Poundworld Closure Special | Ashens

cheapo well friends dark times are upon us as you have probably heard unless you haven't pound world has closed down don't worry pound land is still going the major player still is strong but yep a few years ago we had 99p stores in pound world and pound land and now we merely have pound land for you cannot stand against the might of pound land and expect to survive but yeah pound world has totally closed down and it's gone and that's not a pound shop that's a thing anymore so I went into the one in Norwich last week and well it was slim pickings my friends as you can see here the vast majority of it kind of empty and the saddest bit was around a corner they'd found up some old Halloween and Christmas stock and we're just like knocking it out for a few pence from some cardboard boxes sad times sad times but I did manage to get enough for a final pound world haul if you like and if you don't like it that's kind of what happened basically a winner I would just bought any interesting items that were left and I had no idea what that cost because everything was discounted with different rates and you just couldn't work it out basically this whole lot of items I'm going to show you cost 6 pounds 10 no it didn't it cost six pounds five but I gave them 6 pounds 10 I've got 5 pence change so yeah just read that on the bottom of the old receipt there but yep 6 pounds 5 P was the total and quite a lot of interesting that items actually some weird stuff some useful stuff some decent stuff let me stop waffling and show one of them to you by putting it in front of this camera so let's begin with something that I just saw and just was amused by a spikey eyeball that floats in a thing with glitter shavings I exist pretend the sticker off should know one for the sad onion connoisseurs out there that's all of you yeah it's bouncy ball quite bouncy and it looks really grotesque and it's just unnecessarily weird why are there spikes around the eye I mean the eye when it's weird serrated retina is strange enough why is there glitter in em it's quite bouncy as it goes but it's quite a nice thing Plus wait for it Oh even flashes and lights up what would you pay for such a thing usually one pound obviously because it was Poundland while saying that pound will actually sold quite a lot of items that did cost more than a pound it was confusing at times and I think that was in an effort to sort of stop them going under it did not work quite obviously which is a shame but yeah just gonna slap me eyeball so it flashes that's not something you hear very often on the Internet and this was the LeBlanc eyeball ball one pound with fifty pence off so it cost fifty P fifty P for a bouncing light up weird spiky eyeball floating in glitter shards I mean you can't argue with value like that can you not even a little bit knows it what one of these generic trophies clearly left over from Father's Day by the way it says Father's Day trophy on it number one dad just these things are used for a little joke stuff you can just replace the sticker with whatever is relevant at the time and yeah I mean I wouldn't like give it away to somebody to actually want a Formula One race or something but as a little joke thing these things are quite useful to store in the cupboards and forget and find accidentally fifteen years later how much do you think it was guys if you said 30 pence you were correct originally 1 pound 70 P off cost 30 P I mean again you can't argue with value like that because value is kind of an ethereal concept and therefore it's impossible to hold a conversation with it next up from the box at the end of the shop of the old Halloween stuff some weird green makeup cream that we might use for something one day I have a little sort of box full of stuff like this and fortune most of its from Poundland and I do get the impression that if we actually did a proper production and needed proper makeup we would have to get somebody in and buy some stuff but we do have some cheap green stick it on your face and look a bit like a rotten hill and a bonham-carter apparently cream from deception I am deception pleased by my makeup cream how much how much guys how much do you think this would cost if you guessed I'm spinning eggs I can't find on the bloody receipt hang on here we are Halloween makeup originally 50 pence oh the full price for this was 50 pence that is interesting and probably means you've got to four-pound or something at the time and with a 70% discount on this oh it cost me only 15 P 15 pence for some weird green makeup again you can't argue with that well I mean you could but you just be sharing into yourself and at the end day that's a bit weird here's a bloody great head torch look at the amount of LEDs in this you could light up the moon with this so I have seen one of these running and it's it's not quite an effective head torch it's big it's got a lot of LEDs in it and it's got a good reflection of thing on it plus it was made by mark hamil out of Star Wars so that's cool isn't it yeah and the strap actually seemed big enough to go over the average human head whereas often these cheap things they're not oh yeah perfectly serviceable thing didn't have an LED head torch now I do how much did it cost me originally only one pound fifty Peter Scott's merely 50 pence 50 pence to be able to light up the night as you commit your murders in the name of Luke Skywalker you see you can't argue with that I'm gonna stop saying that now no no you can't argue with that kind of value well maybe you should have argued with it because now the shops gone bust yeah didn't think of that did you right next up something slightly more upmarket a Johnny Depp character thing Tonto from Disney infinity I don't know which version of Disney infinity so you may remember always to point out though there was back in the day a thing called Skylanders I don't watch the back that probably so exists very popular toys to life thing you get a little statue of toy you stick it on RFID thing it appears in the game Disney thought we shall have ourselves some of this so they made these infinity figures and they made multiple mistakes with them one of the first mistakes is they're too bloody nice they're like really super high quality amazing paint jobs on everything all the time really beautifully sculpted it solving this stylized cartoon style so they all sort of loosely fit together no matter which property they were from even if it was a massively failed one like The Lone Ranger I've never seen the film is Harley armie hammer was it I forget but yeah I have heard bad things I know that Lego made some sets about it and now pretend they don't like they did with the M prince of air Percival Prince of Persia film with Jake Gyllenhaal but yes they just they were too expensive to produce basically and therefore too expensive to really buy Plus Disney infinity one everything was all locked off so you couldn't like mix all the characters together so then they made Disney infinity 2 which was like the we've opened it all up now play without limit still had loads of limits on it unbelievable and it wasn't until Disney infinity 3.0 you could actually mix things together properly and by that time the whole thing had become a massive massive hole in the floor to throw money into so that was the end of Disney infinity they have however kept the kind of styling going with these things called Disney play box or something which are like much bigger really nicely articulated figures sort of chunky in this style and they some throw ten pounds a pop in the Disney Store and I've seen them in there as cheap as five pounds which is interesting because that's like a really good price I mean it's like 10 pounds for a tiny little 3 3/4 inch figure being a sort of much bigger chunkier thing for the kids for the same price or less so there we are anyway Johnny Depp you apparently beat your wife seen