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Cheerson CX-10 Mini Quadcopter

  • You’ll want to buy a bunch since you still just pay $5 shipping
  • It’s small, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s easy
  • Four rotors and a gyroscope keep it steady
  • You’ll be doing tricks with that “speed flip” function in no time
  • 4-8 minutes of flying on a 15-20 minute charge: not a bad ratio as drones go
  • 120-foot control range: just make sure it doesn’t get lost in all that sky
  • Not the one we’ve sold that has a video camera, sorry, not for five bucks
  • Model: CX-10 (perfect model number for a copter: “the CX-10 lifts off at midnight”, “I did a flyover in the CX-10”, etc.)
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There are worse ways to spend $5. Much worse.

Nobody “needs” a toy like this. Nobody’s existence depends on playing with a palm-sized quadcopter. Not even if it’s pretty easy to fly, hella fun to do tricks with, and really just amazingly tiny.

But it’s just about the most fun you can have for five bucks. We went looking on Amazon for worse things to drop a paper Lincoln on, and boy did we find some, laying waste to our Amazon search-history recommendations in the process.

Let’s start with this crime against nature, a golden angel baby costume. Aspiring Anne Geddes with $3.99 to spare and no sense of decency or taste can get a head start on embarrassing their children before the poor things have any clue what’s going on:

If you’re looking for a PC accessory that says “I’m out of touch, like ugly things, and am kind of a creep,” has Amazon got a deal for you. For just $2.60, you can festoon your workspace with a genuine Neoprene mousepad featuring a tackily stylized portrait of beloved Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. As the product copy says, it’s sure to “add a beautiful beautiful scenery to your table, but also can serve as board pad, enrich your life”:

We don’t know about you, but when we think “fun”, we immediately think “boat parts.” Here’s something called a Prop Nut & Keeper, yours for a mere $5.99. What do you do with it? You have fun, that’s what! Duh!:

These days, some of the sharpest humor around can be found clinging to the rear windows of cars and trucks. This hilarious sticker ($4.59) makes the witty, incisive jape that you own a big truck that can kill people! How droll!:

Good news: you don’t have to visit your dentist’s waiting room to catch up on outdated magazines anymore. For a mere $4.99, you can flip through the August 2003 issue of Country Living at your leisure, without the unwelcome prospect of an imminent gum scraping looming over your head:

Here’s a tip that’ll save you a lot of money in the years to come: don’t pay high prices for current calendars when old calendars are so much cheaper. And you can save even more if they’re decorated with pictures of unpopular, now-defunct sports teams. You may not always know exactly what the date is in the coming year, but with this 2014 St. Louis Rams calendar ($2.82), you’ll know you saved a few bucks:

The music. The passion. The legend. We all think we know the story of Nickelback’s rise to worldwide stardom. But the DVD documentary Nickelback: The Road to Success goes behind the myth with “the complete and unauthorized story” of the “masters of heartfelt, anthemic heavy rock.” Just $5.99 and worth every nickel:

All this fun-having is going to give you quite an appetite. If you’ve got $5.32, Amazon’s got you covered with this 4-ounce tin of squid pieces in ink sauce:

We understand that you want to consider carefully whether this supercool ultrafun Cheerson CX-10 quadcopter is worth the $5. Five bucks isn’t nothing. But as the dregs of Amazon’s bargain bin illustrate in depressing detail, sometimes it’s almost nothing.

But if you want something truly repulsive for your $5, you’ll have to look a little further afield, at Australia’s recently redesigned $5 bill:

At the current exchange rates, that masterpiece will cost you about $3.81 in American dollars. The Cheerson CX-10 is looking better all the time, huh?

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