What do you buy YOURSELF for Christmas?

[westyslantfront]

I gave myself a GE Filter Flo.

 

[polkanut]

Rich, that is one helluva Christmas present. I'm pea-green with envy. May you have many care-free hours of driving in your "baby".

 

[frigilux]

Woo-hoo!! Great car, Rich; and I love the ornamentation, too.

 

[perc-o-prince]

Thanks, Polk & Frig

Polk, shouldn't you be Avacado green??? This IS a vintage appliance site

As I said before ...this was more of a forced thing. I had to get another car and this one was available and for a hell of a good price!!!

I am realy happy with it and enjoy driving it very much. I got to see how it handled in a snow situation. A pick-up truck did a 180 while trying to pull out from a side road. I didn't brake when I saw him first pull out as I figured a pick-up wouldn't spin out. When I saw him now facing me I figured that we were going to have a nasty head-on collision. I hit my brakes, gently, and the Benz NEVER once slid or fishtailed. It handled as though it were on dry roads!

I am assuming that it was either the ABS system that saved me or maybe it was the wreath in the grill that acted like a good luck charm )

BTW...this near accident just happened about a half hour ago.

Rich

 

[appnut]

Rich, I'm gld you're ok. The car did great.

 

[hoover1060]

catching up

Rich thats a beautiful Mercedes, congrats on that!

Also glad to hear you're safe too. We've had some ugly weather in Chicago the past couple of days, including 6 inches of snow last night and this morning. I can't wait for winter to be over!

 

[johnb300m]

I got a new GE Sensor microwave oven.
New Epicurian cutting board
10 piece Calphalon stainless steel cookware
10" TFal non-stick skillet
500GB Western Digital backup hard drive
Norelco SpeedXL 8 series razor
assortment of dress shirts, slacks and ties.
New car battery for the winter (good call too, it's 2F in Dekalb, IL)

 

[perc-o-prince]

Thanks, Bob and Jeff for your concern

I am glad to see that the car performed much better than expected. Not a skidmark to be found...except perhaps in my shorts. It was very close

johnb300m, looks like you got some very useful gifts!

Looks like everyone got themselves some very nifty gifts!! I particularly love the turquoise GE electric kitchen!!!

Rich

 

[toggleswitch]

yes Rich glad you are OK. It is a lovely new toy. In good health!

 

[polkanut]

Rich, I stand corrected, Avocado it shall be!

 

[irishwashguy]

Congrads on the Mercedes!

That looks Fabulous! You will have alot of fun with that.

 

[irishwashguy]

As for me

I eat alot of rice, and thought that that it would be nice to have one of these

http://www.chefscorner.com//web/catalog/product_detail.aspx?pid=163519