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Slavic here All my maternal family said it was good luck to have herring on new year's eve. My late husband (also slavic) shared the same tradition. It was also considered good fortune to have men in the house on new year's day. Mom's brothers used to visit homes in the 'hood (Wilkes-Barre...

Hard to get size perspective From the picture, but my mom had a similar device for making attractive "radish roses" for relish trays. Also for making small-onion "bloomin' onions" like at Outback for your home.

It's OK to be alone, as long as you're not lonely. Years past, after my husband died (1998) I had to "put on a happy face" and go to my sister's for the day. Ostensibly "for the kids" but more to take our impossible parents out of her hair for awhile. I did it "for the kids" and came home...

Tall Fellows Like myself find it annoying to bend over and shuffle things in a TF. Also the aforementioned door swing in cramped or galley kitchens. Handy to have the service unit to dispense water/ice without opening the freezer door and compressing room air into the interior. When I sold...

@ Maytagbear Malley's Chocolates! One of the best reasons for visiting Ohio! I spend my Thanksgiving going to Mass in the morning. Which so many don't bother to do these days. Isn't this the purpose for the holiday? The rest of the day I usually do my Chrismas cards. It's OK...

Rit Liquid I have had success with this. The instructions say to add 1/2 cup of salt, which I do. Just regular table salt. I always follow with a vinegar rinse, 1 cup per load. I also found it helps to wash stuff inside-out (don't know why). Make sure you agitate dye load for 1/2 hour...

Fourth Of July For a long time I worked in our Verizon Newark, NJ HQ. I worked easily with a lot of men/women of color. They used to tease me because I was "up" on the latest rap stuff, et. al. I listened to the radio in the car on my way in. As 4 of July was approaching one year, I asked...

Tenements like the one I lived in as a boy were very short on closet space. Probably because most tenants didn't have a lot of clothes! We had a 2 br., each with a small closet. Very small, no windows. Kitchen had a pantry closet. Dining room had a closet for storing linens and towels...

Great Cruise! Are those stock wheels or after-market? Do I see factory air? I worked for a Buick dealer 1972-1974, not their highest point in auto history. Bought a '72 Skylark 350 for my 21st birthday. A lemon from the day I got it. Off-loaded it in '74 for a Ford and never looked back...

What EA56 Said It was a royal PITA to handle coin toll calls. Local calls were no problem. A mechanical timer flashed a signal on the board to indicate "5 cents for the next three minutes". You just announced, unplugged and let it go. Seconds later, the signal would be back if they didn't...

Garden State Greetings From sunny SoFlo! Have a happy!

Just a joke Told to me by my dentist when I was about seven (1958): Two flies in the kitchen, which one is the cowboy? The one on the range.

I Love Lucy Maybe they're referring to Lucy's stacked Westinghouse duo that was in their kitchen? It was in several episodes. The one I remember best is where Lucy and Ethel are eating eggs in the Ricardo kitchen, and come up with the idea to raise chickens for profit. It was when they were...

Stink! Selling appliances at The Home Depot, I often was treated to (usually women) customers reeking of "softener overload". >insert gag reflex sound< For years I have subscribed to "Hints From Heloise" advice to use 1/4 cup of white vinegar in the final rinse. It cuts whatever is left of...

Hotpoint We have a 50's themed restaurant down here, they have a duplicate model in one of their dining rooms that they use to store table linens. I went one night with friends and we were wondering about the brand. A Bunn coffee brewer was on top, so one of us moved it. Underneath was the...

Bookmarked your blog But Microsoft won't let me sign on as a member. It's OK. Good to see you back after dropping off the aw.o radar for too long! -Charlie- (PTCruiser51)

Mom & Dad had an icebox similar to this the way they described it. They bought it used. Since they were married November 1947, for the first month or so they used a window box to keep evaporated milk and cold cuts, soda and juice cold. Later in 1948 they got a Westinghouse fridge using my...

Garden State translation I didn't have many Italian friends as a young child. We always called anything red "tomato sauce" or "spaghetti sauce". We were poor, so all we ever had was actual spaghetti or macaroni. Maybe on rare occasions rotini (spirals). Or for a real treat, "wagon wheels"...

Parents' Cleanout Job My sister and I should have applied for Superfund monies when we cleaned-out their place after their deaths five weeks apart in 2010. Not to mention the toxic chems we found in the old man's shed. Lots unmarked. There were the bulging cans in the pantry. Spices marked...

LG Made an OTR with a pop-out vent to give extra coverage for front burners. I don't know if they still make it. Almost all OTR's can use an optional charcoal filter that goes behind the mesh one to help remove odors. As for cleaning, the mesh filter can go in the dishwasher, and most OTR's...