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Some Things Never Grow Old
Even if their owners do
What household item do you wish lasted longer? Which product do you have that never died? (Do Capozucca)
This is the most difficult challenge I have faced — at least this month. I usually just ignore the ones for which I have no interest or response. But this month I am on a mission.
I have no honest answer to “What household item do you wish lasted longer?” But I think there are products here that never died.
We have items that have been with us and in use for some 60 years or more. I know this because they were wedding gifts or items we bought as newlyweds. One is a set of CorningWare. I understand they are now “vintage” collectors’ items, often advertised on eBay and places like that.
We had a set of four, but one was lost to a neighbor. We took a casserole to him when he was feeling ill. Unfortunately, he died a few days later. The house was shuttered, and remains so several years later. So we lost both a friend and a pot!
Stangl Dinnerware was well known in the Northeast USA around the time we were wed (1963). We visited the pottery in Flemington, NJ, and…
