I miss refrigerators that last more than 7 years!!! Love books and cast iron pans too. I’m 73 and lived in England until I was 14. The milk was delivered in glass bottles. We need to go back to that - too much plastic in this age. Thank you Jen - I’m really enjoying your podcasts.
I remember when I went to England for the first time and the milk and a glass bottle even in a pint bottle had a very nice tasting cream on top. Wonderful!! I never had that before.
I would add paper planners, pepper grinders, printed photos in scrapbooks, and paper maps to your list. Although I use modern conveniences, sometimes you just need to be analog and get off the electronic devices, be they communications or cooking. Thanks for a fun video 😊
I use a paper planner. Information stays in my brain much better if I have handwritten it! After going on a trip where my phone/GPS had no signal, prompted me to purchase new paper maps of the states I normally travel in.
Two items I’ll never give up are 1) a set of stainless-steel copper bottom Revere cookware given to my mother as a wedding gift in 1950. I learned to cook with these and still use them nearly every day and 2) a black and grey scroll print silk velvet scarf I bought at the San Lorenzo church market in Italy in the mid-1990’s. It’s my go-to winter accessory and has been on every trip with me for 30 years.
Almost 49 years ago I married a man who owned a set of the Corning ware with the blue flowers. He was a keeper and so is the Corning ware ! I just used 2 of the 3 on thanksgiving!
Love this video … I have a dvd player,a VHS player and a CD player. I love my kindle being on my phone but holding a book is soothing. I love the feel and smell of books. Before a friend passed away she gifted me 24 white linen napkins. I use them everyday. I bleach and iron them. I eat off plates that were my parents and grandparents. Memories flood my brain when I use them. I use quilts I helped my mom and grandmother make, I keep everything and repurpose as much as I can. I made a throw rug from my moms rabbit coat that was dry rotted. I wore it as long as I could, repaired it until it no longer could hold thread. I store books in my grandfather’s metal piece of luggage he brought to Arkansas from Alabama in 1926.I also store books in my parents suitcase they bought in 1965. As I look around my townhome I see so many items that belonged to my ancestors. Stay warm. I love beautiful British Columbia.
I'm a real book person, too. I still use physical calendars and make lists on note pads. I keep all cards & letters. I have a physical address book. These will be things for my kiddos to declutter when I'm gone.
I have small calendar in my purse and write down everything on calendar in our master bath. We know each other schedules and it keeps us up to date with each other plans/lives/doctors/appointments
I keep all cards and letters AND photographs as well. These little pieces of ephemera are beyond priceless, as communication becomes more instantaneous in this digital age. I love still being able to read things handwritten by friends and family, especially by those who are no longer living.
A few years ago I ditched my Keurig for an old school percolator to make my coffee on the stove, and I haven't looked back. Thanks for another great video!
I also have VHS tapes, dvds records, 78 records with wind up player, reel to reel, one wax cylinder (no player) old home movies, photos and slides. .. I think l might have a problem :)
@fionaewen6231 No, you don't have a problem because I have all those things along with cassette tapes and 8 track tapes ( I know I'm totally dating myself) but I keep the players for all my items.. the 8 track player it still works. Oh boy, I guess I'm the one with the problem 😮
@@gaildickerson2226 oh yes, l forgot my cassettes . I have players for them all too except the wax cylinder. Let's just say we are archiving for the future , and when nostalgia hits everyone else.... We re ready :))
Things you can feel and touch are grossly underrated in the world now. There was something magical about going to Blockbuster and spending an hour looking for that weird movie with the interesting poster art. Putting the vhs or DVD in a player and pressing play. It’s completely foreign to the youth now and I sound old 😂 but I truly think that it’s actually a bigger deal than just nostalgia. When things become too digital you lose out on what makes it special. You lose the realness of it. If that’s even a word.
As an avid cook, do I own a lot of nice stainless cookware? Yes! However, the big cast iron frying pan gifted to me by my mother-in-law 51 years ago for our wedding, still gets used daily. Although we did live in Alaska bear country for 4 years, I’ve never had to use it to scare away a bear. I love this video!
My German grandmother would add black pepper to a hot iron skillet before adding any fat and other ingredients. Not burning it, just a nice smell to start the food off right.
1964 born. Loved this video. I remember milk delivery in glass bottles as small child in California. I have my mom ‘s large cast iron pan-I need to pull it out and use it it’s probably 70 years old. As teenager would buy coke a cola in returnable/reusable glass bottles. Outdoor play was big. Not kids on computers and cell phones-we played, gained strength and skid our knees. Yes we knew how to apply a bandaid with out mom/ dad s help. Our snacks were either non existent or peanut butter on bread. Simple healthy. Chips were a holiday thing only. Whole Foods were a daily thing without thinking it was a thing. Multivitamins/supplements were not a big thing. We were healthy from eating less processed foods. Parents lived till 90’s. I’m healthy and 60.
I still write letters (you can find penpals online - which might be a little ironic), journal in paper notebooks, and use paper planners - all of which lead me to fountain pens, which have become one of my biggest passions. Yay for all things old and analog!
Fouintain pens we learnt to use in school in England and we used them all the time. It's so lovely to write with them sending letters. I love penpal writing too.
Cloth napkins are something I can’t quit making. Mitered corners are something that soothe my soul. They are challenging and give me the feeling of accomplishment when done perfectly. And the colors warm my soul.🥰 Can’t have too many cloth napkins for every season. Cast iron, books, kitchen tools, sewing tools and quilts, these are a few of my favorite things! You have a great voice for videos. Bless you .❤️❤️❤️❤️
I have a cast iron cornbread pan that’s divided into wedges that I inherited from a work friend …the pan means more crusty edges. I hope my family will use it when I’m gone.
I love books and have many of them, as well as a cookbook collection! I feel joyful when visiting other people’s homes with books on their shelves or living room table! They bring more joy to me than jewelry ever could! 🙋🏻♀️📚📖📚
I have a recipe card in my grandmother's handwriting for the cheese ball the family makes every year during the holidays. I also have a prayer plant that almost fills my very large, square coffee table, started from my grandmother's prayer plant about 60 years ago. I'm 78 years old, so I love sharing these with my daughter and granddaughters. My daughter (55) barely remembers my grandmother and my granddaughters (20 & 23) never got to meet her, but they all want a start from the prayer plant. I enjoy your videos Jen. Keep filming!
I have cuttings from my Mom’s pussywillow that has been going through propagating cuttings since the early 60s. I’m getting ready to transplant them to my front yard this spring.
I was in my thirties when mobile phones really came into being indispensable. I still prefer using a paper map over GPS and playing with a real puzzle or cards over phone games. Yay cribbage! I do love books made of paper especially cookbooks but nowadays I like an audiobook because I can do a jigsaw at the same time. I do have CDs from the days when you could get 12 for a penny from Columbia House. I bought a desktop computer from Amazon about a month ago and it does have a tray to put a CD. Being in your fifties is a such a gift because of the pre-internet skills.
