Cool catalog, very interesting items (including book with instr. on how to purify rancid butter!)

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Found a couple of these catalogs rummaging around in the library's magazine recycling bin (best place to get wild stuff, and you can always take it back when you're done.)

The name of the catalog is "Lee Valley and veritas" (spelled with a little "v"). It is chock full of things like a telescoping magnet (looks like a car antenna) for picking up pins and needles, or bolts and stuff), high quality household doo-dads like plant shears and scissors, old timey games, a really neat citrus zester that looks like a rasp with a trough bottom - it holds all the zest and you just lift off the rasp and pour out the zest when you're done. DH got all excited about a very reasonably priced "pizza box o' veneer pieces" (NOT scraps, really useful sizes).

The book I referred to in the post heading is called "Lee's Priceless Recipes - 3000 Secrets for the Home, Farm, Laboratory, Workshop and Every Department of Human Endeavor" and it has everything from stains to preserving eggs to pruifying rancid butter. They want $5.95 for the book (!). Some of the things in the catalog are just toys for farmer wannabes, but to be honest it almost seems like those are in there to keep these notorious spendthrifts buying the stuff so that the catalog can afford to keep the good stuff available to the rest of us who know better! The "you should know better" stuff is typically priced, but the real treasures, like that book, are so reasonable it's hard not to feel subsidized. Definately a find.

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), January 03, 2002

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Lee Valley (owned by Lenord Lee, you'll find some books authored by him in his catalogs)is a great store. My favorite. thier cistomer service is the best bar none. For wood working tools there is no better place, hard to find hardware is a specialty, uncommon garden tools, and very interesting books. The book you mention is a small book for general interst only and is not heavy on details. Fun to read but not an encyclopedia. Here's the link to their site Lee Valley ORDER all thier catalogs! they have seperate garden, tool, hardware and book catalogs, which are printed on very high quality paper. Remember the prices are in Canadian dollars which makes it 40% cheaper in US Funds.

-- Ross (amulet@istar.ca), January 03, 2002.

They also have the BEST sweatshirts. I only wear 100% cotton and they are hard to find. Lee Valley carries the best for the lowest price. Everyone thinks my name is Lee Valley because of this

-- Laura (lauramleek@yahoo.com), January 03, 2002.

Yes it is one priceless catalogue. But I guess I am a bit biased as my brother is the Gardening Manager there. My brother wrote their Gardening Journal which is well worth the price as it has a font of info plus being a 10 year journal.

-- Jan Sears (jcsears@magma.ca), January 03, 2002.

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