Junk Drawer

I like old, vintage windows like these, because I like vintage homes. Even though they can be drafty, and sometimes rattle in the wind like a haunted house, old windows just go well with the vintage-ness of an old house or apartment. My old bedroom window was not very well insulated, and it used to get all foggy, and even icy. Now I have new, well-sealed windows, and it makes things warmer, but I kind of miss the old ones in some ways. I wonder if removing old windows takes away something from a vintage house. If these windows were original to the house, it’s like throwing a part of the house away. I suppose if it were an issue of coldness, I would have replaced the windows too. But I would have saved one, at least, to remember what they were like.

This kitchen gadget was one of many fine items from my family garage sale. It is called the “Corn Cutter.” For those who enjoy fresh corn on the cob, but prefer it to be off the cob, the Corn Cutter is designed to do the trick. The problem is, the only real trick is just getting kernels off the cob without them turning to mush. This cutter also conveniently claims to make cream style corn, which is basically just mush. This mushy corn dish was most likely invented by people who were inept at getting corn off the cob. The Corn Cutter was tested at the dinner table, and it created quite a mess.

We wondered if it was adjusted properly, or if the blade was dull, despite it being sealed in the original package.
The Corn Cutter seemed like a good idea when it was purchased at a garage sale earlier in the year. Before it was retired to a junk drawer, we offered it for sale. I never understood the interest in de-cobbing corn anyway, except for those who have braces. But if the person who bought it can make it work, then great. Otherwise, I’d recommend the old fashioned way, and just use a knife.

This find is a bunch of old 3D glasses. These I got at a garage sale actually for a specific event, of which Junk Drawer will be a part. (More news on this soon.)
So these glasses probably won’t be in a junk drawer anytime soon, but they still make good junk drawer items. For one thing, they have been sitting around somewhere for the last 10 years. That’s when the guy who owned these purchased them for some nightclub, and never used them up by the time the club closed down. I’d never seen so many, and they came on sheets of 17. I would assume many 3D glasses end up in junk drawers. There aren’t that many 3D movies that have been around, so going to one is kind of a neat experience, and the glasses make great souvenirs. It’s not likely most of these saved glasses will ever be used again. If you do go to another 3D movie, you can get a new pair there. And you can’t really use the glasses for anything else.
The last 3D movie I went to had glasses with clear lenses, and they didn’t look futuristically odd like the red and blue. I guess there is a new type of polarized lenses. Also, you didn’t get to keep the glasses.
When I was a kid I went to 3D movie of Jaws, with the traditional glasses. It wasn’t a good movie, except for some 3D fish. Then I had some magazine or something that had a 3D image. I remember trying to create such an image myself by drawing one with red and blue pencils, in overlapping outlines. It didn’t get the desired effect, but it was pretty fascinating trying to figure out how it all worked. If nothing else, the glasses made for a neat disguise, especially if you wanted to play like you were a robot, or an alien. You could blink your eyes, left and right, and see in red or blue. Even after you stopped playing with them, it wasn’t easy to part with such cool glasses, because they had helped you to see things in a new way.