I agree with you on your whole list. Oh the days of the Columbia House CD bargains! I continue to carry a paper map on all of our travels, and when we are going on a trip I always map it out on paper. Gives me a perspective a screen-by-screen view just can’t provide. Oh and cribbage is a favourite!
I’m a boomer and appreciate the thoughtful content you provide. 🙏🏼thank you for sparking the nostalgic memories we all can share or relate to. Mine are intrinsic to who I am and their meanings bring me a satisfying sense of contentment as I enjoy this life.❤
I have my vinyl records from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Paper books, Casserole dishes that were my Mum's, I have my dogs stainless steel water bowl from the 80's and a satin horse rug from 1969 (it still has horse hair on it) and the ribbons I won when showing my horse back in the 70's. 😆
Jen, you are awesome. For me, it's old school vehicles. My newest is a '98. I can easily afford a brand new 2024, but absolutely loath the direction new vehicles are going.
I have two old sewing machines, a Featherweight and a treadle, both in working order, which have been with me for 50 years. A collection of antique botanicals and maps that my husband and I put together over our 50 year marriage. A set of sterling flatware that my Dad purchased at auction for me not long after I got married. All the items I am attached to involve memories of beloved family and friends and places I’ve been. A dear friend even gave me a very large cutting of her grandmother’s Thanksgiving cactus, which is now over 100 years old and blooming magnificently in my dining room. Thank you for sending me down memory lane; it’s a pleasant journey most of the time. Happy Thanksgiving!
We, too, use cloth napkins. Like you said, they are eco friendly, luxurious and cheaper than buying paper napkins through the years. I always enjoy your chats with us.
Love my cast iron frying pans that I have had for over 30 years, yes to cloth napkins and real books! I don’t have a china set but do have a silver flatware set that I inherited and I use it everyday - if you use silverware regularly you don’t need to polish it! Also love a physical wall calendar to write on.
I love to quilt, knit, cross stitch and weave…basically I am a creator. I have quilts that my great grandmother and great-great grandmother made for my mom. I also have some vintage linens that came from my grandmother’s house. I have a soft sot for those sorts of things.❤
My mum loves her photo album. Every now and then she loves to walk down memory lane with our old pictures. As digital photos and devices take over the world. I think photo albums will remain timeless. Another one of your great videos im watching. Thanks !
I love physical books and going to the library. I use the “Libby” app for electronic books from the library when I’m traveling. I’m downsizing and recently passed on my LeCreuset cookware because with my arthritic hands, they became too heavy. Loose leaf tea and cloth/linen napkins are worth ironing! Thank you Jen for another useful and well done video. 😊
Good morning Jen! As always thought provoking video😊 The couple of things I still do … I don’t use paper plates, bowls, plastic utensils, cups etc. I have most meals at home or work (lunch) and I use real plates, utensils, cups and coffee cups. I use real cloth napkins at home too. I even brought real items to work, because I enjoy my lunch at work. I also wear a traditional watch daily. I have no desire to be so accessible at all times, I have to be connected at my wrist. I use my watch to tell time, not a phone. Also like a list ! And it needs to be written down … not in my phone notes … never use that feature. Lists are thought provoking for me. Like to also carry on the written tradition of a Thank You note. In snail mail. Or a written Thinking of You note. I was taught at an early age and believe that is a true form of thoughtfulness and sincerity. Just a couple I still follow Loved your list and books … the real deal… are so wonderful on so many levels. Every time I pick it up, a memory comes up! Thank you Jen and hugs to Sky ❤
Cast iron!!! I use mine All the time!! I also use stainless steel mixing bowls that my mother got when she married a zillion years ago. They are indestructible, sanitizable and Multi purpose!!! I love them. During Covid, I really would have treasured milk and egg delivery as grocery delivery was just starting to get figured out (and it was always milk and eggs that I needed first). The old milk doors are so brilliant and aesthetically satisfying. Stamp collecting is the height of civilization but it is probably a good thing no family members passed a collection down to me because I would have been obsessed; even more so with coin collections. The feel of old coins would send me into swoons. I do have old books that my parents carried around the world with them during their many moves. I also have rattan/bamboo furniture that they bought in Thailand in the mid 60s (and that I played on and sat on as a child) and an old round wood table from their days in Wyoming in the early 60s that was old and well used even then. I have a Japanese cherry blossom tea set from their travels and several tea cups and plates from my southern relatives circa 1940s. I placed a few of them within easy reach in a pretty cabinet and use them when I have slow teatime. Using them is like sitting down with ancestors and chatting with them. I am trying to slowly curate; to really winnow down and see which younger family members might want things And be at a stage in their lives where they Can own things. A Beautiful round glass butter dish now lives with a niece but most of the adult kids just aren't in a place in which they can carry around family treasures. Fortunately, my brothers have dispersed a number of things to their children. Every item i don't have to decide about is a weight off. I am glad to have a few treasures and to cherish the ones I have. One of the very most wonderful things about modern technology is that photographs can be shared with multiple family members and no One person has the burden of having the only copy of old family photos.
You are most definitely a woman after my own heart, with this video especially concerning the books. LOVE IT!!! Love you and your videos. THANK YOU!!!😊
Hi Jen. I have my original sewing kit that I used in Home Ec for 7th & 8th grades. It still has my name and Home room labeled on it. Inside, I have one of my mom's pin cushions. I also have from that same class, the cookbook that we were given. I have my grandmother's cashmere coat with beautiful ornate crystal buttons that is from the early 50s. As much as my older daughter wants it, she'll have to wait until I'm gone. I did give her the pearls that my father gave to my mother on one of their anniversaries. And don't laugh, I have my Little Kiddle Doll in her original locket. Lastly, my mom's gravy boat and ladle that we used for every holiday, and I've continued the tradition. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. ❤❤
I loved Kiddles they smelled so good to me every time I opened the little locket And my sister still has her strawberry shortcake doll which for some reason didn’t smell good to me.
I have a few cast iron pieces and I would not give them up. Heavy but very functional. I grew up in Mississauga, Ontario and we had the milk door in our house but I am old enough to remember the milkman bringing the milk and putting it in the door. My grandmother was living in London, Ontario and the milkman drove door to door with a horse drawn delivery wagon. My new VW doesn't have a CD player so I am going to look into getting one installed.
I’m with you on all of these. And the reader that said pepper grinder. I have a handy double with pepper on one end and salt grinder on the other for on the stove but my favorite is my “little friend” which is a vintage cast iron and wood one with a little wooden drawer in the front. Not only does it coarse grind fresh pepper for me but I also use it to coarse grind coffee for my vintage percolator. I use the simmer burner on my vintage O’Keefe & Merritt stove. Yeah. Not getting rid of either if those. My Bernina 830 open arm Record sewing machine. I still have a cd player in my car but I did buy an external for my laptop. Have a cd player for the stereo. I did save my jewel cases. I also still have my direct drive turntable and LPs. Likewise my DVD player and DVDs. Oh, and I’m having antennas installed on my roof as I no longer have cable. Now three old school things I will never give up are my checkbook, passport and landline. I had my purse stolen and without those three things I would not have been able to buy groceries or pay a locksmith or call the police and then cancel all my credit cards.
