~patches~ wrote:
I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to
serveware, to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your
antiques or keep them just on display?

~patches~ -- serving salad in an antique lead glass cutware bowl and
pickles in an antique depression dish tonight

Let's don't go into my grandma's china I use a number of things that
could be considered 'antiques', from my cast iron griddle to some of the
cooking implements. They are used on a regular basis.

Jill

"~patches~" wrote:
Do you use your antiques or keep them just on display?

~patches~ -- serving salad in an antique lead glass cutware bowl and
pickles in an antique depression dish tonight

You do realize there's a good chance you may become brain damaged...
oh.

http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1998/198_lead.html

"Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" wrote in message
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~patches~ looking for trouble wrote in
:

I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?


I don't have many antiques in the kitchen but I do throughout the house.
If I have an antique sitting out, I expect it to be used. Michael

Spittoons, as well?
http://search.ebay.com/spittoon_W0QQ...fnuZ1QQxpufuZx

Dee Dee

On Sun 08 Jan 2006 09:26:43p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dee
Randall?


"Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" wrote in message
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~patches~ looking for trouble wrote in
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I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?


I don't have many antiques in the kitchen but I do throughout the house.
If I have an antique sitting out, I expect it to be used. Michael

Spittoons, as well?
http://search.ebay.com/spittoon_W0QQ...fnuZ1QQxpufuZx

Dee Dee

Hmm... Nice selection! I used to have one that I used as a planter.
Unfortunately, I left it outside in one Ohio winter and it cracked into
pieces.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
__________________________________________________ ________________
And if we enter a room full of manure, may we believe in the pony.

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:46:08 -0500, ~patches~
wrote:

I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?

I am the worlds biggest anti-hoarder. I don't keep anything, and I
don't own any antiques. I have a couple of pretty crystal bowls, but
they're yard sale finds, and I just use them until they break.

serene

"Wayne Boatwright" wrote in message
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On Sun 08 Jan 2006 09:26:43p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dee
Randall?


"Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" wrote in message
...
~patches~ looking for trouble wrote in
:

I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?


I don't have many antiques in the kitchen but I do throughout the house.
If I have an antique sitting out, I expect it to be used. Michael

Spittoons, as well?
http://search.ebay.com/spittoon_W0QQ...fnuZ1QQxpufuZx

Dee Dee

Hmm... Nice selection! I used to have one that I used as a planter.
Unfortunately, I left it outside in one Ohio winter and it cracked into
pieces.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*

Ohio winters, I know them well, born on the O-H-O.

I don't know the year they stopped making license plates in the shape of the
state, but I remember in 1942 my dad gathered up my mom, my sister and me
and drove in his brand-new buick to look for work in Utah. Everywhere we
stopped, people would say, Oh, you're from O-H-O? Did they do that do you,
too? It will stick in my mind forever. Or the thing about being a
"Buckeye." I don't hear people saying those things anymore. I guess people
have too much going on in the brains to bother with those silly little bits
of happy conversations.
Ah, nostalgia.
Dee Dee

"serene" wrote in message
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On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:46:08 -0500, ~patches~
wrote:

I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?

I am the worlds biggest anti-hoarder. I don't keep anything, and I
don't own any antiques. I have a couple of pretty crystal bowls, but
they're yard sale finds, and I just use them until they break.

serene

I asked a cousin one time who collected old-time radio shows what he was
going to do with these reel-to-reel tapes. He said in a surprised voice,
"Haven't you ever collected anything?" When I started thinking about it a
little more closely, sure-'nuf, I collect lots of things. With some people,
it's shoes, some it's books, it could be anything you are smitten with.
Are you sure there is nothing you don't keep around just a little longer
than what is utilitarian? Doesn't have to be kitchen-stuff.
Dee Dee

On Sun 08 Jan 2006 09:48:38p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dee
Randall?


"Wayne Boatwright" wrote in message
...
On Sun 08 Jan 2006 09:26:43p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dee
Randall?


"Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" wrote in message
...
~patches~ looking for trouble wrote in
:

I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to
serveware, to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your
antiques or keep them just on display?


I don't have many antiques in the kitchen but I do throughout the
house. If I have an antique sitting out, I expect it to be used.
Michael

Spittoons, as well?
http://search.ebay.com/spittoon_W0QQ...fnuZ1QQxpufuZx

Dee Dee

Hmm... Nice selection! I used to have one that I used as a planter.
Unfortunately, I left it outside in one Ohio winter and it cracked into
pieces.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*

Ohio winters, I know them well, born on the O-H-O.

I don't know the year they stopped making license plates in the shape of
the state, but I remember in 1942 my dad gathered up my mom, my sister
and me and drove in his brand-new buick to look for work in Utah.
Everywhere we stopped, people would say, Oh, you're from O-H-O? Did
they do that do you, too? It will stick in my mind forever. Or the
thing about being a "Buckeye." I don't hear people saying those things
anymore. I guess people have too much going on in the brains to bother
with those silly little bits of happy conversations.
Ah, nostalgia.
Dee Dee

We didn't move to Ohio until 1957 when I was 12, and Ohio was no longer
making license plates like that by then. Although, I did live in TN while
they were still making state-shaped plates, although TN is shaped more like
a parallelogram and less noticable.

