01-01-2025, 01:09 PM
I picked up a six piece canteen of Grosvenor Christine on TM for fifty dollars a few years back, when I was using the last pieces of my parent's set, a wedding gift from 1951. It was a hell of a bargain, but when I told the seller how delighted I was to score it, and how it brought family memories back for me she was thrilled that it was going to be used every day. It had been a wedding gift for her as well, same generation, but her husband had refused to use it except on special occasions, which never really eventuated. She was going into a rest home and was breaking everything up, sothe thought of her special things going to new lives was comforting to her. I often wonder how she's doing, as I polish 'their' silver plate - hers and my Mums.
Things outlast us, but carry our stories into the future. I find that comforting too. Especially when I drop things off to the hospice shop!
Things outlast us, but carry our stories into the future. I find that comforting too. Especially when I drop things off to the hospice shop!