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Due to some extraordinarily hurtful and rude behavior in the DL forum, I am leaving AW. I will not, under any circumstances, be back. I wish all of you who have been friends to me here the very best. Sadly, Sandy

It looks like P & G has been forced to do something about the many complaints about the safety of Tide Pods around children. It's an educational commercial, created by Saatchi and Saatchi. I saw it air twice today during the daytime. I felt it was a pretty good "soft sell" of the idea that...

I found this fun article in the U.K.'s Daily Mail - it's about what happens when ordinary people attempt to duplicate the DIY results they see in magazines. The first photo shows a professional attempt at making Cookie Monsters out of cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies and blue icing. The...

I am absolutely delighted to be able to bring you this: "Older GE fridge, not the prettiest but it'll freeze the nuts off a penguin." http://dubuque.craigslist.org/app/4854838044.html

In another thread, someone asked about the oven safety of Farberware's phenolic handles, and I responded from memory, saying 350 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the usual recommendation for Bakelite. Today, I received a selection of original Farberware brochures I purchased on eBay, and one of...

Those of you who read the thread on my recent Farberware find may recall that Brent a440 and I got into a little sidebar discussion about the red potato salad at Publix - a treat I really miss. Brent duly scoured the Internet and came up with a recipe said to be it. Brent and I did some...

I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to own one of these, because they're HTF, plus they fetch a fairly good price on eBay, and then there's shipping.... It is a Farberware twelve-inch, five-quart saute pan - a very large size that was not common in the '80s when this item was made...

I've had two people contact me to ask what was such a big hairy deal in Jacksonville, so here 'tis: It was a West Bend "This 'n That" canister, the largest size West Bend made. It was an optional accessory, not part of the basic set of four canisters (flour, sugar, coffee and tea). It's...

Hi: There is a Craiglist item in Jacksonville I'd like to buy, and I'm wondering if we have any members there. It's a household item that is the last piece of a set I'm trying to put together. My experience with CL is that people don't respond when someone out of their area emails them and...

While this is a U.K. Daily Mail story, American models are affected, so here goes: Keurig has issued a recall for around 7 million of its Mini Plus machines made between 2009 and 2014. Affected models were sold at Kohl's, Walmart, KMart and Target, among other retailers. Units under recall...

....Fed up with poor battery life, security problems and complexity, some cell users are flocking back to retro phones, especially celebrities, who have a bit more at stake than the rest of us when it comes to security, of course. Some old Motorola and Nokia flip phones are fetching handsome...

"Think pink! Think pink! When you shop for summer clothes. Think pink! Think pink! If you want that quelque de chose. Red is dead, blue is through, Green's obscene, brown's taboo. And there is not the slightest excuse for plum or puce - or chartreuse." Okay, so I'm giddy. Today I received a...

In another thread, there was some curiosity about the dishwasher seen on the set of the Draper kitchen in Mad Men. It's clear at a glance that it's a D & M machine, but which D & M machine? Below is an enlarged detail from a still frame, showing the clearest view of the dishwasher's control...

Mad Men, Season One, which depicts 1960.

Sandy's on another black-and-chrome mission! Yesterday, I found the base of an Oster Classic VIII blender for a buck - in my favored black-and-chrome finish. But there's no jar, and what did I expect for a dolla anyway? I am looking for the correct jar, pictured below. This version of the...

When I posted about mounting and using my new-to-me Can-O-Mat, David d-jones asked for photos - so here they are. The first one shows the opener mounted below my West Bend paper and foil dispenser, which is a pretty freakin' rare item in the aluminum finish. Most of these dispensers are found...

Statistics are in from a year of detergent pod sales, and they are scary: over 17,000 American kids under the age of six suffered some sort of problem from ingesting pods or part of one. That's pretty much one child every hour between March 2012 and April 2013. The medical journal Pediatrics...

Well, it has been a long two or three years, but today the last two pieces of Corelle Snowflake Blue I wanted - two serving bowls - arrived. An eBay seller had them priced reasonably and the shipping charges weren't bad, either. So, I now have all the Corelle I wanted - eight place settings...

If summa youse will recall, I was looking for a wall-mounted can opener - either a Rival Can-O-Mat Model 45-S in chrome and black, or the Dazey Canaramic Model 105 in the same finish. Well, a Can-O-Mat in the correct finish turned up cheaply yesterday on eBay, so I've ordered it. This is the...

Hi All: I'm looking for brochure pages from GE appliance catalogs showing their range and oven lines - a couple of recent threads have brought up questions I've had trouble answering with the limited info I've had on hand. Automatic Ephemera has the 1964 and 1971 catalogs, and the '72 catalog...