So what DID we do with all those silver wedding gifts?

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GeorgiaXplant

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Tee hee. Nothing much to watch on the telly so it's tuned to an old movie (don't remember the name) where all the wedding guest are traipsing past the gift table. One woman said to another "Eleven silver nut dishes!"

Whatsisname, The Father of My Children, and I got seven silver nut dishes as wedding gifts. A couple of them may have been used a time or two. I have no idea what became of any of them.

Does anybody use silver nut dishes? For what?

Remember polishing the sterling? We had place settings for 12. And sterling candlesticks and candelabra. Then there was the Limoges china (inherited) and the Cambridge crystal.

We certainly did live in a whole different universe back then.
 

A couple of years ago I pulled out all the silver items and polished them. Sent photos to the kids. No interest. I wouldn’t mind using the cutlery, if it could go in the dishwasher. Since it can’t, I won’t.
 
Jules said:
A couple of years ago I pulled out all the silver items and polished them. Sent photos to the kids. No interest. I wouldn’t mind using the cutlery, if it could go in the dishwasher. Since it can’t, I won’t.
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Heck, nobody wants it? Take it to a dealer and sell it. If it's sterling (not plate), you can walk away with a nice chunk of change. The price of silver is up to $26+ per ounce today. You could retire to the South of France. Or buy groceries;)
 
Gee, I just remembered that one of the silver gifts we got was a silver tea service. Don't remember what became of that, either.
 
Jules said:
A couple of years ago I pulled out all the silver items and polished them. Sent photos to the kids. No interest. I wouldn’t mind using the cutlery, if it could go in the dishwasher. Since it can’t, I won’t.
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Sorry for my stupidity but why can't silver cutlery go in the dishwasher? Please keep in mind I have no silver and my hands are my dishwasher. :D
 
Dishwasher detergent tarnishes silver and silver plate. If you can find a dishwasher detergent that doesn't have citric acid in it (good luck!) you can wash silver in the dishwasher. Sterling will merely tarnish (badly!), but regular dishwasher detergent will eat away at silver plate until it's down to the base metal.
 
We got a lot of silver (mostly silver-plated) stuff as wedding presents. As a rather hippy-ish person setting out in married life in a *really* foreign country, I had totally zero interest in the items. What could be returned for cash went right back; a lot of what couldn't got "regifted". Some ended up getting packed away for years and either donated or sold at garage sales.

I've never had any interest in silver. I've never hosted a tea party. I don't like to polish anything.
 

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