I just noticed two oddities online this morning.

First, marriage trends will soon make all Mormon temples obsolete.

https://fabiusmaximus.com/2015/06/08/changing-state-of-marriage-82047/

Second,

Mormon parents can now obtain celestial waste baskets for their son's or daughter's doll house.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-LDS-Metal-Votive-Cup-Mormon-Temple-Tabernacle-Salt-Air-Bathing-Church/292615823404?hash=item442143202c:g:A2gAAOSwCHBbFGL6

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The dollhouse waste basket is already sold.

It's actually very cute and authentic. Who would use it for a waste basket? It's a collectible.

How old do you think it is? I'm guessing it's 75-100 years old, maybe more.

I get why you think it would make a cute accessory for an LDS doll house. I wonder just how small it really is? It's called a 'salt bath cup,' with a picture of heads bobbing in the Great Salt Lake with the temple in the backdrop.

I'll let you know if it's small enough to accessorize in a dollhouse. Since I'm the one who ordered it!

My mom floated on the Great Salt Lake as a child. Those days are gone for good. The water level has shrank so much and the lake is so polluted it is toxic today. Plus, the salt has been farmed right out of it.

Thanks Mormon Nomore.

My collectible arrived today. According to the specs it's vintage 1940's SLC. That would've been around the time my mother's parents took their family there to swim in the Great Salt Lake.

It is a souvenir from the tourist days from back then.

There was so much salt that people really could float on the water without any effort. Similar to the Dead Sea in Israel. :)

probably originally silver-plated and gilt, it would be a souvenir of them strange Marments in Utah. The Saltair was a resort.
https://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/statehood_and_the_progressive_era/saltair.html

too the Great Salt Lake and they were able to float.

Recently, in addition to the industrial pollution Utah Lake has toxic algae blooms.

As for the Great Salt Lake, I hiked around Antelope Island many moons ago. I remember near the water there were lots of biting flies.

I have a son who is will be turning thirty, and a grandson in his mid to late twenties. Neither one is interested in marriage.

This is a great article!

" The widening education gap guarantees that the economic gap will continue to widen. We already can see the effects rippling across society as women are moving on top of men in America."

Feminist women want to be little men, what more can be said?

And this is my favorite little line from the article:
"Many girls do not even try to be agreeable to look at, much less to live with. "

This guy is spot on, can I get an Amen!