My 1977 Tupperware canisters for flour, sugar, rice… in 1970’s orange and tucked away in the cupboard but they work amazing to keep my baking basics fresh! I used cloth napkins early in marriage. When we had kids I switched to clean white washcloths specifically for napkins. I wash them only with kitchen cloths and tea towels. They can be bleached and look bright and fresh. Have used these for everyone for 40 yrs now. Most sets last about 5-8 yrs.
I love books too and have boxes of them in my storage, waiting to come out on the shelves again! I also like writing things down with a pen and paper. I even have a fountain pen for when I write in my journal 😍
Your 7 items are spot on--personally, a fountain pen would have to be on my list . . . having learned to write with a dip pen, then segued to a fountain pen, I know there is much less stress on the wrist and fingers when writing, not to mention the smoothness as the wet nib glides across quality paper . . . even an inexpensive one in your Christmas stocking would show you what I mean . . . you can upgrade later.
Love, love old vintage pottery, mugs, vases, bowls and lamp bases! Gives me such a good feeling knowing that someone hand made it especially to cherish!
I have my Mother’s pair of milk glass lamps she used to have on the dresser. Even before she got them one of the bases was repaired with what was probably hide glue. After 50 years I finally found a matching base to restore it.
You also love classic clothing....I love your gray turtleneck. I have a black one that I adore and look forward to when the weather permits wearing it.
We had a milk door in my childhood home, which I never knew the purpose of until now. 😊 I too love books and used to have shelves and shelves of them. However, I became legally blind several years ago so transitioned to ebooks and audiobooks. I still love seeing other people’s shelves. They make for such colorful and interesting backgrounds. My cousin and I often reminisce about how great it was growing up in the 70s and 80’s. Running wild outside, using our imaginations in play. I love sending cards for Christmas and birthdays or just because. I keep the ones I receive.
I love all your choices. I have heard of milk in bags, but have never seen that. (I’m from the southern USA). Your first choice, the cast iron skillet, snagged my attention. I’m in my 70’s….Several years ago I got where I could not safely lift the cast iron. I asked all my friends and my children if they wanted it. But sadly, off to the thrift shop it went. I hope its new “mama” is enjoying it!
I love tea and books too. When I was a child (early 70’s), my grandmother lived 30 min South of San Francisco in Montara, CA. She had a silver insulated square box by the front door for milk deliveries, in glass bottles. I do not remember anyone having those in Southern CA, where I lived. Maybe it was/ is too warm here.
You and I are so much alike. Everything you just mentioned except the stamp collection is my happy place as well. Especially physical books. Use cast iron pans daily. Miss cd player in my newer car but have one still in my home. Another thing I prefer are physical pictures which I can send with cards and letters. Everything today is so technical but not always practical. Enjoy your day!!
I agree with loving physical books, but I also love my e-reader for traveling. I tend to chain-read (starting a new book as soon as I finish one), so this saves space and weight in my luggage.
I agree with call you said. I guess that’s why I continue to watch your videos. I just watched five minutes of a video that talks about all the things we “should” get rid of because they’re “old fashioned and out of date”. It sounded so condescending. I made a comment and left, only to find your video come up , great timing and balance. Thanks. Always enjoyable. ❤️
I couldn’t agree more with your list! I have my precious cast iron pans and Dutch oven. I inherited my great grandfather’s stamp collection over 50 years ago. My dad worked for the dairy and we had glass bottles with the little paper cardboard lids. Fun fun video! 😃
Me too! 😂 Love my physical books, notebooks, records, cd/dvds...i even still have a few 8 track cassettes from my childhood that i will never part with 😊
I totally agree with you! 😍 I’m still attached to many of these 'old school' items too. Cloth napkins and tea strainers are so much more eco-friendly since they don’t create waste, CDs are super practical, and paper books are just so romantic and timeless as a concept ❤ Loved this video!
Jan, you are wonderful as a good book to me as well. In fact during the COVID years, I purged many books and bought two new book cases and put them in my bedroom. Love them in there. I love drinking my tea or coffee in a beloved mug, paper - yuk. I love loose tea as well. Completely higher level quality in taste and satisfaction.
Yes to everything you've mentioned👍 I also wouldn't give up my original vinyl record collection, which includes The Clash, David Bowie original LPs etc.... I wouldn't give up planners, journals, note paper as I enjoy writing- even if it's a shopping list😊. Nor would i give up proper teacups/saucers, and various cruet sets- i love them. Perhaps that's the influence of my British DNA! Great video thankyou.
I love this! I have several cast iron pieces that I use and love. They were my great-grandmothers. My great-grandfather made them when he worked in Eerie PA as a blacksmith. I think they are Griswolds? More than 100 years old now and still perfect! I hope my niece or nephew will want them one day.
In 1960’s NC, USA we had an insulated, galvanized steel box at the side door of our house in which milk was delivered in glass half gallon bottles from our local dairy. Sometimes my mom would leave a note for a bottle of chocolate milk for me. I’ll never forget how good that chocolate milk was. Still have my mom’s cast iron pan and her wedding gift Revereware from the early 50’s, all her and my dad’s vinyl records, and a few hundred of all my old vinyl albums and 45s which I still play on my old receiver and turntable. Some things you just have to hold on to.
I had some problems with my vision and switched to ebooks, then audiobooks. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to physical books even though my vision issues have been resolved. Also, at 73 years old, I find it difficult to lift large cast iron cookware covered in enamel. I gifted them to relatives. I still have a couple of cast iron pans, but I don’t use them as much as I used to.
I use cloth napkins. I get them at thrift stores, often brand new. I like to buy seasonal themed napkins, they are fun! I have a nice cast iron collection that I use as well. I love to hang laundry to dry and we heat with a wood stove. These are some of my old fashioned favorites.
Great video Jen! Just yesterday I was searching online for a mini stereo/cd player so that I could play my cd collection that had been in storage since I moved a couple of years ago. I miss the sound quality of a stereo speaker. I have an echo dot but I miss the ceremony of putting on an old cd that holds many memories. I gave my old unit away. That was dumb of me. You can still get them but they are pricey.
Wow, a newer car with a CD layer! 😮 ❤ Love love love cooking in cast iron. And oooooo cloth napkins! ❤❤❤ Love real books, but on Kindle I can enlarge the type, make notes without guilt, look up words with a touch, share a passage with friends, and read an entire novel in one night without pain in hands and wrists. Oh, and carry my library with me anywhere! 😊
Great video Jen! The house I grew up in also had a “milk door”. I’m with you regarding real books. I’m a dedicated user of our local public library; I’ve never adapted to e-reading but can appreciate that others love it. Re the cloth napkins; I have a memory of a family who used them however they’d only get washed a couple of times a week. Each family member had their own with a personalized napkin ring. After the meal the napkins would be rolled up, secured with the appropriate napkin ring and tossed into a wicker basket for use at the next meal. I’m not a germ-a-phobe as I sure ate my share of dirt when I was a kid but this grossed me right out. I think cloth napkins are great but if you’re living with others shouldn’t they be laundered after each use? I really enjoy your content - keep up the great work!
