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Sun 21 Dec, 2003 05:31 pm
Gadgets. I have a new David Jones (upmarket department store, where I have a store card, and an almost unlimited access to 24 months interest free credit - currently totally blank and empty!!!) gadget catalogue.
Not things that unscrew things and such, but electrical gadgets - I am gazing in rapt sensual lustfulness at their gleaming curves and hi-tech protruberances.....and my new mood ring has gone purple - for the first time - what can does THAT mean?
I am looking at the cover - at a lovely stainless steel juicer - with darling steam enginey looking tubes....(for WHAT?) - nemmind that my humble (and rotten) plastic one is mouldering in the grave of my kitchen cupboards (raised high because my benches were especially made higher for me - they make kitchens for DWARVES, I tell you, as I said to the designer one day, quite forgetting, as I towered over him, that he almost IS a dwarf - as the apartments here were being built, and we all scampered about gazing at them, I became, unbeknownst to me until much later, known as High Bench Woman! - the raising of the benches raised the cupboards - I keep getting cramps standing on tippy-toes trying to get stuff from the elevated ones - and the juicer is in an elevated one.)
I turn the page - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - beautiful stainless steel art deco industrial and Metropolis looking toasters!!!!!! I am transfixed - nemmind that I have almost stopped eating bread and that I have a perfectly serviceable WHITE one (matched my last kitchen) which I never use. These little marvels are better, by far, than chocolate - and almost as good as, well, you know - well, they are BETTER than bad you know...
I soldier on - COFFEE MAKERS!!!!!! Oh goddess! Shall I fall! The glorious, complicated looking, gleaming or deliciously matte expresso machines! Down, wanton, down! never have I tasted decent coffeee from a home machine - despite being subjected to endless muddy brews by enthused friends, which I choke down...but, the dripolators! Mine is, again, white and perfectly serviceable - but i want stainless steel to match the new place - my eyes glaze over, I drool......
On and on it goes - I notice we are doing industrial or cute and rounded with little feet THINGS - electric kettles, even irons, have become rounded and lady-bird like - or stark and brutally, gleamingly, industrial - music machines have become ultra mini - so cuuuuuuuute - so clean and pretty and minimalist - I WANT one.......
So far I have resisted - I window shop - I touch them - I consider - I am overtaken by sense, and I surrender the little darlin's.....
Is anyone else as daffy as I?
I haven't the least doubt that the world abounds in those both as, and more daffy than thou, Cunning Coney. There was once a corporate chain in 'Merica called sharper image, which catered to that gadgetial craving. I don't know if they are still around, but now we have Best Buy and H. H. Gregg, dedicated to the proposition that a sucker is born every minute, and they have the overpriced, largely incomprehensible device said sucker will want. The gadgets which they sell, however, are not of the small, relatively harmless variety to which i believe you refer.
I think I may be NEARLY as daffy as our Deb, but not quite.
Ah, the beautiful stainless steel objects which I covet...
They are most covetable, are they not?
Actually, I also want a cordless drill that doubles as a sander - ARE there such things?
I have also finally seen ehBeth's beloved Scum-buster -it is green! It looks too fragile to deal with MY scum - which is on the balcony tiles, sadly....
Setanta...yes, there certainly still is a thing called the Sharper Image. Theres all kinds...you know..Im just gonna stop now cuz if I start listing all the FABULOUS and lovely places...Ill be thought a bit whacky myself.
http://www.sharperimage.com
http://Brookstone.com
http://www.egadgets.com
http://www.kingarthurflour.com
okok..ill stop
Dys - you were cruel. Setanta was a little less cruel....
Merry Christmas, Quinn!
*waving*
I checked Resist. But... Scumbuster???? Is that the same as the robotic cleaner thingy people keep mentioning? (I am supposed to be cleaning today... type, type, type...)
No, that is the Roomba. It is a vacuum cleaner.
The scumbuster - well, ask ehBeth.
I have a charming juicer sitting under the table beside the big sofa. A total bear to clean. I'd rather pay to buy my juice. Soooooo, I gave it to a friend. Who brought it back after 2 years. She's tired of the clean-up. She's given up on protein/veggie diets - and will pay for her juice.
Ah yes - the clean-up.
I now have an insinkerator - so the horror is less horrid.
How do you clean up, Margo?
Your juicer has suffered the fate of my pasta maker, ehBeth....
juicers....cool but, not worth the cleaning time
although that sparkly stainless thing does get me every time...whatever it is
mc!!! Just talkin bout you!!
Happy Holidays!
No. But it sits in the cupboard unused. Lucky I got it second hand, huh?
U name it - I have it, except the ones which I cannot afford (like a 60'' plasma TV for 6,000 quid)
Some of them are seldom used - but I like having them around in my house......
So can we call you juicy margo now ??
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