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I did, a fine bone china Wedgewood 12 place dinner service.Try repairing a whole vintage Crown Ducal tea set! With the best will in the world...
Agreed, but I am also a stickler for finance and saving up to buy our own house and when things cost the price of above, a pot of ceramic glue is much cheaper and I am rather skilled at gluing things back together after plenty of practice given to my by my brother and sister when they were toddlers and I was a teenager!I've given up on sentimental attachments to inanimate objects. People are more important than crockery
We recently took the decision to box up our best china because we were no longer able to replace items. And whilst the 2 of us managed perfectly well on 4 dinner plates, 5 side plates, 2 pasta bowls and 4 breakfast bowls when we broke the last unrepaired dinner plate and it was beyond any sensible repairing (flakes missing left right and centre), we called it a day. We replaced the dinner service that cost us a significant amount of money (£20 per plate when it was on sale) with one that cost us £20 for the entire 6 place service from Ikea....We added a couple of items to it, and bought a spare of everything, which was rather useful because I promptly dropped one of the bowls! On the bright side we now have a dinner service that can go in the microwave (or the dishwasher we don't have) which is something we are really not used to because the last one couldn't go through either!
Cheap and cheerful with no attachments is the way forward for us.
We also have a few items from our attempted world cycle tour that are completely useless to us, but have that sentiment. We were given some handknitted thick woollen socks by a little old lady in Lithuania. We had camped the night on her granddaughters lawn (after asking directions to the nearest lake and deciding it was too far). The following day the grandmother had given us these socks, along with the rest of the family all giving us bits as well. The socks are really thick and we have never used them, probably never will, but it is the memory that is important from our time there. They were so very helpful and kind. The daughter had been appalled at us sleeping in a tent (it was later in the year than this and getting below zero at night - best time to camp in our opinion) and had actually offered us her flat in the town to stay the night in, but it was back the way we had come and we were happier in our tent.... I'll stop whittling... the link to our tour is below and given how few nights we spent in Lithuania it won't take long to find if anyone is actually interested...