Why Did I Buy This????

I am like that with books. Granted, that might not seem silly or anything, and most people who own books will read a book more than once but not me. I read a book once and that's it. I never read it again. Even if the book isn't interesting looking I'm addicted to books. I've bought a book just because it's new and told myself I'll read it and then ended up not reading it. I'm a book junkie. 98% of the time I do read the book that I buy but there's always that once in a great blue moon where it just sits on my shelf and collects dust. As far as the ones that I've already read, they are also collecting dust now. They've been read and therefore worn out their purpose. I need to pack them up and donate them or put them in a yard sale. I have probably 1000 or so books sitting on various shelves. It looks like a library. Crazy isn't it?

I am the same way with clothing and books. I am constantly going through my closet and finding jeans I do not even remember buying. I am addiced to sales.

Man I hate kitchen gadgets, like you I have found the clean up far more time consuming then the actually by hand method of preparing. There are some things that collect dust in my cupboards that do come in handy once or twice in a decade, so I hang on to them. My husband would have the kitchen filled with useless junk like that if I allowed him to.

If you and I were married we would have closets and closets full of crap... not only am I a kitchen gadget junkie, but also a pack rat. I so know what you mean about onion choppers. I recently bought one and I hate it. It just dosent chop my onions the right size. At least with a knife and cutting board I have total control over how big my cuts are. But pop them onions into a chopper and its a crap shoot... who knows if you will get giant sized onion chunks, or microscopic onion bits swimming in water. On the flip side though, some kitchen gadgets I couldnt live without. My spaggetti tube for example. LOVE my spagetti cooker. Plop your hard 'getti in, pour in boining water... 15 mins later you have perfectly cooked spagetti. I also love my cheap-o cappachino machine. I got it for 25 bucks at walmart, lasted me 2 years so far and I wouldnt trade it for the world. I especially love it for when I have company and I can dazzle them with my amazing coffee brewing abilities. Other people serve coffee... come to MY house and you get a nice frothy cappachino! But yeah I love gadgets. Thats why my boyfriend gives me a $100 spending limit at the state fair. I could comb the state fair from dawn till dusk and leave with a truck load of crap I would never use. Then go back the next year and buy the same crap because I forgot I bought it last year (and havent used it since). If you know of any USEFULL kitchen gadgets, let me know. I am currently on the hunt for a device that will dice peppers and onions without them coming out looking like salsa.

I'm like you I have kitchen gadgets that I pruchase or recieve from friends and family we now have a rule of thumb that what ever I get has to be used at least once a month or else. LOL!! but I know exactly what you mean. LOL!!!

My good twin is at it again. Just yesterday I was in my attic stacking box upon box of kitchen "helpers" onion choppers, french fry cutters, make your own pasta machines, meat slicers (like I ever buy a WHOLE salami when I go to the deli) etc. etc. etc. I could start a thrift store with all the crap I have in my attic. But to my credit I didn't buy any of it. It was all purchased by my grandmother during her 3AM bouts of insomnia thanks to QVC. And she wonders why I took away her atm card.

lol...my mom's just like you...and so am I! But fortunately for me....my husband doesn't indulge my every whim...so I save myself from all the trouble. BUT, my mother does hand over some of the stuff she buys and doesn't use....and then it lays in my kitchen not being used. And then it is shifted to the loft one fine day when I decide to do some major cleaning. When my sister moves into a home of her own, I will then hand these 'unused' things to her!

I dont buy this crap, however!! my hubby always tries to convince me we need that stuff. like the scale he convinced me to buy when i started to make babyfood and way buying a blender. WHY do i need that ? neither of us weight our food, recipes dont call for weights usually, not that i follow recipies often either!! and i didn't have to weight the baby food. but he liked the look of it cause it was all glass. OOg! we dont have room for that crap!