After 12 blissful years...

... it was time to get a new coffee perk. I bought my original 12 years ago when I first moved out on my own in my first apartment. It was a Mr. Coffee and I purchased it from Walmart for $25. It's always made good and quick coffee, a staple for me right up there with fruits and vegetables. But after a few weeks of burbling, over steaming, leaking and exploding, Mr. Coffee had to be booted to the curb.
To replace him is a  new, sleek and sofisticated Hamilton Beach Thermal Perk. No more java burning element or glass carafe to go cold if  brought to the breakfast table. Now, it's tranferrable and exceeds my expectations. How is it so satisfying to have such a new item, despite our years together with Mr. Coffee and all the caffienated joy he brought to our lives, to send him along his merry way to the dump while Hamilton takes his former place on my countertop? The love of newness, the need for efficiency and the discovery that it's not a person man, it's an applicance! geez, time get over myself and my attachment to stuff!!!