Kenny, you work picking up old appliance? That's cool. Lucky you. Always something new. Like a surprise party every time. I remember picking up appliances from the rear entrance of a dealer. Each day, I had no idea what would be there.
If your profile is up to date, you still have some frigs? Nice collection.
But heaven forbid you had been around in 2002 and admitted to your 70s color interest. My math is a bit off- year 2002 minus 20 years, as specified in the forum = 1982. Now, the arbitrary year is 1992, soon to be 1993. Not my rules. I wasn't the one who put up the hissy fit.
There is a certain group of people here who are SPECULATORS, as there most likely is in any group that collects things. These are the people who only participate if an item is worth money, or if they think they can make it worth money. It appeared that their belief was that stuff from the 1950s was some how ~~ desirable above all else. Which is a typical, self-centered, juvenile attitude of the baby boomer. Anything getting into the 70s or newer was, (rolling eyes) some how inferior. blah, blah. It doesn't work that way.
It's shallow, and those people aren't trustable, in my opinion, because their perspective is biased by greed.
I migrate to this site strictly for the fun and memories. I've easily spent $5000 on my collection and never did it expecting money back. And I don't regret any of it. Hey, if you can resell something for money, thats fine, but, I never expected it.
It's genuine. There is heart in it for me.
And I have had an interest in some of the older machines, such as the combined washer dryers from the 60s, but when I ask about them, those that would know, don't want to spend any time answering me, because they have drawn a pointless line to segregate themselves behind, and I'm over here. So fine, I don't need the snottiness, they aren't going anywhere with that attitude, and the 'attitude' has not stopped me from doing my thing.
Any shallow person can be a speculator, and then we end up with things like the financial mess like the one our country is working its way out of, and our countryside littered with empty, ugly houses that were OVER built on speculation.
Anyway, this is a worthwhile conversation for this forum Because, people come to a site like this, for different reasons.
Some simply need repair help on a current appliance,
some for the memories,
and others because they are looking to see what they can make cash on.
It would be nice if the profiles specified peoples interests.
When I found this site, I was thrilled. Though I had no idea that people were actually participating for the sake of making money by buying and selling the stuff.
Actually, when I started fixing and collecting in 1981ish (and those colors were still being made), I was a bit biased. As I got into the mid 80s, I didn't care for Avacodo or Coffee. In the 2000s it was all just fun and I came to like some things from the 60s, as well.
As for who: I believe it was an obnoxious person from from Boston, there may have been someone from Oklahoma. It was a small, but vocal group. I don't remember exact names... Or if they are part of the AW.org anymore.
It used to be, at least as of a couple of years back, that there was an archive going back to before I joined. Every year, every conversation. Originally it was just all one group, then it was divided up into 3 groups (pink, blue, yellow though the yellow group which was for non-washer related topics was not saved (?)), the other 2 groups were added to that. Apparently Robert has decided that it is a burden to maintain, or I am going blind. There is a lot of good stuff in there. Lots of cool pictures and good information people can actually learn stuff from.
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