NOTE: FOR INFO ON THE 2007 SALE, VISIT THIS LINK

If you show up on the wrong date due to a 2005 or 2006 posting, please don't show them a printout from this website: it makes you look bad (because you can't read) and it makes me look bad (because I have readers who can't read... if that makes sense).

And apparently some of you were mean to the manager that turned you away last year (because, after all, you did show up on the wrong dates), so be nice to him this year.

Again, visit this link for 2007 info

There's nothing quite like preserving the capital your hard-earned trust fund. The JA Henckels Annual Warehouse sale is a great way to keep your trust fund cash intact: you'll find all your favorite, gleaming cutlery at 50%+ off the retail price.

This is a great way to get top-quality knives and kitchen gadgets at really low prices.

The sale runs the first & second weekends in December:

Dec 3, 10a-7p
Dec 4, 10a-5p
Dec 5, 12p-5p

Dec 10, 10a-7p
Dec 11, 10a-5p
Dec 12, 12p-5p

Where: 171 Saw Mill River Rd., Hawthorne, NY on Rte 9A in Westchester County

Fat Tips
1. Go early -- arrive about 15 minutes before opening so you'll get first dibs on the merchandise, but most importantly...

2. Park in the Movie Theater parking lot -- you'll know your getting close to the Henckels warehouse when you see the traffic queued up as far as the eye can see. So put your SUV off-road skills to work and sneak into the movie theater parking lot. Park at the base of the hill near the warehouse.

Yes I know, you'll have to hike up a big-assed hill to get to the warehouse. Well, quit your whining: you'll save yourself a ton of time and avoid duking it out with some angry Westchester soccer mom in the way-too-tiny Henckel parking lot. (Don't be fooled by the important looking guys in orange safety vests "directing" traffic: they're slow.)

Instead, you'll mock the poor fools idling in their vehicles while you're inside the cozy Henckels warehouse, menacing small children with sharp objects.

Plus, with all the calories you'll burn clambering up the hill, you'll be able to splurge on dessert later that night.

3. Load up on goodies, but don't buy it all (yet) -- this sale is a dream: glittery sharp objects -- and dirt cheap prices -- that are just begging for a dark drawer in your kitchen. But hang onto your wallet.

Go into the warehouse with at least some vague goals -- what knives and gadgets do you need? A new 8" chef's knife? A carver? Need some poultry shears? It's easy to get carried away in this cutlery madhouse.

Instead, grab what you're looking for and move to a (relatively) quiet corner. Then, take a cutting board and try out what you're looking for (watch out for your fingers).

Then ask yourself: do I really need this? If so, proceed to the checkout line.

4. Congratulate yourself -- you just saved a ton of money. And you purchased some of the finest cutlery available.