My Wife asked me last night what the Gaggia Factory was doing in the garage. I'm not using it because it's ostensibly a birthday gift for my future birthday, but it looks like my hand was not well played. She really likes the looks of the Gaggia Factory too, not sure she really ever warmed up to the La Peppina as it was lumped in with everything else taking up counter space and all my other coffee stuff.
I guess I need to get going on refinishing that sideboard, or maybe even trading out the La Peppina for the Factory on the counter for the time being.
Mrs T is dazzled by the glitter of the LP Professional and the Victoria Arduino copper machine, and she loves the looks of the brass Brasilia Belle Epoque 2-group that I haven't even begun polishing & rebuilding.
My point is - the glitz gets her in the mood for me spending lots of money, then I hit her with my cheapo Bunn & Gaggia machines and I like to think she's putty in my hands! Then I hear a delivery van stop out front & I get this stab of fear - what's she bought now? Compared to Mrs T's talent for spending, I'm an amateur accumulator!