For some reason earlier today, the reason now forgotten, I decided I needed a new electric egg-beater (an appliance that one holds with the hand, not an appliance that one has in a base).
I looked. I didn't see one I liked. Flimsy, foreign made, plastic, that sort of stuff.
I wandered into an antique store, and there it was; what I wanted.
A Sears Kenmore electric egg-beater, serial number indicates manufactured in 1957, perfect condition, all metal, weighs 14 pounds. Used only on Sundays by a little old lady.
Since it had been on the shelf since before the current owner bought the store in 1987, he was tired of looking at it, and sold it to me for two bucks.
Don't worry; I'll watch those new 20-amp fuses closely.