Bought a towel rack today-- DECADENT SELF INDULGENCE alert!! [View All]

[TygrBright]

When we first moved into the new house and I was looking a bit frazzled and forlorn, surrounded by boxes, my darling husband decided to take me shopping at Bed Bath and Beyondreason. You kinda have to know us both to understand what an incredible gesture of love this is, but suffice to say that I am NOT a recreational shopper and not really fond of shopping at all. However, my aversion pales in comparison with Himself's, he turns pale and breaks out in a sweat at Albertson's.

Anyway. I had a long list of fiddly houseware-y things we needed --shelf and drawer liners, shower curtain rings, blah-blah, the usual, and was sort of dreading Yet Another Foraging Expedition, so he said "C'mon, I'll go with ya, we'll get this over with together."

I should know better than to go along with this because, as always, we ended up with a fair number of items that weren't on the list, which is what happens when we egg each other on, because we both want each other to have anything and everything the other one wants...

Anyway. The biggest unplanned purchase was one of those plug-in towel holders that heats up your towels. We keep the house very cool in winter (it was December by then) and first thing in the morning the bathroom can be pret-ty icy, so this was our pre-Christmas present to ourselves.

Should have known. The darn thing worked great but started to fall apart within 6 months. It was only held together by screws in bits of plastic, and, sure enough, they started coming apart, plastic bits started falling off, and anyway, right now it's sort of leaning against the wall. So I thought I'd go ahead and replace it with something that could be hard-wired and mounted on the wall, with no nasty little plastic bits to fall off.

At least, I thought I'd do that until a search among bathroom hardware suppliers showed prices from $400-$2000 for electric and 'hydronic' towel racks, YIKES! Holy moley rocky! I had no IDEA people paid that kind of dough for a bathroom fixture that doesn't even pour water or flush...

Anyway, a friend steered me toward the Comfort Channel (www.comfortchannel.com) and after tiptoeing through the plumbing supply places, the hundred and fifty bucks for this model:



...looked right reasonable as an early birthday present for the Darling Husband. Decadent self-indulgence, indeed, since I'll have to have an electrician install it which will cost almost that much again around here.

But I'm so excited! What a cool thing to have!

What's your favorite Decadent Self Indulgence? Share the guilt here, now...

wheedlingly,
Bright