A heavy-duty plastic Brita water filter pitcher that's at least 20
years old. Still accepts modern filters. Must've been when they first
started selling them. When full, the top falls off (and the water
spills) if you don't press with your thumb while pouring.

"John Doe" > wrote in message
...
>A heavy-duty plastic Brita water filter pitcher that's at least 20
> years old. Still accepts modern filters. Must've been when they first
> started selling them. When full, the top falls off (and the water
> spills) if you don't press with your thumb while pouring.

I have a plastic pizza cutter that I bought when we were living on Cape Cod
and also a pasta drainer. Those things would be about 17 years old. But I
have things that are older still. Like a red plastic and metal ladle. That
might be 25 years old. Used to be part of a set that came with a rack to
hang the pieces on the wall. The rest of the pieces wore out but that's
still good because it doesn't get a lot of use.

Older still would be a beverage jug and a pitcher. I am really not sure of
their age but they could be as much as 34 years old.

But my mom has some Tupperware that is from my childhood and I am 53. There
is a sugar bowl and also a powdered sugar dispenser.

In article >,
John Doe > wrote:

> A heavy-duty plastic Brita water filter pitcher that's at least 20
> years old. Still accepts modern filters. Must've been when they first
> started selling them. When full, the top falls off (and the water
> spills) if you don't press with your thumb while pouring.

Well... I have a Veg-O-Matic from the early seventies in the original
box. It's not in bad shape, and all the parts are there including
instructions. That would be times two regarding the blades in the
circular pot metal rings. The gadget is purely for show anymore, but the
device that supplied the extra cutting rings got a lot of use for over
ten years until the plastic frame became unusable. Fortunately, I had
another frame plus blades.
Or unfortunately. The damned thing has taken up about a cubic foot of my
life for a loooooong time with no purpose, but I wouldn't part with it.


leo

"Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> John Doe > wrote:
>
>> A heavy-duty plastic Brita water filter pitcher that's at least 20
>> years old. Still accepts modern filters. Must've been when they first
>> started selling them. When full, the top falls off (and the water
>> spills) if you don't press with your thumb while pouring.
>
> Well... I have a Veg-O-Matic from the early seventies in the original
> box. It's not in bad shape, and all the parts are there including
> instructions. That would be times two regarding the blades in the
> circular pot metal rings. The gadget is purely for show anymore, but the
> device that supplied the extra cutting rings got a lot of use for over
> ten years until the plastic frame became unusable. Fortunately, I had
> another frame plus blades.
> Or unfortunately. The damned thing has taken up about a cubic foot of my
> life for a loooooong time with no purpose, but I wouldn't part with it.

We had one of those when I was a kid. I think my dad bought it at the fair.
It got very little use but it was always a big deal when it was used. My
dad was the only one who was allowed to touch it. He would make us stand in
the kitchen and watch as he sliced the vegetables in fancy ways. There was
always a long winded spiel to go along with it. And of course we had to act
shocked and amazed!

On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:38:23 +0000 (UTC), John Doe
> wrote:

>A heavy-duty plastic Brita water filter pitcher that's at least 20
>years old. Still accepts modern filters. Must've been when they first
>started selling them. When full, the top falls off (and the water
>spills) if you don't press with your thumb while pouring.

I still have and use a couple of plastic Tupperware type plastic
containers I've had since the 1980's.

John Kuthe...

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:38:23 PM UTC-4, John Doe wrote:
> A heavy-duty plastic Brita water filter pitcher that's at least 20
>
> years old. Still accepts modern filters. Must've been when they first
>
> started selling them. When full, the top falls off (and the water
>
> spills) if you don't press with your thumb while pouring.

I have TWO Britas, circa mid to late 80s. Still use daily. AND my top doesn't fall off - in fact it's a bit sticky-tight. I am grateful to Brita for building a sturdy prodcut and not changing the filter size. (I get em 5 to a pack at Kmart - cheapest way I've found to buy).

Other items: a set of Tupp measuring cups late 80s, a flour scoop from the 60s, some other Tupp containers (80s), a plastic whipper-spatula thingie which was a freebie at a Stanley Home Products show , late 60s, ( I still remember the demo gal's slip was showing). A plastic grapefruit 'knife' - it's great for separating peaches form the skin.

The Tupp dry msrng cups set included a 2/3C and a 3/4C measure - comes in handy when reducing or expanding a recipe.c Somewhere in my travels, I also found an 1/8 C measure, plastic. You DON'T want to know how old a certain msrg cup is I use to bail out laundry liquid ( came on the Mayflower)

John Kuthe wrote:
>
> I still have and use a couple of plastic Tupperware type plastic
> containers I've had since the 1980's.

ME TOO! I still use many tupperware bowls, etc bought in the early 1980's.
The wife bought them when we were married and left them here when we broke
up.

G.