I no longer let him watch the QVC channel as we now have a cupboard full of bread makers, toasters (none of them toast the bread ALL round !!) ..smoothie makers, soup makers, vegetable cutting things, mandolins (not the musical kind !)all kinds of coffee machines (none are quick enough or tasty enough, including one that grinds the beans and then makes the coffee ....I suggested he just use my kettle and a jar of instant !) a no fat chip fryer (the last one burst into flames !), and other gadgets too numerous to mention ...and as for the shed it is full of lawn mowers (too heavy, too small, too big, etc !) strimmers, with or without batteries, hedge trimmers, electric, telescopic, plus many other objects. I have a set of various knives (I don't use any of the kitchen gadgets !) and a man who comes to cut the hedges and grassm paint the house, etc .....my husband objects to this, as no one does it right and why won't I let him do it (at 83 with poor vision and lack of balance on a ladder with an electric hedge cutter ???) ....perhaps I should buy him a magazine on cranes .......? we could use a crane to lift all these gadgets out of the house and garden .....
Me ? I collect paper ...my office needs shredding (yes, I mean the whole lot ! ) I;m not yet as bad as those OC Hoarders you see on tv ...there are times when I have a purge...usually when I KNOW I put it THERE but it has gone ??
I suppose I will have to jettison it if ever we do get our little retirement bungalow .....(would put a smiley here, but can't find square brackets on my AZERTY keyboard !! so you will have to imagine it !)