The Prof and I decided to have a mall day a few weekends ago and spend the many gift cards we'd generously been given for the wedding.
Game plan: To "shop without spending"
We did our returns and/or purchases in other stores and ended up at Williams Sonoma, the mecca of taste tests and expensive kitchen products. After perusing our registry, the decision came down to either a saucepan or a santoku knife. Then I saw...
OH MAH GAWD.
Of course, if anyone is a complete and obvious marketing target for the Kitchenaid 90th Anniversary Limited Edition stand mixer, it's moi. I don't cook, the thing has major hype, and a specially produced glass bowl like the mixers of old. Did I mention the commemorative logo, or that the machines are "assembled with pride in Greenville, Ohio?"
As I pawed the mixer's shiny candy apple red finish, I knew, I MUST HAVE THIS OBJECT. I begged, I tried the "birthday-and-Christmas-present-combined" tactic (reserved for very special bartering occasions, usually with Dad-orelli,) I even almost teared up...but The Prof seemed unmoved.
His comment: "You don't bake."
My reply: "Well, I don't cook either but has that stopped me from buying the majority of our kitchen items?
I am not proud to admit, but I think we had our first married fight over the whole thing right there in the store. I huffed, The Prof puffed, we called truce over some beers at The Cheesecake Factory...and we got the pot and knife instead. I forgot about the whole thing, but did feel badly about our scuffle. My newlywed badge was tarnished, with not even a month gone.
Two nights later, I came home and went back to the kitchen. There on the table...
The Prof came up behind me while my mouth gaped open in shock. "I'm sorry that we fought over something so ridiculous; I went back and got you the mixer."
Apologies, other wifeys -- but I think I made the catch of the century when I married MY hubs.
(p.s. I said that I was very sorry too.)
Great story. And aclassicgirl is right, there are million non-baking reasons to buy a stand mixer. I don't bake but use it to make vats of fluffy mashed potato, piles of whipped cream, cookie dough (okay, Kim does that), and ground beef for the best burgers.
Now, I hope Lil' Kim reads this and takes a page from the Murf. When WE went shopping post-wedding, Kim wouldn't let me buy an espresso machine, a new down comforter or a new suit...
Love, I'm sorry we fought. And any (or all) of those on the table tonight will be great.
Posted by: p_natty | 20 October 2009 at 09:10 AM
You will bake and use this thing, I swear. I worked at Sur La Table for a bit a long time ago and I won one of these (red, but with metal bowl) for free. It stayed in the box for YEARS. Good thing about these mixers is they NEVER go bad.
Now that I am home more, this thing gets a workout. And now people can buy you accessories for gifts, like the pasta maker and sausage maker (it goes on the front silver knobby thing).
Posted by: aclassicgirl | 18 October 2009 at 08:18 AM
Can't wait to taste some delicious baked goods next time I come to visit!!! ;)
Posted by: the polish princess | 17 October 2009 at 10:23 AM
So get us a discount already, General Disarray!
Posted by: skydiving in stilettos | 16 October 2009 at 01:18 PM
Greenville is only 25 miles from Coldwater. That is all.
Posted by: General Disarray | 16 October 2009 at 12:07 PM