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Post by magggzzz on Feb 10, 2021 11:11:56 GMT
I’m motivated now to sort out my cutlery drawer now. I have a few things in there that hopefully I can get rid of.
My mum and dad collected a posh set of cutlery. It’s quite nice actually and it’s always been kept in the boxes it came in and kept for best.
Now my dad is on his own and he says I can have it. If I take it then it will all come out of the boxes and go in the cutlery drawer for everyday use. Then I could give ours to OS for his new house.
I can’t help but feel guilty about doing this though. This cutlery has been saved up for, bought one box at a time and kept in these boxes. Hubs says I should at least keep the boxes but I said why and where.
I was talking about this with my cousin and we said that that was what that generation did. They saved up and bought stuff that was just for “best”. My dad has 3 big cabinets full of crystal glasses of every kind, red and white wine glasses, Sherry glasses, and all the rest. He also has a full old fashioned dinner service and 4 tea sets. It gives me nightmares as to what I’m going to do with all this stuff. The crockery all has that gold rim which means it can’t go in the microwave or the dishwasher and I already have a full dinner service and two tea sets that were my grans.
Should I take the cutlery and use it?
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Post by Bellatrix on Feb 12, 2021 12:32:21 GMT
I'd take it Magggzz and give your other things to your son, was nice of your dad to want to pass it to you. I understand the box dilemma, but we all just keep hanging onto things.
I am really living smaller and that has been my intention, to live a simpler life in a smaller house with a bigger garden, but it's hard, there are so many more boxes at the storage unit labelled "kitchenware" and we have been surviving perfectly well on the small amount we have bought into the new house. My granny had best china and not just one set, such a shame as no one wanted any of it after she passed, people have so many things these days probably because things are quite cheap now because of mass production.
I'm going to be brave and freegle a lot of my stuff, so many people don't have money to buy esssential things for the home.
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Post by magggzzz on Feb 12, 2021 17:42:29 GMT
It sounds like how I feel when we’re at our van. Last time we were there we stayed for 2 months and apart from a few more clothes we had everything we needed. Then I think about the big house full of stuff that we have at home and I just want to go home and throw it all away.
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Post by Bellatrix on Feb 12, 2021 18:51:40 GMT
I totally understand that feeling Magggzz. When we sold the big house, I honestly parted with many things. The rest went into storage apart from some essentials. Essentials is a good word because that's all we've seemed to need. OH collected several loads from the storage, put all the boxes in the garage and I felt completely overwhelmed...what am I doing with all this stuff, I don't actually need most of it.
I forgot that the question was odd things in your kitchen, so maybe not odd but excessive would be 5 different ways to make coffee and another arrived today from my mum "The Melitta Aroma Boy" love that name, very retro in it's beige and brown. A tiny filter coffee maker that makes 1 big cup
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Post by trisha on Feb 12, 2021 20:53:39 GMT
So many things were lost in dads house fire. He had some lovely wooden objects that didn't survive. China and glassware were all broken when the cupboards burned. The few things that did survive, either I had them of they were thrown away. Maggzzz, take your dads cutlery and use it.
Trisha
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Post by Bellatrix on Feb 15, 2021 17:30:56 GMT
I remember that time Trisha, really sad and so many nice things destroyed. It's nice to have things from the family, even if it's just one or two. I have a little wallet my dad made for his mum when he had just started boarding school. Made out of hardboard, cover and bound in pretty paper. I have kept it safe. And a tiny tiny pack of cards in a leather box that my grandfather had with him in the 2nd world war. Every card is still there.
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