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I love credit card reward programs. Pay off your card every month, and it's as close to free money as your likely to find. That makes it easy to spend those reward points on stuff you wouldn't buy otherwise. It's like Christmas!
Since I didn't get one for Christmas, I used some of my points on an Aerogarden. I'm hoping it'll solve the age-old problem of having fresh herbs in the winter. I may live in St. Louis, but we still get enough winter to kill or make dormant most herbs. My mom's a gardener and runs some grow lamps for herbs, but even she has trouble keeping them alive and bountiful all winter. Might have something to do with the cats drinking their water....
Well, I'm not a gardener, and the Aerogarden is designed for people like me. It's a small, self-contained aeroponics garden. It comes with grow lights, built-in timer, circulating pump, and a starter set of seeds in nifty pods. It even has little greenhouse lids for the pods to use while germinating. In theory, I should have plants sprouting in a week and I should be able to harvest them in about five weeks. Talking to my mom, that's crazy fast: if this works out, I'll be really, really happy!
Out of the box, it looks very good. It was packed very solidly, with very simple unboxing instructions right on the top. The box was even closed with a tab that shows they expect folks to rebox their Aerogarden in the summer, and they made it easy to do. The docs on assembly and starting the garden were very clear. Assembly consisted of "press A into B until it clicks", and then plugging it in. I have it set up in a corner of my kitchen right now... I'll report back in a about a week, when I should see leafy shoots coming up.