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Well, live and learn... The week's laundry is done, folded, ironed, hung up or placed in drawers. Since I am not teaching over the summer, I didn't have a week's worth of dress shirts to iron, leaving only the week's worth of tea towels, two pillowcases and a flat sheet I decided to try...

Toaster Central... ...has wonderful "eye candy" to ogle, and sells toasters and waffle irons (among other things). The owner used to have a link for cleaning and seasoning waffle irons, but try as I might, I couldn't find the link minutes ago. I bet that a nice message sent to him would...

What a wonderful range! Just love such finds, when one knows that there are good bones under the crud. My Tappan, bought for $50 a few years ago, was similar when it came to grease...and sure 'nuff, the porcelain finish, minus a few scratches, was pristine, having been protected by the crud...

My grandmother... ...was a hoarder, and had a huge stash of white cotton sheets and pillowcases, which my parents inherited when she passed away in 1981. A small number of the sheets, Penncrest, still are in their original packaging. Upon going through my parents' estate, I ended up with that...

Oh oh... ...this is the same GE mixer that my grandmother had. I can still see where it was kept, on a stand, beside the coal cook stove here in the kitchen. She was a very good cook and baker, and many times I saw the machine in use. As a little kid in the 1960s, I was always fascinated by...

Your videos are... ...eye candy! From trips through wonderful foods and now this "range swap" - I agree, they are mouth watering! That Frigidaire brought back tons of memories, for my grandmother had a larger Frigidaire - with the double ovens. She would bake weekly to sell baked goods at...

I have... ...the creamer and sugar - and had completely forgotten that I have them, until I read this post! I found mine at the local Goodwill for 49 cents each, a couple of years ago. I'm going to have to keep an eye open for the pattern in my travels. I remember that my mother had the vase...

Verizon DSL... ...here in the country. I pay $19.95 a month for the service, and am pleased with it. Sometimees YouTube bogs down, but no biggie. As there is no TV cable in my area, it is either Verizon or satellite. A friend of mine has satellite Internet and has more problems than it's...

Cuddle Soft update... I ran a small load of laundry, and just pulled the lot from the dryer. I was really looking forward to seeing how the Cuddle Soft worked, and I must say - I am pretty pleased by the results. I did have reservations about the product as I poured the dose into the...

A standing ovation from the "wilds" of west central Kelly - I have thoroughly enjoyed, and learned from, your posts on the forum. Your sticky rolls remind me of my grandmother, who always would make them when I was a kid and would spend an "over night" here at the farm. May I ask - would you...

Enjoy... ...those molds and the "salads" made in them! While some of those molded creations are truly bizarre, a lot of them are quite good - looking nice on the table and are refreshing and tasty. I've found that a nice Jell-o molded "salad" or dessert always brings nostalgic comments from...

Hmmm... ...could be a low-end softener that my mother used. Diluting the ketchup made me laugh, as my parents were notorious diluters (to my father's dying day, in 2006, he diluted the liquid hand soap), and I always chalked that up to their both growing up during the depression. I'm glad...

Yesterday, while doing the grocery run and in Wal-Mart, I noticed a new line of liquid fabric softener, Sun's Cuddle Soft, newly stocked on the shelves. I bought the Original Fresh scent. I just wonder if anyone here has had any experience with this softener, and had any thoughts to share...

I wash mine by hand... ...with regular dish washing liquid. I wash them separately from anything else to guard against scratching and marring the finish. Joe

1976 VW Beetle While I learned to drive in a 1967 Beetle, took my driver's test in a 1973 Beetle, the first car that I purchased was a lime green (I think VW named it Viper Green) 1976 Beetle. Joe

As for irons... ...I would be lost without my GE. I bought it at a thrift store in the late 1990s, new in the box, and it has been doing my weekly ironing ever since. Every once in a while, I use my old mid-1950s Westinghouse steamer - like it lots, too. I like the weight of these old irons...

My weekly ironing consists of my dress shirts for work, kitchen tea towels, cotton pillow cases. Dining room table cloth after laundering (then folded and put away) - this done seasonally. Jeans and daily t-shirts are folded straight out of the dryer, as are the weekly cotton bed sheets (I...

100 year old house... ... and little counter space here. Appliances are spread throughout the kitchen. On counter: Dualit 2-slice toaster GE 8-cup coffee percolator On hoosier counter: Russell Hobbs traditional electric kettle On rolling (and substantial for use) cart: Hobart KitchenAid...

Breaking spaghetti... My mom always broke spaghetti in half before plunging it in the pot. Someone showed me how to put whole length spaghetti into a pot while I was in college, and I have never gone back to broken. I've always found full length spaghetti easier to twirl on my fork (it...

Well, for all to know... ...bath towels, wash cloths and hand towels are changed on Sunday when the laundry is done. That's the way that things were done when I was a kid and I've continued on with what works for me. Now, for kitchen linens, the dish rag, hand towel, and tea towel are...