i can relate to the desire for "the stuff". it is reinforced in all the design mags we are combing over when we look for our inspiration photos.

what helps me is to revisit my goals and where i am in life. me - single working professional, very demanding job with long commute, aiming to retire sooner rather than later - can't imaging working this job for 16 more years, 10 years tops. i ask myself this question: can i spare spending this $$$ or would i rather not spend it and retire that much sooner? usually the latter wins out. just need to let the feelings pass and sanity returns....was willing to work a little longer for my wolf stove though...did buy it at a scratch and dent sale! :)

Next piece of advice? Choose one "toy" that you absolutely don't need but really really want. Even if you have a huge budget, it shouldn't cost more than $1K because it is a toy. (I.e., no Molteni range). Next choose three desires that you really want but are willing to work around. These can include things like deeper counters or fancy hand made pendants.

Negotiate everything else. Give a little, take a little. Use the three desires for trade offs you really don't want to make to get rid of things you really really don't want to let in, like I'll give up the pendants if you give up the beer machine.

Give yourself the toy.

I wanted fridge drawers. I was mostly negotiating with myself, but I still had to make tradeoffs and give up things to get it. Made it work. You deserve one toy.

I posted on your instant hot thread too -- the reply is much the same here. I wanted it, thought it wasn't necessary, got caught up with how much everything was costing and thinking I should trim some, nearly cut it but must have convinced DH it was really needed because he said keep it and now we use it even more that I thought I would. We do some canning and large pasta pots, I do add water during cooking sometimes, but I even fill pitchers for watering my potted plants with it because it is so much faster than the regular faucet. You can also put water into a pan that is still hot for soaking before that stuff crusts on and with the steam staying under your vent. And there is a certain toy factor. ;-)

I think it is more significant than a gadget, but accepting the gadget status for the sake of argument here, can you imagine cooking in your kitchen without a certain number of really good gadgets? And don't gadgets make cooking that much easier and more pleasurable? Would DH work int he yard, garage or at any of his hobbies (please say he has at least one of those -- LOL) without a few good gadgets? Being a gadget doesn't make it a bad thing, one that isn't needed or that isn't worthy. :-)

lascatx, the putting water into hot pan under vent logic really rings with me, as everytime in the past I added water it would fume up in the sink, so I did use that as one of my arguments.
Oh, don't even get me started, DH plays golf. Also I think the beer he has consumed in this lifetime adds up to a nice car.
If pulling the line is like $250, and I know I can get a nice looking pot filler for about the same price, that's a $500 toy. I think I deserve that.

Putting water in the pot with the rice stuck to the bottom- great reason for a pot filler- Also if you do not have a prep sink and someone is working at the sink - tis always nice to be able to fill a pot and not bother the "prep chef"

turtlemeng: your comment about the amount of beer your dh drinks made me lol! Same deal over here with my dh, although, I have to admit, I drink a fair amount of beer myself ;) I'm drinking one right now as a matter of fact!!!!

It sounds like you really want the pot filler. It's NOT that expensive, so I say go for it!!!

A pot filler seems like just a toy unless you're filling and simmering down very large stockpots. But, at $500, it is an reasonably accessible toy, so why not.

I'm with you Palimpsest. In an early plan for my kitchen where the stove was farther from the sinks, I was designing one! It would be a siphon with a little pump to a drain.

BTW, I called the pot filler a "toy" because the OP said she didn't need it and was perfectly able to use a bowl.

Plenty of women use their husbands--good for the upper body muscles, etc. I use whatever bowl or cup is waiting by the sink to deglaze for washing. My friend uses a saucepan for bailing because she can't lift the finished full pot either. A few members have sinks right by the stoves for filling and draining. Whatever works for you works. :)

My prep sink is right behind my stove, so it's a simple pivot and maybe a step to dump. That's about as good as having one next to my stove. But the faucet we initially put there had a slower than average flow and it would take forever to fill a pasta pot. The pot filler does the trick very quickly (don't turn away!). The link below shows mine at the current prices. Get the plumber to knock a few dollars off too and I bet we have some golf toys that cost more (and do less? ;-)).

Forgot the link

Here is a link that might be useful: Chicago Faucet pot filler

"plenty of women use their husbands" for carrying the filled pot...ha,ha,ha...that's really funny.
My only use of the husband in the kitchen would be if I saw a spider. Sorry, can't deal with any arthropod.
I love the Danze parma pot filler which is actually just about $200.

We have a pot filler, and . . . yeah, Total Toy!

We do like it, do use it, but could live without it. Sometimes we forget it's there, even though it's right in front of our faces, and fill pots from the sinks out of habit.

Our kitchen was total DIY, and we did the plumbing ourselves, so it didn't cost us anything but the price of the pot filler to do it-- $180 on eBay.

For that price, I'm fine with it, and it *is* a neat little gadget, but if it were much more than that, or budget dictated a trade-off between the pot filler or something else, I'd probably make a different choice.