Pasting Table Accessories

Whether you're going to farmers' markets to flog your questionably-shaped carrots, on the streets to push your pinko-eco-commie-hippie agenda, or just having a bake sale to fund your hackerspace / D&D club / moon 'laser', at some point or other you can almost guarantee that whoever was in charge of aquiring materials for said venture went to the nearest DIY/art store and got one of those horribly flimsy wooden pasting tables, because they were the cheapest option (in a monetary system).

Then, assuming you go and use that thing every other weekend, within 5 years you will likely have gone through about 3 of them, as they rapidly fall apart when careless individuals bash the corners of them on everything during transit, causing the staples holding the top together to come away, and lean or rest heavy things on the middle, causing the hinge to pull apart.
Of course, had you the funds and forethought to cough up for a portable aluminium table to begin with, it would have cost you just