Homestead pattern

I bought these babies at one of the many Goodwills in my city!

You can read about my pricing rant on these bowls and Goodwill in general here!

The Pyrex Goddess Was Smiling on Me Today ...

... Unfortunately, she chose to bless me with some patterns that aren't my absolute favorites, but since this was thrifting I (mostly) chose not to ignore her bounty.

The Royal Wheat promotional casserole was found at our closest Goodwill, and it wasn't there yesterday.  I was really happy to find it and am already imagining it on the Thanksgiving table.  But other than that, no Pyrex.

So we piled into the car and tried a neighboring Goodwill where clearly someone had recently cleaned out a kitchen.  We found the 401, 402, and 403 mixing bowls in Forest Fancies and a 404 in Old Orchard (it took some sleuthing to figure that one out).

I was happy to find this 441 in Butterfly Gold I.  I actually have a lot of Butterfly Gold and the white pieces are my favorites.

I first started collecting fridgies for food storage, but I find that I am more likely to reach for a round bake/serve/store or Cinderella casserole.  I found this Woodland 474 (I had a lid at home) and this tannish orange 472 (also my lid).  (Anyone know what it is?  It isn't as gold as the Daisy casseroles.)

This Homestead 401 snuck home with us as well, although we left a 402 in the same pattern at the store.  I've decided that I'll pick up 401s in any color/pattern; it's an easy/cheap/small way to collect a lot of different patterns.  I'd love to do the same with 471s but those are hard to find.

I've started being able to resist buying Pyrex that I don't adore, at least on days that I am broke strong.  But when something like that Old Orchard 404 is $3 I'm hesitant to leave it.  I'm starting to think that we need to have a Southern California Pyrex Collective Meetup and Swap!

Homestead Brown

I was excited to come across this 2.5l 475-B casserole dish (with it's lid!) at an estate auction today.  I haven't even had a chance to clean it up yet!  I still don't know if I like Homestead or not, but I wanted this piece because it was the first time that I had found a Homestead piece in brown.  All of the Homestead pieces that I seem to come across are the blue ones.  I don't know when the Homestead pattern was produced, but going by the brown and blue color scheme, I would make a guess that it was a 1980s pattern.  I remember when I was little in the 1980s our house was decorated in brown and blue.  Is the brown color more unusual than the blue, or do I just happen to find only the blue?  Anyway, it has a small rust stain on it that I hope I can get out, but if not, it will be a great everyday piece for my investment of $2!