Most useful item you own

[katanita]

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!

[jacks09]

potato ricer

bathroom scales

portable phone charger

[Lynne]

electric knife sharpener

hand held vacuum cleaner

torch (you can't find one when you want one, so never too many)

[seenbeen]

I have one of these but NOT in the kitchen- it's for weighing parcels to stay under the limit

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/3319035

[Robert Poste's Child]

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.

[TheCat]

A handkerchief...

[DulwichFox]

Door keys.. I never leave home without them..

Foxy

[Seabag]

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.

[Earl Aelfheah]

I have a little penknife key ring on my keys (like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Victorinox-Classic-Swiss-Army-Pocket/dp/B001BRTVZ6/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_200_lp_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=DCRT2471HFQF4GQCN8VC ). I use it all the time.

[teddyboy23]

Blow up doll. Can be used every day but be careful for ?10 it could literary blow up so I've been told

[katanita]

thanks for suggestions! I particularly liked the idea of a key ring penknife @rahrahrah, found a little keyring multitool that looks decent so will go for that.

[srisky]

Mini & midi size screwdriver set

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Secret Santa. You may as well save your colleague the bother and simply flush your tenner down the toilet.

[Loz]

Help-Ma-Bahhumbug?

[Help-Ma-Boab]

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

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> Help-Ma-Bahhumbug?

[Jules-and-Boo]

My rice steamer. And my alarm clock. God knows where we'd be without it - late and asleep most probably.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Waiter's Friend.

[katanita]

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!

[Help-Ma-Boab]

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!

[siousxiesue]

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

[siousxiesue]

Back to the question-Swiss penknife?

[uncleglen]

teddyboy23 Wrote:

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> Blow up doll.

>

> Can be used every day but be

> careful for ?10 it could literary blow up so I've

> been told

You've been watching Only Fools and Horses!

[DovertheRoad]

The most useful thing you can buy for under ?10 is a card holder that attaches to the back of your smartphone:

Google Top 25 Best Credit Card Holders for Smartphones 2016-2017:

http://flip.it/A_LIQo

[Henry_17]

A Bible

[teddyboy23]

Uncle yes seen the episode what I meant was .while getting frisky with the plastic babe just don't be to energetic 😉