What do you need? and Where to get it?

So I've been talking about places and cuisines this entire time, with the occasional bit of tipple advice thrown in to keep it all loose. For this post it'll be a little different, what do you need in order to make your home kitchen ready for everything. And this is a bare bones list, as it should be, a cluttered kitchen with ten different kinds of knife to cut a bagel is pointless, do you really need four 9x13's all made out of a different material, NO.

Really all you need besides your appliances are as follows:

1 Chef Knife, 7-9 inches long of a good make
1 Serrated knife, 11-13 inches long (don't worry as much on make, you'll be replacing it every few years anyway.)
1 Rubber Spat
1 Medium Heavy bottomed skillet (and not heavy because of a welded on plate, solid bottom)
1 Medium Heavy bottomed Sauce pot (see parenthesis above)
1 Cutting Board, heavy wood is better but harder to clean and more expensive, Plastics are cheap easier to clean but break and melt easily... don't ask
1 or 2  Baking dishes, 9x13 either Glass or Ceramic covered cast iron
2 or 3 half-sheet trays, there is no reason for a home owner to have full sized sheet trays most home ovens can't take them

That's it, none of those presses for every little thing from garlic to peanuts, none of those slap chops that break quick and never get a good cut, and for the love of all things Escoffier not a drawer full of infomercial knives that "never dull" or "last forever" that's just dangerous. Ignore the infomercials and go out and pick up what you need. If you want a profesional grade knife (you wont need it but hey if you want one I'm not gonna stop you) Bertarelli's knives on the hill is the place to go (They can be bribbed with Chocolate drops from Missouri Bakery), I recommend Wurstof if your going that route, they have a line for every need, personally I like the slightly heavier Grand Prixe II line. but otherwise go to Tuesday Morning. No I'm not joking, I was sending you there for everything else anyways, decent brands and everything you need in close reach, as well as a few nick-nacks if you absolutely want a single purpose item in your kitchen... don't know why you would but some people do. Walmart and Schnucks I'm almost ashamed to say also put out decent Home use grade products. Or check online at restaurant auction sights, you wont find knives most of the time but the cutting boards, pans, spats and other professional grade odds and ends, they wont be pretty but they will work to Armageddon and back. And really isn't that what you want, something that will never break or ship on you despite a few bumps and dents instead of something shiny that breaks the first time you toss it into the sink just a little to hard?