good for you for refusing to play the game! no, i dont have room to store *whatever* till *whoever* can come get it. no, i'm not going in that direction, so i cant take *whatever* to *whoever*.
You'd think if she were that worried about her "good Corningware", she'd have either made something and brought it over in one of those "take-away" plastic containers that are cheaper, and more cheaply made, than the "good stuff", or she would have cooked it in one of those disposable foil pans and brought it over in that. Either way, if she never gets it back she's not out anything. However, if she did it that way (you know, a way that actually makes sense), she wouldn't have anything to whine about, and she wouldn't have a "reason" to get me involved. Can't have that!
Bravo for managing communications with her, in a "the fewer the better" way.
(Not to mention that any item of "good Corningware" can be found at Goodwill or Value Village for under $5. I've added to my... don't want to call it a collection..., and also found pieces for friends. Or sent casseroles home with friends and then just replaced the dish.
The only one I'd want to not lose is the meat platter, golden wheat pattern, that a friend's family gave us as a "hostess gift" when their daughter spent some time with us at the lake one summer (her dad worked at Corning). Otherwise? Replaceable.)
(The other thing I've got good thrift-store karma for finding is copperclad Revere Ware...)
Your maternal grandmother is a very wise woman (at least in regards to cookware and cold dead hands). Or, TL:DR version, me too!
(Ditto my mother's 1946 Hamilton Beach mixer, complete with grinder and citrus juicer attachments. I'd still like to have a KitchenAid that would handle bread dough, but not if it meant giving up this mixer. (twin of one in userpic)
I have a KitchenAid stand mixer. I would dearly love to be able to get some of the attachments for it, but even the pasta-maker attachment is $175 at the outlet store. That's about half the cost of the mixer! ebay might have them cheaper, I'll have to look.
Oh, and the other thing is that the Maternal Unit is much Too Good to be caught shopping in a place like Goodwill. She can *donate* to Goodwill all she likes, because she's bestowing lovely gifts on the underprivileged classes, but actually shop at a Goodwill store? Her? Perish the thought! She'd much rather pay full price at the mall to replace an item of good cookware, than buy an identical piece of good cookware at someplace like Goodwill. It's the principle of the thing, you know.
some people take FOREVER to be taught!!
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(Not to mention that any item of "good Corningware" can be found at Goodwill or Value Village for under $5. I've added to my... don't want to call it a collection..., and also found pieces for friends. Or sent casseroles home with friends and then just replaced the dish.
The only one I'd want to not lose is the meat platter, golden wheat pattern, that a friend's family gave us as a "hostess gift" when their daughter spent some time with us at the lake one summer (her dad worked at Corning). Otherwise? Replaceable.)
(The other thing I've got good thrift-store karma for finding is copperclad Revere Ware...)
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(Ditto my mother's 1946 Hamilton Beach mixer, complete with grinder and citrus juicer attachments. I'd still like to have a KitchenAid that would handle bread dough, but not if it meant giving up this mixer. (twin of one in userpic)
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Alien. Utterly alien. (I was kinda bemused, I actually bought a new-to-me dress to wear to the opera in March. Spent $14 at a consignment store.)
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