Things your parents owned that you swore you wouldn't. And now you do.

[theinternetmakesmyeyesfeelsick]

Coasters. Oh the shame!!!!

Yes! Take your coat off, you won't feel the benefit/have you got a scarf?/are you going out with bare legs?/don't go out with damp hair/etc!

Teetering on the brink of reading glasses chain after years of refusal.

And lots of tins of food ready for the apocalypse.

@Graphista not so as I could find or link on my Samsung. I can ask DP to try on his iphone. Your way sounds hard to me!

I honestly just think it's easier in an address book! I can keep track of things like families and partners names etc too. Especially weird spellings - DPs estranged DM is currently between addresses so I don't have one for her in the book yet - might not ever, but she has an extremely odd spelling of her name so she's noted down for reference- and placeholding. It's also handy for friends from childhood who have new adult addresses but still like xmas cards etc sent "home" to greet them for xmas or arrange meet ups there when they're "home". Keeps track of 'em!

I've also just thought of a whole new category. Random stuff your parents had in the car that you swore you'd never keep in the car but now do. Duct tape for me! Mostly because DF put it there!

On the subject of retro crockery, the motel in Schitts Creek has the hideous Woolworths crockery(a symmetrical brown/range circle/square design) my family had in the seventies. I’ve also seen the same design used on a food photo shoot in The Times.

It’s awful but if I saw it in a charity shop I’d snap it up.

Homemaker ridgeway 🥰 now your talking

I can keep track of things like families and partners names etc too - I do all that too, partners/spouses names, children's birthdays etc.

@LoveFall

A pressure cooker. I used to be scared of Mom's. Now I have an Instant Pot and I love it. It doesn't scare me at all.

On yes - the pressure cooker. My mother used it so her veggies would be "properly" cooked. There were 3 trivets, she'd put potatoes in one, carrots in one and cabbage in the final one. I'd never had a veg that wasn't the consistency of mashed potato - swore I'd never have one.

Then I went to stay with a friend who mentioned how useful hers was for cooking beans and pulses when you'd forgotten to soak them overnight ...... revelation! I now love my pressure cooker!

Beans should always be soaked and pre boiled, contain toxins that can make you very ill

A boring Honda for a car. Why have that rather than an Audi something?

Much more interested with it sailing through its mot than looking cool, which is getting pretty hard approaching 50

Good for you

@Graphista
Yes, I feel very fortunate to have found the Zodiac platter.

BTW thank you for the "Man Drawer" youtube video🤣

A frying pan. In fact we now have three and the biggest is our most used pan.

Beans should always be soaked and pre boiled, contain toxins that can make you very ill
Well that's true of chilli beans but not all beans!

*kidney beans

@Ddot

Beans should always be soaked and pre boiled, contain toxins that can make you very ill

the toxin in beans is deactivated by heat - so a pressure cooker is absolutely the safest way to cook them - it's slow cookers that are problematic www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/phytohaemagglutinin

"The toxic lectin phytohemagglutinin is present in many varieties of beans, but is highly concentrated in red kidney beans. Although, using dry beans, it requires 10 minutes at 100°C to degrade the toxin, incidents of poisoning with the use of slow cookers at low temperatures not high enough to degrade the toxin have been reported. "

Ok I shut up then

Has anyone found the love for a good brooch

Has anyone found the love for a good brooch

Meee! My grandmother had several and now I wear them with pleasure.

@Santaisironingwrappingpaper outstanding reply.
I'm sorry for your loss (& I suppose your gain!)

@Europilgrim

Glad to see that I am not the only one buying up on ebay the plates and pictures I once scorned in various relatives' houses. Nostalgia is a terrible thing!

I do this all the time and spend a small fortune.

@Ddot
Thank you for the info on the need to soak kidney beans...I'd never heard that! And I would be using a slow cooker not a pressure cooker because I don't have one (tried one once, didn't like it because I must peek several times to see how my food is doing whilst it's cooking)
You might have just saved us all from major health issues
My mother didn't use a pressure cooker either so I guess I've picked that up from her

Hairy legs! Sorry ladies but you asked. I never thought I’d let my standards slip and I am now known to occasionally go outside without make up. Teenage me would have died rather than admit my face was made of skin.

On a more serious note, my sewing machine. I never thought I’d be into making waist pinnies and peg bags lol. God I sound boring, but I love sewing, only wish my mum was around to teach me some more.

Sweetpea1532
If you google it's not just kidney but they seem to be the worst. I grow a lot of beans and have some health issues so are a very careful. Glad I saved your tummy x

@Ddot
Thanks again! I will do some serious googling. If you grow a lot of beans that means you do a whole bunch of bean shelling. I applaud your resourcefulness