Ahhh the memories 😊. My 2008 Escape also had a 6 disc player in it. The replacement vehicle as of 3 mo.ago is a 2020 Escape and is a whole new ballgame. Love your quirky teapot! Have a lovely day lady 🎉
I've kept my great-grandmothers kitchen apron to cook at Christmas time. She made it by hand with Christmas material. I also use a set of her China everyday to eat on.
Just love your talks and your wit, thanks very much, my fav is the iron skillet ( i have several also) my first was a wedding gift from my mother 60 years ago.
I inherited a big, old, teacher's wood desk that may have been used by Mrs. Hartley who was my 1st and 3rd grade teacher. As life would have it my family moved into a big house catty-cornered to her house. Anyway, I enjoy this desk which is still in great shape. It comes apart to move it, however, it is heavy and grown men have complained about moving it. As an aside, Mrs. Hartley had BEAUTIFUL cursive handwriting!
Your passion about tea and books, mirrors mine exactly. Oh, the aroma of a beautiful tea steeping in a pretty tea pot is heavenly and to pair it with a book I loved and am rereading 50 years later, is nothing short of comfortable happiness, always. I am so happy that I discovered your channel this evening, you have brought back such a lovely nostalgic feeling, thank you, very much.
My Grandmothers Old Corning ware, my grandmother crocheted everything, I still have it all. Very old Tupperware, I still use. I enjoy your videos thank you
I agree with the Corningware, especially the sunflowers. But, the plastic Tupperware should not be saved, they have forever chemicals like PFAs. Please do not use old plastic.
A woman after my own heart ❤ I"m on Season 6 episode 3. I watch them at least once a year always in order, followed by the movies, I even bought the DVDs for when I have no wifi. I have read the Downton Abbey cookbooks, tea book and cocktail book at the Library but I want to buy all 3 books, they're simply lovely from the cloth covers to the gorgeous pictures. It's my comfort show. Other people turn to Gilmore Girls but for me it's Downton Abbey and all things Jane Austen. My birthday present to myself was ordering real Devonshire clotted creme. I just replaced my 2006 car's CD player 😂 I have all my CDs in both my car and my 94 Campervan, I had to buy an adapter to change the van from cassette to play CDs😂 I love my kindle, I take it everywhere but I will never give up physical books. I still have all my books from childhood and it breaks my heart that I've had to downsize my library. I comfort myself with the goal that when I get my cozy cottage built I'm having an entire wall of built in bookshelves and I will buy all my old friends back ❤
Yes, cast iron skillets! In a variety of sizes. I have in the last couple of years repurposed old tablecloths from the thrift stores by cutting them and sewing napkins. I also love vintage cookbooks, especially the ones prior to 1960. These have recipes more truly from scratch, often without convenience ingredients. I have an antique, heavy ice cream scoop that looks more like a spatula-love this thing. My treadle sewing machine. I still have a gazillion books, but I use my Kindle for traveling. I love the smell of the ink. Hall China teapot and a ball jug for water.
As a fellow CD enthusiast I will say you can get a small CD player that plugs into your laptop when you want to read or write them! It’s a life saver for my laptop that doesn’t have that drive.
Oh happy days! Another tea party for me today, thank you - real books, I collected music stamps which I still have - framed nowadays - and a passion for old recipe books...enjoyed the journey today, thanks!
I have a library and will never give up my physical book,s but......there is nothing like taking hundreds of books and magazines on my Kindle when I travel. I used to haul bags of books on vacation. Now, noway. My Kindle is so small I can take it in my purse to doctor apps. Etc. Love it.
PHYSICAL. BOOKS. Yes, and hallelujah! I have a couple of e-readers, but I don't like them and never use them except to check the formatting of my own e-books on digital platforms (I'm a writer.) I've found I interact with the text differently in a real book, I'm more engaged, I enjoy it more, it's just a very different experience. I also reread my favorite books fairly often, and one of the things I enjoy when doing so is knowing what's coming on the next page, anticipating a favorite phrase or passage in a specific spot. That's not possible on an ereader, or at least not in the same way. There's something inherently comforting about real books, and I will never give them up.
Yes Jen, too many timeless treasures to mention. Many books including some collectables from childhood. And cookbooks - though confess I don't do as much cooking now the family is grown and left home. My vintage dolls - Sindy, Patch, Tammy, Tiny Tears, First Love etc. Some very vintage Christmas tree decorations from childhood. Still have a few favourite CDs and DVDs. Magazines.And, of course, teapots and strainer. Hoarder? Maybe, but a very orderly one. Now the kids have grown and left home I have the space and my hoard makes me happy.
I miss refrigerators that last more than 7 years!!!
Love books and cast iron pans too. I’m 73 and lived in England until I was 14. The milk was delivered in glass bottles. We need to go back to that - too much plastic in this age. Thank you Jen - I’m really enjoying your podcasts.
I remember when I went to England for the first time and the milk and a glass bottle even in a pint bottle had a very nice tasting cream on top. Wonderful!! I never had that before.
I lived in England as well and I remember the neighbours still having their milk in glass bottle in the mid 90s.
Photos. Real physical photos. The one thing I would save if the house was burning. Jen, you are wonderful. x
I would add paper planners, pepper grinders, printed photos in scrapbooks, and paper maps to your list. Although I use modern conveniences, sometimes you just need to be analog and get off the electronic devices, be they communications or cooking. Thanks for a fun video 😊
I use a paper planner. Information stays in my brain much better if I have handwritten it! After going on a trip where my phone/GPS had no signal, prompted me to purchase new paper maps of the states I normally travel in.
yes! I lose hours in my journals, I can't live without it. I start to twitch if I need to jot something in it
It never gets old
I didn’t even upgrade my pepper grinder to battery. Still hand grinding…
couldn't live without my paper planner
Two items I’ll never give up are 1) a set of stainless-steel copper bottom Revere cookware given to my mother as a wedding gift in 1950. I learned to cook with these and still use them nearly every day and 2) a black and grey scroll print silk velvet scarf I bought at the San Lorenzo church market in Italy in the mid-1990’s. It’s my go-to winter accessory and has been on every trip with me for 30 years.
Love this ✌🏼
I still have the scarf I bought in Venice when I was 12 in the 60s.
I love my Revere Ware too❤
I especially love linen napkins.
I also ❤️ a real book & a cup of coffee in a real cup!☕️
Vintage Corning-ware with the blue flowers. I have a some of my grandmothers and some of my mothers ❤
Almost 49 years ago I married a man who owned a set of the Corning ware with the blue flowers. He was a keeper and so is the Corning ware ! I just used 2 of the 3 on thanksgiving!
Love this video …
I have a dvd player,a VHS player and a CD player.
I love my kindle being on my phone but holding a book is soothing. I love the feel and smell of books.
Before a friend passed away she gifted me 24 white linen napkins. I use them everyday. I bleach and iron them.
I eat off plates that were my parents and grandparents. Memories flood my brain when I use them.
I use quilts I helped my mom and grandmother make,
I keep everything and repurpose as much as I can.
