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Whether you’re a new homeowner, a college student moving out of the dorms, or just a guy or gal looking for a culinary upgrade, stocking a kitchen can be a really intimidating experience, even before you start thinking about food. Houseware itself is a field so deep in products that a trip to your typical retail store winds up feeling more like an expedition to a wild hinterland of shiny plastics.

Thankfully shopping on QuiBids is often just as simple as pulling up one of our specific categories (they range all the way from Electronics to Gift Cards to Home & Garden) and browsing our thousands of brand-new items. Or, if you ain’t got time for that, simply type what you’re looking for into our nifty search feature and see what we’ve currently got up on the auction block.

Of course, those thousands of digitized items can make it feel a lot like you’re standing at the front of a department store, overshadowed by throngs of two-stories-tall aisles all stocked with the products. So why don’t you let us offer a few suggestions on how to get started? We’ve chosen ten great ones, and broken them up into basics, essentials, and, well, stuff that will enrich your cooking experience that you probably don’t really need but would be really nice to have. What’s the word for that? Oh yeah, luxuries.

Basics

Even before purchasing food, you’ve got to have pots and pans to cook it in, right? Best get started with this awesome 12-Piece Green Gourmet Set from Cuisinart. It’s as reliable as it is environmentally friendly!

You’ve got your pots and pans, so now it’s time for a trip to the grocery store, right? A $50 Walmart gift card ought to help take care of that.

Now all your food’s out on the counter, cookware at the ready. Oh, but what to slice it up with? Good thing you snagged this 11-Piece Forged Steel Knife Set to prepare your food for going into the oven, skillet, pan, boiling kettle, microwave, or whatever else you intend to use for cooking.

And lastly, just in case your cooking skills aren’t quite up to snuff, here’s a Kalorik Gravity Salt and Pepper Grinder to give your food a little extra spice.

Essentials

Need to maximize your sleep time and minimize your morning preparations for work? This 12-Cup Coffee Maker by Kalorik will do both, as it’s super-easy to use and clean!

Tired of freezer-burnt chicken? Snag one of these Taylor Freezer-Refrigerator Thermometers to monitor just how cold it’s getting inside your home fridge.

If you’re going to make muffins, make them with love. This Mini Heart Pan by Bakeware will do just that.

Luxuries (or, Icing on the Homemade Cake)

Is your mom’s old recipe book falling apart? Scan the pages and load them on to this Sungale Android Minitablet! It’s never good to be in doubt when it comes to cooking, so having the power of the Internet in your kitchen is a lot like being coached by your own personal executive chef.

Class the joint up a little bit with this WMF Mini Easy-Pour Decanter. Great for serving wine, juice, or even just plain old H2O!

Lastly, nobody likes a boring, lifeless kitchen. Give it a bit of life by plugging in this Jamo Home Cinema System to pump out your favorite tunes! It’s small and conveniently placed, so you can set it on a shelf or appliance, or wedge it into a corner. The possibilities are endless!

Happy bidding! And don’t forget about Buy Now!

April showers bring May flowers … in the western hemisphere, that is. Down south in Australia, it kinda depends on where you’re located, but the rainfall’s giving way to dryer, less lush spells of climate. But what do you care? You’re just trying to win great products at low prices.

Plenty of that happened down under last month, as QuiBids Australia was full-on rocking just as hard as its Canadian and American counterparts. Let’s check out six big wins that Aussie users scored, and get collectively jealous as we calculate the savings.

Item: Coleman 6-Person Tent
Price: $0.26
Winner spent: 7 Real Bids
Savings: $237.53
Think about it: do you really know six people well enough to feel comfortable spending an entire night squished into the same plastic space as them? Let’s hope user agcat does, though he or she shouldn’t feel too obligated to get much use out of this awesome tent: it only cost $4.46.

Item: Laser EB850 7” 4GB Color E-Book Reader
Price: $0.08
Winner spent: 1 Voucher Bid
Savings: $79.91
Have you ever watched a movie based on a well-read book (say one of the Lord of the Rings trilogy or a Harry Potter installment) and thought, “That was so good, that I want to read the original version immediately!” Well now, Lolly79 can do that from the ease of his/her nifty new E-Book Reader, that will have cost far less than whatever media she or she stocks it with.

Item: Pierre Cardin Men’s Watch
Price: $0.18
Winner spent: 4 Voucher Bids
Savings: $127.81
$127.81 saved on this thing? It’s too bad QuiBids doesn’t sell suits to match it. [Note to self: Start selling suits on QuiBids.]

Item: Global Master Chef 7-Piece Knife Block Set
Price: $0.71
Winner spent: 9 Voucher Bids
Savings: $449.28
Oooof, for nearly $500, a knife set ought to come with a chef to operate it. But all it cost user Dazz74 was a handful of Voucher Bids and $0.71. Very impressive win, here.

Item: Action Soccer Table (+20 bids)
Price: $0.05
Winner spent: 2 Voucher Bids
Savings: $67.94
What do you think it costs to attend a professional soccer game? Probably about this foosball-ish table’s price, at least if you’re wanting to go to a high-octane match between two of the world’s best teams, say in the Premiere League or Spanish La Liga. User sconet saved all that cash to pay for a way to reenact those matches in the comfort of his or her own home!

Item: Canon EOS 1100D DSLR Camera Body
Price: $3.44
Winner spent: 28 Real Bids
Savings: $429.75
You can’t really take pictures without a camera lens, but the good news is that user timtam007 can put the $429.75 he/she saved toward one!

That’s not all folks! Did you have a big April win that our recap missed? Link us to it in the comments, or email me at matt[dot]carney[at]quibids[dot]com and I’ll add it to the bottom of the post!