Household Purchases
Now that we’ve officially cleared the final hurdles to close on our house this week, we decided to allow ourselves to go shopping for “house stuff”. We went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond on Saturday, and to Southern Season and Kitchenworks on Sunday. Here’s the rundown of purchases:
- Yet another cutting board that Rebecca simply needed to have (it’s somehow made of paper, or something). We now own seven cutting boards.
- A magnetic knife strip for the new place (we’re leaving the ones we bought several months ago at our rental house, because we’d rather do that than fill in the holes from screwing them into the wall).
- Battery-operated LED lights for inside of our new closets.
- Set of six fairly basic coasters.
- A toaster oven to replace the toaster I bought in April 2005 that for some inexplicable reason now does not work very well.
- A fried-egg sized frying pan (for Melissa).
- Popsicle molds (for Josie–we filled them with beef broth and put chew sticks in them. She loves them!).
- Two brew-in-mug tea cups (and some loose leaf tea).
- A butter bell (see www.butterbell.com).
I know it probably seems like we went a little bit nuts, but the list of items we didn’t buy but really wanted is even longer! Here’s a sample of the items we restrained ourselves from buying:
- Wine glasses.
- Bath towels, hand towels, and washcloths.
- A ginger grater.
- New placemats and cloth napkins.
- New kitchen towels.
- An Oxo salad spinner (it has a brake).
- An immersion blender (Southern Season was out, or I’m sure we would have bought it).
- A pot clip to hold cooking utensils suspended above the pot.
- A microplane.
- More knives (for Rebecca).
- More All-Clad pans (for Rebecca).
- A cookie sheet or something else metallic that we can hang up and use to store our magnetic spice containers.
- Silicone cupcake pan (or bread loaf pan, or just about anything else baking-related that’s silicone–for Melissa).
- Outdoor recliner (for Melissa).
Oh, and I’m sure there’s more. I think we showed remarkable restraint!
July 10th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
may i take credit for the butter bell? :) careful you don’t leave it out in the hotness for too long, it gets nearly-liquid, yuck (or maybe you won’t keep your new house as hot as we do!)