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Unintentional De-Cluttering.

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Calendargirl Sat 17-Feb-24 15:20:06

In the last week, I have accidentally dropped and smashed two little wine glasses that belonged to my grandmother.

I’m not talking about big wine glasses, they were tiny little ones more like shot glasses. Mum used to talk about hone made wine being served in them when she was a girl.

I use them to have a glass of home made sloe gin or vodka at the weekend in the winter.

Last week’s was full (🤬) this week’s was fortunately empty and had just been washed up.

Sorry Grandma and Mum, these glasses must have been antiques, but I still have another three to go.

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Oopsadaisy1 Sat 17-Feb-24 15:38:29

It’s a shame isn’t it when you have looked after them for so long.

I’m of the opinion now that I will use things all of the time whether they are family heirlooms or not. No one in our family will want them after I’m gone, so I use them and if they break I don’t get upset about it.

I’ve never bought anything with the thought that it will still be around in a hundred years time. I wonder if our grandparents did?

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winterwhite Sat 17-Feb-24 16:43:24

Bad luck, Calendar girl, I hate that to happen too. I think our grandparents would have bought things to 'last' and expect to hand them on, but have been relaxed about odd breakages.

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M0nica Sat 17-Feb-24 17:12:30

I did something similar today I took a pretty blue and white bowl filled with artificial flowers off the window sill, ready to pack it for a move, when it fell through my nerveless fingers and shattered on the tiled floor.

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Germanshepherdsmum Sat 17-Feb-24 18:26:50

Bad luck MOnica, but one less thing to pack.

My unintentional declutter was putting my favourite trowel in the garden bin and only realising after it had been emptied - I had to replace it of course, so no actual decluttering.

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