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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Nov 4, 2021 10:27:38 GMT
I've seen that movie but don't recall a blender scene. Can you refresh my memory? Here you go. FOB blender scene Thanks! Seeing the clip, it does look familiar. The scenes I remember from that movie are the ones where Steve Martin is freaking out. And also, wow, that movie is 30 years old.
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Post by jenjie on Nov 4, 2021 10:54:45 GMT
The article got me thinking about the Kitchen Aid mixer. I am single and never-married. And I have never owned a Kitchen Aid mixer. I do enjoy cooking and baking, but have always used a hand mixer. I have bought fancy blenders and food processors and could afford a stand mixer. As ridiculous as it sounds, I guess I always associated a Kitchen Aid mixer as a gift that only a married person deserves to receive. This post really struck a chord for me. One day DH and I were at a department store and there were some very fancy towels on clearance. I don't remember the brand, but they were super thick nice towels and marked down enough where they weren't ridiculously overpriced and we splurged and bought ourselves a nice matched set of hand towel and bath towel. That doesn't sound like a big deal probably, but we generally buy our towels on clearance at Target, or maybe the Black Friday deal towels that Kohl's does. And when we saw them I was thinking that they were so nice that they were like something that we would buy to give someone as a wedding gift. And then I thought, why can't we have the nice things that we would give someone else? Why can't we give a gift like this to ourselves? And that's why we bought them, as a gift to ourselves. Now, I could go on to say that the point of the story is to live your best life, blah blah blah, but that isn't my point. The most recent time I bought towels was on Black Friday at Kohl's, and honestly, we still have those fancy towels but they aren't our favorites. We actually like the scratchier cheaper ones better. The point of the story is why do we treat other people better than we treat ourselves? Why did we think of the nice towels as gift material and not as something we could buy just because we wanted it? For me, a big part of that is simply financial. But there's also that mindset that certain things are meant to be given/received as gifts and you don't buy them for yourself. Getting back to the mixers, I wanted one for quite some time before I finally bought one. And what put me over the edge to finally buying was reading some reviews on the Kohl's website. There was a person who posted about spending years wanting a mixer and finally buying one and how they wished they had bought it sooner. I realized that I didn't want to be that person, posting about all the years they had wished they had a mixer. I wanted to be the other people, who were writing about how much they loved having a mixer. When I got married, we didn't have the registry and parties and stuff, and we only got 4 wedding presents, none of which were a Kitchen aid mixer. I bought it for myself years later, as a gift to myself and I absolutely deserved that gift. I love that mixer, I still remember the first recipe Mixie and I made together and not a day goes by that I don't look at him on that counter and think about how happy I am that I bought him. And so finally at the end of this epic post, my point is this: if you want a mixer, you go buy yourself one because I don't know a darn thing about you, but I know you deserve to have one if you want it and you don't need a wedding ring to prove that to anyone. Your should start a new thread with this comment. It’s that good. More people need to see it.
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Post by cakediva on Nov 4, 2021 11:54:37 GMT
I wish I’d been given a gift as good as a Kitchen Aid mixer for a wedding present! I bought myself one in Pearl white after divorcing my ex husband. Same! My Aunt Jo (my great-aunt actually) gave me towels. Or so I thought when I opened them at the shower. I didn't unfold, just loved the colour and thanked appropriately. Then, when writing my thank you cards and going through things, it wasn't "towels" it was "TOWEL" as in one. A bath sheet, great size, but only one. A kitchen aid back then would have been the most amazing thing ever!
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Nov 4, 2021 12:08:58 GMT
Mine was a shower gift back in '97 and finally died in '17 after the motor burnt out while I was making gingerbread. I went out and replaced her with a bigger, better model, affectionately called Thor.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Nov 4, 2021 12:21:50 GMT
Non-cook here.......is a Kitchen Aid mixer for baking only or do you make regular lunch/dinner food with it too? And if so, like what? I use mine for cooking and baking. Any thing that needs to get mixed up goes In there. Meatballs, meatloaf, shredding chicken, whisking a lot of eggs are all thing that I use it for besides baking.
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Nov 4, 2021 12:37:04 GMT
jenjie, I've said my piece, but if you want to take this and run with it, you have my blessing.
