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I have a pretty nice movie collection, lots of old classics and documentaries, I never get tired of watching them, I dont need to go to the movies anymore.
I like to cook, and I really like cooking with heavy, well-made pots and pans. I prefer enameled cast-iron, but in protest to the outrageous price monopoly created by Le Creuset (40 years ago, enameled cast iron used to be a reasonably priced choice in cookware, as opposed to a luxury item) I have started collecting the vintage Danish and Belgian precursors to LE CREUSET: Descoware and COPCO.
A lot of the DESCOWARE was made in the 60's and 70's, and so (surprise!) it is in beautiful flame orange and bright yellow. I like it so much.
I found a pair of pliers the other day at the junkyard. They were under a pile of junk in the trunk of a car and were caked with rust and frozen shut. I used a wire brush to get most of the rust off and saturated them with WD40. I then put a long pipe on each handle and forced them open and kept closing and opening them until they moved freely. I sanded off a lot of the rust and checked the company name on the internet and discovered they are about 100 years old. I knew I had some other old tools in the bottom of my toolbox and researched those as well. A lot of them are from the 1800s- early 1900s. I moved them to a special drawer in my toolbox, didn't want them associating with the new crap. I'm glad I rescued that pair of pliers, it would have ended up crushed and melted down with the heep it was in. It deserved a better fate. I'm now checking the dates and history of all my "Ford" wrenches.
I just started collecting some Baribocraft wood kitchenwares.
Baribocraft was a Quebec company that was active around 1950-1970. They made a lot of thick wooden bowls, salad sets, bread boxes, wood canister sets, etc. All out of Canadian maple, with different stains.
Basically minimalist mid-century modern styles.
The items are still pretty affordable, and there are ads around Kijiji, Etsy, and so on for a good variety of interesting Baribocraft stuff... it's all decent quality that's stood the test of time. I like the vintage Canadiana aspect too...
I have begun collecting books.
Mostly about history, music, art, theatre and architecture.
Also some 19th century books.
The older books have been surprisingly cheap too.
I am thinking about expanding to 18th century.
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