You would be quite right there Julia - most of us have ditched a lot of appliances as you will see here.
The Bamix, Magimix and certainly the Thermomix, he finds intimidating
I have taken a photograph but don't know to how add it on here.
welcome to the forum rosemary...glad your thermomix arrived quite quickly and i look forward to hear what you are making in thermie
we had a Magimix and really only used it for making puréed baby food and that was it. We gave it to my wife's sister this year as it had been collecting dust for nearly 4 years.
I have held on to my rice-maker
there are some instructions on how to add links and photographs here and here.