This is what I meant by “a lot of heirlooms are junk”. In many cases grandma couldn’t afford Wedgewood or Lennox. The good stuff is timeless. And we use use it often.
But yeah, for a lot of people this isn’t important. And it’s interesting. I had a coworker who with her husband were high income (300K+). They have a million dollar dollar house, with the huge gleaming designer kitchen. But at Christmas she doesn’t cook (in fact, she doesn’t really cook at all). She buys precooked prime rib dinners and serves them on paper plates.
I will say this, when my wife sets the table for a fancy dinner, our guests notice. They will ooh and ahh and say things like “it looks like something out of a magazine!” My wife enjoys doing it, and I enjoy sitting at a table she has set.
This is what I meant by “a lot of heirlooms are junk”. In many cases grandma couldn’t afford Wedgewood or Lennox. The good stuff is timeless. And we use use it often.
But yeah, for a lot of people this isn’t important. And it’s interesting. I had a coworker who with her husband were high income (300K+). They have a million dollar dollar house, with the huge gleaming designer kitchen. But at Christmas she doesn’t cook (in fact, she doesn’t really cook at all). She buys precooked prime rib dinners and serves them on paper plates.
I will say this, when my wife sets the table for a fancy dinner, our guests notice. They will ooh and ahh and say things like “it looks like something out of a magazine!” My wife enjoys doing it, and I enjoy sitting at a table she has set.