Same. I still have down pillows my mom bought for me in the late twentieth century (lol, had to) as well as linen and cotton percale sheets from my grandmother from 1930's Ireland. With proper cleaning and care they are still great.

Frette or Sferra is the equivalent of old Wamsutta from the 1950's. Frette is mostly what I buy, but Sferra and Anachini are also excellent.

OMG! I have seen those in British tv shows. I want one so badly. I have high ceilings in America and I very much want a British cast iron pulley ceiling dryer.

The floor based IKEA rack is still good, but I have Victorian dreams.

Percale and sateen are two different weaves. Percale is a simple over/under where warp and weft are equally exposed. It's sturdier and good if you sleep hot. Sateen has more exposed weft and feels silky, it's less breathable and good if you sleep cold.

I dry our clothes inside our home. It has little to do with our neighbor's meat smoking, which I am unsure if they do, but everything to do about efficiently drying our clothing without chemicals or energy.

I recommend the Ikea Mulig drying rack, holds a twenty pounds of dry clothes. Maybe 30lb wet.

Fabric softener is synthetic or natural beef tallow with petrochemical fragrance, so really don't get why you are discouraging a suggestion for a natural line dry.

Do you specifically enjoy having your clothing covered in synthetic beef fat and chemicals? I prefer Air.

Frette percale at around 250tc. Don't buy anything over 350 thread count. Any brand saying that they have over 350 is selling short cotton staples in multi ply yarn to increase count through math. It falls apart.

1000tc is a true statement of having bad product. It will fall apart; It is made to.

You'll need to spend what you're parents did, which is like $500 a set. (Look at an inflation calculator. It's a comparable sum).

I'd go with the best reviewed Rowenta, however your budget might not hit a bilf product. Expect maybe 7 years of moderate to heavy use.

I have a steam Oliso and a reservoir steam Rowenta, both are about ten years old. What you do need to do to maintain whatever you choose, and your textiles, is only fill it with distilled water. Distilled water only.

However much I like Wawa sandwiches, I could drive to Westchester for free a little bit easier than Redhook, NJ is a hefty return toll and insane roads.

New Rochelle would have been an amazing location.

You're comment here, of information I already knew, has no impact or alteration for my personal opposition to nickel plating in this scenario.

While I do agree that nickel is a finer finish, replating in nickel while it is embossed as "chrome steel" would be so disordered in my brain!

If OP doesn't have pendant issues they should totally do that though :)

Consider getting it rechromed, then it'll be ready for another 60 years of service.

For a BIFL purifier a Venta Air washer is great and doesn't have expensive disposable filter waste. It's also an evaporative humidifier.

We have a few Honeywell quietset tower fans, not sure if they are BIFL, but we've had them for about five years and they haven't had issues and the oscillation is still smooth.

A. Figure out your size in USA men's, AUS, or euro and set up alerts on second hand sites. Rm Williams goes down to a us women's 4 and will last decades.

B. Vegan leather is petrochemicals, plant based leather is still polymerization of cellulose that won't biodegrade outside of an industrial facility and both are generally faced on a poly/nylon structure. Ew. They're also both bad at being shoes.

C. No one is manufacturing recycled leather Goodyear welt boots at scale. If you want that? Buy bespoke.

If you don't care about any of the above consider anything designed by Stella McCartney. It will be vegan.

Seconds will end up at tjmaxx/HomeGoods/Marshalls, or from their factory sale, and they are generally punched stamped with a "S" on the underside of the handle.

They also sell first quality at the factory sales that have wonky boxes, which is a great value if you aren't giving them as a gift.

And they are currently having a factory sale, so great opportunity to get some coppercore or they have that set you're looking at for $599

https://homeandcooksales.com

I have mostly copper core and some D3, I prefer the copper core for responsiveness. I mostly use the 1, 1.5, and 4 quart sauce pots, the wok (10 or 12 inches), and a 10 inch frying pan, and a 5 quart 12 inch braiser.

I might polish them once a year with bar keepers friend, but they go through the dishwasher daily. I've had them almost 15 years and they still look new.

All retail sells the same grade unless marked as a Second.

There's a class of systems that were built during the 1918 flu epidemic that are steam and crazy to live with. There's no water hammer capable in them, as they steam and boil out at their top nozzle.

If you don't leave your windows open in the winter the systems don't work correctly, and if you do keep your windows closed or turn off the radiator valves you will die from heat stroke or an explosion of some sort? Whatevs. It's a ridiculous mystery and we all just live in millions of apartments that have free heating while needing to leave our windows open all winter with exhaust fans in the window sashes to blow out the insanely hot steamed air.

It's calamity! It's so ridiculous it barely makes sense explaining it to anyone that doesn't live in a building of this specific age in this specific location.

Otherwise heating systems, in most American homes, have similarities to European systems, but NYC around 1920 was ridiculous and a bunch of us are still living in that.

Yup, I've definitely done that before when I couldn't find my human thermometer.

A fuck-ton. In addition to more energy to run it, OP has a vented dryer which is blowing out 200 cubic feet of air per minute from inside their house, which means their Furnace or AC is working harder to make up replacement climate controlled air for their homes interior.

Vented dryers are energy hogs on multiple fronts.

In the US there are ventless condenser, ventless heat pump, and the, unfortunately, more popular vented super inefficient gas or electric dryers.

They are so inefficient they're not even legal to use in some European countries.