Another 10 year old kitchen tool bites the dust....

I think I was on to something about kitchen appliances/tools needing to be replaced every 10 years.  I still haven't replaced my food processor, blender or can opener and now look at this.........

My very good and expensive Henkels pairing knife (yes another wedding gift) broke clean in half the other day when I was cutting a stick of frozen butter.  Yep just butter, not a cinder block as you would've thought.  So crazy.  I thought these things had a lifetime guarantee, or is that ginzu knives?

Perhaps it's a sign from the cooking gods that I need to slow down and pace myself? Don't they know I have this blog so I have to keep cooking?

What is the shelf life of small appliances??

I ask this question because apparently for my appliances the answer is 10 years!  Last week three of my main appliances that I receved as gifts when I got married just blew up practically all at the same time.  My food processor, my blender and my electric can opener all suffered an untimely (or perhaps timely) death while I was cooking last week.  My blender gave out while pureeing butternut squash soup, my food processor exhausted itself grating cheese for homemade mac and cheese and my can opener literally flew off the handle opening a can of water chestnuts when I was making chicken potstickers one night.  Now what new appliances should I buy to replace those who have passed on?