I've been finding myself getting exceedingly irritated with how cheap shit is made these days. Seems like anything the major retailers sell today is junk and is usually broken within a year unless you take extra special care of it.
So I've been trying to find older vintage stuff that's cooler and made better than anything I can find in a store these days. Seems like paying twice as much for a better made piece will end up saving you money in the long run. It's crazy how 40, 50, 60 year old pieces will outlast anything you can buy brand new today. I've just began replacing my new chinese made junk with old school vintage products that still work.
My grandpa recently gave me a lunch box just like this one. The first day I took it to work I got around 10 compliments and instantly became the alpha due to raised testosterone levels. It's crazy how small it is compared to the lunch boxes of today. Really shows you how much more we eat these days. If you're going to get one of these and you like taking leftovers to work, start buying some of those Hillshire Farms lunch meat tubs because they fit perfectly in there.
The second thing I recently got was this vintage sprinkler. I've gone through 3 "brand new" versions of these things since I've owned my home. New ones are made of plastic and become brittle when out in the sun. Plus they seem to break when they oscillate back and forth while water runs through them. Strange because that's the whole point of their existence. Anygay, I bought a bad boy very similar to this off ebay over the summer and let me tell you, this thing runs like a raped ape. The metal to plastic ratio alone is enough to give any grandpa out there a boner.
What do you guys have?
So I've been trying to find older vintage stuff that's cooler and made better than anything I can find in a store these days. Seems like paying twice as much for a better made piece will end up saving you money in the long run. It's crazy how 40, 50, 60 year old pieces will outlast anything you can buy brand new today. I've just began replacing my new chinese made junk with old school vintage products that still work.
My grandpa recently gave me a lunch box just like this one. The first day I took it to work I got around 10 compliments and instantly became the alpha due to raised testosterone levels. It's crazy how small it is compared to the lunch boxes of today. Really shows you how much more we eat these days. If you're going to get one of these and you like taking leftovers to work, start buying some of those Hillshire Farms lunch meat tubs because they fit perfectly in there.
The second thing I recently got was this vintage sprinkler. I've gone through 3 "brand new" versions of these things since I've owned my home. New ones are made of plastic and become brittle when out in the sun. Plus they seem to break when they oscillate back and forth while water runs through them. Strange because that's the whole point of their existence. Anygay, I bought a bad boy very similar to this off ebay over the summer and let me tell you, this thing runs like a raped ape. The metal to plastic ratio alone is enough to give any grandpa out there a boner.
What do you guys have?