My older granddaughter was halfway through her second pancake when she picked up my mixing bowl and turned it upside down.
“Grandma,” she said, “do you know what this is?”
I did. It’s my pancake bowl. It’s big and yellow, and the batter still had a drip running down the side.
It came from a set of four my mother gave us when we got married. She’d used them since the 1950s, and she wanted us to have them.
The other three went to new homes this fall, but I kept the big yellow one. Every Saturday, it comes out for pancakes.
My granddaughter already had her phone out. A minute later she turned the screen toward me.
Bowls just like mine were selling online for more than I spend on groceries some weeks.
I sat down at the kitchen table with my coffee. Then I looked at my kitchen cabinets a little differently.
If you’ve ever wondered which vintage kitchen items are worth money, and which ones are just old, here’s what we found when we opened every cabinet in my kitchen.
The First Thing to Do Is Turn It Over
My granddaughter taught me this before we touched a single shelf.
Almost every piece of old Pyrex, Fire Kin