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Best Tenner you've ever spent!

Essex_Al
Essex_Al Posts: 3,583
edited January 2010 in Not Sports Related
I purchased a Wii game, Pitfall - The Big Adventure on e-bay for my three year old grandson. It was actually only £7, but have hours of pleasure together trying to get to each level. Considering I hated these sort of games previously and never had time in my life for them, I'm now his hero when I get us on to the next level. Mind you many an evening I've stayed up to 1/2 pm trying!

What's the best tenner you've ever spent?

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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
    It was in Thailand...
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    On 27 pints of Courage Best in 1982 in The Crossways when it was half price due to some anniversary of the brewery
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    A winning bet i should think.
  • pork_pie
    pork_pie Posts: 452
    Probably half a dozen dances, a pint of lager and a packet of crisps at The White Horse last week.
  • uncle
    uncle Posts: 4,209
    I bought a Mk1 Escort 26 years ago for one so that was the best tenner i've spent
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,828
    Once put my last tenner with a week til payday on a horse at 9-1 and it came in.

    Spent the winnings celebrating but was worth it.
  • T
    T Posts: 1,348
    This week i bet our student Intern that he wouldn't drink a glass of Enconas hot pepper sauce (essentially a mash of chilli's). He did. Cried,admitted he didn't like hot stuff but the text message in the evening after he'd passed some of said chilli sauce along the lines of never feeling such paid made my day.

    I'm skint but that was really £10 well spent as i still giggle to think of his face after he did it.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,103
    [cite]Posted By: ValleyGary[/cite]It was in Thailand...
    I was about to say the same thing!
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    In the early '70s bought a 1955 Triumph 650 'bike (similar to S, McQueen's Great Escape 'bike) for a tenner which looked clapped out but after a change of plugs
    went like a good 'un. Did hundreds of miles, especially to the Valley, 'til the sump plug fell out and she seized up.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,641
    spent £8 on a (v cheap) lob wedge in JJB Sports in Swansea about 5 years ago and use it about 12 times a round - gets me out of trouble over & over again when faced with tricky shots around the green and must save me half a dozen strokes a round.........brilliant.

    For a comparrisson a named lob wedge (Nike,Taylor made,etc) would set you back around £80

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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]In the early '70s bought a 1955 Triumph 650 'bike (similar to S, McQueen's Great Escape 'bike) for a tenner which looked clapped out but after a change of plugs
    went like a good 'un. Did hundreds of miles, especially to the Valley, 'til the sump plug fell out and she seized up.


    Funny enough, mine was spent on a bike! (her name escapes me)
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,957
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]


    Funny enough, mine was spent on a bike! (her name escapes me)

    Blimey ....... plenty of bargains in your town!

    ;o)
  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 2,867
    The £6 Payperview I gave to Sky for Black Sunday ranks near the top for me.

    I'm my football management days I once paid £9 for a goalkeeper (I haggled by insisting that no goalkeeper is worth £10) who went on to be the backbone of a double winning team in the next season.

    Surely a few tenners were broken in to at Wycombe last week?
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Mike Tyson Vs Evander payper view on sky when he bit his ear and i got a penny change
  • JollyRobin
    JollyRobin Posts: 1,706
    When I was back in year 10 (forth year for the older amongst us) I heard about a girl who used to give "bloweys for a tenner". Never took her up on it thought!
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]In the early '70s bought a 1955 Triumph 650 'bike (similar to S, McQueen's Great Escape 'bike) for a tenner which looked clapped out but after a change of plugs
    went like a good 'un. Did hundreds of miles, especially to the Valley, 'til the sump plug fell out and she seized up.


    Funny enough, mine was spent on a bike! (her name escapes me)
    [cite]Posted By: JollyRobin[/cite]When I was back in year 10 (forth year for the older amongst us) I heard about a girl who used to give "bloweys for a tenner". Never took her up on it thought!


    I think I knew her Mum ; )
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]In the early '70s bought a 1955 Triumph 650 'bike (similar to S, McQueen's Great Escape 'bike) for a tenner which looked clapped out but after a change of plugs
    went like a good 'un. Did hundreds of miles, especially to the Valley, 'til the sump plug fell out and she seized up.

    Steve says, you win!

    great-escape-2.jpg
  • S_E_7
    S_E_7 Posts: 294
    edited January 2010
      Friend Or Defoe 22 hours ago  quote# 9
    Posted By: ValleyGary
    It was in Thailand...

    I was about to say the same thing!




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  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    edited January 2010
    Thanks Morts, that's the one: mine was about 6/7 years older but had the same engine though different suspension. Strange that a German despatch rider should be riding one in 1943!
  • Colin in Thailand.
    Colin in Thailand. Posts: 647
    Soi 6 Pattaya Thailand.

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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,956
    Return flight to Dublin!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,103
    [cite]Posted By: Colin in Thailand.[/cite]Soi 6 Pattaya Thailand.
    We ended up staying there.

    Wrong, so very wrong.

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