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[Lipstickdiva]

On 2/4/2015 happy housewife said:

It is so sad to me that now a days young people can't see the beauty and elegance of silver and crystal and beautiful china. sigh.

Maybe they can see it and just don't care.

Overly ornate and fancy things just aren't my style. We don't entertain and I don't need a house full of all this stuff that someone else is going to have to worry about later on down the road.

As you emphatically stated previously on this thread, do what YOU want and let other people do what THEY want.

My mom is gone and while there are some things I'm sentimental about, her sterling silver flatware, china and crystal aren't among those things.

[HisElk]

On 2/4/2015 LipstickDiva said:

On 2/4/2015 happy housewife said:

It is so sad to me that now a days young people can't see the beauty and elegance of silver and crystal and beautiful china. sigh.

Maybe they can see it and just don't care.

Overly ornate and fancy things just aren't my style. We don't entertain and I don't need a house full of all this stuff that someone else is going to have to worry about later on down the road.

As you emphatically stated previously on this thread, do what YOU want and let other people do what THEY want.

My mom is gone and while there are some things I'm sentimental about, her sterling silver flatware, china and crystal aren't among those things.

After reading your post, I think we could be sisters. We don't entertain either and after having to go through my parents' things when they passed, I only kept things that I'm sentimental about as well.

I don't want to have to store all of the other stuff and ended up selling the remainder of it. We are all different and keep/use what we want; doesn't make it right or wrong - just what works for that person.

[151949]

I can't believe (but should know better by now) that people here have actually found a way to twist this around and turn it into a personal attack. WOW.

[Lacey1]

On 2/4/2015 happy housewife said:

On 2/3/2015 stevieb said:

Honestly, if I didn't use it and if storing it is such a trial, I think I might see what I could get for it... Think about it, it's not likely anyone's going to be thrilled to inherit it... If you want, for sentimental reasons, keep a piece or two of it, but why keep it just to take it out occasionally to look at and have to clean!?

Who said I don't use it? I took it out to set the table and it was all tarnished. Geeze - people do jump to conclusions on these boards. it really isn't mine to sell even if I wanted to - it belongs to my husband - it was his mothers and his grandmother's before that. And I happen to enjoy having beautiful things like crystal and china and silver. To set a special table for my friends and family when they visit is a joy to me.

I am always amazed at how the people here do not understand about sentimental value of items that have been owned by ancestors.

My. my. Sounds as if someone is trying to put on airs, (again) that they love to set an elegant table with fancy silver, crystal, and china. Well, if that's how she likes to roll, how is it that she doesn't even know the proper way to store silver?

[maryebrown_1]

On 2/4/2015 lacey1 said:

On 2/4/2015 happy housewife said:

On 2/3/2015 stevieb said:

Honestly, if I didn't use it and if storing it is such a trial, I think I might see what I could get for it... Think about it, it's not likely anyone's going to be thrilled to inherit it... If you want, for sentimental reasons, keep a piece or two of it, but why keep it just to take it out occasionally to look at and have to clean!?

Who said I don't use it? I took it out to set the table and it was all tarnished. Geeze - people do jump to conclusions on these boards. it really isn't mine to sell even if I wanted to - it belongs to my husband - it was his mothers and his grandmother's before that. And I happen to enjoy having beautiful things like crystal and china and silver. To set a special table for my friends and family when they visit is a joy to me.

I am always amazed at how the people here do not understand about sentimental value of items that have been owned by ancestors.

My. my. Sounds as if someone is trying to put on airs, (again) that they love to set an elegant table with fancy silver, crystal, and china. Well, if that's how she likes to roll, how is it that she doesn't even know the proper way to store silver?

Yup - she should start "listening" to herself...and follow through with her (preachy) tag line. She's been one Angry Bird, lately and piling on the drama while attacking posters who are trying to be helpful. Geesh !

[colliegirls]

I love appreciating beautiful things. I could look at the china and crystal department in the stores all day. I don't use my sterling every day but I still appreciate having it and using it on special occasions. I think it is wonderful to have items of value to hand down from generation to generation.

[MarieIG]

On 2/4/2015 colliegirls said:

I love appreciating beautiful things. I could look at the china and crystal department in the stores all day. I don't use my sterling every day but I still appreciate having it and using it on special occasions. I think it is wonderful to have items of value to hand down from generation to generation.

I agree! I do appreciate the silver from my mother and grandmother.

[hyacinth003]

My mother used to make me clean every piece of her silver set.

I HATED it.

Now it is sitting in its box in my house.

Hyacinth

[Zhills]

""It is so sad to me that now a days young people can't see the beauty and elegance of silver and crystal and beautiful china. sigh.""

This is the only insult I have read. Can't imagine who would post that!

[stevieb]

On 2/4/2015 happy housewife said:

On 2/3/2015 stevieb said:

Honestly, if I didn't use it and if storing it is such a trial, I think I might see what I could get for it... Think about it, it's not likely anyone's going to be thrilled to inherit it... If you want, for sentimental reasons, keep a piece or two of it, but why keep it just to take it out occasionally to look at and have to clean!?

Who said I don't use it? I took it out to set the table and it was all tarnished. Geeze - people do jump to conclusions on these boards. it really isn't mine to sell even if I wanted to - it belongs to my husband - it was his mothers and his grandmother's before that. And I happen to enjoy having beautiful things like crystal and china and silver. To set a special table for my friends and family when they visit is a joy to me.

I am always amazed at how the people here do not understand about sentimental value of items that have been owned by ancestors.

Talk about leaping to conclusions... get over yourself. In your OP you said absolutely nothing about ever using these utensils... You also said "I" inherited... which would imply they're yours to do with as you please. I fully get the joy of having beautiful things and I fully understand sentimental value, and yet your original post made it seem as though the items are more or less a burden... And speaking of amazement, I'm always amazed by the capacity some seem to have to go fully 360 in order to censure others on these boards... Do whatever you want with your utensils... For all I care you can melt them down and use them for DH's costly new bridge work...