Buckeye? Yes, and people here in AZ still say that about Ohioans.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
__________________________________________________ ________________
And if we enter a room full of manure, may we believe in the pony.

(~patches~)WROTE:
I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or keep
them just on display?
~patches~ -- serving salad in an antique lead glass cutware bowl and
pickles in an antique depression dish tonight
----------------------------------------------------
MY RESPONSE: I have a few general electric & westinghouse glass fridge
water bottles from the 40's, 1 civil war bottle, few glass fridge
storage containers from 50's all on top of my fridge.
Last an old hamburger shape cake pan hanging on wall.

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 23:54:52 -0500, "Dee Randall"
wrote:


"serene" wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:46:08 -0500, ~patches~
wrote:

I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?

I am the worlds biggest anti-hoarder. I don't keep anything, and I
don't own any antiques. I have a couple of pretty crystal bowls, but
they're yard sale finds, and I just use them until they break.

serene

I asked a cousin one time who collected old-time radio shows what he was
going to do with these reel-to-reel tapes. He said in a surprised voice,
"Haven't you ever collected anything?" When I started thinking about it a
little more closely, sure-'nuf, I collect lots of things. With some people,
it's shoes, some it's books, it could be anything you are smitten with.
Are you sure there is nothing you don't keep around just a little longer
than what is utilitarian? Doesn't have to be kitchen-stuff.

I can't think of anything, but there may be something. Let's ask
James, who knows me better than anyone: He says I have a pair of
papier-mache reindeer that the kids made in the closet somewhere --
will that do? :-) And I don't delete email from my sweeties, but then
when I change computers, I don't save them, either. Hmm, lemme think.
Oh, yeah, my jewelry (costume jewelry, almost all of it, but a couple
of beaded pieces made with love by people I care about) goes with me
when I move, but it's maybe a dozen pieces, in a small box, and I
wouldn't cry for too long if it disappeared.

I was a navy brat growing up, and I sometimes wonder if that's part of
why I don't care about things. I move a lot, and usually when I move
I get rid of most everything, including, usually, hundreds of books,
most of the furniture, etc. (And I tend to lose things, too, but I
just don't care about stuff much, so it doesn't really bother me.)
This most recent move was the first I ever made that I couldn't do in
my car, because I was moving with someone with more stuff than I had.
Still we moved in a car and a small (8x5x7) moving/storage box from
Door-to-Door movers. They broke our coffee table and a bunch of other
stuff, and we (James is like me in this regard) shrugged and moved on.

By the way, I feel I should make it clear that I don't see my way of
looking at possessions as virtuous or anything. I appear not to have
been born with the gene of caring about stuff -- my mom says I've been
like this since I was a baby, and that it was frustrating for her that
I didn't care enough about my possessions to take better care of them.

serene

Dee Randall wrote:

"serene" wrote in message
...

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:46:08 -0500, ~patches~
wrote:


I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?

I am the worlds biggest anti-hoarder. I don't keep anything, and I
don't own any antiques. I have a couple of pretty crystal bowls, but
they're yard sale finds, and I just use them until they break.

serene


I asked a cousin one time who collected old-time radio shows what he was
going to do with these reel-to-reel tapes. He said in a surprised voice,
"Haven't you ever collected anything?" When I started thinking about it a
little more closely, sure-'nuf, I collect lots of things. With some people,
it's shoes, some it's books, it could be anything you are smitten with.
Are you sure there is nothing you don't keep around just a little longer
than what is utilitarian? Doesn't have to be kitchen-stuff.
Dee Dee



I kind of wondered that myself. Personally, I'm not grounded without
antiques and I have a fair number of them scattered throughout the
house. They root me to the past. I *can't* be comfortable without my
extensive book collection either. By far, my biggest collection is
genealogy - it's massive and still growing. I really *need* a room
dedicated just to genealogy. If all goes well I'll have my own
microfilm reader shortly and that takes up a lot of room! I think
everyone collects some type of thing, some just aren't as obvious as others.

BTW, Iron Chef America is on - I really don't care for that show so I'm
thinking maybe I might call it a night but I'm not really tired so might
spend a bit more time on the National Archives site.

On Sun 08 Jan 2006 10:11:50p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it serene?

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 23:54:52 -0500, "Dee Randall"
wrote:


"serene" wrote in message
. ..
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:46:08 -0500, ~patches~
wrote:

I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to
serveware, to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your
antiques or keep them just on display?

