Buddy, that trowel didn't "outwork" anything, you just got lucky on ONE unit. Snap two handles and suddenly a yard sale find is the hero of archaeology? Come on. Marshalltown costs more because the steel is tempered right and the handle won't split when you torque it in clay, which is exactly what happened to your two buddies, by the way. Your cheap trowel survived caliche and then you LOST it, which kind of proves the point that a tool you can't keep track of isn't saving you anything. And now you're out $45 on a replacement that feels bad, so the $12 bargain actually cost you $57 total. Do the math on that one before you tell people to skip the good stuff.

Waited almost a year to figure out it was sitting next to a heat source the whole time? That pothos was basically getting cooked alive and you just kept watering it.