Don, if someone wants to part with their mixer and posts it here, it is going to be OK with us, and we would encourage it. But while I needed my mixer during in my treatments, I never wanted to part with it (even as a below average cook) for use in my kitchen. It replaced other machines with one thing that does it all -the Cuisinart is history and gone from the couter, as a couple pulses on the Vitamix does the same thing. So we are making soups and dips in it all the time, and I still eat one meal a day as a blended drink of whatever is laying around from fruits to veggies to even� yes, lunch meat that is about to go out of date tossed in. (For sure it's a nasty color, and isn't my favorite taste, but no one can argue with the nutritional value, nor the economic issue of not tossing out that orphaned last piece of turkey that isn't enough to do anything with).

I've even recently bought (before OCF's involvement) a new 7500 machine to replace my older one which now is in the kitchen of a friend's house. They are just too useful. So I encourage people to help others and offer things like this on the boards here, but once you have one of these things, you realize that it has many uses besides that period of your life where it was a necessity.

To kinda put this in perspective some interesting bits of stuff from talking to Vitamix. On an average QVC day selling them on TV, they will sell 28,000 units. That's not a typo. And QVC is not their biggest retailer, non of whom get to compete based on price. Pretty popular machine.