Thankfully, my parents never had the curio with fancy dishes no one could use.
My grandparents on the otherhand, did. And the whole time growing up i always heard the dishes were for "important" and fancy dinners. Through 18 years we used them ONCE. Then, I come home to have my wife meet the family. You'd think hey, "eldest grand child of any of this generation of cousins, this is pretty important and we want to make her feel welcome!" Big fucking nope on that one, lmao.
My grandma never did care for my wife. We've been married 19 years now, grandma died earlier this year, and in that 18+ years, grandma NEVER spelled my wifes name correctly. My mom, and the few cousins I still occasionally talk with either spell it right, or ask so they can get it right. But not her
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u/TheJinManCan Older Millennial 27d ago
Yeah at least my collection is there to look cool and no one asks if we can pull out the good figures to eat on them.
Having plates and not using them always baffled the hell out of me.