The Throwaway Society Continued...

[poliphilo]

 ...And then I asked myself, "If the napkins and napkin rings are missing, who exactly got rid of them, because I'm pretty sure it wasn't me and I doubt that it was my mother because she's a hoarder?"  So a search was instituted and they turned up- in the drawer of the dining table- which is really the first place you'd think to look- only we didn't.

Ailz, of course, wasn't a member of the family when these things were last in use- but no problems because when we looked over all we had she had no fewer than three rings to choose from....

So this family is once again using proper linen napkins with proper silver napkin rings.

Hey, look at us we're Edwardians...

Comments

[sorenr]

I've just managed to somehow fill my entire house with "stuff" myself. (Largely due to my mother making room for her boyfriend's furniture to move in - he has lived with her for a few years now - and my grandmother selling her house.)

My favourite piece of silver is a spoon my great-grandmother got for her confirmation in 1911 - I use it every morning when I eat my oats with milk; it sort of glams up an otherwise rather utilitarian breakfast when you eat it with a silver spoon.

[poliphilo]

Stuff is good.

My mother shoved my maternal grandmother's stuff into boxes and stowed it away out of sight- and I've been finding it.

We have much less from the other side. My father was unsentimental about getting rid of his parents' things.

[sorenr]

I have more from my maternal grandparents, perhaps because they came from a region where farming was easy (well, relatively speaking), whereas my paternal grandparents came from farmers on poor soil and fishermen who led a rough life on the North Sea. It's a bit like comparing Kent to Aberdeenshire...

But everything I have should be used, at least every now and then. Otherwise what's the point? I won't have anybody to pass it down to, so I'm certainly not going to hoard for posterity. ;-)