These are a few (more) of my favourite things

I am one year into home ownership and 34 years away from being mortgage free. Yay me. The bright side? Many years of finding favourite things to fill up my place. Finally, some more things to add to the list!

Cuisinart Coffee Plus™ 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker with Hot Water System

This is perfect for my 8 inches of kitchen counter space. I am always one for efficiency, so this does 2 jobs in one. No need to lug out a separate kettle when I feel like having a cuppa. No fancy functions, but I am particularly fond of the auto-brew option for coffee. I’m not a morning person. If I had my way, I'd start work at 11am. The timer helps with my morning wake up routine – just in time to run out the door. I highly recommend this for those who aren’t coffee or tea snobs (I really am not), and you’re desperate to save counter space.

Vildea Scrunge for Cooktop Stoves, plus any stove top cleansing lotion.


In case you haven’t guessed, I am not Nigella Lawson in the kitchen. Although I wish I could be - Nigella is pretty hot. I digress. So I make a lot of mess, not necessarily from all my sautéing and caramelizing. So this discovery is the greatest for the non-Nigellas of the world – well, it helps clean up the burns and stains from the stove. All that heating up take-out can get messy!

Fancy a cuppa? Wait, I have to clean off the stove first...

kisses,
mh

My Favourite Things

I recently purchased my very first apartment. It was exhilarating and the most stressful experience of my life to date. Mostly because I bought the first one I saw. I know, incroyable! More like ridiculous on my part. I spend more time shoe shopping than I did for this massively expensive thing that isn’t going to go on sale, and there are no refunds. Yikes! But I did it and now the bank owns me until 2045. Yay me.

The purchase has finally made me an adult, I think. And shit, things are expensive! Luckily, I had already hoarded enough major pieces of furniture and knick-knacks that I'm not living in an empty box with a plastic lawn chair and upside down box in the living room. But there are some things that I now have to find and buy new. As I always love a new project, I’d like to share with you a few of my (new) favourite things:

This first fave thing stems from one of my least favourite things: Ironing. I’m still on the fence about which chore I dislike more – ironing or washing dishes. Thankfully, my place has a dishwasher so it makes the choice less painful now. However, there is no automatic machine thingy that you just throw your clothes in and they come out pressed. (Well, I suppose there is the drycleaners, but I’m house-poor now, so no services like that for me!) The alternative – a kick-ass new iron!!


It’s cordless. That’s all I have to say about it (well that, and it has its own cover!) I highly recommend you invest in one. This model was not cheap but so far, well worth the money. I even found myself trying to find things to iron. Yes, it’s that good. Tough call now – which chore do I like more? – ironing or unloading the dishwasher.

xx,
mh