This reminds me of my dad. My uncle gave my mam a torch and dad made her give it back. He said "when you give someone a torch you are just letting them in for a lifetime of expense with batteries"True Bob (and I'm not ungrateful) but it's cost me money ever since.
Aye, that's my dad for you....I'd better talk about printers or I'll get the naughty step!!
We've got a brill OKI at work, it was nearly 3k though. It gives a lovely shiny finish. I persuaded them to buy it cos we were producing reports for the likes of Dept of Transport on an ink jet and it was taking me about a week to print off (literally) and they looked so unprofessional. I have been known to do the odd bit of printing at work for my card making and scrapbooks on it.... 