Like Lima Beans, Either You Love 'Em Or You Hate 'Em

Of all the household fixtures that this dumpster diver rues seeing headed to a landfill, vintage colored bathroom fixtures are near the top of my list. Plain white toilet, even a working one?  Good riddance!  Pink, yellow or blue toilet or sink?  "Hey, who is going to take this home?"  (It sucks that they are so heavy!)  I don't need any colored bathroom fixtures right now, but I know that there is a market for the wonderfully colored toilets and (especially) sinks from 1950's America and, well... it seems such a shame to see them trashed so easily.  Leave it at the curb for at least a few hours to see if someone will take it away before putting it in the trailer!  

If the Second Show thrift store had gotten hold of the pink toilet in the trailer full of renovation waste that I noticed this morning on Washington Street, they could have sold it for at least 50 bucks.  And an antiques dealer could probably resell it for 10 times that.  Instead, that potential money and a likely functional piece (and conversation piece) of American history are off to a landfill somewhere in central New York.  And just like that there's one less pink toilet in the world!

Pink lid and seat too!  So sad (for some!).

Crazy factoid of the day, thanks to the internet:  Pam Kueber, of the website Save the Pink Bathrooms, estimates that one in four houses built between 1946 and 1966 featured a pink bathroom.