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August 25, 2008
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I am not one of those people who ever has luck in a thrift store. You know the one, the one that has 50 cute things in their apartment and cute jewelry and cute shoes and is all, "Oh these Eames chairs? I got them for like, I don't know, five bucks each at the Salvation Army. HA! It was actually the same day I found this Hermes scarf on the dollar rack!" I may be friends with that person but yeah, that's not me. I'm more the type who spends $30 on a useless clock. So imagine my surprise (which, honestly, is the most oft-repeated expression on this blog to the point that I'm going to add a ™ to each use of it from HERE ON OUT) when I nabbed this chrome Cuisinart toaster for a mere NINE BONES at the Goodwill on Sunday.
And, according to www.internet.com, it's worth a blistering $49.95 on the Cuisinart site (and a totally charred $64.99 on the softer side of suck site).
Sooooo...here's the rub. Although I bought it for the Shangri-la I'm dreaming of in Wyoming (Wyomgri-la), I kind of decided to keep it here after (a) experiencing the deliciousness of a test-Eggo last night and (b) seeing how much better it fit into my decor than my current one - which is as gigantic as it is dirty as it is white. But MATT REJECTED THE IDEA. Why?? What??? In his words, "White appliances suck." So now, shiny chrome wondertoasts must be shipped seven hours away to spend its life perfectly browning bread in a beauteous wonderland while I remain unhappily jamming spelt loaves into its oversized plastic brotherfucker. And, judging from the look of things, rubbing my hands in motor oil before I do it. This, my friends, is a bitter bargain. A bitter bargain, indeed.
Posted by Bree at August 25, 2008 08:13 PM