Baldur

Baldur was indeed a challenge for mother.
Back in high school I decided that Pyjamas were causing me stress, I move around a lot when sleeping. Sometimes the pyjamas would twist around me and it felt rather strangulating (+2 points). Other times the buttons would get ripped off and the pyjama top would be torn into several pieces.
Baldur decided it best to sleep in the natural method.
She soon figured this out and was very upset.
It was disrespectful to my sisters. How they would even be aware of this was beyond me. We did have separate rooms, and my door was shut at night.
I continue to disrespect them to this day.

Baldur

Did the restaurant have cloth napkins or those paper things?

Baldur

le Spoon Greasee uses those paper things that some call napkins, they come out of a metal dispenser.
Robert won't let me bring my own cloth napkin, even when I promise not to fold it to resemble a bird of paradise.

Baldur

I wouldn't use the fleur de lys fold there anyway, that would seem uppity.

Baldur

Baldur actually keeps a cloth napkin in the glove box of his pickup truck.
I won't take a paper napkin if I buy something 'to go'.
I do love eating in my truck however, there's something rather fun about doing that. This is my first vehicle with cup holders.
That is also a misnomer. They hold mugs, cans or those disposable things that are not cups but are forever called them.

Baldur

Let me say that aside from being green, using a cloth napkin is based on a piece of twisted logic for Baldur.
My beard shreds paper napkins, the tattered pieces hang from it and are rather annoying to fish out when one doesn't carry a mirror.
Baldur does not carry a mirror.

solosater

Yup, cloth napkins. Though these were of the poly blend variety so not terribly useful.

I actually did iron and refold paper napkins for a wedding once. It was kind of an in joke that only I was aware of. My friend is a little uppity at times and likes to act as if she's got it all and was telling everyone about the wealthy man she was marrying. I'll say this for him, he has a wealth of patients anyway. He was supposed to have told her to spend whatever on the wedding and she really wanter to do it up right but then refused to spend any money on things that would have made it really special, I even offered to make cloth napkins if she would buy the fabric but she didn't even want to spend that.

So I got a book at the library on different napkin folding patterns and had a go at it. I did a couple of really nice ones too but they didn't want to stand up so I ended up folding them into pockets for the white plastic cutlery.

solosater

Nope, sorry, not a doctor! He has patience not patients! He is a somewhat successful appliance repair person.

solosater

You know, when you're going to have less than a total of fifty people at a wedding reception and there are no children coming and you are having it catered you really should spring for the real (at least stainless) cutlery and real cloth (at least poly blend) napkins!

IMHO!

Baldur

The poly ones don't really absorb anithing so they are there for show mostly.
Using polyester they can make napkins look like silk, which would also be a poor napkin choice.
Here at Chez Baldur we have an array of cotton napkins and tablecloths. The cloths went on hiatus for the summer but it's time they come out again

Baldur

When my parent's 50th anniversary loomed on the horizon like a thunderhead Baldur needed to plan a meal with his sisters.
They wanted china, but were planning on renting it. Afterall they assumed who would have enough placesettings?
This alarmed me into mentally preparing myself for 50 guests.
As it turned out they were thinking 10 guests.
Baldur has more than adequate (actually I could have set a table for 50) china, but regrets that he didn't have the sterling in that quantity.
Baldur can however provide sterling teaspoons and cake forks for 50.
We went with the Spode, one of my siblings bought herself new flatware in order to have sufficient for the party.

solosater

For a self styled redneck from a family of proud rednecks and white trash for as far as the eye can see I really do have champaign tastes;-

I like cotton but have found some really nice linen/modal fabric for my own (not for a wedding just for home use) that is rather on the thick side, definitely bottom weight. I figure they will iron nicely and still be quite absorbent.

I haven't started them yet but think to do a very fine shirt tail hem all around and leave them very plain, this way they are not in competition with anything else I might have at table. I could do a fringe instead with a decorative stitch inset to keep them from unraveling...

Baldur

anithing -i +y =anything

solosater

I don't have any terribly nice dishes but 12 sets of plain white Corelle that makes for an easy set up and clear glasses in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I like plain when it comes to dinner but would love a set of tea cups and all the tea gear, I do have some great antique cups and matching saucers but they are one of a kind at this point and I don't like to risk them. They are to pretty to part with.

solosater

I don't have silver cutlery at all and wouldn't purchase any at this point unless I got a screaming deal on an antique set. I am fine with nice stainless for my cutlery.

See, I am a redneck!

Baldur

I do recall joking with a friend about the silver.
He thought I was being Martha Stewartesque in even owning any. Then he wanted to know how many pieces I ultimately wanted.
Baldur told him service for 48 was a good start.
He thought that to mean 48 forks, 48 knives, 48 spoons.
But it was meant as 48 each salad forks, dinner forks, pie forks,ice cream forks, oyster forks, table spoons, bouillon spoons, teaspoons, coffee spoons (they are different in sterling) demitasse spoons, butter spreaders, dinner knives, etc etc etc
Then one must include the serving pieces.
Of course in order to find anything of the sort the sterling must date from the 19th century. Modern sets are more limited.
Baldur decided on an American (made in Rhode Island!) pattern designed in 1878.
Despite the naysayers Baldur has managed to find quite a bit.

Baldur

We use stainless for everyday, mostly because Robert washes the dishes and he would clean the sterling with steel wool. I know better than to risk that.
On holidays I wash the flatware.

Robindcr8l

Robin has never eaten ice cream with a fork, I dare say.

solosater

A very sleepy redneck! solo is off to take a pill or two and find her bed. I've been woke up at least twice a night by terrible pain in my shoulder the last three nights. The doctor said today I have swollen bursa (?) in my joint. I hope tonight is a better one.

Good night all. Sleep tight (or loose as the case may be;-).

Robindcr8l

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