Todays question Sunday 8-24-08 (house, buy, phone, daughter)

[Karla with a K]

Good morning everyone
Happy Sunday
lol as usual if it is Sunday I am rushing and today when I woke up I thought it was Monday so dozed back off almost forgetting we have to meet our friends for breakfast
So was I the happy camper when I got a DM from one of our loyal posters with a terrific idea for

Todays Question :

Which piece of furniture in your home is the oldest and does it have a "story" ?

Extra Credit Question:

Which piece of furniture in your home did you purchase first.

Bonus Question:

Which piece of furniture did you most recently purchase.

and my addition to the question:

Which is your favorite piece of furniture in your home ?


Today in history:
August 24, 0079 Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
August 24, 1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum
August 24, 1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
August 24, 1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart

Word of the day:
comity \KOM-uh-tee\, noun:
1. A state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect, especially between or among nations or people; civility.
2. The courteous recognition by one nation of the laws and institutions of another.

This is:
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (24-30)

Today is :
National Peach Pie Day
and
National Waffle Day
it is also
National Strange Music Day

[Rance]

I'm not sure...I have an antique sausage press, corn planter, butter churn, treadle sewing machine, moonshine jugs and a washboard. Not sure of the ages and they aren't really furniture. But they do adorn my living room!

First to come was the sausage press.

The washboard was the most recent. Sent by my Aunt in Missouri.

My fav is the big couch. It's very comfy!

[LaceyEx]

We have a marble topped wrought iron library table that was my grandparents-guessing it's close to 100 yr old.

Last purchase-furniture for one of the guest rooms.

Favorite/most comfy-hubby's chair-he's got it all broken in!!!

[Charley]

National Peach Pie Day

How can today be National Peach Pie Day when we ate all the peaches on Friday?

Which is your favorite piece of furniture in your home?

I have a good old-fashioned well-upholstered comfortable old chair downstairs in the living room, facing the TV of course, that is perfect was watching TV, reading a book or taking a nap. That chair has probably provided better sleep than my bed!

August 24, 1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum

Now that was a WISE man!

[fallfanatic]

Oldest furniture...My grandmothers rocking chair

first purchase...chest of drawers

recent purchase...littlechocolotae brown sofa

favorite...my chair

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[Towhee]

I have several pieces of furniture that I inherited when my parents passed away. They are: one of my maternal grandmother's chest of drawers, my father's desk, a commode ( I think that is what it was called, it is a chest with one large drawer across the top, 2 smaller drawers on the left side, and a door on the right side [for a chamber pot??]), it may have been my grandmothers's also but my mother had it, a small ornate table (my mothers) , and several chairs ...one was my fathers. I also have other antique furniture, gleaned from various places. I don''t know the history of any of it.

I do not think we still have any of the furniture that we started out with.

My last furniture purchase was my computer's roll-top desk.

I guess my favorite piece(s) would be my father's desk and his chair, at least, they are the most nostalgic.
The pieces that I use the most are the computer desk and chair.... other than my bed.

[115db]

I would have to say, my dresser and vanity. Am not sure how old they really are because I got them from a yard sale but they were the style Ive always liked, the French provincial white and the price was right, couldnt pass up the deal. I love vintage, antique style furniture.

[studedude]

Todays Question :

Which piece of furniture in your home is the oldest and does it have a "story" ?

The old crank phone that hangs on the wall in our foyer. Like Rance, I don't know if that would be considered furniture. It was the phone that Mrs Dude's grandparents used in Southern Illinois. I completely disassembled it, cleaned and refinished the wood 30 yrs ago. One of the components is dated 1893. Don't know if the whole phone is that old but one piece of it is.

Extra Credit Question:

Which piece of furniture in your home did you purchase first.


That would be the dresser in the garage where I store power tools. It outlived it's usefulness in the house.

Bonus Question:

Which piece of furniture did you most recently purchase.

The Lazy Boys in the family room.

and my addition to the question:

Which is your favorite piece of furniture in your home ?

See answer to previous question



Aug 25 1891, Paris Hilton removes most of her clothing in front of camera for first time.

[DOUBLE H]

My oldest piece of furniture is an antique bookcase I bought at the Denver Flea Market back in '74, also my favorite piece as well! Charlie makes a good point on the peaches. There is a guy down the road from me a mile or so with a fruit stand selling those palisade peaches- time to make a pig of myself again like I did at the peach festival! Oink! Oink! BTW, a tip of the hat to the truckers out there! I don't know how they do it with today's nutsy gas prices!

[Northwoods Voyager]

Our oldest is a carved hall tree that belonged to my MIL at one time. A friend of hers has a divorced daughter move in with her. This friend then put some of he furniture in her attic and told us what items were for sale. I bought a child's chair (about the height of a bar stool) walnut and carved, a small walnut sewing box, circular with a lid. Very interesting piece. Have never seen anything like it. Als bought a rocking chair. These all are our oldest darting back to te late 1800's In 1965 I did buy a roll top desk that a man had in his garage sitting there with many paint cans on it. I have researched this desk and it is about 90 yrs. old. I love it!

Our most recent purchase was 2 recliners. Hubby loves them!!!