You Know You're A Member of AW When...

[joeekaitis]

Returning to the original topic . . .

. . . you try to cook entire meals (like microwave Turkey Meatball Stroganoff with extra wide egg noodles) entirely in Corning Ware Pyroceram (meatballs in 2 pie plates), Visions (the noodles on the stove in the 6-liter, the gravy in the microwave in the 2.5l) and/or Pyrex (meatball kneading bowl and nonfat Greek yogurt [sour cream substitute] tempering bowl).[this post was last edited: 1/30/2016-15:39]

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you're old enough to remember when the appliance department at Sears was so big it took at least two days to see everything.

If you didn't have two days, you could always see the much smaller selection at Montgomery Ward at the other end of the mall.[this post was last edited: 1/30/2016-15:37]

 

[thomasortega]

...It's Sunday and after working like a slave on saturday and walking 5 miles because you went to walmart and your phone died, so you couldn't request an Uber, you wake up at noon on sunday with sore legs and the only thing you can think is start vacuuming the hotel room.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

re: Post 861585, Reply 126: also Blender Plug Prong!

Forgot about FRANKLIN MINT--when you love their Automobile Replicas & settle for one of those in place of a REAL Classic Ride...

 

When someone in your neighborhood gets a new appliance and the next best thing to it is the box it came in that you get to make your own club house/play house out of...

 

And you're disappointed in weak the cardboard is because of what it carried & that the appliance had to come out of it, but have the many fond memories, with it as well...

 

 

-- Dave

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[tolivac]

Or---not boxes but when machines came in wood crates!!!Now that is long ago.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

You fought with your sister over who got the most sprinkles on Grandma's homemade cookies (and somehow that sister was swinging the door to the cold front hallway open and closed letting the cold from the outside in--the door to the house was weather-proofed, but the hall just had no duct to warm it, and there was a dashund dog insulting blanket right at the bottom of that door to keep the heat in)...

Somehow an "I'm mad at you!" came from mom (after I think sis asked "Why?") over those two incidents on our way home that late night...

You had a playhouse at the floor of a linen closet, complete with GE appliances cut from a newspaper ad taped to the wall... Yes, a top-freezer fridge, washer, dryer, built-in dishwasher, and electric stove...

You were fascinated with dishwashers that you had a few taped along the wall beside your bed (my one favorite brand was Hotpoint), probably reflecting our Bradford's declining condition...

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

When you find yourself saying "I gotta go to the Laundry Area..." or "I gotta go to the Laundry Room...", which I do, frequently...

 

And this is mostly during the little (quality) time I have with (daughter) Laura...

 

Think it might make, or maybe might have made, a great monologue for Bill Cosby...  Material for his '8:15, 12:15' album originally on Tetragrammaton, later released on Warner Bros. Records, perhaps...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you're old enough to remember when Hotpoint was sold exclusively at upscale department stores and at downtown Hotpoint showrooms in middle- to upper-middle-class towns. And if you lived in a town too small for a Sears, there was always the Sears Catalog store.

 

[bobbi]

Lots of fun, funny and anecdotal stuff here, some of which I saw myself reflected in.

Adding to it, I find myself rearranging items in the dishwasher if anyone but me loaded it. Certain things belong in certain places, which I am convinced of after surveying and contemplating angles of spray and angles of dish placement.

How about getting totally mesmerized by a vintage Kenmore 90 Series because it allows me to completely customize my washing, just like my wringer washer does!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I remember (and miss!) the "chevy van 30"--with the lettering in all-small letters on the front fenders of the brown van-front panel truck--an early one w/ the slat-grill running around town most-likely delivering furniture for some antique/home furnishings store in Flat Rock, MI that I called "The Furniture Truck"--a newer, white one (also Chevy Van 30) comes in from 1:08 to 1:09 in Madonna's video for "Live To Tell"...

 

And that you "Lived To Tell" for certain things & events in your life, as well...

 

 

-- Dave

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http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzAO9A9GjgI

 

[whirlykenmore78]

When you ask your co-workers about their appliances,

they ask you for advice on fixing them and what to buy when they need new ones, and you can tell them exactly what to buy and what to avoid.
WK78

 

[ptcruiser51]

When a pal or co-worker asks for advice on an appliance buy

You investigate different models/brands that would probably work for their needs. Then they'll go to Sears and buy a Kenmore.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

You see a discarded upright freezer in a Wheat color that you mistake for a Norge or some worthwhile brand that ends up being a Woods--with a plastic interior, likely to be a Frost-Free model, with no inside-light to be seen, but the removed door was blocking the interior and I was on my work, so there was no time to get in depth or even take a picture with my investigation I felt weird doing--it was down the block in my neighborhood...

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

When on holidays as a kid

at a relatives house, you couldn't wait to see the washer, dryer, and sneak into their vacuum cleaner closet because it was embarrassing to ask what kind they had.
Then when going to Sears on thrifty Monday with the folks, rather than to the toy dept., you bolted for the major appliances. Especially in February wen the new models came out.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

You can be trusted not to eat, drink, swallow (thought it was "Swailed" as in if the contents of a bleach bottle had dried up--give milk or cooking oil) or ingest poisonous, toxic chemicals that are not stored out of reach--same for flammables & aerosols...

