One of the reasons that I became a teacher a million years ago was to justify my repeated and rather grandiose stationery expenditure. I used it as an excuse, but the truth is that teachers don’t actually need heart shaped erasers, staple-less staplers and electronic erasers any more than they need farm animal shaped paper clips and sweet smelling textas. Funny that.
After I had amassed all the stationery that I couldn’t fit into my home I continued to buy it, but this time I used my young son as an excuse. Truth be told he is happy with an HB lead pencil and a very hardy eraser. He almost cured me of my stationery obsession so I quickly moved onto something that he was never going to be involved with.
It was an easy transition to the beauty counter where I amassed a splendid collection of eyelash curlers, make up brushes and fan dangled battery-operated skin cleansers. This is in addition to every make of foundation and mascara that you are likely to find – even if they don’t qualify as gadgets I think the gimmickry with which they advertise them kind of gets them over the line.
Beauty gadgets are as important to your beauty routine as farm-animal shaped paper clips are to teaching mathematics. But still I was sure that I could make a huge difference to the way I looked by completely reinventing my hair style every time I dried it, which brings me to the blow dryers, straighteners, crimpers, curling rods and hot brushes I have tried. All in vain.
The good news is that I have happily found the place where gadgets not only make a difference but they actually make commonplace chores easier and more exciting – the kitchen.
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But it’s not just the rollie – I have cupboards full of exciting gadgets – the Masha which mashes potatoes like Martha Stewart but only better is one of my favourite toys, er I mean kitchen devices, a “poffertjie” maker which is my son’s favourite part of the kitchen, a pie maker which I used for almost every meal the week after I bought it. I have a really nifty “thing” which probably has a fancy name that allows me to serve rice or mashed potato or potentially other foods in a perfect circle shape. The one time I used it, it worked brilliantly. I have a digital wireless remote controlled meat thermometer that I might use one day and of course I own and have frequently used multiple devices for rolling sushi. I even own an air based popcorn machine that I once used and I might even use it again.
I have the slow cooker and the blender and the super-duper blender and the mixer and the whipper and the beater and the processor. I have the chopper and the dicer and the slicer and if I had a big enough freezer I would have an ice cream maker.
I stopped myself from buying a slushie maker the other day and I still don’t have a rice cooker so I believe there is hope for me.
Are you a gadget collector? What is the weirdest gadget you own? More importantly, do you use it?
I am very impressed by your ability to store all these gadgets, Lana. I was cured of my attractions to gadgetry when I owned a large and very complicated food processor that was impossible to clean, reassemble and store (well, for my simplistic mind it was!):)
I have a large and complicated food processor with a million attachments which lie unused. I know only how to crush stuff and grate stuff in this otherwise wasted gadget. And cleaning is a nightmare! x
I saw those rollies on the telly but tube shaped eggs just seemed a bit weird. I too am a teacher and still love stationery. I love to browse through office works and look at all the bright, clean folders and filing ideas, thinking that one day… one day… I might sort out my cupboards full of stuff into some sort of colour coordinated, neatly labelled and tagged order.
Office Works is my happy place! And you are 100% correct – tube shaped eggs are weird xxx
I do not see a SodaStream in that list. Or a deli-slicer. But overall, not a bad effort 🙂 xx
YET! Let’s empahsise the yet because a Soda Stream was the gadget of my childhood and I plan to relive my childhood very soon.xx
I’m not really a gadgety person but can relate to your love of stationery. I am in a constant search for the perfect notebook. I’ll let you know when I find it 😉
Oh My Lord. I have so many notebooks and do does my son. We both use computers or iPhones for all our notes
my name is nikki and i am addicted to notebooks.
Oh Lana, are you sure we’re not related? I’m a sucker for all kitchen gadgets, although what’s really tragic is that I hardly ever cook. I’ve got the slicer and dicer, the air popcorn maker, the slow cooker, the kitchen wizz, the juicer and the rice cooker (which I recommend for perfect rice every time). I’ve also got a drawer full of smaller stuff for the odd occasion that I actually need to cook.
Tragically I cook WAY too much. Actually it’s not that bad – it gives me time to play with the gadgets I own. Still resisting the rice cooker for some reason I cannot explain
Wow that is impressive Lana!! I am the opposite to you … I am the anti-own-any-kitchen-gadget person. Because owning those things might mean I have to spend time in the kitchen!!
But the kitchen is a lot more fun with them…. clearly I need to get out more xxx
Don’t feel bad. I have:
A nicer dicer,
Rocket,
Blender (2),
Food processor (2),
Curly fry cutter,
Tuperware happy chopper (version 1, 2 and 3),
Avon Happy chopper (the Out-laws gave that to me),
Meat slicer,
Chip dicer,
Juicer,
Slushie machine,
Popcorn maker,
Cupcake maker,
Jaffle iron,
Sandwich press,
George forman,
3 slow cookers,
Rice cooker,
Cake mixer,
Bain Maree,
Ice cream maker,
Milkshake Maker,
Fondue kit,
Chocolate fountain,
Punch fountain,
Food dehydrator
I’m sure there’s more that I missed too .. lol.
you HAVE George Foreman? lol
we have just thrown out his toaster, finally dead ( SO UGLY!, plastic)
his water kettel is currently disintegrating from the inside, so I convinced my husband we’ll get him a nice new one. he gets emotionally attached to gadgets, and these was his after divorce set.
… hm. how do you go with the ‘nicer dicer’ ? very interested.
Gosh Tasha I am IMPRESSED. And jealous xx
we have an “electric pan” that my husband believes will save the world.. or bring him back into cooking but I have currently no idea where the box is gone since the last move. in that box is also a sandwhich maker which I really miss. my husband also has a rice cooker. i don’t know what that’s for (but I know where it is). together we bought a BLACK deep fryer which looks totally awesome but we haven’t ever used it in the 3 years we have it. I prefer shallow frying and chips from the oven and am scared of too much hot oil around me.
other than that have not much kitchen gadgets really. Stationary though..Craft supplies.. Notebooks?
Well, I’d rather not talk about it. It’s a bit of a problem.
Am I allowed to have an addiction to both stationery AND gadgets? If not, just forget I ever asked.
And Lana, get a rice cooker. I resisted for years and finally got one last year. Genius.
Of course you can have both. As long as you don’t mix them up.
The rice cooker? Really? I have started buying those ready made heat in the microwave rices because I am lazy. But I think about the rice cooker often!
My lovely daughter-in-law and I cannot be trusted alone in any Office Works! My son has to ‘shepherd’ us around, holding tight onto our Debit and Credit Cards! It’s a good thing I live on the Gold Coast and they live in Melbourne. Otherwise I’m sure she and I would have many happy (secret) excursions to that magic place that sells sticky tape in a pink plastic stiletto shoe container, tiny shopping carts to store paper clips etc. and pens, pens, pens! (OK, so I bought her the shoe and the shopping cart for her desk – there’s no hope for me!)