What would you get with a $500 Amazon gift card? I'm in a quandry here.

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I've always wanted a really good electric ice cream maker...the kind that turns out quality gelato. But I know my own bad eating habits and am honestly afraid to have pints of home made ice cream around. So I was wondering about what other items I might get. I thought about a sous vie, but don't cook meat much at all and I only cook for two so those big new multi-use cooker items aren't reasonable either.

So think about it. Someone hands you $500. What dream item would you get?

 
Is that something different? For Marilyn, how about a Cuisinart Griddler for

the mountain house --makes paninis also and is a great countertop cooker.
Do you have a FoodSaver!!
If you want to do sous vide you can get the circulator heater for really not much and just use your stockpot to cook in. Mine was $70.

 
When I get a generous Amazon gift card from my kids I buy one thing I have been thinking

about but not wanting to spend my money on. Last time I got a good burr coffee grinder and I love it. I leave the balance with Amazon and then when I want a book or new flashlights or moisturizer etc. I just order up. Prime so no shipping charge. Nice little gifts to self all year.

 
I would buy more stuff from here. I just got home from there with a 25 year old aged balsamic fig

Vinegar and it's to die for. I tasted all their 25 your old vinegars and there were omg amazing, in fact I've never had a bad combination from here. I needed to get a hostess gift and got their regular fig balsamic and tuscan herb olive oil. But I almost got the wild mushroom and Sage olive oil with red current balsamic which basically tasted like Thanksgiving dressing. Gosh everything they have here is so so so good, so if somebody gave me $500 gift card right now I'd turn right around and go back and buy more of this stuff!

http://www.theolivebar.com/

 
I love these problems! I would encourage you to look at the instant pot. (Love mine!) I would

research:
- Sous vide immersion thing, not the big box. Actually, I think you can use the sous vide machine in an instant pot. (Only because of the size, not to be used together)
- Egg slicer (Mine broke strings, and I don't like the $5.00 ones, and trouble rationalizing $13.00 for sliced eggs!)
- Cook book for said Instant pot / sous vide machines
- Pair of Fit Flops cause they are my favorite!
- Pair of glasses to watch the solar eclipse. Not that I would use them, but would be a fun activity
- A slinky because they always are fun, and get tangled, so never last long. And you can go years and years w/o one, and you still know how to use it, and makes you smile
- air fryer. It is also on my list, just hoped that they would end up in our consignment shops / thrift stores, because they were a popular christmas gift last year. (No luck so far!)
- Aerogarden. I purchased one for $5.00 at a church sale earlier in the year and love it! Mine is a 3 pod one. (Very small), but I really enjoy it. I do not have a green thumb, and I have not killed anything yet! Fresh herbs throughout the spring, and now trying lettuce. Makes me smile in the am, when I see my plants growing. (So easy!!!)

Fun dilemma to have! What was the reason for the $500.00? That's a lot of $$$! You could certainly use it to pay for amazon pantry, but if gift card was given for special reason that you want to remember / treasure, then I would go for a gifts rather than disposable consumer good.

You have to update post with what you decide!!!

 
Thank you ALL for such great ideas. I already have a Vitamix (honestly don't use it enough)

so I think I'll go for the multiple "free little gifts to myself."

 
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