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Let’s play.

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Because there’s a little bit of child inside us all.

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The first thing that came to mind was my husband, but since that’s not an appropriate response?

I’ll have to go with this:

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It’s just an old dessert plate from Bavaria but it belonged to my mother and her mother before her. My grandmother was born in Austria and didn’t bring much with her when she emigrated to the states in 1923, but somehow this survived and was passed down to me. It’s not my style or taste, but there’s something about the kitchen continuity of the third generation of daughters still using this plate that makes me hold it dear.

How about you?

What’s the oldest thing still in use in your kitchen?

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46 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

      1. Oh it’s okay. I plan to get a haircut today, think I will pose with the survivor being that we share the same birth year and today is my birthday

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  3. The oldest thing in my kitchen I still use is the floor, which has been spilled on by so many things so many times, it must think we have something against it. To stop our penchant for abusing it, we would have to stop using it, but all attempts to levitate unfortunately floor us.

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  4. My Mom was a (ah-hem) “collector” so I have a lot of old stuff that she tells me is “worth a fortune”. That’s Mom guilt-talk for “I can rest easy knowing you have it and I don’t have to worry about it anymore.” The pieces I like (and actually use) the most? Some old glass canisters with tin tops. They really are pretty on my window shelf and always full of something useful 🙂

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  5. My recipe box ~ it’s wooden with a tiny key. It belonged to my dad as a boy . . . probably for his tin/lead soldiers or some such.

    It’s the perfect size for my collection of cherished recipes . . . some of which are probably as old as the box.

    I love your plate’s history and it screams SPRING or EASTER or HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY.

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  6. Dang…now I have to THINK. I was going to say a tupperware strainer I got at my wedding shower in 1980 but I also have Aunt Pete’s baby spoon. I use it as decoration tho. I have MY baby spoon…. and I have silk print from 1905 that a relative brought back from China (or the story goes)

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  10. Let’s see – at first I would have said my grandmother’s china closet which over the years has resided in the kitchen and sometimes in the dining room – depended on the size of the abode. It’s well over 100 years old, she picked it up off the streets of Greenwich Village sometime in the early 1900’s. I also have her meat fork but it doesn’t reside in the kitchen anymore and I haven’t used it in a long time. Items I use all the time are the serving spoons from the deli my father owned in the early 1960’s. They came with store when he bought it so who knows how old they are. I have other items from the deli and while I do use them often they don’t reside in the kitchen but rather in the hall closet where all the large/overflow kitchen things live. Most of my family heirlooms are are kitchen utensils LOL

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  11. I have an old Mexican clay pot it belonged to my grandfather (my dads dad) and I cherish it with all my heart. It doesn’t have the lid because my gramps was know to break those a lot, lol. But I keep all my large kitchen utensils in, it’s on my kitchen counter.

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  12. My mother’s handwritten recipes, which I sometimes have a hard time deciphering. 🤔Maybe that’s why my cooking doesn’t quite taste like her delicious dishes.🙁 Or maybe they were so good because she made them💕

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  13. I am pretty sure it is that pound of spaghetti that falls all the way to the back of the highest cabinet. You know, the one that requires a step-ladder to get to? It is just easier to go get another pound, so it just sits there, like, forever. The brand doesn’t even exist anymore, and the directions are in Latin? Yeah. That pound.

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  14. Probably our beat-up potholders I’m too cheap to replace – haha.

    My mom, though, has a mixer from my childhood that still works like a charm. Someday, when she’s no longer here, I’m nabbing that thing. My expensive Kitchen Aid works fine, but I know it will konk out long before her 1970s mixer does.

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    1. They made appliances to last back in the day. Wish I’d never gotten rid of the old Montgomery Ward fridge that was here when we moved in. We’ve been through 3 since and it’s still going strong at a friend’s camp.
      🥴

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  16. We have a jade glass salt and pepper shaker set. The style says ’50’s. There’s also a water glass from the heart of Atlants hotel, long since gone. No one drinks from it. I use it to pack brown sugar when I make cookies.

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  17. I love that you use this in their memory! How sweet that it has survived this long.
    I have a post in my drafts about the ‘mixing bowl’ that my brother gifted me when I was about 20 years old; plastic and probably from Walmart, but I use it all the time.
    I have some pieces from my Grandma and Mom, but I don’t use them much as they’re not practical.

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    1. I have a huge silver service of my mother’s who used to “entertain”, capital E. It has ridiculous things like a powdered sugar shaker, artichoke forks, candle snuffers, individual salts etc. It’s beautiful, but oy! Who wants to polish it?

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      1. I had my Grandmothers tea service; I remember when she gave it to me, she said she hardly ever used it, and who wants to polish silver?
        I finally donated it a few years ago.

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