Simply The Best

Posted By on 11th March 2015

No, this isn’t a tribute to the legendary Tina Turner, it’s actually a question.

What’s the best thing you’ve ever bought?

For the purpose of this ‘best’ can mean, most expensive, most beautiful, most useful, best bargain, longest lasting or just your favourite thing in the whole world.
Here’s what I came up with.

I love my car and my home and garden, so they are certainly the most expensive. I’ve also loved all my cats, some of which we ‘bought’ from the RSPCA, others were ‘free’ as they just arrived on the doorstep.

Then there is our best bargain, probably a sideboard we bought for £65. We thought at the time it was a good deal but when some time later we saw an identical one for sale in another shop for £665, it became apparent that the price ticket on ours had been seriously wrong! Why didn’t the seller say something, they must have realised?

Another slightly cheaper bargain were my 2 pairs of 24p secateurs. The first pair have just broken, and the second pair are still in their bubble-pack, trouble is they’re ‘packed’ somewhere and I can’t find them, but when I do I hope they will last another 3 years.

However, the item I decided was the best thing we have ever bought is in fact an extension reel (I bet you didn’t see that coming!)

It was one of the first things we bought soon after we got married in 1973. I don’t remember what we paid for it, but we bought it from Woolworths, so I don’t expect it was expensive.

It has been used and abused over the years helping us with every job imaginable, inside and out, and now, 40+ years on it is still in regular use and is still working perfectly.

So because of it’s usefulness, reliability, value for money and for being an all round good egg, the best thing we have ever bought is an extension reel.

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