up over there right next up oh hang on I didn't tell you how much it was let's have a look infinity figures originally sold in there for 3 pounds which is pretty good actually considering they're like a quarter of a million pounds each new and but they only had characters nobody wants it of course 50% off so that was one pound 50 only 1 pound 50 to line my bin with a little Johnny dead what more could you ask for next up an optical mouse from kid knock in that that's a move that Ryu is trying to master in Street Fighter so yeah USB to optical mouse come really say much more than that it's tiny I've got one of these that are used for testing stuff and now I have to apparently it feels very plastic in a bit cheap it works fine it's even got a scroll wheel with the extra push it down button joy yeah I mean it just sort of works you wouldn't want to use it for like work everyday or anything well the left buttons a little bit Daffy on this one when I've got to previously as fine oh no I've worn it in it's okay now yeah it's just like a really cheap Mouse to check something and basically it they use just not these out for a quid it's not if you just need a cheap Mouse to test for a pound that's really good but how much did I pay for it friends well optical mouse one pound seventy percent off thirty P thirty bloody P you can't argue with quality like the gnome the compressor Algar forgotten the bloody useless catchphrase I was using there let's come up with a new one hats I don't even dance no way that makes no sense anyway next only found a bloody blu-ray Frank there were a few this was the only one of a film a human might actually watch in the Valley of Elah sometimes the truth is best left buried you've got Charlize Theron there and you've got the mighty Tommy Lee Jones looking grizzled and upset as he appears to permanently do let's and look I'm trying to work out if he plays a policeman in this one like he nearly always does nope Charlize Theron is the police detective in this so I nearly didn't buy this because I've already got it and bought it from Poundland before but that was a film called in the electric mist which has a very similar title and has a big picture of Tommy Lee Jones looking like that on the cover so you know I can't tell you if this films to go or not because I haven't seen it but hey it was in there two pounds or two four three pound blu-ray section as you can guess those prices no longer applied this blu-ray was come on where is it there it is so the two pounds it had 70% off so it cost me 60 P 60 p for that brand new you could probably sell it to cex for 40 pence and lose 20 per year okay let's not do that next up blows in the door super-sticky glow-in-the-dark lovely so this is quite obviously a ripoff of the famous Nickelodeon slime because it's like really really similar packaging but it's from HTI choice toys made in China of course it is everything is including you down sci-fi plot twist and yes oh I thought it was gonna be like in a sort of box or something that it's literally oh it's not actually slime it's just some sticky stuff that you know much like those little toys they used to make little sort of midnight when you throw them at the wall and it's stick and fall down the wall and leave marks on the paint and your mom would kill you um yeah and apparently it glows in the dark you know what I don't care enough to test it how much was it let's have a look at the Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam this is the music that we play as we looked on the receipt GI TD slime there we are not actually slimed you lied to me and now I believe you're nothing one pound fifty pay off fifty pence fifty pence to that I'm gonna be honest this is the only one I feel like isn't even worth the fifty pence frankly keep the kids amused for ten seconds before they drop on the carpet and ribbon everything right I didn't want to get it on the sofa frankly right two more items remain the first is whisper from yokai watch glow in the dark figure was longer than the dark stuff today um don't know what the this is frankly I'm the okay watch some sort kids show I think you can download scan and discover I will be doing none of those two things and comes an exclusive bit of plastic they also had him in different poses so obviously he's like one of the main characters in yokai watch yokai is like a kind of demon thing as they don't really know and watch apparently is literally a watch that somebody has they're like summons yokai or upsets yokai or shouts yokai so you can't sleep I don't really understand and what I am gonna do though open er up it seems colorful it's really nicely made actually almost this goes in its guts what that's kind of strange I can read that as a POF yeah well he looks happy over something II give me five I'm a white Pooh um how much was this very solid collectible I'm gonna call it collectible and not just disappointing lump of plastic yoke a watch figure they were selling him for a pound it was half price it was fifty pence you can't argue with value like that is what he probably doesn't say in the program I don't know I've never seen it and I almost certainly never will and the final device kids coloring headphones honey I'm a kid and I've killed in these headphones and now I present my own radio won't show his bachman-turner overdrive with you ain't seen nothing yet includes four stickers and crayons to color and customize great features kid-safe 85 decibel volume limit hmm probably a bit more than that as you get older specifically designed to fit kids ears great for music movies and video games designed for three to nine years so will not fit over your head well that's interesting I haven't actually opened these up they also did a pink pair apparently for girls because everything has to be gendered by color apparently even if they're just devices to hear music through they don't have any of those so I could pull this one here's the stick is featuring volume robots plane with the pilot has jumped out so it's gonna plumb and kill somebody and crap shark Lovelace and in this bag teeny tiny headphones well ya know their headphones be relatively solidly made oh look there we are looking color in this exclusive space scene as well as putting other stickers on let's see how well it actually takes the crayon oh yeah very well actually oh yeah that's fine oh no I haven't stayed with the lines I'm like Picasso or something there we are yes fine it's no fun with that and then listen to some low quality audio one imagines tell me what I'm gonna jump cuts to having tested these out yeah they're not great they're not terrible they're much better than like those sports headphones anything you can get in Pound shops and but I was I couldn't test them fully because they wouldn't go over my head because they designed for little wee bends but yeah I mean I've seen a lot worse put it that way and heard a lot worse more specifically let's have a quick squeeze actually how much were these these were originally sold for four pounds four pounds our headphones though that and the covering I mean that's that's a decent enough price I suppose give the kids something to play with something they can no listen to minecraft on their cheap Android tablets or whatever but well how much did I actually pay it had 70% off so that's two pounds 80 off so I paid one pound 20 for one pound 20 what a bargain hello I'm telling you that's because the shops closed so you couldn't possibly buy them yourself well there we go that is the end of pound world can we all just take one moment of silence to reflect on our fallen comrade press X to pay respects well no time P stores and pound world may be gone but Poundland continues to thrive mainly cuz they've got a clothing range at now where everything costs more than a pound but it's very popular family called Pepin Co there we are that's pound shop news video ends now bye [Music] you [Music]

