Corelle/Corningware

[Cookie]

Hm-- I wonder if there's a correlation between people who thrift and parents who are stuff-intensive!

My parents (divorced) have moved around a lot in their separate lives and have downsized through each move. I've pretty much done the same in my life, moved a lot and only carried a carload or two of stuff with me.  But since Good Buddy and I have been married and I've settled down, I'm in super accumulate mode.  Must have...things.  I love my butterprint Pyrex collection that's steadily growing! 

Good Buddy, on the other hand, has tons 'o stuff and his parents have a huge basement full of stuff, too, where they graciously have stored his childhood books, toys, and many other things, so he's always had a place to store his things.  With my parents it was like "Come and get it or it's going in the trash."  Otherwise I would have probably saved everything I could.  What Good Buddy has noticed about me is that I want to thrift for things that serve a purpose, like for cooking or crafting or sewing or whatnot, and he likes to thrift for things just to have things, like to display.  The mini plastic Han Solo in carbonite comes to mind...

Back to the dishes topic, we just thrifted a set by Noritake called Up-Sa Daisy.  I love the pattern and the colors.  We got several plates in different sizes, a nice serving platter, and the creamer and sugar in excellent condition, tons of coffee cups, but no bowls came with it.  Kind of a bummer, but I'm loving my new plates and the fact that there are so many that we can wait to run the dishwasher.

[mccoysnina]

Hm-- I wonder if there's a correlation between people who thrift and parents who are stuff-intensive!

My parents (divorced) have moved around a lot in their separate lives and have downsized through each move. I've pretty much done the same in my life, moved a lot and only carried a carload or two of stuff with me.  But since Good Buddy and I have been married and I've settled down, I'm in super accumulate mode.  Must have...things.  I love my butterprint Pyrex collection that's steadily growing! 

Good Buddy, on the other hand, has tons 'o stuff and his parents have a huge basement full of stuff, too, where they graciously have stored his childhood books, toys, and many other things, so he's always had a place to store his things.  With my parents it was like "Come and get it or it's going in the trash."  Otherwise I would have probably saved everything I could.  What Good Buddy has noticed about me is that I want to thrift for things that serve a purpose, like for cooking or crafting or sewing or whatnot, and he likes to thrift for things just to have things, like to display.  The mini plastic Han Solo in carbonite comes to mind...

Back to the dishes topic, we just thrifted a set by Noritake called Up-Sa Daisy.  I love the pattern and the colors.  We got several plates in different sizes, a nice serving platter, and the creamer and sugar in excellent condition, tons of coffee cups, but no bowls came with it.  Kind of a bummer, but I'm loving my new plates and the fact that there are so many that we can wait to run the dishwasher.

My son collects all things Star Wars and would love the Han Solo in carbonite.  Thrifts shops are great for stuff like that.  One day he came home from school dragging this huge cut out of Darth Vader.  He had found it in someone's trash on the sidewalk  on his way home from school and couldn't pass it by. Like mother, like son I guess.
Jeannie

[alexandra]

I'm the opposite.  I had a parent that threw things out.  When I went away to college, I mostly lost all claim to most of what I left behind!  Come to think of it, if I came home at breaks, I had to sleep in the basement...

I am nostalgic for the old Corningware.  But then again, what goes around comes around -- and I have had to dispose of all my mother's belongings.  But I kept the old white corningware pieces with the blue flowers.  And I am always looking for more!  Do others find that when you have these old style dishes remembered from the past, that you have to cook some of the same old dishes your mom made when growing up?

Now I am on the prowl for a roasting dish.  The one I've had for over twenty years broke on Sunday -- in a collision with a cast iron skillet.  I have four stitches in my right pinky to show for that... It may take a lot to break a piece, but when it happens -- watch out!!!

Thriftily,
Alexandra
www.livingwithoutmoney.blogspot.com

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

"Do others find that when you have these old style dishes remembered from the past, that you have to cook some of the same old dishes your mom made when growing up?


Heh- yes, I actually do plan to use my version of Mom's white and pink Pyrex square dish for cranberries, much as she did. Isn't that funny? It's already the Cranberry Bowl in my head. But it suited the purpose PERFECTLY.

[foutchie]

alexandra - saw that on your blog - watch out girl!   glass be dangerous!