Wedding Presents

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<p>I have that 4 cup Farberware coffeepot too. It has boiled as much water for tea or instant soup, as it has made coffee over the past 25 years. I hope it never dies.</p>

<p>Also lots of that “early american dead relative” furniture here. I wanted one small table from my mom’s house to set the TV on. My sisters shipped the whole living room suite (sofa, coffee table, two end tables, two easy chairs), plus a drop-leaf dining room table and two chairs that one sister got from our great-aunt’s estate but no longer had room for because she’d ended up with our mom’s dining room set. Family silver - got that too, but I was the only one who wanted it. </p>

<p>Unused wedding presents: Preparing to host our first ever Christmas dinner last December, I dug out some not used since we moved back to the US in 1998 Mikasa crystal bowls. Yup. The first one I pulled out of the box still had the little gold sticker smack in the center-bottom of the bowl. I just stood their wondering. I know I used some of those bowls in the past. Was it just that I never pulled the full set out?</p>

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<p>Our crockpot is alive and well, too. Got it from DH’s grandmother and great aunt. Makes a mean matzah ball soup.</p>

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<p>A perfect description! Our bedroom set. We never got around to replacing it (except for the handles). </p>

<p>I bet future generations will have housefuls of “Stickley-style/mission dead relative” furniture.</p>

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<p>NJSue, if what you hand down is actually Stickley, those future generations will get a real bonanza!!</p>

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<p>Stickley-“style,”, i.e. fake!</p>

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<p>Ellebud, I have some very fine and somewhat delicate old linen napkins with cutwork that my mother passed on to me. I had a brunch years ago, to which were invited some friends of friends: some dental students from Tufts. When they were finished eating, a couple of them crumpled up the linen napkins and threw them on their plates, in a pool of leftover mustard cream sauce.</p>

<p>Had they never used anything but paper? I admit that this was beaten by the story of the girl who threw the plate across the room, but it’s close. :)</p>

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<p>We got lucky and got some real Stickley from my inlaws when we married in 1980 .It was my MIL’s parents furniture. Stickley was not popular then and husband was first sibling to marry (out of 3) so he got offered it. So, we got lucky!</p>

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<p>Consolation: I see more and more young people who were never taught basic manners: please and thank you, how to cut you meat and chicken and even though you family doesn’t “do” fancy or non fancy table clothes…what to do when given them.</p>

<p>Oh…chewing with mouths open…not a good thing. My daughter brough a friend over and he was lost…formal Thanksgiving. Smart kid…he was one stop behind everyone and he watched. Got it first timeout.</p>

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I just had a significant controversy with a temp lawyer in my office who walked around chewing and talking all day long. There was moaning, slapping of gums, sucking of teeth and hideous visuals of the inside of his mouth. It was an absolute nightmare. He was actually moved away from people and told that if it happens again he will be fired.</p>

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<p>Love the 5 gallon stainless steel bowl and wedding china bought by the childless aunt stories the best! True meaning in those gifts! </p>

<p>Zoosermom, I am laughing to think of the situation with the temp lawyer…the mental picture of a lawyer being put in essentially a “time-out” part of the office…</p>