I have a shelfload of that blueflowered stuff. It must be 32 years old.
You know- I don't WANT things to last that long.
(Outside of me- who I would prefer to last for much longer.)
I get so bored with designs. I don't WANT to look at the same dishes for 70 years. With Walmart you can throw out the 29.99 set every year guiltlessly, not that I do, of course.
I use my good china and sterling once a year at Thanksgiving when, due to my short attention span, it feels new becuase I don't recognize it. (Oh look! WHen did we get this?)
I am incapable of disposing of things. My mother-in-law gave me an entire set-- we are talking ENORMOUS-- of Anthony Shaw copper tealeaf china. Unfortunately, she had put most of it in the dishwasher and the gold is brown now and very ugly.
It takes up an entire cabinet. It has serving pieces that must be antiques-- tiny salt plates, pasta plates, a butter dish with a drain for ice, pitchers, platters, tureens. I have no idea what to do with it. I'm sure it has no value since it's been ruined, and yet I can't bring myself to part with it. It was Dan's grandparents.
I just tried to look it up online. It seems that had it not been ruined it would be worth
A LOT.
She also threw away his baseball card collection which would have paid for Ammo's college education according to Dan.
So I don't throw away anything.
Maybe that blue flowered Corning crap might someday pay for our nursing home years-
if only everyone and his brother didn't have so much of it.
All waiting for it to somehow break or otherwise die.
Which it won't.
It will be here when the aliens land, long after we have self-destructed.
They will find Corningware
And Dick Clark. |
