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It is with great dismay that my upcoming relocation to South Florida means that I am giving up my gas stove. Having inherited my mom's Pyrex coffee percolater (WITH the coveted Pyrex stem and basket!) I am at a loss for how to use it on my electric smoothtop. Mom had a Frigidaire...

Kleen & Shine Or maybe it was Klean & Shine. Great job on everything! Also smelled like 7-up. My sister bought a case of it when she heard it was going out of manufacture. We split it, lasted us about five years. Linit liquid starch (for curtains).

Thanx Fellows! I suspected more "nasty buildup" than anything else. My sister tends to run everything on "Normal" or "Hand Wash" rather than the correct cycle. I'll run a "washer clean" cycle with Affresh next time and see what happens. FWIW, when I was at THD, my factory reps always...

My sister has a 2011 BOL Bravos. Does a great job, but over the weekend I did a white load and noticed little black flecks over the load. Lots of them. I could dust them off before I put the stuff on the clothesline, and those I missed shook-off easily when I got home. I did a dark load and...

In the 1970s, the apartment complex I lived in had filter-flow commercial machines. Harvest Gold, no less! I was always disappointed in that my loads always came out with "dots" of (I assumed) lint on them. I began to wash everything inside-out to minimize this deficiency. My aunt had a FF...

Garden State Congrats! Those are the cutest things. I always look one over when I come across one in a parking lot. Hope you have many miles of smiles!

Patty Duke The Brooklyn Heights kitchen was often in a scene. Even as a pre-teen, I wondered why, when opened, the light did not come on in the (General Electric TF in coppertone?) and there was always >nothing in it< except the prop(s). At least June Cleaver's GE BF had food in it! Usually...

@estesguy It was LG that came out with the flatscreen in a SxS. We ordered one for our floor @Home Depot. Everyone was fascinated by it, but we only sold one of them. When it went on clearance it sat and sat and sat. Finally a kiddie daycare center bought it, to keep the little darlings...

GE Profile Brought a machine to our floor a couple months ago. It's just a rebadged LG TL. There's a warning inside the lid that tells you not to put in sleeping bags, sneakers and the like. Then what is the "bulky" cycle for? Crinolines?

Smells So Good I have purchased this from Alice.Com and have used it with good results. I just add a tad of STPP for whites and use hot water. Wash darks in it with no streaking. Smell is very faint (to me) and not unpleasant. Maybe because I always do a vinegar rinse instead of fabric...

Rip it up and throw it out! My hairdresser had her salon updated and put in pergo. Two months later she had the whole works torn-up and thrown out. Replaced with standard linoleum. After having >six< patrons take a header on wet or hair-clipping-covered pergo. Foo. She's lucky they...

Kay-Two Union Baker Victor Was my father's call sign. K2UBV. He did this for only a few short years, had a setup in our dining room with a Gonset tuner and a Hallicrafters unit as well. He kept a lot of memorabilia. Including the log book from when my sister was born (9/20/57). He used to...

Launderess is correct Ixnay on the abrasives on your soleplate. If you have starch buildup, try ironing something heavy like jeans inside-out on highest setting. This will usually burn-off anything. If this fails, remember the mantra: Softest to hardest. Start with baking soda+water. On...

Ralph! You have never been down to Fisherman's Wharf to see the the coin-op museum? It's at the foot of Taylor St., next to the submarine. Even >I< knew about this! My first trip to San Francisco two years ago included this at my insistence. I arrived with a roll of quarters in my hot...

At least monthly I am approached by a customer at THD if we have anything that can approximate a Modern Maid tri-set. Unfortunately, there is nothing. These poor customers are almost in tears thinking about the cost of re-doing an entire kitchen because of one semi-functioning appliance. The...

Wowser! I forgot that at the time, I had the same kitchen floor as Roseanne! Peel & stick tiles, they were! Always liked her poppy-red fridge.

Faultless Heavy I find the best way to avoid "flaking" is to give the item a good blast then let it sit for a few minutes to allow it to soak in. It also seems to "set up" better this way. Always starch dress shirts and sport shirts but not polos or tees. Because plain-front pants make me...

As I type this I know I'm probably all wrong, but this is too clever not to respond. The wheels look like from the bottom rack of a later-model dishwasher. Though the one on the right front shows wear, not something you'd usually see on a dishwasher. I'm tempted to say feet off a washer or...

Thank you Petek! Apparently you and I truly know why those car-carriers are enclosed. I remember back in the 1960s/1970s when I worked for Chevrolet/Oldsmobile/Buick dealers how often the cars would arrive in our staging areas with the windows BB'd out or sheet metal dings and dents from rocks...

Whooboy! You are right! Thanksgiving is one of the two days per year that THD is closed. The other being Christmas. My sister e-mailed me today to have a quiet Thanksgiving. ShopRite still giving out free turkeys with minimum purchase totals. It will be my duty to make traditional cole...