Welcome to the New Blog!
I’ve upgraded! Welcome to my new blog website: same blog, new (and better) site!
I kept a (very intermittent) blog about my collection of cheese spreaders over at https://cheesespreaders.blogspot.com/ starting from late 2012 to late 2020, but there were several issues with that blog: First, I also have a garden blog on Blogger, and because Google notified my followers on the now-defunct Google+ when I posted new material on either blog, I was a bit embarrassed for my garden blog friends to see (and be confused by) my totally unrelated and unexpected blog about collecting cheese spreaders. So I avoided posting on the Cheesespreaders blog for years.
The demise of Google+ earlier this year was good news for me, and triggered a re-interest in writing about my collection, so I recently gave my ancient blog a more modern look by choosing a new theme. I also wrote some more material about collecting spreaders.
I started a long-put-off project of cataloging the spreaders in my collection, and as I did so, I searched online to find out more about the ones I have (many of mine do not have their original boxes, so I often didn’t know what company had made them or when they were made).
This led to a massive project of trying to make lists of all the different spreaders I could find online, by manufacturer, with the maker’s item number and the date made for each (if available). I’ve long wondered just how many have been made, and this has been an effort to finally try to find out.
I hope to share these lists once they are a bit more complete. But the second problem with Blogger is that it does not have any kind of table function that can easily be used — and these spreader lists require tables to organize them.
So I decided I needed to upgrade. I bit the bullet and bought a 10-year subscription to a new, dedicated domain name: spreadercollecting.com. I already had a web hosting plan which allowed me to host up to five domains and had one left, so while it’s not a completely free blog like my Blogger one, it’s pretty close to being free. I’ve started designing this new blog site using WordPress, which has far more capabilities for making tables, plus plugin table designing programs that can be added or purchased.
At some point, I’ll begin adding tables, with images of the spreaders I can find. Then there will finally be an online version of the collectors’ guide books that do not exist for spreaders: a bit of history about them, plus lists of the ones that are available, with images.
I hope this will be useful information, and that it might stimulate interest in spreaders as collectors’ items. Stay tuned!
