Stuff I Don't Need, But Have to Have - Egg Boiler
3/11/2009 09:23:00 pm
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Let's get things straight, when it comes to anything 'shiny shiny' I'm an "early adopter". This is marketing-speak for "a chancer". I am the Betamax to your VHS, the Sega Saturn to your PlaystationOne and the HD DVD to your BluRay.
There's always one and the large conglomerates can always guarantee a few first-day campers arrive before the ink on the marketing budgets are dry. And it's normally yours truly.
On the odd occasion that I get it spot-on, I never fail to blow my own trumpet. I was an iPod 1st generation owner, iPhone 1st generation owner and, erm, the rest are a little embarassing...
What can I say, I'm a stubborn so and so, and I love to say "I told you so". Every so often I see something shiny and I have to have it. Myself and the other half have the same conversation every time this happens, and invariably I win - with the old adage; "Christian Louboutin will miss your business if you play this game with me, sweetheart".
Anyhow, I am about to spend a credit-crunching £19.50 on this, the John Lewis CEC7CJLU Egg Boiler. This sounds simple, it boils eggs. As a big fan of breakfast myself (and a lazy one at that) pressing a button and waiting for my boiled or poached eggs to arrive in a couple of minutes - seriously turns me on.
I am told something like this was on Dragons Den and got completely slated by the panel.
Is this likely to stop me? Hardly.
Does it use water? I've got no idea. Admit you're jealous...
There's always one and the large conglomerates can always guarantee a few first-day campers arrive before the ink on the marketing budgets are dry. And it's normally yours truly.
On the odd occasion that I get it spot-on, I never fail to blow my own trumpet. I was an iPod 1st generation owner, iPhone 1st generation owner and, erm, the rest are a little embarassing...
What can I say, I'm a stubborn so and so, and I love to say "I told you so". Every so often I see something shiny and I have to have it. Myself and the other half have the same conversation every time this happens, and invariably I win - with the old adage; "Christian Louboutin will miss your business if you play this game with me, sweetheart".
Anyhow, I am about to spend a credit-crunching £19.50 on this, the John Lewis CEC7CJLU Egg Boiler. This sounds simple, it boils eggs. As a big fan of breakfast myself (and a lazy one at that) pressing a button and waiting for my boiled or poached eggs to arrive in a couple of minutes - seriously turns me on.
I am told something like this was on Dragons Den and got completely slated by the panel.
Is this likely to stop me? Hardly.
Does it use water? I've got no idea. Admit you're jealous...
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