All I Want for Christmas is......

[chachp]

My list is simple..

I want Christmas to be over so I can get my husband and my normal life back. He is in retail and working 14 hour days everyday. I hate it!!!! I see him late at night and early in the morning.

 

[jmirawm]

hmmmmmm

A Mercedes, a pool and room for a pony !

 

[foraloysius]

And no sisters with flower names!

-

 

[knitwits1975]

My grown up Christmas list

A new Dodge Diesel pickup truck.
A new garage and workshop
For my mom to be healthy again.
For my sister to live happily ever after with her new husband.
To find a wonderful wife that can put up with me, lol!
And peace on Earth and good will toward men.(What a Concept)

 

[Versatronic]

Count the rationalizations

No surprise, my wish list consists of vintage items I want for my house. Here are my top three wants.

1. Heywood Wakefield room divider in wheat finish (hello Kevin)

2. Killer 50's, 60's era washing machine

3. George Nelson designed Omni wall unit system for my home office.

I had a long want list at the beginning of the year and I have scratched many wants off that list. I have had a very good year. I've been very blessed. My whole life, I have been very responsible with my money and my credit so that I have a perfect credit rating. Now that I've suddenly developed a compulsive spending problem, the credit agencies are only too happy to give me the green light. But still, I feel that I must rationalize all my out-of-control spending to make myself feel better.

My birthday and Christmas are both in December, so I rationalized this vintage microwave as a birthday gift to myself since I've been working so hard. It's outside of my era of collecting, but it really fits the look of the kitchen with the sleek chrome styling. Notice the small piece of styrofoam trapped inside the bottom dial.

 

[Versatronic]

And then there's Christmas

Of course, I've been slaving and slaving away, working long hours. I deserve a Christmas gift to myself. I just got this out of the shipping box this morning.

This is a vintage "Grasshopper Chair" designed by Eero Saarinen in 1946 for Knoll and manufactured up to 1965. I have always loved this chair and was lucky enough to acquire this in time for Christmas.

 

[Versatronic]

Some different angles

It's really a work of art and this specimen is in beautiful condition.

 

[Versatronic]

One more chair to go

I never set out to collect every chair that I loved, but somehow this year I ended up acquiring many chairs that I have always admired. And with this purchase, there is only one chair left on my want list. Perhaps in '06 I will get that elusive last chair. We'll see. But I really have a lot to be thankful for and have been truly blessed.

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas eve and Christmas day and hope you get what you want most.

 

[retromom]

Santa was good to you!

Nice, Versatronic...very nice! Are those chairs as comfy as they look? Any chance of a matching ottoman with the same great lines?

We'll have to talk about RR7D's. They are powerful, heavy duty, and wonderful to look at! You've got to love the sound of the door when you shut it!

Merry Christmas!

 

[petek]

Great chair find Mike. I love the design and the fact that as vintage as it is most would think it's a brand new modern chair. There's really little anyone these days a designer can do that isn't stealing from what was already done in that time period imho

The radarange looks great and they sound great too, ka chunk.

 

[drmitch]

Hey Mike, my b-day is in dec also. I wish my RR7 would go under my cabinets but its an inch too tall. Love the chair!

 

[Versatronic]

Comfy

Retromom, there is a matching ottoman to all of my vintage chairs, including the Grasshopper Chair, but I just don't have room for the ottoman's, so I don't purchase them or worry about it. When I bought my diamond chair, it had a matching ottoman right there with it, and I negotiated a reduced price and didn't take the ottoman with me. I knew I'd never use it. I have one ottoman and that for my Womb Chair because that is my offical lounge chair in my living room. It's the offical curl-up-in-and-kick-your-feet-up-and-watch-Forbidden-Planet-on chair.

So, there was a matching ottoman made for the chair but I don't have it and couldn't find a place for it. And it is wonderfully comfortable. Actually, you would not believe how comfortable most of these designer chairs really are. Guests are amazed at how comfortable most of them are. Despite the unconventional looks, they were designed with comfort in mind.

Dr Mitch, as you can see, I'm lucky. My Radarange just barely slides under my cabinets. Yeah!

 

[jasonl]

Radarange

I like the sound of that relay when you push start. It really clunks that old beast right into gear. But RR's are very quiet in operation.

 

[frigilux]

Great chair, great 'wave and, if I may say so, very cool drapes in post #99696. Merry Christmas, Mike!

Venus---I agree about the sound of a Radarange's door closing. It's that same solid, confident sound you get when closing the door on a Lexus.

 

[Versatronic]

The Exciters

Frigilux, my girlfriend's Christmas present to me was a Rhino box set of '60s girl groups. It comes in a "hat box" with a diary inside and each CD case is like a woman's compact. It is too cool and I've been listening to the discs all morning. I love it. Hope you got cool stuff.

 

[frigilux]

Wow, that sounds great! Christmas is pretty low-key for me. Not many gifts. However, I did get my new Maytag dishwasher and my sister gave me a boat-load of CD-R's and DVD-R's. Are "The Pleasure Seekers" one of the girl groups? I think Suzi Quatro was in that one in the late 60's...

 

[jasonl]

I was just watching VH1's 1-hit wonders special. Oh those bands brought back memories. And yes, Suzi Quattro's "Stumblin' In" was one of the songs. And the "Pleasure seekers" was named as well.

One of the weirder groups was ? and the Mysterions. The song was originally written as 69 Tears but the radio stations wouldn't play it because of the innuendo, so they changed it to 96 Tears and thus, the garage classic.

 

[westytoploader]

Mike, it looks like you have the exact same model as us! Our Amana, a $10 thrift-store find, is an RR-7D from April '78. Works perfectly with the fun solenoid clunking of a classic Radarange!

 

[jasonl]

I was there

The RR7D is a little "Young" for my taste. I like the one with the lighted controls and the sliding defrost/lock switch. Isn't that the R5 or something like that?

My parents had a early 80s Tappan microwave that had a timer, thermostat, and a "brown" button that turned on a top heating element. They could've gone the extra mile and made it a convention oven as well. The "start" button was also the "light" switch.

 

[Versatronic]

Dead Ringer

Yeah, that is the same model Westy, no doubt. The outer shell on mine is a very dark brown, but other than that, it's a dead ringer. And speaking of dead ringers, does your timer *ding* when it shuts off? My does not, but I think its supposed to.