Multi-cooker definitely best buy. I bought mine over 30 years ago in S Africa, it was called an electric frying pan back then! I have used it as a frying pan, saucepan and an oven. I "recycled" the grid from the caravan grill pan and it goes in the pan and I have roasted meat, cooked casseroles and baked cakes. Our original 1970's caravan only had 2 gas rings and a grill so this was a must with a family of 4.
------------- Started with a motorbike and tent.......my gallery, my life.
Hey Dave coaches, the best one yet, on that theme, my best buy (so i thought) was a glass of white wine, the worst buy was the £100,000 HOUSE. i will say no more, while i'm typing this in my 1 bed flat lol!! still got a caravan though !!
Best buy the caravan, the memory foam double mattress topper from poundstretcher at about £30, the throws from Wilkinsons to keep the seats clean £6 a pair, folding camping chairs with foot rests from JTF that have had 10 years use.
Best buy of all my set of camping saucepans from yeomans which still look like new after 25 years use.
Worst buy lightweight porch awning which has only been out of the bag when we tried it to see if it fit, sat nav system on offer from a UKCS promotion it is a pain to set up and 6 months later they were half the price.
Worst buy of all brand new jockey wheel from towsure which snapped after 2 uses so we are back on the old scruffy one.
Best buy:
Decathlon tarp - used in a multitude of ways
Lafuma chairs and attaching shelf/cup holder
Cafitiere thermal mug - fab for one cup, saves filling a big cafitiere. In fact loved it so much bought them for the house
Camping gaz lamp. Still use it even though we have electric lights
Worst buys - i am a serial barbeque buyer; cadac easy chef, cadac safari chef, grilleto, small round barbeque, oblong folding barbeque. All fabulous barbeques but come on Teeny....................
The Best. A small fridge we got from Debenhams, for £16.00 after deductions and staff discount, it was supposed to be for watching the footy in the conservatory, it turned out to be a 12/240 volt.
The worst, A Kia Sportage 2009 2.0lt Crdi, was never right from the day we got it spent more time in the dealers than towing.
Elddis Crusader, electric pan £18 from B&M bargains, Satellite dish, Kindle FIre, Memory foam topper £30, Kia Sorento (love it)cheap ferry crossing in summer x 2 to Dunkrik courtesy of the brill Val and ukcs! cheap camping cheques off ukcs (sorry everyone I beat you to them Brand new Dorema awning 1075 for £300 courtesy of Ebay. Bottle of red wine for first night onsite.
Worse buy:- Plastic egg boxes (yellow ones) eggs broken when arrived on site, these make me laugh when I see them in the caravan shops and they have to be the top worse buy!! Bailey Unicorn Barcelona, was in the dealers more time than caravan sites, the bathroom was pants! Twin tub washing machine for caravan, its cheaper and easier to take your laundry to the launderettes on site, I hadnt thought about filling it with water and emptying it, took me 1/2 a day to wash a handful of clothes!!
Worse buy..set of knife and forks with plastic handles..handles came off in the basin.
Set of chairs to low to get out of.
A doll for the grand daughter that said "Mama" drove me up the pole.
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