'Vintage mundane'

[story]

Kelloggs cereal bowls!
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Are these strictly mundane though?

Didn't we have to save up tokens and send off for them?

 

[story]

Like, I’m thinking of Fred the Flour Grader, but he’s not mundane imo so I’ve not posted him up here.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I literally found it by googling 'that brown crockery set everyone had' (it's Denby 'Arabesque')

i remember seeing it, but don't think mum-tat would have approved of it.

Like the teacups with the orange flowers.

they look faintly familiar - although it reminds me a bit of the 1970s wallpaper that mum-tat still has in one room.

Although I don't have any for me it's the green Beryl west crockery. Always reminds me of a neighbour/bonus Gran from when I was little.

that reminds me of the teacups that my primary school teachers had.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Silas Loom]

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Those are still highly desirable by any standards, though.

 

[Fez909]

is this vintage or 'retro'?

 

[Epona]

Those are still highly desirable by any standards, though.

Yeah I think some of the point of "mundane" is being missed here.
Should be stuff that was available cheap and still not worth much.
Le Creuset pots are not in that category, they are out of the price range of many.

 

[Orang Utan]

Those are still highly desirable by any standards, though.

Yes, they’re fantastic. Quite mundane though.

 

[Epona]

Yes, they’re fantastic. Quite mundane though.

They aren't mundane, Le Creuset is high end expensive stuff. Certainly didn't grow up with any of that around.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

in terms of what i've got,

every day dinner plates that are nothing exciting - got them from a factory shop when i set up home in north staffordshire in about 1991. did get some side plates (not matching them) which i think were surplus / seconds from a debenhams set. all but one have got broken. and some very basic cereal bowls, some got broken and two ended up as dishes for the cats.

i have one of these (must have bought it about 1992)



it lives in the kitchen, so don't use it much - i still have a dwindling number of cassettes that work without making more noise than the music (i was a fairly late convert to CD player in the car)

and i have an early 1990s hi-fi stack of bits which i bought about 10 years ago.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Orang Utan]

They aren't mundane, Le Creuset is high end expensive stuff. Certainly didn't grow up with any of that around.

I did. Still have them as they’re such good investments.
Still mundane though, considering what they’re for.

 

[Epona]

I did. Still have them as they’re such good investments.
Still mundane though, considering what they’re for.

Good for you.
My sister in law is a complete le creuset snob, glad for her that she is able to buy them (or her parents buy them for her, because one shouldn't cook using anything less), but they are not in the price bracket of most people and therefore aren't really what is being referred to in this thread.

 

[story]

Orang utan is right. Orang utan is always always right, regardless of any and every factor outwith his immediate and subjective perceptive range, he is always and unfailingly right.

 

[Orang Utan]

Good for you.
My sister in law is a complete le creuset snob, glad for her that she is able to buy them (or her parents buy them for her, because one shouldn't cook using anything less), but they are not in the price bracket of most people and therefore aren't really what is being referred to in this thread.

I disagree. Mundane doesn’t necessarily mean cheap. And this is Urban and quite a few of us have them.
I got my own ones on a massive discount - £30 for a casserole, griddle pan and gratin dish! It arrived with the gratin dish broken, so they sent me another set for free.

 

[Orang Utan]

Orang utan is right. Orang utan is always always right, regardless of any and every factor outwith his immediate and subjective perceptive range, he is always and unfailingly right.

This is true of anyone mind

 

[Epona]

I disagree. Mundane doesn’t necessarily mean cheap. And this is Urban and quite a few of us have them.
I got my own ones on a massive discount - £30 for a casserole, griddle pan and gratin dish! It arrived with the gratin dish broken, so they sent me another set for free.

A lot of people who are better off than average have them.
That is not in my sphere of experience however.
Most of the stuff on this thread is something I can relate to.

 

[Elpenor]

I bought a set of 4 le creuset pans for a total of £160 in around 2008, that amount was more affordable to me then than it is now some of the pans I have are around £100 a go

The griddle pan got fucked fairly quickly and I no longer have. However I still use the small and larger saucepan and the omelette pan, although they’ve not been used much as I don’t cook that often. They’re in almost perfect condition and will last till they’re too heavy for me to pick them up

 

[Puddy_Tat]

i've also got mum-tat's old GPO 706 phone (akin to this one)

there are people who will convert them so they work on current sockets, i just haven't quite got round to it yet.

 

[Silas Loom]

As if any of us could afford a View Master.

 

[story]

I disagree. Mundane doesn’t necessarily mean cheap. And this is Urban and quite a few of us have them.
I got my own ones on a massive discount - £30 for a casserole, griddle pan and gratin dish! It arrived with the gratin dish broken, so they sent me another set for free.

Mundane means dull, uninteresting, lacking interest.
By that definition View-master is the very opposite of mundane.

Crueset too: Pricey, bright orange/turquoise, outside the budget of the proles unless it’s given as a wedding gift? The opposite of dull, uninteresting. In fact they place and sell themselves as the opposite of mundane.

 

[story]

This is true of anyone mind

No it’s not.

That’s just your biased opinion, based on your own experience.

 

[Epona]

I bought a set of 4 le creuset pans for a total of £160 in around 2008, that amount was more affordable to me then than it is now some of the pans I have are around £100 a go

The griddle pan got fucked fairly quickly and I no longer have. However I still use the small and larger saucepan and the omelette pan, although they’ve not been used much as I don’t cook that often. They’re in almost perfect condition and will last till they’re too heavy for me to pick them up

I've got all the pans I bought in Robert Dyas in a starter pack of cheap cookware for £15 nearly 40 years ago.

 

[Elpenor]

Anyway away from the contentious subject of pans, did anyone or perhaps their older relatives have a crying boy photo

 

[story]

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[Silas Loom]

i've also got mum-tat's old GPO 706 phone (akin to this one)

there are people who will convert them so they work on current sockets, i just haven't quite got round to it yet.

We got a converted one just like that, but in two-tone forest green, ten years ago, but barely used it as even elderly relatives suddenly stopped ringing landlines at that point. It’s still quite decorative, though.

I specified that the insert be printed with the historic exchange name, which for Southgate was ENTERPRISE.

 

[Elpenor]

I've got all the pans I bought in Robert Dyas in a starter pack of cheap cookware for £15 nearly 40 years ago.

Dont know why I bought them tbh as I’m a shit and fairly unenthusiastic cook

 

[Epona]

Anyway away from the contentious subject of pans, did anyone or perhaps their older relatives have a crying boy photo

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Is that one that people believed was cursed or something?

 

[story]

As if any of us could afford a View Master.

And they were so so exciting!

I only ever saw one at other peoples’ houses.