Sunday, December 31, 2006

One of the Best Xmas Gifts Ever

My oldest brother, Glenn, hates shopping for gifts.  Every year he keeps trying to get us to not give the adults gifts or to pick names.  It never works - except for him, we all like buying gifts for each other.  It’s fun.  Of course, it doesn’t mean that he ever gives crappy gifts, because if he puts his mind to it, he’s certainly capable of knowing what everyone will like.  This year, he bought Leigh-Ann and I the Keurig B-40.  We LOVE it.  We’ve always wanted one, but thought it was kind of a pricey extra when we already have a fabulous Nespresso espresso machine and grind ‘n brew coffeemaker.  We contemplated exchanging it for the model one step up that makes beverages in 3 different sizes, instead of just the 7.25 ounce size.  But, we realized that we didn’t actually need the other sizes.  The small size is for espresso and we already have a good espresso machine, and the larger size is for using two K-cups (that’s what the coffee/tea pods are called), which we can do quickly anyway without a different machine.  It heats up enough water to make several cups without stopping to heat up again.  To us, it wasn’t worth the extra $50 or $100 - to someone else, it might be.  You’d also get a little cute blue display panel for your troubles.

We’ve tried several of the coffee samples and they’re all pretty good so far.  There are tons of differents blends & flavors to choose from too.  Check ‘em out.

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1. very cool!  thanks for the recommendation.  Oh and FYI, your post on “blossoming teas” made me tell my mom to buy them and send to all her biz contacts.  What I mean to say is thanks, but also, you’re very persuasive, didja know that?

   Susie  on  01/01  at  02:03 AM

2. Oh, if only I could go into beverage sales…

   The Adagio teas are really delicious, especially when using their little invention for brewing, which then empties into individual cups.  Plus, tea is so darned cheap compared to most things.

   I hope your mom’s biz contacts enjoy their wee little blossoming flowers.  Seriously, what better gift for people associated with a romance novelist?  Yeah, sure, I’m thinking dirty, but they wouldn’t, would they?  And if they did, wouldn’t that even be better?

   Flippy  on  01/02  at  06:15 AM

3. Hey!  We have the exact same machine! (OK, not quite, ours must be last year’s model)  One of my husband’s buddies is a coffee-guy so he gave us one for free - we just have to buy the k-cups from him.

   Awesome, isn’t it?

   Kai  on  01/02  at  09:38 AM

4. We love it.  We can’t wait until we get our first order of decaf stuff later this week.  Caffeine makes us feel icky, so we couldn’t use most of the samples.  But unlike the Senseo and other models, the K-Cups come from some really good coffee places like Tully’s, Diedrich (we see them at the CoffeeFest Convention here), Gloria Jean’s (yummy flavors), etc.  It’s great that there are so many choices in flavors & blends.  It’s also nice that the company actually makes the K-Cup refill, so if someone really loves a certain blend of their own coffee, they can just fill it up and still use the machine.

   Flippy  on  01/02  at  10:34 AM

5. Wow really good gift ideas for Xmas. I never think about this type of gifts which is describe in your post. Really Good gift ideas you gave me. I fell happy after read this post. Such a good information, thanks for sharing nice information.

   Diwali Gifts to India  on  10/13  at  03:28 PM

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