I love vintage aluminum kitchenware and remember with fondness, the pieces that I grew up with. When I see them in shops, they are almost always dinged up and in pretty rough shape after 50 odd years of being used daily. So when I spied a small measuring cup that was in pristine shape and had a $2.50 sticker on the bottom, I snatched it up!
My next discovery was in Walnut Cove and wasn't quite as cheap. I found a booth containing radios from the '40s and '50s. You might remember that I purchased a wooden one in pretty rough shape in Williamsburg that I gutted (it didn't work) with plans to repurpose it in The Cup using my iPod and iHome speaker.
That was the plan until I saw this 1940 RCA radio that worked and I was reduced to mush. I looked at it, then walked away. I looked at it again and I walked away again. I went looking for Becky to show it to her, but she was nowhere to be found.
It had an information sheet attached giving me all the specs and info. Did I mention that it still worked?! In the end, I bought it for two big reasons: number one, I loved it and number two, with a 10% discount it was only $10 more than the one I originally bought that DIDN'T work. Take a look at this beauty that will be going in my java camper.
I think you'll agree that I had great success with things I wasn't really looking for. That's what junkin' is all about!