I love it when people don’t know what they’ve got. Or at least they don’t value it the same way I do. Take this little sauce pan for example.
Nothing spectacular, right? The handle looks a little grungy, but the sides screw on so I can disassemble and clean it.
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Isn’t it exciting to find such things? makes you feel smart and cool, doesn’t it?
I may be old enough to embarrass my kids, but even I don’t think scoring a used sauce pan cheap makes me cool. Maybe when I start wearing cardigans and hike my pants up over my navel.
I LOVE the thrift store! And yes, “scoring a used sauce pan cheap” makes you very cool. Most of my kitchen is outfitted with pans, dishes, utensils, and appliances from thrift stores. And I am very cool.
I love thrift stores, I find the BEST stuff that way! Woo hoo! Great find!
Yes, Stephanie, I’m sure you are.
Genie, I wouldn’t say it’s the best stuff, but it’s certainly the best deals.
Ah, thrift stores. We have a good history. They kept us clothed during the Totally Broke Law School Years. I also got my hugeCrockpot at one, brand-new for ten bucks. Why don’t more people shop at thrift stores?
I’ve a thriftshop addiction and I’m happy with it. I’ve found a new!!! steamcooker there, lots of nice cooking tools and many more nice things. I don’t think it’s cool, I think it’s smart to go there first when you search something and it’s good to recycle things so someone else will use it instead of throwing stuff away.
We love to recycle here in holland and when I’ve stuff that I don’t use?? Yep it’s going to the thriftshop
I would take my old stuff to the thrift store, but I use it until it’s thoroughly dead. If it’s still got life in it, why would I get rid of it?
Oh, I love me that old RevereWare!
You got a heck of a deal– that’s the original RevereWare from the 1950′s. How appropriate for “Cooking Like Your Grandmother”! You can tell it’s the original RevereWare because it has screws holding the handles on. Newer RevereWare (post 1968 or so) has rivets on the handle, and the newest version (1980 onward) has no openings in the handle at all, and the handles break when you drop it.
Oh cool. It’s even better than I thought. Funny thing is current conventional wisdom says rivets are better than screws. But I like that I can take the handle off and clean it up, and tighten it up if it gets loose. (Which it’s not.)