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

[outofthisplace.livejournal.com]

Our bowls & plates were inherited from my grandma (those ubiquitous white with gold flowers ones that EVERYONE has) but since we are in a near-constant state of breaking glasses, everything we've got is from yard sales. So we don't really have more than 2 of any kind of glasses. Mugs have all been aquired as gifts or prizes (#1 Grandpa! Yale Speech and Debate Tournament! endless mugs with my niece's pictures on them!). Flatware all matches but I keep throwing out spoons by accident so we're down to like 4 teaspoons. I buy my bedding in sets.

HOWEVER, moving in with my boyfriend as I am next week, all this is subject to change: he's got multicolored (different solid colors) but matching plates and mugs and bowls, but absolutely no flatware (except for a couple of giant spoons in his knife roll) and just a couple of highball glasses; I anticipate we'll get glasses at yard sales, and I think my sis is going to give us flatware as a housewarming present. And his bedware all kind of matches. Beyond that, I am SOOOO looking forward to tricking out our apartment with awesome nerdy stuff!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

ha! We ran out of knives a few years back, and belatedly realized that we had been throwing them out with the pizza boxes! (leaving the knife in there after cutting up the slices.)

When my mom remarried, her new hubby gave us his flat ware, but oddly enough, we're down to only about 4 teaspoons. WTF? They're like socks!