NEWS · B2 Level - Part 3

What Would You Do With All These Salt and Pepper Shakers

Look at all these salt and pepper shakers. There are hundreds of pairs, around 1500 to be exact.

Level: B2 · 22 sentences

Transcript

  1. Look at all these salt and pepper shakers.
  2. There are hundreds of pairs, around 1500 to be exact.
  3. And talk about variety, the cute and the quirky!
  4. This is one that we were really surprised about.
  5. Apparently, this is a very well sought after set of salt and pepper shakers. They're glass strawberries, and they hang.
  6. Rachel Whitten, a high school teacher in Pottsville, Arkansas,
  7. shows off some of the collection that once belonged to her late grandmother, Sharon Tidwell.
  8. "I knew she had a lot, but seeing them all there... it was just wild."
  9. It took four hours to unpack them all.
  10. "And so when we got them all out and laid them out in my mom's kitchen,"
  11. "it was like, I have to take a video of this because it was so crazy."
  12. Rachel shares some of her favorites.
  13. "This was one of my favorite sets growing up 'cause The Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie."
  14. And then there's the I Love Lucy pair, which brings back great childhood memories.
  15. "Seeing these always puts a smile on my face because she had TV Land playing in her house constantly on loop."
  16. "And so just seeing these makes me think of her"
  17. "and just staying at her house on the weekends and stuff."
  18. Looking at them all, it was overwhelming.
  19. Rachel says she's going to keep some sentimental ones and sell many of the others.
  20. For now, she's been posting videos of the collection on TikTok, garnering millions of views.
  21. "I'm very blessed and thankful that people are wanting to know about her story."
  22. "It makes me really happy that I can share her and her love and just what a great person she was with everybody."