If you think I’m talking about Father’s Day next year, you clearly don’t know me and have a warped view of me because I posted about having already ordered our Halloween costumes. I am pretty much someone who leaves things to the last minute and / or past the last minute. Case in point, I am about 3/4 of the way through the baby blanket I’m making for my friend’s baby who just celebrated her 1 month birthday. Oh, and I started it when my friend was 20 weeks pregnant. But I digress.
I actually did buy G’s Father’s Day present on time this year. It was a beautiful frying pan much like this one, but in cherry red. The girls and I made a big production of giving it to G on Father’s Day and he loved it! However, an hour later I told G he had to take the pan back. And I made him come with me in to the store to return it, because I’m a wimp like that.
See, I have been known to obsessively research my purchases online. The night before Father’s Day, with the present safely tucked away, I was still reading to make sure my $180 purchase was money well spent. That’s when I came across info that the Le Creuset frying pans in the red spectrum contain cadmium in the outer paint. They claim it is entirely safe, but then again, so do the teflon pans I was buying this item to avoid. I couldn’t sleep that night thinking about how I was paying $180 to poison my family. I knew the pan would forever be tainted in my eyes, so poor G spent his Father’s Day returning his beloved present (you can see why he really, really deserved this – he is a very patient man). Turns out Cherry Red was the only colour carried around here. We have continued to look for, talk about, and obsess over, these pans ever since and G is getting desperate to have one for keeps (in a nonpoisonous colour).
So I came across a contest on SPIFFYKERMS.COM for a $60 CSN gift card. I entered, and won! You can read my prize winning entry here. Unfortunately, we had kind of spent the money we got back for G’s returned gift, so this was the perfect catalyst to him finally getting his Father’s Day present. CSN was very prompt in sending me my gift code and I purchased the pan tonight. The Le Creuset 11.75″ Iron Handle Skillet in Cobalt was on sale for $139.95 (US) PLUS it came with a free Le Creuset 9″ Square Dish. Sweet! Because of CSN’s great pricing, even with tax and international fees my order would have come out around the $180 I had originally paid (shipping on this item to Canada was FREE). Then, with my gift card, I only had to pay $124.03 for both items shipped to my house. Yay!!!! I’m so stoked.
Here’s the FREE square dish. Did I mention it was FREE?
So in the end, G will finally get his well deserved Father’s Day present. Oh, and I think I might have told him it was his birthday present, too. That was in July.
