Originally Posted by noobinsf

My wife and I love our daily two cups each -- black only, no additions. I like the story we tell about our Technivorm Moccamaster. It's a fancy little machine that our friends turned us onto, but we are a thrifty family, so we lusted after it for years. When the time came for us to finally become homeowners, our realtor helped us buy our first house, sell that one after a few years, and then buy our second house. With each transaction, the realtor gave us a gift certificate to a spendy kitchen store. We eventually felt like we should bite the bullet with these pooled certificates, and we bought the Moccamaster. I like to say that we had to buy two houses to finally get our coffee maker.