A great 25 bucks spent

I used to have a lovely little crockpot.  Round, white, a gift from our wedding.  Then one day I accidentally let the cord slip onto a hot burner on the stove and a strange smell, albeit a familiar one, filled my heart with a second of panic.  The result?  An unusable crockpot, or so I thought.  But wait, I could save it with a roll of electrical tape I thought to myself.  And that's exactly what I did.
             
Fast forward a couple of days when I plugged it in and to my horror big flashes of hot white sparks fly out of the outlet.  It was over.  I had to buy a new one.