got a cracking Philips liquidiser this week for 150 AED.

Buy Philips HR2094 750W 1.5L - Variable Speeds Blender Aluminium from our Blenders range - Tesco.com

was it new?

as good as, not a mark on it

Used kitchen stuff....BlueCat, I thought more of you. That's like buying a used mattress.

or a breast pump.

Oh goodness. That just made me wretch.

Still not as bad as buying used clothes.

I don't think I've ever done that either. Weirdly, I don't find that as bad as kitchen stuff, definitely not as bad as a bed.

it was steamed cleaned as soon as it got home

What's wrong with used mattresses? Hotels are full of them

And thank you sir, for ruining hotels for me.

they are steam cleaned regularly though

but they are covered by thick bedsheets.

Anyway I still think used clothes are the absolute worst, what with all the sweat, saliva, dead skin, hair and unmentionables that touch and intertwine with the threads. Gives me the shivers....

Many years back I watched not 1 but a few investigative News programs (American TV) on just how clean Hotel mattresses were . The investigators used UV light to expose human organic matter (semen, saliva, vaginal secretions, sweat) . Even top Hotels weren't clean.

So I wonder just how much Emirati and foreign DNA is rubbing against your body when you snuggle in under the sheets and switch on the tele

For next to skin items I would agree, no way would you buy used underwear, gag! But jackets, jumpers etc..........