Posts Tagged ‘Possessions’

Best Made Axes

Published August 4, 2009 by Molly

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Tools are personal. Whether it’s a paintbrush, chisel, camera or sewing machine, a long-used tool becomes like a third arm. You learn its quirks and deficits. You figure out, over time, how to coax the best performance from it.

Best Made appreciates this fact and produces its axes–yes, axes–accordingly. Their axes are made to order, hand-painted and tempered by “one of America’s oldest axe-makers.” The handles are made of hickory from Tennessee and each axe arrives with its own leather blade guard, ready for the kindling pile. Best of all? The axes have names like “Moss Thumper”, “Big Sur” and “Zepyhr”.

Appropriate for chopping wood or just mounting on the wall, the axes come with a lifetime guarantee. As the creators put it–and this applies to every tool, no matter what size– “Axes, like all tools, are at your disposal to make your life, and the world around you a better place, and above all they require your sound judgment and precaution. An axe can bite you if you don’t respect it…always respect your Axe!”

Goodbye Waffle Maker

Published June 1, 2009 by Molly

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Megan Deal is selling everything she owns in preparation for a move from Detroit to Greensboro, Alabama, where she will help operate a design lab dedicated to innovative community projects.

“One part stoop sale and one part personal experiment,” as Deal puts it, the site features an array of objects ranging from the mundane (item #0562- a slow coffee pot, still available) to the fascinating (item #0547, “a collection of various necklaces, all equally worth nothing to me”, sold).

“By ridding myself of these possessions,” she writes in a footnote, “I aim to both lighten my travel load and remove the obtrusive clutter from my everyday life.”

We could all follow her lead.