I know some people buy instruments as props and stuff that will get destroyed while being photographed for filmed.... but they are not really playable. Buy a makala dolphin, put on some nice strings. Have an ok time playing it and when you have to go, GIFT it to someone.
We don't need more trash in the landfills.
I bought an Applause UA-10 to learn on before I knew anything about ukuleles, and it wasn't inexpensive. But it did sound like crap, especially after I bought a Kanilea deluxe super concert from Music Guy Mic. As a matter of fact, I named it "Dogshit."
But I played it happily every day for three months as I found the joy that the ukulele could bring before I had to "retire" it. But I didn't throw it away, I re-purposed it. And it know has a place of honor in my uke room. It is useful to me every day.
Is that Applause still playable and does it keep better time??
It is not a matter of giving it away it is a matter of it falling apart.!!!!!!
Awwww I knew no one would be satisfied with my lack of detail but here goes .............
The uke will be taken to a remote island on the equator, the humidity is soup, it is very hot and it will be moved about on the island with a lot of tropical rain and fungi growing things in places and on people that you don't want to know about. It will not be in an air conditioned room. It is not difficult to get caught in a tropical down pour and the reason for being there is employment so you can't do things when you choose to, you mostly have to do things when they need to be done or someone says they have to be done.
The actual island and the job I am not at liberty to say but I can assure you that this is a real situation.
The outdoor uke is too expensive landed in Oz and the BUGS GEAR importer in Australia has found that no one he supplies will touch their plastic model so he is not ordering any.
A Bugs Gear plastic could be OK if I can get one into Oz at a reasonable price.
I was also thinking a solid uke might be less likely to de -laminate but there might be an issue on how waterproof the pick up and amp/headphones is.