Joseph x 2 and a 'dead hamster' tale (sorry bit longwinded)

I have J & J envy , I too am a design freak and covet the chopping boards and sink tidy...

What's an anniversary card?!!

DD's wedding Anniversary last weekend. She bought him snazzy stainless steel cuff links (it being the 'steel' Anniv). He bought her cotton sheets (thinking it was a cotton Anniv, which of course it had been 9 years earlier). She was not best pleased I think she should be grateful; if I got a card from the late Mr.G I considered myself lucky!

My husband once bought me a set of weights (not the kitchen variety) and an exercise workout bench! he's had a lot of use out of them, as have our sons.

Oh suit yerself knot.

these are my measuring spoons. They hang up

They are not Joseph Joseph.

Jing, I would argue that there is Joseph, and then there's another one. Therefore, we have Joseph and Joseph. I rest my case.

I am sorry. I have to say this. There is no "and".

Joseph Joseph. That's all.

Two of my presents this year were J& J Salt and Pepper mills and they are very good.

I had a wooden spoon that caught fire. Was blazing merrily. Seem to remember I left it to dry on top of the eye level grill.

Lakeland also do Joseph .avoid the garlic press like the plague unless your heart is pure( and you have the strength of ten)

I can [and often do] spend ages mooching around the Lakeland shop.All their products work so well.

LOLLLLLLL. That's the sort of thing my husband does.

This thread had me laughing out loud LOL! Do you remember The Fast Show? There was a sketch featuring a couple [the man was the actor who now plays Father Brown] He comes in [pokes head round kitchen door] and the woman asks him ' did you buy the bread, cat food, loo rolls [or whatever] and he always answers 'Even better than that dear! I bought a jumbo box of pencils, a stuffed parrot, and a slightly scuffed print of Idi Amin ' it varied, but was always dotty and entirely unwanted and useless.
I think that men, go out shopping and just see things they think you may need, my DH went out recently to buy general shopping plus I needed a new pyrex jug, he came back with the right food shopping, no pyrex jug, but a frying pan and a block of varying size scissors.

DH used to buy me items he thought I should have in the kitchen, my comment was "oh you shouldn't have" followed by "you really shouldn't have". The next year I told him in no uncertain terms "no presents at all" We now do not exchange presents and the kitchen cupboards are uncluttered.

only a month?

It is a very brave man who gives his wife domestic appliances or kitchen equipment unless he is very, very sure that it is what she wants. DFiL once gave DMiL a new iron for Christmas. She didn't speak to him for a month. DH learned the lesson and would only give me kitchen equipment, no matter how up market, if I had specifically asked for it.

One of the many wooden spoons in my collection is a small one which is very worn on one side, indicating many years of right-handed stirring by my mother and me. History in a spoon. I shall leave it to GD1.

I still use a cooks fork which I bought some 30 years ago (its a bit like a fondue fork with smaller prongs). Its now starting to get a bit tatty and I have been looking for a replacement but can't find one anywhere

"Holy S***" I have just looked at Joseph and Joseph prices.

This is why I don't do "designer stuff" where an item's functionality is most important.
There are some really good Pyrex bowls in Home bargains.

anno, I gave DD1 a hand-made, solid sycamore bread board from Arran for her twenty-fifth birthday (she had asked for a good wooden board), along with a note that said "You'll still have this when you're seventy-five and you can look at it and say to yourself that you've had this board for fifty years."

Grannyknot You stick with the wooden spatulas and spoons.
I have three decorative jars on my kitchen window ledge with such utensils in. They are right to hand when you need them and not stuck in a drawer.

I have the same issue about other designer utensils. I have had a number of Garlic presses which looked good but broke easily. The one I have now is an odd looking metal and it goes manky if it gets in the dishwasher but it works better than any of the others did.

The same with vegetable peelers. The best one is a little all metal swivel blade one with a rusty stem on which the blade pivots but it it's sharper than the two stainless steel versions.

A cook really needs their favourite gadgets around, I really struggle at my daughter's as the "thing" I need is never at hand.

If he's so blooming tough then he should be able to cope with the truth! Tell him before xmas you'd like something else and not more kitchen stuff. (am feeling very grumpy this morning. Will go away now.)

... and anno that would be me too. I had my motley collection of utensils in a granite sleeve, which I also love by the way. That's in the bottom of a cupboard somewhere, gonna dig it out this minute.