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Asda Smartprice Plastic Sports Bottle
by headsore
I have just bought two very good sports drinking bottles from our local Asda. They were bought to replace my (extremely old and knackered) drinking bottles, which I have had for years now. We don't shop at Asda too often as the nearest one is about 10 miles from were we love and it was purely by chance that we went in and I found these ... bottles, but I am pleased we did.
They come in an assortment of bright colours - I chose blue (as I am a bloke) but the wife bought one for herself in a fairly vivid shade of pink. The reason I use these is that I go fishing on my bike when the weather is nice at weekends and also I take the little lad sometimes. More often than not we are thirsty and need a drink and I thought these looked ideal.
They are a good quality plastic and what I personally like about them is that they are not a rigid type of plastic, like my old sports water bottles were - these are ever so slightly pliable so that I can even gently squeeze the contents of the fluid out and into my mouth. Also, my other old water bottle was leaking very badly and causing me damp patches all inside my bag. Having said that though, my old bottle was VERY old and it had served me well, so who's to say these bottles won't start to leak when they get older.
As for the present time, however, they definitely do NOT leak and I can personally vouch for that. They appear completely leak -proof and are durable and hard wearing as I have sent them skittering across the concrete a few times and they show no signs of any wear or tear.
They are lightweight and the perfect size and the little lad takes his to school with his with his packed lunch. He just jams stuff into his backpack any which way, and as I say, there is no sign of any leakage so far. We are well impressed.
Overall, I would have to say we are all very pleased with our Asada Sports Bottles so far. At only £1.30 a pop I think they represent excellent vale for money and I am very pleased with our purchase.
The only thing I would have liked was more colour choice.
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Asda Smartprice Plastic Sports Bottle
by jlaker1992
I have been using dooyoo to look for new products to buy, I have read lots of reviews on spots bottles and a few on this particular one! Sports bottles are very expensive and this one is very cheap! I thought I would give it a go. I live close to asda and tesco and I tend to normally shop at tesco for the clubcard points! I decided I ... would go to asda to buy this bottle. I regularly play sports and go to the gym occasionally and this seemed a good idea as my last sports bottle had cracked.
Price/packaging:
I paid a very small £1.50 for this bottle and I went for the colour blue (chelsea fan!). This was cheap for a sports bottle! there is no packaging that comes with this, you simply buy it as it is with a small tag telling you what it is and a few instructions. Overall it is a decent price and looks average.
How does it work?
You simply screw off the lid which is attached via a plastic strip. You can fill it up by taking off the whole lid, it is very easy to drink from. I have found that my one leaks very slightly everytime it goes in my bag. Maybe I have a faulty one, I only tend to use it for water so it doesnt ruin my clothes in the bag! The bottle is also fairly light to hold and easy to pick up. It feels very cheap though and it is rather tacky. it reminds me of a kids bottle and I don't like it very much at all too look at. It does work well to drink from though, Its also easy to clean and hasnt changed shape of broken when being washed. I really like the fact its a screw lid, wish mine wouldn't leak on me.
Overall:
This is a pretty poor bottle, It works, but leaks. I think it looks childish, so it would be much better for the kids than adults in my opinion. I won't be buying another for me, I will pay more for a better quality one in the future! This gets 2 stars from me, I though it would be better after a few decent reviews on it, maybe I just have a dodgy one! You never know :) Thanks for reading my review, Josh.
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Zinc Adjustable Inline Skates
by k444tmc
For my daughters 6th birthday she recieved some money from her friends instead of presents at her birthday party. She decided she wanted to buy some roller blades and some safety pads with this money after seeing some of her older friends from our street gliding around on theirs.
When she mentioned this to me I spotted these ... in Argos as well as some Hello Kitty ones - my daughter picked these ones as they looked more "grown up" with the pink and zebra design - I agreed, they looked very cool in the catalogue!
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Who are they suitable for?
The argos catalogue states the skates are suitable for ages 5 upwards and shoe sizes 13-3 - As previously mentioned my daughter is 6 but is very small for her age, feet included. She is a size 11. However by wearing a thick pair of socks they seem to fit her perfectly and she never complains about discomfort. The padding is also very thick insidethe skates. One great thing about these blades is that there is a tab above the feet just below the bottom strap on the skates that you can pull up and tighten if the skates are slack which really helps.
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Appearance
As previously mentioned me and my daughter both loved the design - they look very funky. The outside of the skates are light and darker pink and the internal padding which stick out is zebra printed. The wheels are made out of plastic which are transparent with a pink of pink showing through. The straps each have tabs on the opposite sides to tighten and can easily be fastened in place with the black tabs - if my 6 year old daughter can do it I'm sure many other kids the same age can too! There is also a brake for easy stopping the the rear of each skate - this works really effectively and to date my daughter has had no accidents because she has used this (fingers crossed!).
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My Verdict
Overall I think these are great for a first pair of skates. My daughter loves wearing them and loves enjoying to skate with her friends. The design looks lovely - can't fault them at all - and to date we have not had any problems with damage - apart from the normal wear and tear scratchs that you would expect! If your childs shoe size is smaller than quoted I think if they are size 11 upwards like my daughters you won't have a problem due to the thick padding and adjustable fasteners.
You can also buy arm, knee and knuckle pads for your kids which I would recommend if you are going to let your child skate - these can be picked up between £10-20 depending on where you get them which are readily available!
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Price & Availability
These skates can be found in Argos for £19.99 at the time of writing this review and I believe this is around the price we got them for. Argos stores can be found nationwide and we had no problem picking these up same day from our local Argos store in Cumbria so I am confident other people will be able to get them no problem.
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