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Old 07-16-2021, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
A metal Mouli cheese grater made in 1954
Stuff made in years past was made to last.

My brother has a refrigerator that my parents bought when they were first married--back in 1947. I remember growing up with it; it lived in an unheated porch and as I grew up in Minnesota that meant that it really only had to work about six months of of any given year. But my brother has it in his basement and it works as well now as it ever did. Probably not the most economical when it comes to using electricity, but...