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Post by jenjie on Nov 4, 2021 13:49:12 GMT
jenjie, I've said my piece, but if you want to take this and run with it, you have my blessing. You said it beautifully. 😊
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Nov 4, 2021 13:56:17 GMT
jenjie , I've said my piece, but if you want to take this and run with it, you have my blessing. You said it beautifully. 😊 Well that's a first! I spend most of my time with one or more feet in my mouth.
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Post by jenjie on Nov 4, 2021 14:42:30 GMT
You said it beautifully. 😊 Well that's a first! I spend most of my time with one or more feet in my mouth. Hah I feel that! 🙋🏻♀️
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Post by questioning on Nov 4, 2021 15:36:10 GMT
We gave one to DH's nephew & wife as a wedding gift. Empire Red - that was on their wedding registry. Every so often I see it pop up in the background of an instagram post, so I assume they still like and use it. We gave one to our son for a college graduation gift. It's a larger version than mine with both glass and stainless bowls. I want to buy an accessory set for Christmas, but can't decide what to buy first. Juicer? Pasta? ETA peasapie thanks for that clip!
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Nov 4, 2021 15:56:12 GMT
We gave one to our son for a college graduation gift. It's a larger version than mine with both glass and stainless bowls. I want to buy an accessory set for Christmas, but can't decide what to buy first. Juicer? Pasta? What a great gift for your son! The only attachment I have is the meat grinder (bought for when we lived overseas). I don't recommend that unless your son is into making his own sausage! Personally, the grater attachment would be the first one I would buy. A juicer attachment is handy to have - and since my stand alone juicer bit the dust last year I might get that. Pasta attachment - does he actually make pasta - or is it a dream thing (for you or him?) If not, I'd look at the other attachments. Also, I hear rave reviews on the ice cream bowl.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Nov 4, 2021 16:04:29 GMT
When DH and I had been dating just a few years, my Christmas List included a Kitchen Aid mixer and exercise equipment. He bought me both and got a lot of grief for it (not from me...I loved them). Fun fact, it was 23 years ago. The exercise equipment is long gone, but the Kitchen Aid is still going strong. I've told the story before of my "Brookstone Christmas" about 20 years ago. I had asked for the red Kitchenaid mixer, gave photos and where to buy it. A week before Christmas a box the right size/weight showed up under the tree and I was so excited. Fast forward to Christmas morning and the box turned out to hold not a mixer but a Brookstone foot massager! Heartbroken doesn't even begin to describe what I felt. My other gifts were Brookstone memory foam house slippers and Brookstone portable massager. One stop shopping is his specialty. ![:rolleyes:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/Ui47LhQw2NqWVWNNqtfM.jpg) His excuse for not getting the mixer was that you aren't supposed to give a woman appliances as a gift. Umm, if it's on the wish list you sure as hell can! He left for his job overseas, I squirreled away enough money to buy the mixer and it was on the counter when he returned a few months later. That mixer has lived on the counter for 20 years now, while all the Brookstone crap is long gone. The experience taught me to not depend on others to gift you something that is your heart's desire - figure out how to get it yourself.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Nov 4, 2021 16:05:01 GMT
I bought a KA mixer for DH for our 11th anniversary. That mixer is now 20 years old. Other people may assign you gender roles, but nobody is forcing you to comply. We’re practical people. Usually we buy a needed or wanted appliance or something for the house for our anniversary. DH is much more sentimental than me. I’d be happy if he would end his boycott of Century Link and get me decent Internet for Christmas. Cox only works in 1/2 my house, even with wireless extenders. I’d also accept a new vacuum, towels, sheets or a new bed.
