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Remember the wearever triple pots on ebay listed as canisters? Well, I bought them. Turns out the woman who sold them lives a few miles from me so I was able to pick them up.
I knew that they were going to be too big for the T'well but then I also felt that one pot at a time is better than none, right?
I just got them home and they FIT, all three together, in the well. I'll be right back, I am doing my happy dance.
Well, I paid 28.00 for these things and my husband is trying to figure a way to use the brackets on the side to get them out of there when hot...
I know they are not legitimate Chambers pots but 28.00? I feel like I found a bargain.
Linda
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Linda...HOORAY for you! I'm even smiling for you after hearing that! What else did she have? Laura
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Way to Go! Good for you for taking a chance. Those were cool enough looking to sit on the counter.
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Thanks. Sadly, she has nothing else in Wearever. But I will keep on trying!
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I really have to thank Tura and other members of this board. I never would have noticed them if it had not been brought to my attention here. Plus I would have believed they were canisters, if not for the links posted.
Thank you!
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Congrats on the pots. I have the same set without lids.
So are you jwhite001?
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my husband is. Are you dreamcatcher? If so, I think you outbid me on a stove!
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Yes, that's me. It looks like you and I and Frank have been bidding on many of the same things. We all have good taste and great minds think alike, right?
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Great taste and a great stove. I think they go hand in hand, don't you?
Linda
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Hey,
Great score on the pots. Don't get to tired doing the happy dance or you won't have any energy to use them!
I was at so many flea markets, gargage and tag sales today. Found nothing, nada , nix!!! I'm trying to get some lisk roasters, chambers pots and Tura's wear-ever chicken bucket! They'll show up eventually. The double pots are so hard to find... thats the only set I need to be complete. If I find any of the others I'll grab them and offer them to people on the board.
Treatmaker
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I know there's supposedly no such thing as a stupid question, but this might be the exception. But, since we're all in the Happy Chambers Family, I know you'll all forgive my ignorance. So, tell me what is the difference between a tag sale and a garage sale?
Ann
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Ann, lol...garage sale, tag sale = one in the same! Pete
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Linda,
Do the lids have handles on the top? That's how I lift mine out, with a kind of alternate down pressure on the clips to keep it closed.
If no bracket/handles on top maybe you can solder something...I only have used one at a time anyway...you know ...oatmeal...V
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The lids have handles but no clips on the side to anchor them closed. There is a bracket on the outside (curved side) and my husband is working on something. I'll keep you posted
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In Dallas, estate sales sound the same as tag sales. A true estate sale here is held in the original owners home, sometimes by professionals, or sometimes by the children/heirs. Sometimes the original owners are still alive, but giving up most of their belongings to move to their retirement home. This is where you find the true deals, and also learn alot about lifestyles over the past 50 years or so. However, it has become fasionable to have 'estate sales' so sometimes they are really garage sales & moving sales - a different thing altogether.
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We have tag sales, estate sales,and garage sales here in western NY. The estate sales and tag sales can get you some good deals. However, they are quite popular and you can stand on line for hours to get into a house.
Sadly, I find that for the most part the only difference between a garage sale and garbage is the letter b. Some people try to sell stuff I would be embarassed to throw away!
However, that being said, I cannot believe the finds my sister-in-law finds. She has lived in Florida and is now in North Carolina so I think she is just really good at finding the good deals.Me? not so lucky.(except for my triple pots!!!! had to get that one in here somehow)
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I asked the same question about tag sales when I was talking to Treatmaker because I also thought they must be garage/lawn sales. At least on Long Island, where she lives, they're not the same.
At a Long Island tag sale, someone, usually a professional, comes in and runs the sale of the contents of an entire household, usually for the heirs of a person who has passed away. They are run inside the original house. (Maybe some estate sales run this way, but where I live, the stuff in estate sales is moved off site to be sold.)
The tag sale system seems a lot different from a lawn/garage sale, where the items for sale are castoffs (junk) the seller no longer wants.
I wish we had tag sales around where I live. [img]frown.gif[/img]
-jenn
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Ann,
Thanks for asking the question I could not bring myself to. That said, my sister in law as a side business runs a lot of estate sales, and I have her on the lookout for anything Chambers.
Lori and Lindaw, who knew you guys were jwhite and dream catcher. I feel like I should have known. I will keep in mind the next time I bid on anything Chambers. I don't want to artificially increase the price of these things. Just so you guys know, I am looking at the T-well cover that appeared on ebay and will be bidding. Let me know if you are interested and I will back away. My Wife says I've spent too much on this thing already. Just wait til her reaction after I purchase the parts for the safety system.
cheers,
Frank
Owner of a 90C from Iowa
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Hi Lindaw,
Where in NC is your sister in Law? I am in Asheville. Perhaps she could let me know if she happens to run accross a Chambers (that she or you don't want) here in NC?
