We’d been married a few months when my husband got me a bread machine for my birthday. It may not sound that exciting, but as a new bride, I was happy to try my hand at something so domestic. I wasn’t quite ready to try baking bread from scratch without the assistance of an appliance, so a bread machine was perfect.
Less than three years and maybe two loaves of bread later, I kindly asked my husband if he would mind if I sold the bread machine at our garage sale. He understood. After all, he was the one who tried to eat my attempts at bread making.
Fast forward a few years and three kids later and I started to think maybe I’d been a bit premature in getting rid of the bread machine. I’d read some blogs that suggested using the bread machine just to make the dough and then to bake the bread in the oven. Who knew? Well, apparently most people, just not me!
Of course, I couldn’t justify buying a new bread machine. After all, the chances seemed pretty good that it would meet the same fate as my first bread machine. Instead, I visited a local thrift store and bought one for 15 dollars. The rest is history. We now enjoy homemade bread on a regular basis. I even recently used the bread machine to make some dough for French bread. If the fact that my three children ate one loaf by themselves is any indication, I’d say they liked it.
So, now I’m wondering if you’ve ever gotten rid of something only to find yourself buying the same thing a little later. I guess it really is true that you don’t really know what you’ve got until it’s gone, even with silly things like bread machines.