Super goodwill find

[nashmaytagbear]

Close to us in downtown Nashville we have a goodwill outlet store. It's where they put all the items that don't or can't sell in the regular store. They load everything in big bins and you dig through them. Recently the started putting more furniture out on the floor and today I spotted something I had been wanting for only $5.00. An Electrolux Hassock. It's not in the greatest shape but for $5.00. I'm not going to complain.

 

[nashmaytagbear]

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[mattntn]

Nice find! Will definitely have to check that place out next time I'm in town.

 

[nashmaytagbear]

Matt just let me know. We will show you all the good places in own to go.

 

[gansky1]

Good eye! I've heard about our goodwill "last chance" store but don't think I've ever been to that one. I know a friend of mine has found several vacs there - all sold by the weight.

I bought one of these in black at a sale last year - with the cleaner I didn't need just to get the hassock/storage box! Lucky finds for sure, they must not have been a big draw for too many, they're getting rarer.

 

[chachp]

Electrolux Hassock??

Does that have something to do with the vacuums?

 

[danemodsandy]

chachp:

The Electrolux hassock was an optional accessory for those who did not have a lot of storage space in their houses. The vacuum and its hose and attachments fitted into the hassock, which could then be used as - what else? - a hassock.

This was a fairly popular accessory for many vacuum cleaner brands in the '50s, owing to lack of space in houses of the era. The average new house built in 1950 was only 850 square feet, and many, like mine, were smaller than that.

Vacuum salesmen loved hassocks, because they were a great "add-on" sale.

 

[d-jones]

Sandy

Thanks for the explanation. I've seen these things here and there for years and could never really see the need.

 

[countryguy]

My mom had a hassock for her Filter Queen.  It was kept in the spare room next to the dining room.  A few years ago I purchased an Eureka rotomatic that came with the hassock.  I have it in my family room with the Eureka inside. 

 

Gary

 

[chachp]

Wow

I never heard of those. When I was younger my Mom had the beast of a Kirby and then in 1969 when they built a new house they put in central.

 

[circlew]

We had a rectangular hassock that had come with a Lewyt vac. It was a maroom red color of quilted vinyl, and it was our toybox when my sister and I were kids. I still have the lid to it, but the bottom got ruined a few years ago when the basement flooded with nasty sewer water. We didn't have the vac though; it was bought by one of my parents friends, who gave us the hassock.