I have a lot of crap...not anywhere near the crap I used to have, but, crap still collects here. But, now I keep only crap that I use. If I don't use it and don't love it, I throw it right in the stinky dumpster and I don't care how much I could get messing around on eBay. If someone wants my crap they can go dig it out of the dumpster where I probably got it in the first place and it doesn't even embarrass me to tell that. They call it recycling now, we used to call it..Hot Damn! Look whut I got for free!
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I screwed up the other day though. I threw out my retro Mr. Coffee 2 with its cheery yellow gingham checkered pattern because I thought it was slow. I bought a new one and it sucks. The design is so poor whoever thought it up must have been on some bad drugs. You have to open the lid backwards and it hits my upper cupboard and I have to slide it perilously to the edge of my counter. Then if you fill it to the fill line on the carafe it overflows from holes in the back. WTF? I want my Mr. Coffee retro back! Who the hell designs coffee pots you can't pour out of? Why would I want to make a pot of coffee and pour it on my counter? Morons! Well, I'm SOL now, I'll have to look in antique shops to find another cheerful yellow Mr. Coffee. Excuse me a minute while I kick my own ass. I knew better.
I screwed up the other day though. I threw out my retro Mr. Coffee 2 with its cheery yellow gingham checkered pattern because I thought it was slow. I bought a new one and it sucks. The design is so poor whoever thought it up must have been on some bad drugs. You have to open the lid backwards and it hits my upper cupboard and I have to slide it perilously to the edge of my counter. Then if you fill it to the fill line on the carafe it overflows from holes in the back. WTF? I want my Mr. Coffee retro back! Who the hell designs coffee pots you can't pour out of? Why would I want to make a pot of coffee and pour it on my counter? Morons! Well, I'm SOL now, I'll have to look in antique shops to find another cheerful yellow Mr. Coffee. Excuse me a minute while I kick my own ass. I knew better.
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I knew better because my kitchen is full of old stuff that collectors drool over..I think they're sad people, get over it, it's just old shit. Anyhow, see that colander? I have three of those. You know why? Because they work. That old washboard was my Grams, it comes in handy sometimes. That goofy cat message thing is dated 1939 on the back. Okay, it's kind of stupid, but, kitchy and looks better than those stick on greasy note pads I see on peoples fridges now. Or those damn post its.
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Anyhow, my point is I have old crap and like they say..if it aint broke, don't fix it. I say, if it still works, do not replace it with modern trash designed by some ergonomic dill hole who was dropped on his head at birth. Don't believe me? Go flush your low flow toilet. 10 times.
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Pentagram??
I had an iron that i used for years and I threw it out cause the cord was frey'ed I wish I hadnt done that , I could have just replaced the cord . All the other irons I had have sinced sucked , I hate to iron. same with coffee maker the new ones never ever brew the coffee hot enough. I have to microwave it afterwards.
If it ain't broke don't toss it.
What about browsing some reviews and finding a decent new coffee maker, instead of going out and paying for another old, slow one?
Pentagram?
Oh my gosh ! I just got that !
of course dishy is a kitchen witch
give your shit away on freecycle.org
look up your town, someone that needs it will come pick it up.
Better than throwing it away, and its not ebay
My mom has an old electrical hand mixer. That thing is roughly 35 years old. It still works in a way (you have to hold a button all the time and from the two speeds only one is left). But it does the job.
Two years ago, she bought a new and expensive one.
She can't whip cream with the new one, because it ends all over her kitchen. The stirrers on the new one are complete shit.
No quality today :(
old shit is good shit.end of story,lol
I come from a family of hardcore pack rats/junk collectors (my father could have been Fred Sanford), and I have a terribly hard time throwing ANYTHING away. So I know where you're coming from.
By the way, LOVE the pentacle. Have a few of 'em myself around the house ;)
CapriciousCat
Omgggggggggggg my grandmother had a colander like that, only hers didn't have the handles and she's have to use a dish towel to touch it cause it got hot and burned her fingers....
DD I do love your stories....
Nads
Something wrong with your camera? The pictures up close are not as crisp as they ought to be - like the one of your's, Lis', and the stuff on the shelf. You are beautiful DD, pls take a picture of yourself in natural light (flash is ghastly) and post it for us - ummm.... may be in single source light, like standing close to the window? Gawd, fans can be so demanding (rolls eyes)!
I'm getting a new camera and one of them new fangled dvd movie camera's too, soon.
That's right. If old shit works then there is no need to replace it.
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