Dear Dotty, my daughter asked me the other day why I never made beautiful Christmas cookies like this year when she was a child. I said because I didn't have a Kitchen Aid mixer! I was married for 44 years before I got mine. Boy was I mad that I never got one sooner. I love mine! Now I make bread, cakes, cookies and mashed potatoes are to die for. So I say definitely get one. You will never regret it.