All right, I admit it. I'm a sucker for gadgets. I don't mean electronic ones, executive toys and the like. I'm on a lifelong quest to find the ultimate versatile, cheap and efficient gadget, the one which will being peace, joy and happiness to my life. Mail order catalogues of the kitchen variety get me every time. I can pore over them in my anorak for ages. Some of the gadgets I've ordered have lived up to all the hype. Others have been a complete CON. Here's one of my best buys: the Klippit. They come in bags of lots more than you need and all sorts of colours. The smallest is about an inch and a half long, the longest three inches. Anything I buy in a bag gets resealed with it and thrown into the freezer or store cupboard. It's so tight that even annoying things like sugar can't escape. Opened a bag of marshmallows and only eaten three quarters of it at first sitting? No problem, just Klippit and it will last for another day or two. Klippits are also useful for keeping your socks together, keeping your bills in one place till you get around to paying them, holding papers together while glue dries and so on. I haven't broken one at the hinge yet and they managed to survive the washing machine and tumbler dryer. The only thing which destroyed one was sunlight: I used it to hold a clematis to a trellis and it got bleached, brittle and cracked in a few weeks.
Score in stars out of five:
Would you like this gadget?
- I'm ordering one now.
- 4
- I have one already.
- 4
- No, I use something else, see comments.
- 1
- You need to see a doctor, Giles, and fast.
- 2
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