Silver Cutlery

photograph by Angie's Iris on Etsy

Before she died, my Grandma passed down a cutlery set just like this one to me. It is beautiful. I was 18 when she gave it to me with the strict instructions that I should never use it, and only 'keep it for good'. My Grandma was really funny like that. We wouldn't even be allowed to play with our presents on Christmas morning if she had it her way, so that we could keep them looked after. (OK, well, she would say we could play with one thing only! That was way too hard!). Obviously she didn't really win that fight, as we had a mother that had gone through that as a child as well and wouldn't stand for it! But still, we were very used to hearing it, so when she said that to me I scoffed in my head, thinking, of course I will use it, it's beautiful and should be used!
My inherited cutlery set was the first thing my Grandma ever bought herself. She paid for it from savings from her very first job at age 18. That makes my cutlery set 81 years old. You can imagine, right, that of course I have never once used it. It is sitting with my stuff (what little of it is still there) in Australia, getting older, waiting for that special occasion. (Which obviously wasn't graduation, immigration or marriage...maybe if I ever win a Grammy??). 

Still, I feel particularly grown up to own something like this. Even if it is stashed away!

(You can buy the one above here)