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Post by questioning on Nov 4, 2021 16:14:17 GMT
We gave one to our son for a college graduation gift. It's a larger version than mine with both glass and stainless bowls. I want to buy an accessory set for Christmas, but can't decide what to buy first. Juicer? Pasta? What a great gift for your son! The only attachment I have is the meat grinder (bought for when we lived overseas). I don't recommend that unless your son is into making his own sausage! Personally, the grater attachment would be the first one I would buy. A juicer attachment is handy to have - and since my stand alone juicer bit the dust last year I might get that. Pasta attachment - does he actually make pasta - or is it a dream thing (for you or him?) If not, I'd look at the other attachments. Also, I hear rave reviews on the ice cream bowl. The meat grinder would be interesting... He's the kind of guy who watches a foodie clip and tries the recipe or method. Maybe he would make sausage ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) He has made pasta so that's what made me think of it. The grater would also be good because he does food prep on Sundays. Hmmm...the plan is working! Choices for the next few years of gifts!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2021 16:20:26 GMT
We gave one to our son for a college graduation gift. It's a larger version than mine with both glass and stainless bowls. I want to buy an accessory set for Christmas, but can't decide what to buy first. Juicer? Pasta? What a great gift for your son! The only attachment I have is the meat grinder (bought for when we lived overseas). I don't recommend that unless your son is into making his own sausage! Personally, the grater attachment would be the first one I would buy. A juicer attachment is handy to have - and since my stand alone juicer bit the dust last year I might get that. Pasta attachment - does he actually make pasta - or is it a dream thing (for you or him?) If not, I'd look at the other attachments. Also, I hear rave reviews on the ice cream bowl. We bought the meat grinder years ago and didn't open the packages at all. We had all good intentions of using fresher meats and making our own sausage. Oh well. I should sell it. I'll never use it. I should have gotten the pasta attachment. The grater attachment sounds wonderful too.
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Post by liya on Nov 4, 2021 16:21:18 GMT
I bought my DH a Kitchen Aid one year for Christmas. He was very happy with the surprise. He does almost all the cooking.
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Post by melanell on Nov 4, 2021 16:53:37 GMT
What a great gift for your son! The only attachment I have is the meat grinder (bought for when we lived overseas). I don't recommend that unless your son is into making his own sausage! Personally, the grater attachment would be the first one I would buy. A juicer attachment is handy to have - and since my stand alone juicer bit the dust last year I might get that. Pasta attachment - does he actually make pasta - or is it a dream thing (for you or him?) If not, I'd look at the other attachments. Also, I hear rave reviews on the ice cream bowl. The meat grinder would be interesting... He's the kind of guy who watches a foodie clip and tries the recipe or method. Maybe he would make sausage ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/imZibXdMMACfzSOUMbhv.jpg) One year my MIL bought an extra turkey at Thanksgiving time on sale and asked DH to turn it into ground turkey for her using his mixer. She had a freezer full of ground turkey when he was done. She was so pleased as the full turkey cost her much less than buying the comparable amount of ground turkey would have due to the promotion her local grocer was running on Thanksgiving turkeys that year.
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Post by papersilly on Nov 4, 2021 17:45:25 GMT
i would have happily given up my entire bridal registry for a Kitchen Aid mixer. i don't think they had the fun colors back when i got married though.
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Post by mich5481 on Nov 4, 2021 17:58:56 GMT
I don't cook, but I do bake. My inlaws (who were mad that I wasn't taking their kid's name) said "oh we would have bought you a stand mixer but that would not be feminist, would it?" and I was like, uh, no, you know I like to bake, bring that thing on! I've had it for about 25 years and I love it. But I can definitely see how, if you don't know about the individual people in the couple, and you specifically give the bride a cooking gift, that's not great. I mean, I like to sew, and everyone knows that, but if I didn't, and someone gave me and only me a sewing machine at marriage, that would be . . . weird. I've certainly never given a wedding gift just to one half of the couple and that was one of my issues with the article. A shower gift might be more "to the bride" since at least in my experience showers are female affairs. Although why I should have to suffer through an event for one of DH's relatives while he gets off scot free is a topic for a different thread and also the reason i have sworn off future shower attendance for life. But a shower gift would be chosen off the same registry as the wedding gift, and I would assume most couples create the registry together, so to me giving either member of the couple any of those gifts is a gift to them both regardless of the occasion. Your post made me think of what happened in Florida after the gift ban legislation was passed in 2005/2006ish. It was determined if a male state employee was marrying a female lobbyist, she could accept gifts from other lobbyists at a bridal shower, but the couple could not accept gifts from lobbyists at the wedding. I once asked if they had considered if a female state employee was engaged to a male lobbyist, but they hadn't. I also asked since there was consideration to the provision that if a state employee went to dinner at a friend's (who happened to be a lobbyist), the state employee could bring a bottle of wine or something in exchange for their dinner, if a state employee was getting married and it cost $200/person if the employee could accept gifts from lobbyists using the same principle. I was asked when I was getting married, since they hadn't thought all of it through. 😂🤦♀️ I tried to argue a gravy boat received at a bridal shower was the same as a gravy boat received at the wedding reception, but they didn't agreee. One last note on my tangent- the gift ban law meant my single male colleagues could take a female lobbyist out and buy her dinner, but I could not go on a date with a male lobbyist and have him buy my dinner. 👎 The only exceptions were made for "significant" relationships.
