The coffee grinder on the left joined the household this morning. If it is deemed a permanent occupent the one in the middle will trot away.
The one on the right is the coffee grinder I have had for a few years, obtained at a church sale, and which is serving well.
Thing is, when one does not buy new when one can buy used, there is the tendency to have a 'spare' on hand as replacement, particularly when such a lovely looking coffee grinder as the middle one presented at the local weekly church sale a month or so ago.
The chrome one sat on the counter, gleaming, and black one became the spare, in the cupboard.
It looked very nice, it worked fine …. but … it wasn't – simple. After every use it required cleaning around the blades and in the dome or the coffee grounds clogged up. To heck with that. When you get used to convenience …. you realize its worth: the psychology of de-cluttering, of simplifying.
The domed chrome got put in the cupboard as the spare; black one remained in its handy usual spot in the cupboard; the cleared counter space looked nice.
This morning the yellow one showed up at a garage sale. I liked the colour, I liked the brand; I asked the seller if it still worked fine despite two tiny cracks in the body at the top edge. She said she didn't know as it was part of what a friend had put in the sale but she immediately suggested we plug it in and see. It worked.
So it came home with me. It was grubby and I enjoyed cleaning it up; I find this satisfying. The date on bottom says 1998 with a Toronto address of the importer. I like knowing such things.
If it grinds the beans and cleans up nicely – I will know this within a day or two – then the chrome one will be donated back to the church sale and saffron one will either become main one or spare or a turn-taker.