You went from your stuffed animals being family members, as in wife & kids, to after being hooked on the EMERGENCY ONE-TV series becoming your fellow-paramedics and firefighters, as well as the staff at Rampart General Hospital, then miss everyone working on the midnight shift at Rampart and sleeping in their own bunkers--as I've never had any pretend fires or emergencies during the night at bedtime--to wanting everyone back in bed & becoming family again... --And the loudspeaker, a hunk of paper taped to my bedroom wall, my friend teased me about having there, and wanting me to have something to respond to, as did my sister (told her "mom & dad" were on staff at the Auxiliary Unit & that "they had us young" if they were active & weren't too old or retired), to taking it off the wall that night in that moment--sort'a like the Three Stooges doing that on an episode where they were Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard...

And similated "compartments" for "departments" as in "everyone" was brought back together after being spread out in different compartments (my parents' bedroom closet was the hospital) and got the warm-fuzzy feeling from seeing "departments" in the encyclopedia (under an index table for a certain South American country--forget which one--that would just be cities, etc.) but "compartments" was the right word...

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

Good imaginations Dave,

We used those gag stcikers that came with what I can't even remember, but they were
like Mad magazine ones. Poopsi cola, Ratz crackers, etc. when we'd play store. Maybe they came with bubble gum.
My oldest friend was born in Oak park. Near 9 mile and Coolidge. Five kids in a two bdrm. ranch with no basement.
Then they moved to Warren and a bigger house.
My folks used to sell at an antique mall in Flat Rock until about ten years ago.
When they had to stop, that's when my mom stopped. She never left the house for three years. She quit going to the doctors, church, everything.
She loved buying and selling. It was her life after we were all grown.
They used to go to Shipshewana a lot.

 

[chachp]

By what's in your Glovebox?

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;">So, the other day I was giving a co-worker a ride to his car.  He knows of my interest in many things vintage but when this happened I thought of this post.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;">I asked, "Will you reach in the glove box and grab my sunglasses"?  He said "Ok, boy you can always tell something about a person by what's in their glove box".  As he is rummaging through, look what he finds on top?  He said "Seriously??, in the car too"?</span>

 

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;">I just simply smiled.</span>

 

[turquoisedude]

... when you bolt awake in the middle of the night exclaiming "Good heavens, it's the clutch yoke spring that needs to be reseated. Why didn't I think of that before?"     AND when the dog and hubby are no longer alarmed by this sort of behaviour. 

 

 

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I raided the next door neighbors' Lady Kenmore washer--

--Before Dawn! --With a screwdriver to steal the florescent light, and had no success... --Yeah, 'cause back then I was a real goofy kid!

And years ago, when I was still a kid, I helped the across-the street neighbor buy a whole set of new appliances at one of the last independent retailers, it was called Hot & Cold--in Avocado Green (well, the fridge, stove & dishwasher were; washer & dryer were white) and all!

And at the appliance store I was freaked out by a range on the sales floor with an over-the upper oven (maybe it was an over-cooktop--this could'a been a single-oven with a warming tray, and a built-in hood) that you couldn't get to turn off or close... (I was playing around with it, but at least I didn't have to pay anyone "for breaking it"...!)

It was a Tappan electric range (at the time, and at my young age hard for me to figure out how the oven cleaned--was there a tank of Oven Spray somewhere connected to the stove? No, the heat fro the oven baked off the schmutz...) Replacing a white Whirlpool top-freezer put in the basement to be used as second fridge...

A Hotpoint Side-by-Side refrigerator, but with no ice chute, nor even an ice maker inside--and the two light bulbs in the fridge compartment became only one, as the panel back there the bulbs were behind was hard to open to replace them, when one burned out... Ditto for the dark freezer... The white Whirlpool got moved to the basement to become a second fridge...
I got lots of compliments on the Kelvinator dishwasher--the neighbor said it cleaned so marvelously and she never had to pre-rinse anything she'd put in it... It was a fairly top-of-the-line, not to mention a portable she had connected to the plumbing behind the one before it--a white top loader that I think was a Kitchen Aid...

And not wanting to trust ANYTHING in their LAUNDRY ROOM except WHIRLPOOL:

The washer was a white Whirlpool with three temperatures for was all with cold rinse and a single-speed, with two water levels, replacing a similar one that you gave you three--that I got the panel of--"And you may be an AutoWasher.org just for that!"...

While the dryer was a swinging door Whirlpool in white, as well--timed dry with maybe an Auto-Dry permanent press, and two temperatures: Too High and Too Low!

The discarded washer got put in the garage, while the dryer was the only original appliance from that menagerie to get moved to their new house (and where I found out it was a gas dryer) where they'd lived out the rest of their lives, until they died...

-- Dave

 

[Chetlaham]

You know you are an AW member when

> You buy machines based on their cycle timing/tech sheet/water usage.

> You purchase every laundry and dish-washing detergent in the aisle just to see
how each one cleans.

> You visit thrift shops several times a week in hopes of vintage machines

> Every appliance dealer in the area knows you by your first name lol.

> Your home is a revolving door appliance testing laboratory.