Dear Wedding Guest:
This time seven years ago, you bought me an OXO salad spinner. I know this because the item was marked as “purchased” on my bridal registry. (I understand that you were under no obligation whatsoever to purchase a gift from the registry, and would have been thrilled with whatever choice of a gift you might have made, be it on a registry or not.) However, I am a bit confused because now, seven years later, no OXO salad spinner has made its way into my cabinet. I can only imagine that when you purchased the item, you immediately saw its usefulness and innate coolness and decided that you simply must have it for your very own. I can’t say that I blame you. It is very useful and cool. Or so I imagine it might be. But since I don’t actually own one, I can’t say for certain.
At this point, I’m in a quandary and seek the counsel only you can provide. Should I go ahead and shell out the $24.99 (strangely, the same price it has been since it was added to my registry) for my own salad spinner? Or do I hold out hope that the one purchased all those years ago will show up on my doorstep, maybe delivered by Tom Hanks after it kept him company when his FedEx plane crashed on a desert island? Every time I pass the salad spinners at Target, I wonder about this. And every time I serve soggy salad I wish that I had one.
I realize at this point, you probably just feel weird about the whole thing. I don’t mean to call you out or anything. I just want dry salad.
But if you decided to replace the salad spinner with a large check, then forget I said anything.
Love and smooches,
Spuddy Buddy
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Ha! That’s just weird.
Go ahead and make that salad spinner purchase because I doubt you are ever going to see yours.
I don’t have the OXO version, but the Martha Stewart one that I received years ago from a grandparent is fabulous. Dry salad and well mixed lettuce & spinach, get yourself one soon!
Hahaha! That is awesome! Doh…I say buy a salad spinner! Do it for YOU!
Another weird registry thing…my baby registry at Target kept being changed by someone other than me….and someone added “salted peanuts” and they were “purchased” for me…but I never got any salted peanuts. WEIRD.
As a recipient of a wedding registry salad spinner, I will gladly send you mine which has worked more as a bowl rather than a spinner in it’s 3 years of life in our house. I guess we just don’t eat enough salads or we are too lazy to rinse them off because it is just a big fat waste of space. I still haven’t tried your recipe..I will this week, things with renovations in the kitchen got way out of hand and I am forced to scoot in and out as fast as possible not allowing me the proper time to love on that dish as it should be. But I can’t wait for it’s cheesy goodness!
I’m so busted. I’ve been meaning to get that salad spinner to you and all, but then I was late showing up at your wedding and I was already drunk and I didn’t mean to make out with the minister, it was just a bad day, and there was that whole shoving-match-with-the-best-man event, and well, I thought I should just keep the thing.
I figured you wouldn’t mind.
I’ll send you some Mrs. Dash in return.
(as an aside, really, I’d be buying my own salad spinner if I were you. Whoever bought yours surely has it in their appliance graveyard now.)
Uh, I got two for my wedding. Maybe yours accidentally got to me.