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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a metal mixing bowl that my grandma bought after her second husband moved her (and my 10 yr old mom) from Kansas to Oregon in the 1950s. I have a lot of memories of her mixing bread dough or cookie dough etc in that bowl and I love that I have it now. It’s one of my favorite possessions.

I also got her piggy bank. It’s old, mostly white with some pink and blue on it. I always liked looking at it as a kid, and learning about counting money with its contents. In her 80s she moved to a retirement community and they’d play bingo with dimes. I haven’t touched the contents of the bank and it still has her bingo dimes just as she left them when she died in December 2003.[/quote]

My grandma (both grandma's actually) lived in farmhouses without indoor plumbing. My maternal grandma had a couple of white enamel dishpans used for washing dishes (water heated on woodstove, although she used electric for cooking). I always got stuck drying at family gatherings because, of course, being a girl.

Years later, my mom and I were visiting one of my mom's brothers, and his wife told us she'd been making bread dough (for homemade buns) that morning using grandma's dishpan as a bread bowl and thinking about grandma.

I have my other grandma's worktable (maybe it was called something else?) from her pantry. It has a pull out cutting board and 2 bin drawers--the sides and back are wood with a metal sheet that goes from the top of the drawer and curves under. Those were where flour and sugar were kept.

She had a gold watch, a brooch type (cover opens like a pocket watch) she wore pinned to her dress when she was young, my mother inherited that, then my younger sister. [/quote]

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