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Nov 4, 2021 18:04:52 GMT
mich5481, that is just a whole different can of worms and I'm not going there! Florida and I will just have to agree to disagree. On a number of things.
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Post by mich5481 on Nov 4, 2021 18:10:58 GMT
mich5481, that is just a whole different can of worms and I'm not going there! Florida and I will just have to agree to disagree. On a number of things. Yeah, I hated the gift ban law. Elected officials could still accept tons of money from lobbyists through the campaigns, but a state employee could be fired for accepting a cup of coffee from an entity that hired lobbyists. 🙄😡
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Post by joelise on Nov 4, 2021 19:05:05 GMT
I wish I’d been given a gift as good as a Kitchen Aid mixer for a wedding present! I bought myself one in Pearl white after divorcing my ex husband. Same! My Aunt Jo (my great-aunt actually) gave me towels. Or so I thought when I opened them at the shower. I didn't unfold, just loved the colour and thanked appropriately. Then, when writing my thank you cards and going through things, it wasn't "towels" it was "TOWEL" as in one. A bath sheet, great size, but only one. A kitchen aid back then would have been the most amazing thing ever! Haha! But did you like the colour of THE towel I can beat that, when I got married for the first time my then DH’s grandma gave us a used slow cooker! She’d used it, put it back in the box but not washed it properly!
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Post by pepperwood on Nov 4, 2021 23:59:54 GMT
The article got me thinking about the Kitchen Aid mixer. I am single and never-married. And I have never owned a Kitchen Aid mixer. I do enjoy cooking and baking, but have always used a hand mixer. I have bought fancy blenders and food processors and could afford a stand mixer. As ridiculous as it sounds, I guess I always associated a Kitchen Aid mixer as a gift that only a married person deserves to receive. This post really struck a chord for me. One day DH and I were at a department store and there were some very fancy towels on clearance. I don't remember the brand, but they were super thick nice towels and marked down enough where they weren't ridiculously overpriced and we splurged and bought ourselves a nice matched set of hand towel and bath towel. That doesn't sound like a big deal probably, but we generally buy our towels on clearance at Target, or maybe the Black Friday deal towels that Kohl's does. And when we saw them I was thinking that they were so nice that they were like something that we would buy to give someone as a wedding gift. And then I thought, why can't we have the nice things that we would give someone else? Why can't we give a gift like this to ourselves? And that's why we bought them, as a gift to ourselves. Now, I could go on to say that the point of the story is to live your best life, blah blah blah, but that isn't my point. The most recent time I bought towels was on Black Friday at Kohl's, and honestly, we still have those fancy towels but they aren't our favorites. We actually like the scratchier cheaper ones better. The point of the story is why do we treat other people better than we treat ourselves? Why did we think of the nice towels as gift material and not as something we could buy just because we wanted it? For me, a big part of that is simply financial. But there's also that mindset that certain things are meant to be given/received as gifts and you don't buy them for yourself. Getting back to the mixers, I wanted one for quite some time before I finally bought one. And what put me over the edge to finally buying was reading some reviews on the Kohl's website. There was a person who posted about spending years wanting a mixer and finally buying one and how they wished they had bought it sooner. I realized that I didn't want to be that person, posting about all the years they had wished they had a mixer. I wanted to be the other people, who were writing about how much they loved having a mixer. When I got married, we didn't have the registry and parties and stuff, and we only got 4 wedding presents, none of which were a Kitchen aid mixer. I bought it for myself years later, as a gift to myself and I absolutely deserved that gift. I love that mixer, I still remember the first recipe Mixie and I made together and not a day goes by that I don't look at him on that counter and think about how happy I am that I bought him. And so finally at the end of this epic post, my point is this: if you want a mixer, you go buy yourself one because I don't know a darn thing about you, but I know you deserve to have one if you want it and you don't need a wedding ring to prove that to anyone.What a beautiful post. You are so kind. I am planning on moving next year and you convinced me to not only buy a Kitchen Aid mixer, but to get one of those mixer lifts to install in one of the cabinets!
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Nov 5, 2021 0:28:21 GMT
pepperwood, I am so happy to hear that you are going to treat yourself to the mixer you deserve! I'm already looking forward to an update from you in your new home with your beautiful mixer.
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