I once bought a $15 Smokey Joe, 1987 model, off craigslist. Looked very good. Nice wood handle! But had no real use for it. Sometimes it would be a charcoal chimney holder, sometime a CI dutch oven lid holder, one time I learned it sears steaks insanely well.
And so it got left around and one day I saw it laying down the hill. Got knocked off the deck by a kid. The lid got a big dent in it ... I felt bad.
That dented lid is being repurposed into a mini WSM's lid, with thermometer installed where the dent is, so that it looks "embedded" ... you just never know what good might happen later. And I have a decent wood handle and second cook grate for the mini WSM now.