While Switzerland might not rock at sales, I have come to accept that the “sales rack” simply does not exist in Switzerland. Instead, you have “summer sales”, which is the one time of year when you can find massive discounts on almost everything. This was how we scored our gourmet coffee maker with a 500CHF reduction.

This year I received a gift card for my birthday to the fairly expensive, “luxury” department store Globus, where in search of taller cake caddys, I noticed Le Creuset pans on significant discount.

The gourmet version of this 6.2L/30cm pot normally runs around 339CHF and was on sale for 199. Apparently it even runs for $600 in the States, which just seems nuts.

I ended up dragging Kay back with me on a Saturday to buy one… plus a crepe pan, which was definitely not on sale.

But with the gift card and the reduction on the other pan, my total still came to way less than what I would pay for these pans in the States, on sale from Amazon. Yeah!

I also told Kay that these are “forever” pans and wherever we ever move, they are coming with us, non-negotiable. Kay’s response was just that I had better stop making salads like below and start making yummy food in my new toys. I forgot to mention to him that I planned for him to make the crepes in the crepe pan since he’s better at it than me… 😉I also did manage to find what seems to be a nice, tall cake caddy online from Pro Idee, which seems very similar to something you can get on Amazon. And I bought a ton of gluten free food online, including beer, which I plan to try with Kay soon. 🙂Have you made any home purchases this summer?