I super encourage you to *use* your beautiful/treasured things. Now. Today. Put them into regular usage.
I have 3 kids and there's *zero* guarantee they will treasure them like I do after I pass away.
I realized (after my parents passed and I could see what things *they* treasured but that had zero meaning for me), that if I wanted my kids to treasure something, I had to use it, in their presence, talk about it, imbue it with meaning. And if I didn't want to do that, that's okay...
+1
Like that fine china and silver you kept for “special” occasions, use it every day starting today!
@djg I still do have special dishes for special occasions, but the percentage of meals that I share with my kids that are on the "special" dishes is like 50% LOL. Just because I haul it out and use it a lot during the holidays when they visit. Maybe they'll want it, maybe they won't--"special occasion dishes" has very much gone out of vogue--but they'll at least have some memories of it, which in the end, is most of what any of us have.
If you don't mind me asking, I'd like to better understand how people think of special tableware. (I myself don't feel a need to use/have special tableware.)
My best approximation of why people like to have and use special tableware is similar to reasons for using makeup or aesthetically pleasing clothes. Is that a roughly reasonable comparison or very off?
I would expect that, given this is mostly about visual aesthetics, the desire to use special tableware would often cooccur with desire to make/serve visually aesthetically pleasing food. Am I roughly correct?
