I collect:
Rotary phones - when the Apocalypse comes these things will still work.
Vinyl records, of course. I have lots of recordings that were never released in any other format.
Cast-iron cookware has amazing heat distribution and is super-nonstick (as long as you properly care for it.)
Vintage Pyrex is made of a completely different (and better quality) type of glass than today's Pyrex cookware, and occasionally I see one of my pieces on "Mad Men." :)
( cynfulcynner ...another American nutter, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 19:11, 3 replies)

European pyrex is, I think I read somewhere, still teh same as the old stuff you used to get in the USA (presuming from your sig tht you're in America). You could just order it in...
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 0:37, closed)

i always buy my pyrex stuff in france.
a lot of the pyrex imported to the uk is that rubbish us stuff. bleh.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 6 Nov 2010, 10:33, closed)

Apocalypse?
Your phone might work, but the exchange will go pop in the first EMP. Who would you call anyway?
( SteamedCleaner, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 8:05, closed)