I made a throw rug from my moms rabbit coat that was dry rotted. I wore it as long as I could, repaired it until it no longer could hold thread.
I store books in my grandfather’s metal piece of luggage he brought to Arkansas from Alabama in 1926.I also store books in my parents suitcase they bought in 1965.
As I look around my townhome I see so many items that belonged to my ancestors.
Stay warm.
I love beautiful British Columbia.
I'm a real book person, too. I still use physical calendars and make lists on note pads. I keep all cards & letters. I have a physical address book. These will be things for my kiddos to declutter when I'm gone.
I have small calendar in my purse and write down everything on calendar in our master bath. We know each other schedules and it keeps us up to date with each other plans/lives/doctors/appointments
I keep all cards and letters AND photographs as well. These little pieces of ephemera are beyond priceless, as communication becomes more instantaneous in this digital age. I love still being able to read things handwritten by friends and family, especially by those who are no longer living.
A few years ago I ditched my Keurig for an old school percolator to make my coffee on the stove, and I haven't looked back. Thanks for another great video!
Me too. Not a coffee drinker but got a percolator and learned how. I swear it tastes better in a percolator on the stove.
I am 54 and I still have cds, dvds,(with players) I love nostalgia and it makes me happy to refer to things from my past.
I also have VHS tapes, dvds records, 78 records with wind up player, reel to reel, one wax cylinder (no player) old home movies, photos and slides. .. I think l might have a problem :)
@fionaewen6231 No, you don't have a problem because I have all those things along with cassette tapes and 8 track tapes ( I know I'm totally dating myself) but I keep the players for all my items.. the 8 track player it still works. Oh boy, I guess I'm the one with the problem 😮
@@gaildickerson2226 oh yes, l forgot my cassettes . I have players for them all too except the wax cylinder. Let's just say we are archiving for the future , and when nostalgia hits everyone else.... We re ready :))
Things you can feel and touch are grossly underrated in the world now. There was something magical about going to Blockbuster and spending an hour looking for that weird movie with the interesting poster art. Putting the vhs or DVD in a player and pressing play. It’s completely foreign to the youth now and I sound old 😂 but I truly think that it’s actually a bigger deal than just nostalgia. When things become too digital you lose out on what makes it special. You lose the realness of it. If that’s even a word.
YES! This makes a lot of sense!
I get all my DVD's from the library. Check out your library system.
As an avid cook, do I own a lot of nice stainless cookware? Yes! However, the big cast iron frying pan gifted to me by my mother-in-law 51 years ago for our wedding, still gets used daily. Although we did live in Alaska bear country for 4 years, I’ve never had to use it to scare away a bear. I love this video!
My German grandmother would add black pepper to a hot iron skillet before adding any fat and other ingredients. Not burning it, just a nice smell to start the food off right.
1964 born. Loved this video. I remember milk delivery in glass bottles as small child in California. I have my mom ‘s large cast iron pan-I need to pull it out and use it it’s probably 70 years old. As teenager would buy coke a cola in returnable/reusable glass bottles. Outdoor play was big. Not kids on computers and cell phones-we played, gained strength and skid our knees. Yes we knew how to apply a bandaid with out mom/ dad s help. Our snacks were either non existent or peanut butter on bread. Simple healthy. Chips were a holiday thing only. Whole Foods were a daily thing without thinking it was a thing. Multivitamins/supplements were not a big thing. We were healthy from eating less processed foods. Parents lived till 90’s. I’m healthy and 60.
I really can't say why I love Jen and her channel but I absolutely do!!
She is real.
She’s totally cool 😎
RIP Dame Maggie Smith !! Such a CLASS Act !!
I still write letters (you can find penpals online - which might be a little ironic), journal in paper notebooks, and use paper planners - all of which lead me to fountain pens, which have become one of my biggest passions. Yay for all things old and analog!
I have several fountain pens I will not part with. I even have some boxes of stationary in the desk.
Fouintain pens we learnt to use in school in England and we used them all the time. It's so lovely to write with them sending letters. I love penpal writing too.
Cloth napkins are something I can’t quit making. Mitered corners are something that soothe my soul. They are challenging and give me the feeling of accomplishment when done perfectly. And the colors warm my soul.🥰 Can’t have too many cloth napkins for every season. Cast iron, books, kitchen tools, sewing tools and quilts, these are a few of my favorite things! You have a great voice for videos. Bless you .❤️❤️❤️❤️
Real cookbooks, my tea kettle, and photo albums.
I have an entire corner in my house with floor to ceiling bookshelves. And I just used my cast iron pan yesterday to make cornbread.
Same here
Cornbread in a cast iron pan is the best.
@ love it especially jalapeño corn bread
I have a cast iron cornbread pan that’s divided into wedges that I inherited from a work friend …the pan means more crusty edges. I hope my family will use it when I’m gone.
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I love books and have many of them, as well as a cookbook collection! I feel joyful when visiting other people’s homes with books on their shelves or living room table! They bring more joy to me than jewelry ever could! 🙋🏻♀️📚📖📚
I have a recipe card in my grandmother's handwriting for the cheese ball the family makes every year during the holidays. I also have a prayer plant that almost fills my very large, square coffee table, started from my grandmother's prayer plant about 60 years ago. I'm 78 years old, so I love sharing these with my daughter and granddaughters. My daughter (55) barely remembers my grandmother and my granddaughters (20 & 23) never got to meet her, but they all want a start from the prayer plant. I enjoy your videos Jen. Keep filming!
I have a prayer plant that is 40+ years old. Fun!
I have cuttings from my Mom’s pussywillow that has been going through propagating cuttings since the early 60s. I’m getting ready to transplant them to my front yard this spring.
I’ll add to the list--Aprons! I loved your choice of items too. I have my mother cast iron skillet. Thank you for sharing.
Same, I've one made from my husband's unworn pajama jacket.
I wear them every time I cook. Why get my clothes dirty?
I was in my thirties when mobile phones really came into being indispensable. I still prefer using a paper map over GPS and playing with a real puzzle or cards over phone games. Yay cribbage! I do love books made of paper especially cookbooks but nowadays I like an audiobook because I can do a jigsaw at the same time. I do have CDs from the days when you could get 12 for a penny from Columbia House. I bought a desktop computer from Amazon about a month ago and it does have a tray to put a CD. Being in your fifties is a such a gift because of the pre-internet skills.
Yes bring on cribbage, euchre and monopoly or clue
I agree with you on your whole list. Oh the days of the Columbia House CD bargains! I continue to carry a paper map on all of our travels, and when we are going on a trip I always map it out on paper. Gives me a perspective a screen-by-screen view just can’t provide. Oh and cribbage is a favourite!
I love this lady and her content ✌🏼
Me too
I admire Jen too!
she rocks as she has that humble and wise lady fibe you know the na ce qua vibe my french is horrible LOL
@@anarita-15 Yes! I am glad i found her channel on RUclips
Me three
I’m a boomer and appreciate the thoughtful content you provide. 🙏🏼thank you for sparking the nostalgic memories we all can share or relate to. Mine are intrinsic to who I am and their meanings bring me a satisfying sense of contentment as I enjoy this life.❤
I have my vinyl records from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Paper books, Casserole dishes that were my Mum's, I have my dogs stainless steel water bowl from the 80's and a satin horse rug from 1969 (it still has horse hair on it) and the ribbons I won when showing my horse back in the 70's. 😆
Jen, you are awesome.
