My husband and I have a ritual, and it goes like this: Two or three times a week I need to cut up something rather sturdy while I’m cooking dinner, and I take the biggest knife we have and start slamming it into sweet potatoes (where the knife promptly slices only halfway through and gets stuck) or what have you and complaining (loudly) about how our knives aren’t strong enough or sharp enough. And then he tells me I’m welcome to buy a nice Santoku knife, and I retort that they’re too expensive, and then a couple of days later we do the same thing again.

(He is a lucky, lucky man, I tell you.)

So today I was looking at the Shun steel cutlery collection on Amazon and thinking, huh, the prices seem lower than I remember. I may get my new knife, finally.

Of course, then I’ll have to find something else to complain about, but I think I can manage that.

You know how I’ve given away several Jawbone Bluetooth headsets? And we’re all always all “Wow, that’s kind of awesome. But we here at Want Not are probably not going to pay $100 for a headset, y’know?”

Right now there’s a Jawbone on a Lightning Deal in the Amazon Gold Box, and you can get that beauty (in “blah blah black,” which may be my favorite product color name ever) for just $55 shipped.

Still not cheap, but definitely the smokingest (totally a word) deal I’ve ever seen on a Jawbone. Remember, it has military-grade technology, which both makes you easier to hear and exponentially ups your General Cool factor.

My knowledge of music ends with “hit the ON button,” quite frankly, and the high point of my audio appreciation was probably my twelfth birthday, when I finally received that cassette player boom box I’d been wanting forever. So take the following with as many grains of salt as you need to remember that I have no idea what I’m talking about.

That said, I’m intrigued by today’s Big Steal at Meijer, which is a IOGEAR GHPAKIT Powerline Stereo Audio System for under $90, shipped. What it does is… ummm… stream your music to any room. Somehow. I don’t really know. It looks geeky.

What I do know is that the same system is about twice as much from Amazon, which certainly seems to indicate that it’s a decent deal, if you need such a thing. I mean, assuming that you both know what it is and feel your life is empty and incomplete without one.

Alert (and pretty! always pretty!) reader Rachel sent the following along while I was out:

visited my Mom last week and she has one of these clothes steamers. It rocked my socks off – so much better than ironing!!! So, when I got home I started looking for the same one she had. Lo and behold, Amazon has it on a REALLY good sale right now, so I snatched it up.

Rachel’s right; buy from Amazon (via Macy’s) and you’ll get it for just under $48, less than half any of the other options. And it looks like a sexy beast, that steamer. (Can I say that? About a steamer, I mean?)

Thanks for the tip, Rachel!