Channel: ashens

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Rating: 4.9116187 out of 5

Keywords: poundworld haul 2018, closing down sale, poundworld closure, poundland special, ashens, disney infinity, slime, optical mouse, eyeball, trophy, review, funny, headphones, poundworld closing down, poundworld haul, poundworld store closing

Id: kUGAc8_0BfQ

Length: 17min 24sec (1044 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 02 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

For £4, my mate was simply given a plastic bag and told to fill it with whatever he wanted. I think he mostly stocked up on wrapping paper.

[u/Goodbye18000]

I’m a simple man. I see Whisper from Yokai Watch, I click like.

[u/official_duck]

Wow, I can't argue with this value!

[u/Pnuttn]

This is so sad :(

[u/uselessDM]

I really would like to meet the person that came up with those coloring headphones and congratulate them. I am in awe.

[u/Vasconium]

Pity I never got to visit a shop, although I did visit a "Euro shop" in Dublin that sold Poundworld products exclusively... close enough I suppose.

[u/Phlum]

QIP

Side note: This is a bit like an installment of The Price of Shite.

[u/[deleted]]

RIP Poundworld

[u/yunggamer]

Yokai Watch, it's like Pokemon only instead of beating them into submission and capturing them in a tiny vessel, you can befriend them!

... by beating them into submission.