For some reason, appliances fall into this category. I bought a hugely expensive, excellent vaccuum cleaner that can suck the dust mites out of your innersping mattress and make your furnace filters as good as new (maybe). It was in my house, in the possession of a door to door salesperson and I had to have it. She demonstrated, it was wonderful, I didn't have a vaccuum and didn't pay attention to the fact that it weighed a ton and didn't have power steering. So I bought it, persuaded Ronald darling that we really really needed it and now he's the one who uses it. Sigh. I didn't really need it.
When I got married, a few decades ago, I wanted a mixer - not a hand mixer, but a stand mixer. I got a Sunbeam Mixmaster, just like my mama's and it was great. Except I kept letting the spatula slip into the beaters and bending them a bit. But they straightened out, pretty much and it was great. It had clear glass bowls, so you could see if you were done mixing. But eventually the bowls broke and the beaters bent beyond repair and I went back to the hand mixer. Eventually, I got a KitchenAid and thought I'd died and gone to heaven. The bowl is stainless so it won't break... although I can't see through it to make sure that I'm done mixing. Like my vaccuum, I'm sure it will last until I die or sometime thereafter. It is strong, it is invincible, it is (ideal for a) woman.
But I want a new one. A new KitchenAid. Actually, I want this KitchenAid.
The Pioneer Woman gave two away this week and will give two away next week. She only had 66,222 entries last week, surely all of them will have given up, and I'll be the only entry, right?
Right.
But if I win, what will I do with the one I have now? I suppose I could give it to Ronald darling, he does most of the baking anyway. But somehow, his and hers KitchenAids seems just a little over the top. His and hers Jags make complete sense, but mixers? Nyuh-uh.
So here is my solemn promise. If I win one of these mixers, I will take my fully functional mixer to the next Nickel Auction that my friends have and sell it there.
3 comments:
that will be the most expensive thing sold at a nickel auction ever! it might go for a whole 8 dollars.
two of those 66,222 responses on PW were mine and Louis'. Of course Louis does not know he commented. ;) I am thinking for the next two all of my kids will comment. I love it. And I think it would go for more than $8 at nickle auction. ;)
Good luck.
That is one heck of a Kitchen Aid! But I have to tell you . . . you don't want another one of those. I mean, they're great and all (though the motor on mine is dying after nearly 15 years). What you REALLY want (and I know this, because I was blessed with one for Christmas) is a Bosch Kitchen Machine. TRUST me. They aren't as pretty as that flower KA, but TRUST me. :)
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