15 years old I got one of these
49.99 from debenhams in Blackburn
( I got 50 quid for Xmas that year so it was everything I got that year )
I still had it 15 years later. The cassette door was smahed off, the back all melted from being left in the sun, the tuning bit was mmissing so you had no idea of what freq you were tuned to etc but it still worked despite being completely abused. the same year my best friend back then received absolutley shed loads of stuff ( purple people eater being one of them, he'd broken/lost/ forgotton about them all by Easter.....
goes to show its not how much you spend but what it means that counts