Until I can afford a VitaMix, I took a trip to the thrift shop and bought a used Waring 7-speed blender for $10.99. I attached 2 pictures of my blender for all to see. It was the only one they had left.
By the end of the summer, I plan on purchasing a VitaMix. I've been hearing so many good things about it...I want one too.
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Good Enough Blender?
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03-27-2007 11:02 PM #2
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I had one of those....As long as it gets the Job done.......Well done....
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03-28-2007 12:43 AM #3
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I love the old school buttons and the 1099 price still scrolled on it with the marker. much more style and vintage flair than a regular old vitamix!!!
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Originally Posted by laurabfig
10.99 Price very visible in the second pic
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03-28-2007 01:29 AM #5
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It should be good enough. The real test is how it handles ice and frozen fruit. My Magic Bullet blends both well. The Vitamix is waaaay too expensive for just a blender. No sense in breaking your budget to get one just because it's heavily promoted in the raw community.
I think you did good. Let us know how it works.
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03-28-2007 02:33 AM #6
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Seems like you got a great deal! I love shopping at thrift stores. It is one of my favorite pasttimes!
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I've read some technical information about how nothing is going to pulverize leafy greens as well as the Vita-Mix blender or that other $600 one. I'm currently using my landladies Vita-Mix blender and it's really worth saving up for as green smoothies are the foundation of my nutrition. But in the future I may need to make do with my old Osterizer. If I go back go to making green smoothies in my normal blender, I would take extra care to really eat my smoothies, keep it in my mouth and really pulverize it with my molars to avoid swallowing little bits and to get the green pieces as pulverized as much as possible. A little neurosis left over from macrobiotics when I'd practice chewing every bite fifty times!
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03-28-2007 12:33 PM #8
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I made green smoothies in a cheap $30. blender nearly every day for 3+ months before I broke down and bought a blendtec the first of February. The cheap blender works just fine. The trick is to let it run a while; like 5 times longer then you think you should. The blendtec works great for green smoothies but it costs a fortune and it sounds like a circular saw. I wear ear protection when I run it.
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