Had a great time reading all your stories. Nearly every thing I do these days is "vintage" - just hope I'll make it to "antique" status. I still make my egg salad with the wire egg cutter, cook my own dinners, grow my own chard, lettuce and spinach - they green up the flower beds nicely. Use a hand crank glass nut chopper. Am pleased I don't have to hand pump my well water, however - and am grateful for the modern niceties that my mom didn't have - automatic washing machines, vacuum cleaners, etc. And I still love making blankets "the hard way" like my grandmothers did way back when.