We have an heirloom!

[Dangerosa]

@Amateur_Barbarian

I remember finding boxes with the old K-Mart stickers on them, and the family prize was a can of Schilling paprika, the round red metal kind, with a sticker on the bottom from a grocery chain that closed in the 1960s. I don’t know how old it was, but I remember it being on the shelf when I was a wee one, several years before that. (My mother was raised as a Scandinavian farm cook; what she was doing with a can of paprika is a complete mystery.)

Fun to find this stuff.

A friend’s mother just died. His daughter inherited his Scandanvian mother’s “spice cabinet” - one can of ground pepper that was half used and at least 50 years old.

I had to go buy thread for a project I was doing - the thread I had kept breaking - it was from my grandmother’s sewing basket, was on a wooden spool and labeled 5¢.