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What's the cheapest thing you had bought that by the end of its usefulness made you say "wow, this was worth a lot more than what I've paid for!" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Kimdracula@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine... My Xbox 360 slim only costed 129 euro back in 2012 and to this day still work like brand new, you would think that the disc drive would stop working but no. Never had the need of open it or clean it's insides. Still great, I just don't use it anymore since I feel it's outdated and loading speeds are better nowadays.

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do free things count?

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 months ago

I think so!

I found a TV dinner table on the side of the road and this beautiful thing has been with me for a decade, continuing to find great use cases!

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sleeping masks. They are so underrated fr

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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

I bought a straw hat for a dollar at a yard sale as I walked past during my job delivering packages

Coming in second is a goofy novelty cane I got from a dollar store and used for a while for a leg injury

Third is a box fan for 20.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 7 points 5 months ago

Plastic cutlery. Not the single use kind, but more like normal cutlery. Originally bought when my oldest was a baby, but now I'm the one using them the most.

I travel a lot for a living, and I often find myself arriving late, after any eateries in the area have closed. I started by packing a metal fork and some cup noodles in my checked luggage, but it didn't take me long to instead start keeping cup noodles and plastic cutlery in my carry-on. This way I can go to bed without being hungry even if/when United (why is it always United?) misplace my luggage.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago

I bought a fancy US made spatula for my grill. They make a smaller cheaper one that I added on impulse. That little guy is a champ and gets 5x the use of the big fancy one.

[–] Ronami@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My Logitech G203 is still alive after 8 years of constant use. Never tried to fix, but it autorepaired itself of double click (both buttons) , miss click and bad contact. At this point I am afraid of opening it to clean inside and it just cease to exist, I still clean outside tho.

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

For me, it was probably the Yakuza games series on sale at the PlayStation store. I don't game very much, so I wait to get things until I find them near free, and during the start of Covid I went looking for a game and got Yakuza 0 for $5. Got probably 100 hours in that game, and I picked up all the others (1-7) all for about the same price, so I've gotten hundreds of hours of gameplay for less than $50.

It's sort of GTA-like, but the protagonist is actually a good person, so I enjoy it more for that, and it's more minigame centric. There's some great story, and lots of funny gags throughout.

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[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have some Shoes for Crews boots I bought back in roughly 2001-2. They're a little less waterproof higher up now due to some cracking (probably because they sat in a hot storage unit for a while), but I still frequently wear them today when working outside.

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