Day Four

[tripperfunster]

Do your dishes match?
Or your couches? Or all your pillows and sheets, for that matter?

I inherited a set of 'everydayware' from my mother when she bought herself a new one. I quite like them, mostly because I moved a lot as a child/teen and even though my surroundings changed, these dishes are something I remember as a steady thing I saw every day. They're Royal Daulton (sp?), but not fancy. Over the years, we've lost some bowls and the odd mug, due to clumsyness and mis-use, and I'm not sure if I should go on ebay to find another set to suppliment these, or just ... deal.

As for the rest of my life dishes, we have a large mish-mash of mugs, some souveniers, some xmas presents, etc. We have a wide array of glasses, same deal and our cutlery drawer is overflowing with a hundered different sets too.

Sometimes I think I'd love my house to look like it belongs in a magazine, (not White Trash Weekly) but sometimes ... I dunno. The REST of my life isn't that organized, it would be a bit of a sham to have my house so detailed. :D

How about you? Is your bed all one colour? Or do you have a mix of different blankets and sheets like me?

Comments

[torino10154]

We have a huge miss-mash of stuff. Furniture bought one piece at a time from antique stores, Salvation Army, and IKEA. We do have one set of *nice* china that we use for holidays but mostly we're not that formal. All our coffee mugs are different.

The bed my son slept in until last year was used by him, his sister, an aunt, an uncle, my husband, me, a different aunt...all the way back to his grandfather when he was a boy.

As much as I love how a catalog looks aesthetically I think it also lacks personality. It's sort of like only going for looks and not brains. :P My $.02.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

So, it makes me wonder, did our parents not get any hand-me-downs? Or did they toss the old stuff when they got new stuff? I don't really recall anything that was given to them from the grandparents, aside from complete sets of fancy china.

HOW THE HELL DID THEY DO IT?