You think a chocolate fountain is ridiculous? Well, I know someone who bought this bit of insanity as a ‘family’ Christmas present.
I mean there is some tiny bit of nutrition in chocolate. Some anti-oxidants in the dark kinds, maybe. You might even conceivably use it to get your kids to eat things they otherwise won’t. (Chocolate dipped cauliflower? Broccoli? Grasshoppers?)
But COTTON CANDY??? Pure, freaking sugar and nothing else?? Are you TRYING to turn them into lard buckets with rotted out teeth??
My school Chemestry teacher knew the man that invented the process. I believe it was the founder of Birdseye foods. My teacher was old and had to retire while I was in school. He would be writing on the blackboard and speaking. He would stop writing and speaking for about half a minute, and then start up again finishing a word and writing a letter. The class just smiled at each other and didn’t harass him. He was a good man.
I have one that also has a radio. It was a gift, but I do use it regularly. I’ll admit that I use the radio far more than the CD player…I might pop in a CD if I’m taking a bath or cleaning the bathroom.
Depends. Red Robin often runs a promotion where if you buy a $20 gift card, you get a free $5 one. If you eat there with any regularity, it makes sense to pre-buy.
My daycare provider wanted one of those chocolate fountains. We got it for her last year, and she loves it. She bought three more to give to family this year. :shrug: To each their own.
Actually, I’ve heard that recommended for people who are careless spenders (in general) who who lose control when shopping at a particular kind of store, be it a hobby shop or a bookstore or whatever.
You decide how much your budget will allow you to spend on XXX in the next month/quarter/year, and buy a gift card in that amount. When the card runs out, you have to stop buying.
Or that’s the theory. I don’t think having used up my gift card would stop me if I discovered one of my favorite authors had a new release…
Unless they are giving a special % back to the purchaser as a bonus, which does happen. Buy a $50 card and get a store credit for $5. Then go back in and buy the item you wanted in the first place with the card and store bonus Now that I think of it, how many times could I go through doing that. Make $500 on a $50 purchase $5 at a time. This could be like the California $300 rebate for a computer and internet provider boon doggle where the person could take back the computer and didn’t have to return the rebate. A lot of people were $300 dollars richer, with a short term investment that was full refunded.
Mr. Rilch hounded me for a shower radio one year. Turns out the thing eats batteries like you wouldn’t believe. And a CD player? You’d be handling a CD with wet hands! Everything does not have to be accessible everywhere.
My dad once gave me an ASOT handheld sewing machine. Bunched up the fabric and went crooked if you didn’t hold it just right*.
I would say that toilet paper Infantas fit the category, but the old ladies who make them for others also have them in their own houses.
I’m dying here. Do you ever wear them in such a way that others can see them and ask, “Why do you have Van Gogh (or “Why do you have some weird guy”) on your socks?”
teela brown, the person who thought a “gourmet” would appreciate a chocolate fountain was a moron. (Well, so is anyone who buys one of those things, but anyway.) That thing is tacky, tacky, tacky, and no true gourmet would have it in their kitchen.
I have a shower radio (but not a CD player - I agree, that’s just stupid), and I use it every morning. Mine’s pretty good on batteries. I’ve had it for a couple of years, and I can’t remember changing the batteries more than once.
I’ve had a shower radio since high school. It’s a Sony, and it does great on batteries, but the membrane covering the buttons cracked a few years ago. It sits just outside the shower now – while it can be handled with wet hands, it acts strange if it’s placed inside the shower.
My shower radio/CD player hardly eats battieries at all. It’s also never occurred to me to change the CD while I’m in the shower…I actually don’t think you’re supposed to do that. If I change the CD, I do so before the thing (or my hands) gets wet.
If anyone was wondering who buys a chocolate fountain for themselves, it is probably the same person who would buy a seven gallon champagne fountain for themself. On the other hand, who would buy that as a gift?
Have you tried this yourself? I haven’t, but it sounds as if the pain in the assness of the cord would be FAR less than that iron hard epoxied on ice layer that happens from time to time. I HATE that stuff, it’s impossible to get off!
I wouldn’t mind getting one of these, or at least in test driving one for that glued on ice layer stuff.
Is there really anyone who likes that stinky, highly over-scented potpourri? I was given it once and I knew what it was right away, because it stank right through the wrapping. I smiled and thanked the giver nicely (my boss at the time), but I couldn’t get rid of it fast enough. I couldn’t throw it away at work, and there was no trash can in the parking lot, so I had to drive with it in the car for awhile. I tossed it in a McDonald’s trash can and had to leave my windows open all the way home. Phew!