What’s the price of silver these days?
When my beautiful wife and I got married, we lovingly picked out stuff that people were obligated to buy for us if they wanted to see the babe in the white dress and eat yummy beef wellington.
Much to our delight, people actually fell for this and purchased nice enough stuff that we still use much of that stuff eight years later. The beef wellington is long gone but that pasta strainer is still going strong.
But, as you might imagine, over time some of those gifts have become less and less useful. Andrea burned the toaster a few years back, the soap dispenser became rusted and some of the non-stick cookware became a bit more sticky.
But the latest casualty has me a bit perplexed. You see, for the price of admission to witness the coming together of two beautiful people in the bonds of holy matrimony, eight different people bought us 100% genuine silver-looking flatware. Each of those sets of flatware consisted of a knife that’s perfect for scraping burnt parts of toast, a large spoon that fits perfectly into the peanut butter jar, a small spoon that you can hang from the tip of your nose, a big fork that is perfect for fishing out the last pickle and a small fork that is the perfect size for stabbing your toddler sibling.
We started out with 8 of each of those individual pieces of flatware but lately I noticed that I was always searching for forks. There last straw was when I had to fish out the last pickle with my hands. I finally decided to do an inventory of flatware and this is the number of each item I found.
Burnt Toast scraper: 6
Peanut Butter spoon: 8
Balancing Nose spoon: 6
Pickle Jar fork: 2
Stabbing Sibling fork: 2
That’s right, we have lost 12 forks over the past eight years. And since I don’t think people will fall for the “bring us some flatware for some beef wellington” ruse again, I had to think of what to do. As far as I knew, I’d have to buy full sets of the flatware to get us back to the number to have dinner guests without resorting to the forks with bunny rabbits on the end. But then we’d end up with 14 Peanut Butter spoons and I don’t eat that much peanut butter.
But the wonders of the Internet never cease to amaze me. I found a company called Replacements, Ltd. that actually will sell you individual flatware pieces! So, last night after recounting all of the flatware, I purchased the missing items. In a 7-10 business days we can finally have you over for dinner.
But you can forget the beef wellington. How about a beef hot dog?
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Replacements will also buy stuff… nice to know when you have boxes of china that won’t sell at a garage sale.
Comment by mp — September 8, 2008 @ 8:56 am
Replacements.com also carries discontinued patterns. I found them when I one day realized, hey, we are perpetually out of plates. And, of course, the pattern we have (and love) had been discontinued. Glad to hear they’re still doing good work!
Comment by Cynthia — September 8, 2008 @ 9:19 am
Ohhhh my hubby is going to kill you for telling me about that site. Zoiks, I might just have to hug you now.
Glad to hear you won’t have an over abundance of peanut butter spoons because quite honestly you only need one…..that same spoon can be used over and over with huge dollops of PB on it.
Comment by MadWomanMeg — September 8, 2008 @ 9:33 am
Thank you for that link. I just found some of the china (that we’ve broken) that was my grandmothers.
Comment by Issa — September 8, 2008 @ 10:09 am
I have been a faithful shopper at Replacements for a long time. They even have an eBay store, so there are a couple of ways to buy stuff from them. The website is a great reference point for pattern pictures, especially for china. It’s also a good way to see what the base price is for something – which is very important when you think you’ve found a “deal” on eBay!
Any ideas on where the flatware disappeared to? Maybe the Twilight Zone??
Comment by Deanna — September 8, 2008 @ 10:41 am
We had this great flatware that had blue clear handles that I loved and over time the handles started getting all wobbly and some just fell off. The replacements? I bought restaurant-service style flatware from Sams in huge packages. No more fancy handles that fall apart and if they somehow get pitched, they were cheap. I love it.
Comment by heather — September 8, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
So… we’re having hot dogs which will mean we will need NONE of the replacement flatware anyway? Well, except for the pickle spearing fork if we want a pickle.
Comment by Julie — September 9, 2008 @ 8:58 am
OOOOH! Joy!
For some reason…like kids who just throw silverware away like it grows on freaking trees…we are down about 5 spoons and 8 forks. You give me back a full set in one link!!
You deserve a cookie.
Comment by Anissa@Hope4Peyton — September 9, 2008 @ 2:46 pm
Hmmm, well, it’s obvious you did not get the “gargage sale” nor the “let’s get a new set” genes from your family. Maybe they skipped a generation.
Comment by Grandmother — September 9, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
When Mrs. Joe left she took the flatware that was given to us for our wedding. I went and dug out the old stuff from the basement. I dont think I have one complete set.
Comment by above average joe — September 9, 2008 @ 6:44 pm
I still remember how wonderful your wedding was, especially the beef wellington!!
Comment by Sarah — September 10, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
That’s good to know. When our everyday flatware had dwindled down, we broke into the good silver and have been using that.
Comment by Darren — September 14, 2008 @ 8:36 am
Sooo funny. We have the same problem, but I’ve long been acquainted with Replacements Limited. I was able to replace some of my china that was broken when I
hurled it at my husband in a hormonal ragedropped it.Comment by Amy — September 14, 2008 @ 3:09 pm