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| Post# 471906 10/28/2010 at 06:40 (4,925 days old) by HooverJames () | ||
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When you started collecting? If you started young (like me) did you have much bother with your parents and did you travel far to get your first pieces? I need answers because I'm having a spot of bother. James. | ||
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| Post# 471907 , Reply# 1 10/28/2010 at 07:02 (4,925 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth) | ||
Um depends really
Depends.
First "Intended Collection" appliance I bought I got when I was 22 in 2006. However I have appliances I bought with my own money from 10 years ago when I was 16. A Kenwood Wizzard hand blender IIRC. However at the age of 12 I inherited my Grans Kenwood Chef A901. I still have it so maybe that counts? | ||
Post# 471916 , Reply# 2 10/28/2010 at 08:18 (4,925 days old) by BrianL  (Saddle Brook, New Jersey) |
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Post# 471918 , Reply# 3 10/28/2010 at 08:26 (4,925 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 471922 , Reply# 4 10/28/2010 at 09:52 (4,925 days old) by Pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI) |
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I got my first washer for my 10th birthday. A Kenmore portable World Washer. I still have that machine today 10 and a half years later! And it seems I've come full circle as I now also have that machine's new cousin, the BD Whirlpool Cabrio. I hope to have the BD agitator washer at some point soon too!
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Post# 471942 , Reply# 5 10/28/2010 at 11:44 (4,925 days old) by abcomatic (Bradford, Illinois) |
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My first washer as an adult was a 1950 Dexter, double-tubbed washer. I have a big basement so I have all sorts of washers now, most of them wringers. | ||
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Post# 471947 , Reply# 6 10/28/2010 at 12:06 (4,925 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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| Post# 471952 , Reply# 7 10/28/2010 at 12:45 (4,925 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys) | ||
hotpoint 95622
Suppose it was about 12 years old until I was about 15 when my dad ordered a skip and removed them while I was at school. He thought I should have more interest in old cars or motor cycles. Then started agene when I found this website and found the 95622, think my step dad is getting fidgety over them being in his garage, I keep saying there will only be one more when I find it and that’s a Hotpoint liberator. That will only be 4 in there.
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| Post# 471958 , Reply# 8 10/28/2010 at 13:18 (4,925 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
Have always had a working Easy since I was 28, then added two wringers in 1995, a Norge and a Maytag, then an Aunt gave me her '78 WP in 2000, next a friend gave me a '77 GE in 2004; but that was it, a handful of machines, until I found Automatic Washer when I was already 50 years old. And now I have exactly 25 washing machines, my childhood dream fulfilled. Look how long it took!
I continue to envy and celebrate the people who discovered a community of washer lovers while they were still young. I lived more than half of my life in total washer-buddy isolation, never having met one single human being who had an interest like I did. Very sad. Little wonder why I worship Robert. | ||
| Post# 471965 , Reply# 9 10/28/2010 at 13:28 (4,925 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD) | ||
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i started with washer parts at around age 8,at age 10 stripped down my first complete machine;a filter flo from around 1967. The first one i drug home(a paperboy helped-LOL)was a monster whirlpool combo from around 1961(was very fixable,wish i had that combo today!!)it was 1979 when i drug home and stripped that WP combo. | ||
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Post# 472001 , Reply# 10 10/28/2010 at 14:58 (4,925 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Though I'd been wild about anything appliance-y for years, as soon as I could drive at 16 I brought home a Hoover twinnie to play with. A few weeks later, I brought home a very early 70's Whirlpool dishwasher. Mother said that was enough, we were out of room. Since the boundary had been established, I gave the dishwasher to a friend who had none and brought home a KDS-18 dishwasher that had a terrible iron affliction. While never getting rid of the Hoover, I had a few other appliances until my mother re-married and we moved. I got rid of the Hoover then and took my '66 Whirlpool Mark IV washer that I had stashed at a friend's house to my grandparent's garage 1 1/2 hours North. Until I bought my townhouse in '87, I found and repaired washers & dryers for my friends who were also moving into their own places. Few appreciated the Hoover and Maytag twinnies the way I did ;-)
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Post# 472028 , Reply# 15 10/28/2010 at 17:14 (4,925 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 Interest began before age 5. Probably between 3 and 5. First working collectible machine as such was prior to age 10. It was a square-tub Maytag wringer given to me by a neighbor (her daughters were sitters for us) when she bought a Whirly automatic pair. Probably I was 8 years old, based on what I recall about the Whirlys. However, I had toys and 'bits and pieces' before that ... a stray agitator, a couple discarded machine tops (a family friend managed the city trash collection service). I remember a Norge top with intact control panel. I'd set it atop a trash can with an agitator inside and play like it was a working machine. | ||
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Post# 472032 , Reply# 16 10/28/2010 at 17:56 (4,925 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago) |
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Very young
I was taking small appliances apart before I was 10. While I was still using the wooden child-seat, my barber caught on to my love of electrical things and every time I got a haircut he'd give me a broken toaster, or an iron or whatever. I was so thrilled when he'd go through the back door and come back out with some new toy for me. Those were the days!
Actually in some ways I think he was trying to get into my mom's pants... but can't prove that one. I'll prescribe to his nobler intent on that one.... I dragged my first big appliance while in grade school. I found a Hoover twinnie under the bridge - on the wrong side of the railroad tracks. I dragged that thing over many sets of tracks and rolled it three blocks home. I'm sure all the neighbors said "Oh - there goes Paul...." Some day at a wash-in I'll tell y'all about rolling a dehumidifier down Michigan Avenue... Or the time I had a TV roll into traffic on Michigan Avenue. ... My sweet home Chicago... | ||
| Post# 473970 , Reply# 19 11/8/2010 at 07:08 (4,914 days old) by nrones () | ||
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since kindergarden xD I was really young, like I was born with washing machine interest, I just know that everyone knows, and remembers me about that.. Sometimes happends: -Do you know Dejan? -No -Really, that"s the washing machine guy -Oh yeah, I know him xDD | ||
| Post# 474192 , Reply# 21 11/9/2010 at 12:59 (4,913 days old) by AquaCycle (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
I've never collected washing machines or larger appliances, but I do have a little collection of vacuums. I didn't get a vacuum of my own, in any form, until I was 16 and got my christmas bonus from my first part time job. I had to sneak it into the house so my Mum wouldn't notice.
My Mum was never very supportive of my interest - she always found it embarrassing. If ever we went anywhere when I was younger and I would mention vacuums or washing machines, I would get grounded as Mum would be "so humiliated by my behaviour". Dad was much more supportive and used to pick up leaflets and such for me. He's a gas engineer and whenever I had to go with him for a job, he would say "where's the man with the vac?" and I'd be there with Henry ready to help clean up. He'd also tell me about interesting washers and vacuums in peoples houses that he had seen, and tell me about my Grandma's Constellation they had when he was young. It wasn't until I was 18 and moved into my own place that I started getting more and more bits and pieces. Mum still doesn't like the fact that I am interested in appliances, but she can't do anything about it now - HA! | ||
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