Showerthought: I lost a whole day's pay trying to save $20 on a jigsaw blade

Honestly, I grabbed a cheap pack of generic blades for a quick cut job on some oak trim. The first one snapped halfway through, the second one wandered so bad I had to scrap the piece. Tbh, that was about $150 in lost time for what should have been a 30 minute job. I went back to my usual Diablo blades and it was like cutting butter. Has anyone else found that with certain tools, the cheap stuff just never works out?

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linda_bennett444d agoMost Upvoted

My brother used a dollar store tape measure on a deck project and the hook was so loose his cuts were off by a full inch. He spent more time fixing that than if he just used his old Stanley. Sometimes the cheap thing is fine for a one time use, but for actual work it just makes more problems.

oliviabennett23d ago

Tbh that's the worst, but it's more like you paid $150 to learn that lesson.

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nancy_davis7523d ago

Totally feel that, spent way too much on a concert once.