Countess Petofi's House of Stuff

Stuff I made, and stuff and things, and other stuff.

[hungwy]

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

[hthrrloooo]

Catastrophize Benedictine

[kayflapper]

William Powell and Carole Lombard, c. 1931.

[countesspetofi]

My teakettle gave up the ghost and there was a nice electric kettle on clearance for less than the cheapest stovetop teakettle (why has the price of teakettles gone up so much; is there some forthcoming teakettle crisis I should know about?) and I was all, what the hell, I can be European if it saves me a few bucks, I don't need counter space THAT much, and guys, I really like it. I've gone from keeping a cast iron teakettle on the woodstove as a humidifier when I was a kid to joining the automatic shutoff electric kettle generation. I feel like that old secretary on Mad Men who was born in a barn and lived to see the moon landing and had to have her corpse smuggled out of the office.

[segamascott]

[that-one-idiot-11]

whenever I tell a story I feel like Uncle Colm from Derry Girls

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[historical-fashion-polls]

which outfit would you rather wear? (1836)

left 🤎

center left 🩶

center right 💙

right 🩷

Remaining time: 6 days 19 hours

[draconym]

The eye doctor is the most fun doctor you can go to. They never steal your blood. They never make you get naked and put on a paper dress. They're just like, "Can you see these letters? It's fine if you can't, we can fix that." And they don't even spell anything.

[draconym]

[orcboxer]

Every time I go they put me in a chair and they say look into this machine there's a hot air balloon or a farmhouse in there and I do and I'm like you're right I see it and they're like yeah keep admiring that hot air balloon or farmhouse and I do and I'm like this shit's quaint as fuck and then do you know what happens next they attack me they jumpscare me with air directly into my eyeballs and i fall out the chair and they say sorryyyy but they're NOT they wanted this to happen they KNEW about the jumpscare well now I'm wise to it now I know better when I go in and they say look at this bodacious hot air balloon I'm like NO WAY DUDE that balloon wishes me harm have at thee and I attack them and push them on the ground and spit on them

[allhailthe70shousewife]

It’s all fun and games til they tell you that you have Narrow Angles and you need Laser Eye Surgery.

[countesspetofi]

Yeah, when you have actual Eye Diseases it's a little less fun. Remember that old playground rhyme about "cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye?" Well, most of you will probably never actually have that experience, but some of us...

[thunderwhenhepurrs]

Hey, fun new spam bot trying to fool people into thinking it's Tumblr staff.

THIS IS NOT TUMBLR AND THAT LINK IS NOT SAFE.

I'd suggest blocking @announcement-center and @1278478412896 preemptively, since it takes Tumblr security quite a while to take down bot blogs.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[the1920sinpictures]

1915 Kaufmann's storefront (department store) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From Department Stores Remembered, FB.

[countesspetofi]

Display units inside the pillars? Now THAT'S merchandising!

[hellenhighwater]

My brother had lost the right to mock my deeply unwise vending machine purchase because he's spending his weekend driving to Iowa to buy a 1954 Cadillac limousine.

He doesn't have an explanation for this other than the fact that it's cool. And honestly, that's a pretty compelling argument

[hellenhighwater]

Oh good, he's named it.

[hellenhighwater]

He got her and she's gargantuan

[hellenhighwater]

THE BIG is home!!

[hellenhighwater]

Update: brother says: tell your internet people- I’ve been making the car shiny and it is COOL.

He's correct. This is excellent.

[hellenhighwater]

I left my brother unattended he traded the little corvair next to THE BIG for this thing. I think he's building an armada

He is casting spell of car repair on it, I think.

[hellenhighwater]

Brother has been left unattended and has gotten himself a 1970 Cadillac DeVille.

And now it just needs a plate!

Other options are LONNNG and LOMMMG.

it should definitely be

LOMG

LONNNG

LOMMMG

Remaining time: 14 hours 55 minutes

[drmonkeysetroscans]

[pocblr]

GUGU MBATHA-RAW 📷 Grazia UK (2026)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Anger against the conviction of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti ran high in New York. Here, E.G. Flynn is delivering a speech to the crowd at Union Square, ca. 1927. Despite widespread protests, the two were executed in August of 1927.

Photo: National Archives/Alamy

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Fruit, vegetables, and groceries, but not for him. June 1933.

Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson via the Houk Gallery