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I would avoid anything with toxic outgassing.

Oh! Thank you!!

No markings. I was told it's a rotary switch for a model train.

An estate sale item...

Most vintage food products are simply in brand name only which is licensed to manufacturers overseas. They aren't the same tried and true brands of yesteryear.

I am keen on reanimating it. That's what the Fedora Lounge is about for many of us: learning about and continuing traditions and customs from a bygone era. Even so, canning is very much alive and a contemporary practice. I have no interest in Fedoras but other aspects of the era. No need to...

I am familiar with them, but unfortunately they are selling the same imported stuff, much of it plastic, as on Amazon.

I thought I'd get many replies. Are Loungers not into canning?

Thank you. I'm seeing there what I've see on Amazon, a mix of steel and plastic for some canning items, but still no bubble popping/measuring devices on there, and again the ones I see online are plastic...

This summer will be my first time ever canning what I grow! It appears that I need a "bubble popper" and a top space measurer, and all I am seeing online for those tools are ones made of plastic. I did a search for vintage but nothing was coming up. In the meantime I have ordered a granite ware...

The Sears department store at The Maine Mall in South Portland will close in mid-September after nearly 50 years of operation. Craig Gorris, manager of the Brookfield Properties-owned mall, confirmed the closing and said that Sears officials have told him that the retail outlet and mall anchor’s...

15 years!

I want to add that's why it's so important that the rest of us respect the barriers and practices they have in place to keep everyone safe.

The government instructs essential workers to report to their "posts". My husband works in an essential business and he is out at work right now. Truck drivers are an essential business. Bank workers are an essential business yet you boasted earlier about how you spoke unkindly to them and...

Yet you are suggesting that a true patriot will be willing to roll over and die by disregarding pandemic warnings and safety mandates to support economic freedom. (Edited for clarity.)