Took the plunge

Today's post isn't really about food. (Crazy, huh?)

Well, not entirely at least, because it is about something necessary for food to happen.

After two years of putting up with our nice but really annoying sink (#firstworldproblems), David finally put a stake in the ground and ordered us a new one.

You can see in the photo below how the lip is really high, so that instead of the water draining into the sink, it would run around the back. Water would drip onto the floor, and worse yet, cause the particle board under our laminate counters to bubble up. 

Of course, one day when we pay off our home we'd love to change the countertops to something solid and to something lighter in color and warmer in tone. (In a dream world I would have wood countertops and a magic fairy who would keep them clean and dry and beautiful for me when I cook and make a big mess.)

But in the meantime, we decided to do a (relatively) cheap fix that would give us a lot of satisfaction for the price. We could afford to consider doing this only because Kenny is super handy and David has learned a lot from him in the last three years. (I can't believe how time has passed!)

Believe it or not, we bought the sink on Amazon, for less than $150. With Prime, this bad boy arrived on our door step two days later.



Yup, we took the plunge and became a one-bowl family. So controversial, I know.* But we don't regret it one bit.



Even though this wasn't that expensive in the grand scheme of kitchen remodels, if you know how we live, you know that we like to run a very tight ship with finances. So for the rest of that week, we ate a lot of beans and rice.

Literally.

It's been a couple weeks now, and I still love it. At first, I was worried about it seeming like a downgrade because it's stainless and one-bowl, but now I can't imagine going back. It's amazing.

Someone has even laundered money in it. 

Literally, again. 

Are you confused by that picture? Well, let that be a cliff-hanger for a future post.

(You may now return from the edge of your seats...)

Well, that was that! First post that wasn't completely about food. Aren't you impressed?

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* Even in this authoritative article about double-bowl sinks, almost all the commenters** say they prefer their one-bowl.

** Chrome is having a spell-check issue with my usage of the word "commenters." So what are these people called?