For me, it's old school vehicles. My newest is a '98. I can easily afford a brand new 2024, but absolutely loath the direction new vehicles are going.
I won’t give up my checkbook, or my DVD player. 😊
Yes to all of the above. Love your channel. You inspired me to get back onto RUclips. I’m turning 53 in a few weeks.
I have two old sewing machines, a Featherweight and a treadle, both in working order, which have been with me for 50 years. A collection of antique botanicals and maps that my husband and I put together over our 50 year marriage. A set of sterling flatware that my Dad purchased at auction for me not long after I got married. All the items I am attached to involve memories of beloved family and friends and places I’ve been. A dear friend even gave me a very large cutting of her grandmother’s Thanksgiving cactus, which is now over 100 years old and blooming magnificently in my dining room. Thank you for sending me down memory lane; it’s a pleasant journey most of the time. Happy Thanksgiving!
We, too, use cloth napkins. Like you said, they are eco friendly, luxurious and cheaper than buying paper napkins through the years. I always enjoy your chats with us.
Love my cast iron frying pans that I have had for over 30 years, yes to cloth napkins and real books!
I don’t have a china set but do have a silver flatware set that I inherited and I use it everyday - if you use silverware regularly you don’t need to polish it!
Also love a physical wall calendar to write on.
I love to quilt, knit, cross stitch and weave…basically I am a creator. I have quilts that my great grandmother and great-great grandmother made for my mom. I also have some vintage linens that came from my grandmother’s house. I have a soft sot for those sorts of things.❤
My mum loves her photo album. Every now and then she loves to walk down memory lane with our old pictures. As digital photos and devices take over the world. I think photo albums will remain timeless.
Another one of your great videos im watching. Thanks !
I love physical books and going to the library. I use the “Libby” app for electronic books from the library when I’m traveling. I’m downsizing and recently passed on my LeCreuset cookware because with my arthritic hands, they became too heavy. Loose leaf tea and cloth/linen napkins are worth ironing! Thank you Jen for another useful and well done video. 😊
agree 100% with everything you said........I love everything vintage and I won't give up any of it!!!!!
Good morning Jen! As always thought provoking video😊
The couple of things I still do …
I don’t use paper plates, bowls, plastic utensils, cups etc.
I have most meals at home or work (lunch) and I use real plates, utensils, cups and coffee cups. I use real cloth napkins at home too. I even brought real items to work, because I enjoy my lunch at work.
I also wear a traditional watch daily. I have no desire to be so accessible at all times, I have to be connected at my wrist. I use my watch to tell time, not a phone.
Also like a list ! And it needs to be written down … not in my phone notes … never use that feature. Lists are thought provoking for me.
Like to also carry on the written tradition of a Thank You note. In snail mail. Or a written Thinking of You note.
I was taught at an early age and believe that is a true form of thoughtfulness and sincerity.
Just a couple I still follow
Loved your list and books … the real deal… are so wonderful on so many levels. Every time I pick it up, a memory comes up!
Thank you Jen and hugs to Sky ❤
Cast iron!!! I use mine All the time!! I also use stainless steel mixing bowls that my mother got when she married a zillion years ago. They are indestructible, sanitizable and Multi purpose!!! I love them. During Covid, I really would have treasured milk and egg delivery as grocery delivery was just starting to get figured out (and it was always milk and eggs that I needed first). The old milk doors are so brilliant and aesthetically satisfying. Stamp collecting is the height of civilization but it is probably a good thing no family members passed a collection down to me because I would have been obsessed; even more so with coin collections. The feel of old coins would send me into swoons. I do have old books that my parents carried around the world with them during their many moves. I also have rattan/bamboo furniture that they bought in Thailand in the mid 60s (and that I played on and sat on as a child) and an old round wood table from their days in Wyoming in the early 60s that was old and well used even then. I have a Japanese cherry blossom tea set from their travels and several tea cups and plates from my southern relatives circa 1940s. I placed a few of them within easy reach in a pretty cabinet and use them when I have slow teatime. Using them is like sitting down with ancestors and chatting with them. I am trying to slowly curate; to really winnow down and see which younger family members might want things And be at a stage in their lives where they Can own things. A Beautiful round glass butter dish now lives with a niece but most of the adult kids just aren't in a place in which they can carry around family treasures. Fortunately, my brothers have dispersed a number of things to their children. Every item i don't have to decide about is a weight off. I am glad to have a few treasures and to cherish the ones I have. One of the very most wonderful things about modern technology is that photographs can be shared with multiple family members and no One person has the burden of having the only copy of old family photos.
You are most definitely a woman after my own heart, with this video especially concerning the books. LOVE IT!!! Love you and your videos. THANK YOU!!!😊
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Hi Jen. I have my original sewing kit that I used in Home Ec for 7th & 8th grades. It still has my name and Home room labeled on it. Inside, I have one of my mom's pin cushions. I also have from that same class, the cookbook that we were given. I have my grandmother's cashmere coat with beautiful ornate crystal buttons that is from the early 50s. As much as my older daughter wants it, she'll have to wait until I'm gone. I did give her the pearls that my father gave to my mother on one of their anniversaries.
And don't laugh, I have my Little Kiddle Doll in her original locket.
Lastly, my mom's gravy boat and ladle that we used for every holiday, and I've continued the tradition.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. ❤❤
I have my Aunts white sewing basket on display. She was a sweet lady.
I loved Kiddles they smelled so good to me every time I opened the little locket And my sister still has her strawberry shortcake doll which for some reason didn’t smell good to me.
Unfortunately, my Little Kiddle has lost her scent over the years! ❤@StarsHollow214
I have a few cast iron pieces and I would not give them up. Heavy but very functional. I grew up in Mississauga, Ontario and we had the milk door in our house but I am old enough to remember the milkman bringing the milk and putting it in the door. My grandmother was living in London, Ontario and the milkman drove door to door with a horse drawn delivery wagon. My new VW doesn't have a CD player so I am going to look into getting one installed.
I’m with you on all of these. And the reader that said pepper grinder. I have a handy double with pepper on one end and salt grinder on the other for on the stove but my favorite is my “little friend” which is a vintage cast iron and wood one with a little wooden drawer in the front. Not only does it coarse grind fresh pepper for me but I also use it to coarse grind coffee for my vintage percolator. I use the simmer burner on my vintage O’Keefe & Merritt stove. Yeah. Not getting rid of either if those. My Bernina 830 open arm Record sewing machine. I still have a cd player in my car but I did buy an external for my laptop. Have a cd player for the stereo. I did save my jewel cases. I also still have my direct drive turntable and LPs. Likewise my DVD player and DVDs. Oh, and I’m having antennas installed on my roof as I no longer have cable.
Now three old school things I will never give up are my checkbook, passport and landline. I had my purse stolen and without those three things I would not have been able to buy groceries or pay a locksmith or call the police and then cancel all my credit cards.
