Hello ED hive mind. I am Secret Santa to someone who would like "something useful", and I was trying to think of something really useful for about ?10 or under. So, I'm wondering, what's the most useful thing you own in that price range?


Maybe something you are surprised to find yourself using every day, something unassuming, etc etc? Thanks in advance!

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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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>

> OMG, interrupting this to say I just saw a man

> blow his nose out of the door of the bus, using

> fingers only, while the bus was at a stop. How

> disgusting.


I'm a cyclist, I often employ such nasal clearing methods.


It's wonderfully empowering in a weird way and eco friendly.


And suitably disgusting.



As for useful things, I've a flat credit card holder with slots on each side, made of leather. Very very handy.

I love Xmas and especially the buildup. Works secret Santa's can fark right aff. Like I need those little fishes that curl up to tell me my future...or a wooden puzzle. Or tie with rudolph the red nosed reindeer that plays when you press a button..the list of tat goes on and on. .



OP not a works secret Santa. ..but I had to get it aff ma chest..#buildup17



oz Wrote:

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> Help-Ma-Bahhumbug?

Thank goodness I've never had to do Secret Santa with colleagues. This is amongst friends, so should hopefully avoid getting a load of plastic tat. For a tenner I've gotten her the enormous Almost Everything There is to Know (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Almost-Everything-There-Timothy-Hunkin/dp/0600570878) and a handy multitool, so if all you were getting were fortune telling fish (6 for ?1.65) HMB you were very short changed.


This thread has also reminded me to buy a steamer, so thanks!

Now I'm absolutely livid. I got Clive from accounts a plastic beer tumbler which attaches to a hat and has a straw. And I get 1.65 fishes. Next year...


I'M OOT.



katanita Wrote:

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> Thank goodness I've never had to do Secret Santa

> with colleagues. This is amongst friends, so

> should hopefully avoid getting a load of plastic

> tat. For a tenner I've gotten her the enormous

> Almost Everything There is to Know

> (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Almost-Everything-There-

> Timothy-Hunkin/dp/0600570878) and a handy

> multitool, so if all you were getting were fortune

> telling fish (6 for ?1.65) HMB you were very short

> changed.

>

> This thread has also reminded me to buy a steamer,

> so thanks!

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Silicone egg-poaching cups.

>

> OMG, interrupting this to say I just saw a man

> blow his nose out of the door of the bus, using

> fingers only, while the bus was at a stop. How

> disgusting.


THIS! This is why I ABHOR travelling in cold and flu season. Idiots like him

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