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Vintage packaging: or why steel wool is a design steal

10/4/2010

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Like most design-crazed bloggers, I love vintage packaging. But I'd rather my vintage packaging be legitimately vintage (as opposed to faux vintage or vintage inspired). I'm a bit of a stickler that way. But these days, when there's so much fake vintage floating about, it's hard to get my fix.

One fail-safe? Steel wool. That's right, I said steel wool. You know, that weird stuff your granny used to use to scrub the pots and pans before the days of teflon?

My favourite brand is Bull Dog. It's versatile. You can use it to distress funture and strip paint, to block holes that might otherwise let in mice, and yes, to clean your pots and pans. And I love the way the package looks.  If it wouldn't annoy Nathan (but it would), I'd buy a whole bunch of it and line it up on my countertop.

I just like the idea of using something in my kitchen that hasn't changed at all in the past fifty years.

Lame? Maybe. But oh-so-vintage fab at the same time.

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Happy Friday! Love, Grandma Jen.
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Angela link
10/5/2010 12:04:56 am

Hey Grandma. You're right that box is awesome. I don't think you can get those in the states. At least not in chicago. Send me some.

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Jen Selk link
10/5/2010 12:20:11 am

Hey Angela,
Maybe we just have old packaging up here because Canadians are so naturally retro? :)

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