Rolling Acres Housewares Dish Drainboard~ Amy Dacyczyn

The time has finally come to replace our dish drainboard. The one we have is an old Rubbermaid dish drainer set, which we've had for over 35 years. When we moved to Tennessee from Illinois in 1986, we brought it with us and it has served us well over the years. 

You know the old mantra, use it up, wear it out... well, I  can honestly say we wore this one out. I've always kept a folded dish towel next to it to absorb water drips, but the towel began to be soaked were the tray had developed a crack in it. I tried to duct tape it, but even that no longer worked. 

Do you remember when Jim Dacyczyn ordered a new metal drain board for their kitchen in Maine back in the early 1990s? I was a newsletter subscriber at the time and the thought of spending $32 on a dish drainer was a lot of money at that time. I was only making $7 an hour at the time and the thought of working five hours for a dish drainer board was a lot of money to me. 

For over the last year I've been looking at dish drainers. Even before the pandemic, I would look at them in the store and knew that our vintage Rubbermaid one was made well and large enough to accommodate the amount of dishes I wash on a daily basis. The ones they make today are too small for my family and so I searched for a long time to find one that was big enough. I need a dish drainer with side boards. LOL

Then one day while searching, I stumbled across something interesting. It was for a mail order catalog from Rolling Acres Housewares in Ohio and they had a stainless steel drainboard. 

Rolling Acres Housewares31640 State Road 643Fresno, OH  43824

They do not have an email address, telephone number or a website.  If you would like to get one of their catalogs, just write to them and enclose a check or cash in the amount of $3.  
They will send you a wonderful catalog full of all kinds of things: sturdy egg beaters, kitchen equipment and dishes, aprons, ice cream freezers, canning supplies and other hard to find items.  They have canning lids, which you can buy in bulk, at a considerable savings.  
Their customer service is excellent and they even sent a refund in cash on some of the money I sent them for shipping.  I highly recommend this company.

Here is a side photo of the drain board, so you can see that it is elevated in the back, so it tilts into the sink for proper draining. 

Here is what it looks like on the counter:

I am very happy with my new drainboard.  It is wide enough on both sides, so that I don/t have to put a dish towel there to catch drips and is even wide enough to place a package of frozen meat to thaw rather than place it on a dish towel like I normally do.
The US government sent the $600 stimulus check and so I figured I would buy something I needed with part of the money. 
Now I could have bought a new dish drainer too, but the one we had was still useable even though some of the vinyl coating has worn off in spots, I figure it still has plenty of life in it to serve us for years. So no need to spend money on something that still works.  
Belinda ~ Living within our Means ~ My Linktree

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