Our lives are brought together by the things we have in common. We share friendships that have no boundaries. We see things that are truly unique, and things that are the same. Here we will knit together the strands we share...
Here's my unpolarized plug. This machine was given to me by my husband's grandmother. You can see by the design on the machine that it's an older model. It looks like something out of an Austin Powers movie.
I knew it was old, but I hadn't thought much about it until this project.
Old plug or not, it still works great! Hooray for quality craftsmanship!
This is the oldest plug in our house. Looking the house for an old plug was a challenge. I didn't realize it, but we don't have much plugged into the wall that isn't a TV or computer. But I did finally remember this old metronome. It is my husband's; he used it when he learned piano as a child. His mom sent it to us when his parents recently moved. The cool thing about it is the light on top that beats in tempo to what has been selected.
This plug isn't that old. It came with my Jabra Freespeak BlueTooth headset. I can confidently say that I purchased this no more than five years ago so there definately are still unpolarized plugs out there, just few and far between.
Is that it is attached to this:
If it wasn't for the clever posters below, I'd never have thought of these two things:
A future vintage Brother sewing machine purchased in the 80's and used once every few years or so.
A vintage Sessions clock with a very yellowed cord! The piece that turns the hands fell off so you have to adjust the time with a needlenosed plier. Since I'm too lazy to do it during Daylight Savings time, this clock is one hour off.
I searched my house high and low for something, anything with an unpolarized plug, with no results. After reading Andi's post about the sewing machine, I realized I had something just perfect. A vintage sewing machine my husband picked up at a yard sale a few years back.
It's really a neat piece of machinery... I love the style of it, but as you can tell by the extreme layer of dust, it isn't very useful. . in fact, I'm not even sure it works.... it's just sitting there on a shelf in my garage. . .
I bought it in the eighties, (which REALLY, isn't that long ago, right?) still runs like a top. My trusty Singer sewing machine.
As I'm in the UK our electrical plugs/sockets are completely different. So, as I didn't want to be left out on this one, I thought I'd share a picture of one of our electrical plugs.
You'll see ours have three pins - live, earth and neutral. The extra pin is the earth which grounds the appliance should it become live. Also you can't really see but the third pin is slightly longer and this is to open an internal gaurd in the wall socket which prevents little fingers exploring when the socket is empty!
I am astounded by the amount of these in my house, it's something that has become an issue to me over the years - thinking about how much energy I use in my everyday life and how much of that is really necessary....something as ordinary as an electrical plug can make you look at things in a different way...just think every time you push one into a wall socket - Do I really need to use this appliance or could I do without it?
The energy is gonna run out sooner or later.....sorry, I'll take my eco-warrior hat off now....!
Behold the unpolarized electrical plug, an indication of an appliance that is more than 10 years old. In my case, it's a coffee grinder that I bought at least 20 years ago that has now been delegated to a spice grinder.
Do you have one of these?????