My 1977 Tupperware canisters for flour, sugar, rice… in 1970’s orange and tucked away in the cupboard but they work amazing to keep my baking basics fresh! I used cloth napkins early in marriage. When we had kids I switched to clean white washcloths specifically for napkins. I wash them only with kitchen cloths and tea towels. They can be bleached and look bright and fresh. Have used these for everyone for 40 yrs now. Most sets last about 5-8 yrs.
When you are ready for a bedside radio, many still have CD player built in!
I love books too and have boxes of them in my storage, waiting to come out on the shelves again! I also like writing things down with a pen and paper. I even have a fountain pen for when I write in my journal 😍
Christmas and birthday cards, especially those that came in the mail. Have some saved from decades and people long gone.
I bought my first cast iron pan in my 50s. Love it and it sits on my stove all of the time.
Your 7 items are spot on--personally, a fountain pen would have to be on my list . . . having learned to write with a dip pen, then segued to a fountain pen, I know there is much less stress on the wrist and fingers when writing, not to mention the smoothness as the wet nib glides across quality paper . . . even an inexpensive one in your Christmas stocking would show you what I mean . . . you can upgrade later.
We learned with dip pens, too. The old desks had an inkwell, top right corner. Ah ... memories. Thanks for sharing.
Cast iron - I have several of different sizes and a 50 year old dutch oven (no enamel) with cast iron lid! Loved them!
"aromatic memories" 😆Perfect description. You are such a wonderful wordsmith! Love it!
Love, love old vintage pottery, mugs, vases, bowls and lamp bases! Gives me such a good feeling knowing that someone hand made it especially to cherish!
I have my Mother’s pair of milk glass lamps she used to have on the dresser. Even before she got them one of the bases was repaired with what was probably hide glue. After 50 years I finally found a matching base to restore it.
I'm enjoying watching the evolution and success of your channel, especially since we're around the same age!
You also love classic clothing....I love your gray turtleneck. I have a black one that I adore and look forward to when the weather permits wearing it.
Oh my goodness, I loved this video. Thank you for your amazing company. ❤
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
We had a milk door in my childhood home, which I never knew the purpose of until now. 😊 I too love books and used to have shelves and shelves of them. However, I became legally blind several years ago so transitioned to ebooks and audiobooks. I still love seeing other people’s shelves. They make for such colorful and interesting backgrounds. My cousin and I often reminisce about how great it was growing up in the 70s and 80’s. Running wild outside, using our imaginations in play. I love sending cards for Christmas and birthdays or just because. I keep the ones I receive.
I love all your choices. I have heard of milk in bags, but have never seen that. (I’m from the southern USA). Your first choice, the cast iron skillet, snagged my attention. I’m in my 70’s….Several years ago I got where I could not safely lift the cast iron. I asked all my friends and my children if they wanted it. But sadly, off to the thrift shop it went. I hope its new “mama” is enjoying it!
I share, love and applaud ALL of your choices.
I love tea and books too. When I was a child (early 70’s), my grandmother lived 30 min South of San Francisco in Montara, CA. She had a silver insulated square box by the front door for milk deliveries, in glass bottles. I do not remember anyone having those in Southern CA, where I lived. Maybe it was/ is too warm here.
You and I are so much alike. Everything you just mentioned except the stamp collection is my happy place as well. Especially physical books. Use cast iron pans daily. Miss cd player in my newer car but have one still in my home. Another thing I prefer are physical pictures which I can send with cards and letters. Everything today is so technical but not always practical. Enjoy your day!!
I agree with loving physical books, but I also love my e-reader for traveling. I tend to chain-read (starting a new book as soon as I finish one), so this saves space and weight in my luggage.
I agree with call you said. I guess that’s why I continue to watch your videos. I just watched five minutes of a video that talks about all the things we “should” get rid of because they’re “old fashioned and out of date”. It sounded so condescending. I made a comment and left, only to find your video come up , great timing and balance. Thanks. Always enjoyable. ❤️
I couldn’t agree more with your list! I have my precious cast iron pans and Dutch oven. I inherited my great grandfather’s stamp collection over 50 years ago. My dad worked for the dairy and we had glass bottles with the little paper cardboard lids. Fun fun video! 😃
Lovely.I do use cloth napkins,they make me feel classy.Tea....yes,we have Tasha tea here and it's all loose tea.Very big fan.🙂🇨🇦🙋♀️ 7:18
Me too! 😂 Love my physical books, notebooks, records, cd/dvds...i even still have a few 8 track cassettes from my childhood that i will never part with 😊
I totally keep my 8 track player and my favorite tapes thanks for making me feel less crazy 😅
I totally agree with you! 😍 I’m still attached to many of these 'old school' items too. Cloth napkins and tea strainers are so much more eco-friendly since they don’t create waste, CDs are super practical, and paper books are just so romantic and timeless as a concept ❤ Loved this video!
Yes
Books, CD player in car, yes. Also my old style clock radio that blares at me in the morning - it's annoying but I love it!
I have all of that as well.
Jan, you are wonderful as a good book to me as well. In fact during the COVID years, I purged many books and bought two new book cases and put them in my bedroom. Love them in there. I love drinking my tea or coffee in a beloved mug, paper - yuk. I love loose tea as well. Completely higher level quality in taste and satisfaction.
Yes to everything you've mentioned👍 I also wouldn't give up my original vinyl record collection, which includes The Clash, David Bowie original LPs etc.... I wouldn't give up planners, journals, note paper as I enjoy writing- even if it's a shopping list😊. Nor would i give up proper teacups/saucers, and various cruet sets- i love them. Perhaps that's the influence of my British DNA! Great video thankyou.
I love this! I have several cast iron pieces that I use and love. They were my great-grandmothers. My great-grandfather made them when he worked in Eerie PA as a blacksmith. I think they are Griswolds? More than 100 years old now and still perfect! I hope my niece or nephew will want them one day.
In 1960’s NC, USA we had an insulated, galvanized steel box at the side door of our house in which milk was delivered in glass half gallon bottles from our local dairy. Sometimes my mom would leave a note for a bottle of chocolate milk for me. I’ll never forget how good that chocolate milk was. Still have my mom’s cast iron pan and her wedding gift Revereware from the early 50’s, all her and my dad’s vinyl records, and a few hundred of all my old vinyl albums and 45s which I still play on my old receiver and turntable. Some things you just have to hold on to.
I had some problems with my vision and switched to ebooks, then audiobooks. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to physical books even though my vision issues have been resolved.
Also, at 73 years old, I find it difficult to lift large cast iron cookware covered in enamel. I gifted them to relatives. I still have a couple of cast iron pans, but I don’t use them as much as I used to.
I use cloth napkins. I get them at thrift stores, often brand new. I like to buy seasonal themed napkins, they are fun! I have a nice cast iron collection that I use as well. I love to hang laundry to dry and we heat with a wood stove. These are some of my old fashioned favorites.
Oh, I prefer air-dried laundry!