I am the worlds biggest anti-hoarder. I don't keep anything, and I
don't own any antiques. I have a couple of pretty crystal bowls, but
they're yard sale finds, and I just use them until they break.

serene

I asked a cousin one time who collected old-time radio shows what he
was
going to do with these reel-to-reel tapes. He said in a surprised
voice, "Haven't you ever collected anything?" When I started thinking
about it a little more closely, sure-'nuf, I collect lots of things.
With some people, it's shoes, some it's books, it could be anything you
are smitten with. Are you sure there is nothing you don't keep around
just a little longer than what is utilitarian? Doesn't have to be
kitchen-stuff.

I can't think of anything, but there may be something. Let's ask
James, who knows me better than anyone: He says I have a pair of
papier-mache reindeer that the kids made in the closet somewhere --
will that do? :-) And I don't delete email from my sweeties, but then
when I change computers, I don't save them, either. Hmm, lemme think.
Oh, yeah, my jewelry (costume jewelry, almost all of it, but a couple
of beaded pieces made with love by people I care about) goes with me
when I move, but it's maybe a dozen pieces, in a small box, and I
wouldn't cry for too long if it disappeared.

I was a navy brat growing up, and I sometimes wonder if that's part of
why I don't care about things. I move a lot, and usually when I move
I get rid of most everything, including, usually, hundreds of books,
most of the furniture, etc. (And I tend to lose things, too, but I
just don't care about stuff much, so it doesn't really bother me.)
This most recent move was the first I ever made that I couldn't do in
my car, because I was moving with someone with more stuff than I had.
Still we moved in a car and a small (8x5x7) moving/storage box from
Door-to-Door movers. They broke our coffee table and a bunch of other
stuff, and we (James is like me in this regard) shrugged and moved on.

By the way, I feel I should make it clear that I don't see my way of
looking at possessions as virtuous or anything. I appear not to have
been born with the gene of caring about stuff -- my mom says I've been
like this since I was a baby, and that it was frustrating for her that
I didn't care enough about my possessions to take better care of them.

serene


I still mourn things that I got rid of years ago and later wished that I
hadn't.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
__________________________________________________ ________________
And if we enter a room full of manure, may we believe in the pony.

I appear not to have
been born with the gene of caring about stuff -- my mom says I've been
like this since I was a baby, and that it was frustrating for her that
I didn't care enough about my possessions to take better care of them.

serene

Yes, it's gotta be in the genes. I have a "descendant" who has always had
no more than 2 pairs of jeans at a time and can pick up and move in a NY
minute.
Dee Dee

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:23:03 -0500, "Dee Randall"
wrote:


I appear not to have
been born with the gene of caring about stuff -- my mom says I've been
like this since I was a baby, and that it was frustrating for her that
I didn't care enough about my possessions to take better care of them.

serene

Yes, it's gotta be in the genes. I have a "descendant" who has always had
no more than 2 pairs of jeans at a time and can pick up and move in a NY
minute.

Yeah. When I was a young hippy (as opposed to the old hippy I am now),
I prided myself on being able to move in one trip in the back of my
Geo Metro. Came in handy during the two-year period when I moved
seven times. I could do an entire move in forty-five minutes and
barely break a sweat.

serene

"~patches~" wrote in message
...
Dee Randall wrote:

"serene" wrote in message
...

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:46:08 -0500, ~patches~
wrote:


I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?

I am the worlds biggest anti-hoarder. I don't keep anything, and I
don't own any antiques. I have a couple of pretty crystal bowls, but
they're yard sale finds, and I just use them until they break.

serene


I asked a cousin one time who collected old-time radio shows what he was
going to do with these reel-to-reel tapes. He said in a surprised voice,
"Haven't you ever collected anything?" When I started thinking about it
a little more closely, sure-'nuf, I collect lots of things. With some
people, it's shoes, some it's books, it could be anything you are smitten
with.
Are you sure there is nothing you don't keep around just a little longer
than what is utilitarian? Doesn't have to be kitchen-stuff.
Dee Dee

I kind of wondered that myself. Personally, I'm not grounded without
antiques and I have a fair number of them scattered throughout the house.
They root me to the past. I *can't* be comfortable without my extensive
book collection either. By far, my biggest collection is genealogy - it's
massive and still growing. I really *need* a room dedicated just to
genealogy. If all goes well I'll have my own microfilm reader shortly and
that takes up a lot of room! I think everyone collects some type of
thing, some just aren't as obvious as others.

BTW, Iron Chef America is on - I really don't care for that show so I'm
thinking maybe I might call it a night but I'm not really tired so might
spend a bit more time on the National Archives site.

I recorded Iron Chef to watch without the commercials. We like to watch
Mario. I've no interest in rolly-polly men in general, but I think Mario is
cute as a button.
Genealogy can really make you bleary-eyed and tired late at night. Many a
night I've seen the sun come up.
Have you ever seen the study about London cabdrivers that have to spend a
couple of years memorizing the streets and then take tests regarding same?
There is a spot in their brain or cranium that actually grows as a result of
this. Sometimes I wonder how much larger my brain has become as a result of
all the hours I spent on genealogy and will it shrink back and become as if
I'd never used it?
Just ramblin' on,
Dee Dee