If you could start a collection of anything, what would it be and why? (Thanks for the prompt Rojie!)
If I had unlimited space, I’d like to collect just a few antique kitchen appliances, small ones. When I was a teenager I worked for an auctioneer. Maybe this was when my love of junk was born.
Though I was technically working during the auction sales, I could bid on things that I wanted. I bid on a ‘lot’ one time at a household auction and inside the box was an old metal toaster. (A lot at an auction sale means they group together a bunch of items and sell them as sort of a bundle, instead of selling each little thing seperately.)
At first I didn’t know what this metal box was actually. It didn’t look like toasters do today, there were no slots to drop the bread into.
After inspecting it for a few minutes I realized that the chrome sides of it opened and you set the bread inside then closed the door so only one side toasted at a time. You’d have to keep track of the time and know when to open it back up and flip your bread.
I thought it was so cool. Unfortunately in the midst of all my moves away from home, to the city, back home, etc I must’ve tossed it as I just didn’t want to cart it around anymore. But I really regret not keeping it.
I recently bought this beaut at a thrift store and really don’t know exactly what it is but one would assume it’s some type of juicer.
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