Things are not made like they used to be

Hello Homebuddies!

I'm milling about smartly today, had no particular chore I wanted or planned to do, but decided to wash down the countertops, to freshen things up put some things away or re arrange them, and some things will find their way to the charity shop. 

Fall is arriving, my favorite time. I'll be adding a few special things around over the next few weeks, and in September.

I mentioned in my previous post about an item I purchased for $12.95 at an antique shop in Amish country. It is an electric skillet. I had one back in the day, and have regretted giving away since then, many years passed and I found a "new version" with the teflon which eventually stopped working. 

I do not spend hours at the shop looking at every item, or even most of them. I will sometimes have an idea about something like the vintage picnic basket, but it is always a walk and scan situation.

HeyBooBoo Pic a Nic basket

But rather I am a scanner, I walk and I scan each booth, if something attracts my attention then I stop and look what else there is. Finding this skillet was exactly that. It just stood out from everything else.

Oh,this a beauty, and I cannot wait to try it. Some of you may have memories of these or may have one yourself. Stainless Steel. Not made like this anymore. I often think about the homemaker who had loved these things before I got them. They took such good care of everything. Everything was used until there was nothing left of it. It was not a disposable world. 

Do you have an electric skillet? Did your mom or grandmother?

Be of Good Cheer, Do good things!