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In South Texas, a garage sale is more or less an individual or group of friends/relatives selling used items in the garage or yard. We can have one every 6 mo in the city I live.
Estate sale is where you hire a professional (who gets a commission, usaully) to price items, advertise, arrange the help/money collecting, etc... It usually a person who's downsizing, going into assisted living/nursing home or is deceased.
We don't have tag sales. I think it's a Northern term, like pail/bucket or soda/pop/cola.
Berlyn
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In Detroit, there are Garagre Sales, Estate Sales and Rummage Sales. Estate Sales, supposedly, indicate that it is indeed an estate being dissolved. Garage sales are more spontaneous "let's get rid of the junk" sales and rummage sales are organizational sales, like churches, schools......there are also weekend flea markets, usually over priced affairs and the best are the "city wide garage sales" which more and more communities are now doing. A small city will take a three or four day period, say, thursday through sunday, 8am till 8pm and sell a minimum fee license to all residents who want to load up their driveways with what they hope will be treasures to those who come to buy. The city wide is the best...with a map and a lot of dollar bills, you can do really well....like my Saarinen table and four chairs for $35!
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Hey guys!!
Who cares where you go, with Chambers 2nd hand is the way to find your "finds"!!
They don't make'em anymore.
Several weekends ago, hubby and I go to a antique store in one of the nearby small towns.
I'd call this place a junk store instead!! Nasty and cluttered!! It was "trails" on the inside through the rooms, with junk piled in piles. It was "overwhelming" & spooky for me. I looked around on the outside and saw a pile of pots and pans on the ground and started rummaging through them. Hubby was on the lookout for snakes and I made sure I could jump back incase of an encounter face to face with one!! I'm a good backwards jumper.
No snakes, but one lid for a single pot for 25 cents!! Now on the prowl for a bottom pot.
Any of ya'll ever "dumpster dived"??? I have a story for that one, actually several!!
Berlyn
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What nearby small town? I am going to be so "out of sorts" if a chambers 'something' is found near me...V
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The small town near me was Halletville, TX. I've been to all the small towns around me in search of anything Chambers related.
The lid was my only find so far.
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Phoebe,
My sister-in-law also lives in Asheville. Do you know where Riceville Road is? She has ony been there a year. Before that she was in Black Mountain and before that Morganton. She moves a lot!
I am jealous of your weather. Here in Rochester, it is so cold today- wind chill of about 3. Brr. So it is so nice to come home to my beautiful stove and cook something warm and comforting! Which will never, ever be (gag) oatmeal!
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I should also add that garage/tag/estate sales and consignment/thrift shops are something she loves to do. I will be sending her info on what I am looking for and will keep you posted. Trust me- if it is anywhere in your area, she will be able to find stuff! With her luck? It will find her.
Linda
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I have never told this story and my wife will kill me if she finds out I'm telling it now. The first year we owned our stove, Mr. Simmons was the year we lived in the old Simmon's house. I was 30 and my wife was 26 and we had no children yet.
It had been a rough couple of years of very close relatives dying one right after the other. I was just learning how to cook things on this big honking Chambers stove, and falling in love with it, when I decided I'd cook something in the well. This was way before the Internet, so I had no Chambers instructions and I actually had to dig up a cook book to find recipes to try out in the well.
I had cooked several things successfully and finally fixed some kind of soup with lentils and other things and I really went way overboard and came up with a very rich, thick soup that wasn't very tasty at all. I had added way too many starchy things.
So we both ate a bowl of the mess and decided it wasn't so hot. I left it in the original Chambers well pot meaning to throw it out to the dogs. And I forgot. At some point my very cruel and witchy mother in law called and said she was coming to visit.
Our method of cleaning quickly in those days was to grab up everything in sight and carry it up to the attic to hide until her mom was gone. So up to the attic went this pot of soup (lord I know what you all must think) and the end of the story is weeks later when I went back up to the attic my soup had eaten a hole thru my original pot...just ate it up.
So all these years I've been using some piece of **** pot so poorly made it doesn't even have a name stamped on it. And every time I do I feel ashamed for being such a screw up when I was younger. My mother in law is dead now and so we just don't bother to clean anything......see how much wisdom comes with age?
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Hey Joe, small world. I grew up in Ft. Smith -- went to Southside High. Left for college in '91, and haven't lived there since, though I still have family there.
Chris
