“I’m not making light of the new ones but we need to hold on to the old ones.”
Last night’s video: The Family History and Stories of Opal Corn Myers 33.
Tipper
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I have wrote before about collecting and restoring Coleman lantern. I have models from the teen years of the 1900’s on up to modern day. Along around the 1980’s, Coleman began to “cheapened” their products by using cheaper, thinner metal and plastic. Many other companies have did the same thing with their products. Many items now are not intended to be fixed when they break. Buying a new item is cheaper than trying to fix it, especially if you have to pay someone else to repair it. The idea of “out with the old and in with the new” can apply to many, many different things, not only an item like a lantern. Like it or not we now live in “a throwaway world” with many things. Two items I quickly think of that I have repaired, a Coleman stove blocked by a dirt dauber in the air tube and a Murray push mower than only needed a 10 cent bolt in the handle. Both were being thrown away. For people throwing things away like this, I can only say “their money came a lot easier for them than mine did for me.”
My Mommy always said the old and lousy was better than the new and improved. 🙂
A wonderful message!
The old ones have been tested, tried and found true. Out with the old and in with the new is often a monumental mistake.
Whatever the “ones” are, I’m inclined to agree. For myself, I do not want to cultivate a “throwaway” mentality. And to me, that starts with “small things”. Critics like to say that is being a Srooge (because they think it must be about money) but I see it differently. By the way, really like that ” making light of” phrase. That is such an Appalachian form of phrasing. But it also has the Appalachian spirit of softening words about a personal preference so as to not condemn a different opinion unheard.
Love y’all.
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