Great video Jen! Just yesterday I was searching online for a mini stereo/cd player so that I could play my cd collection that had been in storage since I moved a couple of years ago. I miss the sound quality of a stereo speaker. I have an echo dot but I miss the ceremony of putting on an old cd that holds many memories. I gave my old unit away. That was dumb of me. You can still get them but they are pricey.
As a hand weaver, big thumbs up for cloth napkins, table runners, and tea towels! Love to make ‘em and love to use them!
new subscriber, thanks for your wisdom 😊 and agree, nothing beats real books smell, texture, art work covers
Wow, a newer car with a CD layer! 😮
❤ Love love love cooking in cast iron.
And oooooo cloth napkins! ❤❤❤
Love real books, but on Kindle I can enlarge the type, make notes without guilt, look up words with a touch, share a passage with friends, and read an entire novel in one night without pain in hands and wrists. Oh, and carry my library with me anywhere! 😊
Paper planning all the way
Great video Jen! The house I grew up in also had a “milk door”. I’m with you regarding real books. I’m a dedicated user of our local public library; I’ve never adapted to e-reading but can appreciate that others love it. Re the cloth napkins; I have a memory of a family who used them however they’d only get washed a couple of times a week. Each family member had their own with a personalized napkin ring. After the meal the napkins would be rolled up, secured with the appropriate napkin ring and tossed into a wicker basket for use at the next meal. I’m not a germ-a-phobe as I sure ate my share of dirt when I was a kid but this grossed me right out. I think cloth napkins are great but if you’re living with others shouldn’t they be laundered after each use?
I really enjoy your content - keep up the great work!
Ahhh the memories 😊. My 2008 Escape also had a 6 disc player in it. The replacement vehicle as of 3 mo.ago is a 2020 Escape and is a whole new ballgame. Love your quirky teapot! Have a lovely day lady 🎉
Yes lovely
I've kept my great-grandmothers kitchen apron to cook at Christmas time. She made it by hand with Christmas material. I also use a set of her China everyday to eat on.
Thank you! Love your viideos! I have a toaster that was given to my parents as a wedding gift....1951. Works beautifully.
Just love your talks and your wit, thanks very much, my fav is the iron skillet ( i have several also) my first was a wedding gift from my mother 60 years ago.
I love those old cast irons - they are like heirlooms!
I inherited a big, old, teacher's wood desk that may have been used by Mrs. Hartley who was my 1st and 3rd grade teacher. As life would have it my family moved into a big house catty-cornered to her house. Anyway, I enjoy this desk which is still in great shape. It comes apart to move it, however, it is heavy and grown men have complained about moving it. As an aside, Mrs. Hartley had BEAUTIFUL cursive handwriting!
I can't believe we have so much in common. It's awesome 👌 ❤We have the same pan.
Aromatic memories! Love it. Really enjoyed this video,Jen.
Thank you!
Your passion about tea and books, mirrors mine exactly. Oh, the aroma of a beautiful tea steeping in a pretty tea pot is heavenly and to pair it with a book I loved and am rereading 50 years later, is nothing short of comfortable happiness, always. I am so happy that I discovered your channel this evening, you have brought back such a lovely nostalgic feeling, thank you, very much.
My Grandmothers Old Corning ware, my grandmother crocheted everything, I still have it all. Very old Tupperware, I still use. I enjoy your videos thank you
I agree with the Corningware, especially the sunflowers. But, the plastic Tupperware should not be saved, they have forever chemicals like PFAs. Please do not use old plastic.
A woman after my own heart ❤
I"m on Season 6 episode 3. I watch them at least once a year always in order, followed by the movies, I even bought the DVDs for when I have no wifi. I have read the Downton Abbey cookbooks, tea book and cocktail book at the Library but I want to buy all 3 books, they're simply lovely from the cloth covers to the gorgeous pictures. It's my comfort show. Other people turn to Gilmore Girls but for me it's Downton Abbey and all things Jane Austen. My birthday present to myself was ordering real Devonshire clotted creme.
I just replaced my 2006 car's CD player 😂 I have all my CDs in both my car and my 94 Campervan, I had to buy an adapter to change the van from cassette to play CDs😂
I love my kindle, I take it everywhere but I will never give up physical books. I still have all my books from childhood and it breaks my heart that I've had to downsize my library. I comfort myself with the goal that when I get my cozy cottage built I'm having an entire wall of built in bookshelves and I will buy all my old friends back ❤
TU Jen for sharing,and to your fans for their input ,such fun!
My wooden cooking utensils, planner, paying bills using my checkbook, mailing actual birthday cards
lol I lived in my van over the summer and used cloth napkins AND silver cutlery! Loved it!
Yes, cast iron skillets! In a variety of sizes. I have in the last couple of years repurposed old tablecloths from the thrift stores by cutting them and sewing napkins. I also love vintage cookbooks, especially the ones prior to 1960. These have recipes more truly from scratch, often without convenience ingredients. I have an antique, heavy ice cream scoop that looks more like a spatula-love this thing. My treadle sewing machine. I still have a gazillion books, but I use my Kindle for traveling. I love the smell of the ink. Hall China teapot and a ball jug for water.
As a fellow CD enthusiast I will say you can get a small CD player that plugs into your laptop when you want to read or write them! It’s a life saver for my laptop that doesn’t have that drive.
My laptop has a block so those plug-in CD/DVD drives don't work.
Wow - for over 30 years I’ve wondered what that little outdoor nook was for on my old house. Who knew it was for milk?
So you never figured out why it opened up to the inside? 8:40
Oh happy days! Another tea party for me today, thank you - real books, I collected music stamps which I still have - framed nowadays - and a passion for old recipe books...enjoyed the journey today, thanks!
I have a library and will never give up my physical book,s but......there is nothing like taking hundreds of books and magazines on my Kindle when I travel. I used to haul bags of books on vacation. Now, noway. My Kindle is so small I can take it in my purse to doctor apps. Etc. Love it.
My mother had collections of authors, over 10,000 books and built a library just for the books. We grew up reading way before TV and after.
PHYSICAL. BOOKS. Yes, and hallelujah! I have a couple of e-readers, but I don't like them and never use them except to check the formatting of my own e-books on digital platforms (I'm a writer.) I've found I interact with the text differently in a real book, I'm more engaged, I enjoy it more, it's just a very different experience. I also reread my favorite books fairly often, and one of the things I enjoy when doing so is knowing what's coming on the next page, anticipating a favorite phrase or passage in a specific spot. That's not possible on an ereader, or at least not in the same way. There's something inherently comforting about real books, and I will never give them up.
"AROMATIC MEMORIES"!!!! I love it!😂😂
Yes Jen, too many timeless treasures to mention. Many books including some collectables from childhood. And cookbooks - though confess I don't do as much cooking now the family is grown and left home. My vintage dolls - Sindy, Patch, Tammy, Tiny Tears, First Love etc. Some very vintage Christmas tree decorations from childhood. Still have a few favourite CDs and DVDs. Magazines.And, of course, teapots and strainer. Hoarder? Maybe, but a very orderly one. Now the kids have grown and left home I have the space and my hoard makes me happy.