Gadgets
(part of the Tomato Threads)

From: "sally.mullock" 
To: anglican@list.stsams.org
Subject: Re: Two Years of Folly -- gardens
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 

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So, what things have you all bought, but never used after the first
few tries?

Love
SallyM
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From: "Ellen Rains Harris" 

I have a rice cooker that was last used when we had Korean students
living with us.  Six years ago.  

I didn't get it then, I don't get it now, and it's now in a lovely 
Condo in Florida, waiting for someone to cook rice.
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From: Mimi Bennett-Aronson 

I bought a brand new electric Hot Dog cooker at the Senior Center yard sale 
one year. Couldn't resist the $1 price tag. I donated it back the next year 
after never having used it. 8-)

Shalom, Mimi
Mimi Bennett-Aronson
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From: "Carol M. Marsh"

I still have a fondue cooker and a sandwich maker hiding in the cupboard. 
I gave the rice cooker to the thrift shop several years ago. It's time to 
clean out the gadget shelf again.
Carol
-- 
Carol M. Marsh
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From: Sibyl Smirl 

My dad was a sucker for gadgets.  Whatever was being hyped that particular
Christmas season which was the latest and greatest kitchen gadget (usually
electrical), that was what Mom got for Christmas, because she always said
she didn't want anything.  While I was married, (thirteen years), he bought
two of them, one for me.  I learned to cook from my Mom, and neither of us
found much use for them: whatever it was was usually easier and simpler to
wash the old-fashioned way.  They got used a time or two to please Dad. 
The exceptions were electric can openers, which Mom liked, and the
blenders, which I like, and eventually used Mom's for spare parts.  When I
was divorced and my parents died, I moved back into their house, all my
stuff (pretty scanty except for books and craft materials and tools, and of
course the baby/toddler stuff--what furniture we owned was mostly pure
junk) on top of theirs.  The cabinets are still full of doubles of
nearly-new gadgets.  I need to find a better place for one of the
grilled-sandwich-makers--I need to move it about once a year to get to
occasional stuff behind it, and it won't just trade places because of
shape.  I miss my Dad, dreadfully!

Love in Christ,
Sibyl Smirl
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