How much "Housekeeping&q uot; clutter is too much?

I love my breadmaker. I can load it up in 5 mins, leave it breadmaking overnight and we have fresh bread in the morning ☺.

I had a soupmaker. Gave up on it, as it only made small amounts and I need large portions. I took it to school and ended up making jam in it for my "nurture " pupils. The smell permeated the whole school. My colleagues thought they were hallucinating when the smelled the jam cooking. My daughter now has it, as she lives on her own.

Until it recently fell apart quite literally , I had a electric slicer/grater. I think it was a Moulinex. It had 3 slicer/grater barrels and was brilliant for prepping vegetables for soups and stir fries or grating cheese in larger quantities. Dead easy to clean to. But then it died and I've been searching everywhere for a replacement, to no avail. Anyone any ideas? Lakeland has several mandolin or Oxo Goodgrip graters but not an electric one that does both.

Jalima a Zyliss garlic press is the very best. I have had one for years and use it most days. Directly I've finished with it, it goes to soak in the sink, don't let the garlic bits get hard, devil of a jog to rake them out the holes then.

We have a Panasonic bread maker and my husband uses it all the time. We have a cut loaf in the freezer for emergencies but all our bread other than that is home made.

My other best gadget as I have mentioned on here before is my Dyson cordless vacuum. Fantastic...never use the normal type again. So quick easy and light and in my view, works as good as my old Dyson pull along without all the fuss

Jalima, I love my OXO Good Grips garlic press. Have had mine for years and have bought more as presents for family. It even copes with unpeeled garlic cloves if I'm being lazy, and is really easy to clean afterwards.

A juicer anyone? DD used to use it a lot but it was always a pain to wash up.

Desdemona DD often puts half a lemon in her dishwasher.

I am going to use the breadmaker again. And the potato ricer when I start eating potatoes again.

I need a good garlic crusher - any recommendations? We had one from Ikea years ago which disintegrated, but don't have an IKea around here. We've bought others and they have all been useless.

Best ever gadget - a little metal strawberry huller, saves sore thumbnails, cheap as chips, I love it!

My husband uses the potato ricer frequently for smooth lump free mash. I hate having to wash it up its so awkward.

Redundant bread maker here too. And a waffle maker. And a "potato ricer", both unwanted gifts. Never did find out why anyone would want potatoes to look like rice.

I bought a special dishwasher cleaner from Sainburys - and it did leave the dishwasher smelling lovely - but my neighbour said it was a waste of money and she put hers on a hot wash with a cup of bicarb and half a lemon once a month!

Have any of you tried that?

Redundant bread maker here too but I do have plans to use it now I'm retired and have more time ( but don't want to put on weight!)

I sent for one of those magic wand weed killer things, convinced my life would improve as I blasted weeds sprouting between paving stones. Useless
Like half the country, we have a redundant bread maker taking no up space.
As for the steam cleaner, another supposedly life changing thing - it was really useful in defrosting my daughters fridge. It wouldn't have been necessary if she'd defrosted the ...,,, thing earlier

Ah yes the thing for soaking oven shelves. Looked fot it the other day. It's storing last years dahlia tubers. You can tell I'm not a frequent oven cleaner.

I now use the oven rack soaking tray under my rabbit's hutch to catch all the bits of sawdust and hay.

Anybody want a soup maker? I don't even like soup.....ll

For some strange reason my late DH ordered one of those trays for soaking oven racks in many years ago. He used it once and it was then demoted to the cupboard under the stairs.

I've just taken it to the tip along with a lot of other 'impulse buys', most of them mine!