When all the contents of a house have to GO [due to down-sizing or moving to a nursing home or because of death] ... the stuff has to go someplace. To grandkids? To a resale shop? To the dump?
What about pictures and once-treasured possessions? What happens when the next generations don't cherish the things I cherish? What will become of those items? And should it matter?
A bunch of stuff is finding its way into our home these days. I can't cherish everything that could arrive here from grandparents, parents, and in-laws. What's odd is the things that I do enjoy.
For all my adult life, I have owned one set of measuring cups and one set of measuring spoons. For someone who cooks and bakes from scratch, that's been a little inconvenient. Now I have my mother-in-law's metal measuring cups and spoons. If my 1-cup measure is floury from baking bread, I have another cup [gasp] to measure sugar for kombucha. Whoa -- this is nice.
Friday, May 03, 2013
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A few years in to our marriage when my inlaws visited she used my kitchen. My measuring cups are from my grandma and they include a few extras like 2/3 a cup. My MIL was so jealous of that hand-me-down measuring cup set-she thought that would be so handy. I think she went home and ordered herself a set like that.
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