This might be fun. Do you have any items related to food/kitchen that you regularly use that were hand-me-downs, or inherited, or somehow ended up in your kitchen drawer?
A treasured ladle from an aunt who first taught you how to make spaghetti sauce? An old strainer that reminds you of helping your mom cook when you were a kid? Some old useless piece of tat you just can't part with?
Anything is fine, post it here, with a little story, if it helps. I'll start:
This bottle opener was my maternal granddad's. He always carried it on his key chain.
Note that it says "Drink Pepsi-Cola" on it, so obviously some bit of promotional stuff from Pepsi, and my dad retired from Pepsi, but he doesn't recall ever giving this to his father-in-law.
I got it years after my granddad passed away. He died in 1995, and I got this probably a decade later. My mom had a box of some random items of his, and when I saw it and asked about it, she said, "Oh, that's just some of Dad's things, help yourself if you want anything," and I remember the box containing a billfold, his glasses, and a pair of socks, of all things, along with this opener, and I was in the process of putting a little bar area in my house, so I took the opener.
I fashioned a little hook just under the top of the bar, and now it hangs from that, out of site, and I use it almost every day.
A treasured ladle from an aunt who first taught you how to make spaghetti sauce? An old strainer that reminds you of helping your mom cook when you were a kid? Some old useless piece of tat you just can't part with?
Anything is fine, post it here, with a little story, if it helps. I'll start:
This bottle opener was my maternal granddad's. He always carried it on his key chain.
Note that it says "Drink Pepsi-Cola" on it, so obviously some bit of promotional stuff from Pepsi, and my dad retired from Pepsi, but he doesn't recall ever giving this to his father-in-law.
I got it years after my granddad passed away. He died in 1995, and I got this probably a decade later. My mom had a box of some random items of his, and when I saw it and asked about it, she said, "Oh, that's just some of Dad's things, help yourself if you want anything," and I remember the box containing a billfold, his glasses, and a pair of socks, of all things, along with this opener, and I was in the process of putting a little bar area in my house, so I took the opener.
I fashioned a little hook just under the top of the bar, and now it hangs from that, out of site, and I use it almost every day.
. Ah well, I'm sure other people do...
