Disappointment and Disaster

I had forgotten that Savers does not put its household and decorative items on sale during its sales, so was extremely disappointed yesterday, after spending more than an hour browsing and filling my cart with some interesting and delightful items, to find that only the clothing (a pair of slacks, a tee and a robe), a pair of boots and a throw were on sale.  Among the interesting and delightful found items, believe it or not, was the pink and gold chamber pot that I was quite sure I had seen at Goodwill several weeks ago, had not purchased and thought I had lost.  So, here it was at Savers.  Was I mistaken?  Had I seen it at Savers, not Goodwill?  But if that were the case, where was it when I visited Savers following that?  If someone had purchased it at Goodwill why had they donated it to Savers almost immediately?  I know.  It was cursed.  An accursed chamber pot.  What would be the results of the curse?  Now that would be the basis for at least a short story....or not.

At first I thought all these delightful items were not on sale simply because the special card that Savers issued last year, that was supposed to get me 50% off a day early, didn't apply to those items yesterday, but the manager confirmed these items would not be on sale today either.  I voiced my disappointment, indicating this was not a true sale and was, in fact, a come-on, and the manager, eyeing my over-loaded card and realizing someone was going to have to re-shelf everything, gave me a 20% off coupon, but I was so disgruntled by that time that I just bade all the decorative items, including the pink and gold chamber pot, a fond farewell and left with my discounted clothing and linen items.  I'll have to remember this the next time Savers has a non-sale sale.

The other day when I was continuing work on the slowly, very slowly progressing pantry project, I got so engrossed that I created a disaster.  For background, you must understand that when you put a pan of dishwater on a wood stove to heat, the water gets hotter, not colder as it would if you had drawn a sink full of hot water and then gone off and left it.  So, I had put a pan of water on the range to heat, put in some dish washing soap and tossed in a few things that needed washing, including a cute little silver plated loving cup I had purchased at a thrift shop many weeks ago.  I forgot that the previous owner of the loving cup had used it as a candle holder and that the loving cup had about a quarter cup of red wax in the bottom.   The day wore on, I was hanging porcelain plates and deciding where, among all of my pretties, I was actually going to situate the necessities.  Here's a sneak preview just to prove the pantry project is real.

Evening finally came and I decided to wash the items waiting in the dishwater...very hot dishwater...almost boiling dishwater, but dim light, very dim light.   I dumped the "water" out of the loving cup and filled the pan with hot liquid red wax.  Realizing what I'd done, I quickly plucked some soup bowls out of the mess, but was left with this:

I had always had success getting melted wax out of candle holders by freezing them, so put the dishpan and its contents in the snow.  This was ineffective.  I had to scrape the wax off everything, ended up with a very sore thumbnail and finally got the last residue off with Goo Gone.  I think there's still some red wax inside the can opener handle that I just couldn't access, so will have to be careful washing anything else with it in the future for fear the wax will melt off in the hot dishwater and onto whatever else is in the water.

To cap it off, the cute little engraved loving cup got so hot that the material used to solder the base to the cup liquified, ran out onto the base and melted a hole in it.

Would I have bought this with this hole in the base?  Probably not, but since I rescued it, now I'm responsible for it.  I wonder if there is a silver "putty" a person could use to fill this hole?  Teddee