Utensil Refresh

Last time we sold these, @dpease made a suggestion:

Looks like a pretty good deal. Just a reminder, if you want this for your silverware set buy an extra for ready replenishment of the forks and spoons that mysteriously disappear over the years. I wish I had done that when I bought my silverware.

Now, we’ll say, forks and knives and spoons don’t disappear with the same frequency as socks, per se. But they do have a way of sneaking off. You bring one to work. Or you take a few on a picnic. Or you simply have children. Or whatever.

It really doesn’t matter the reason. What’s important is, next thing you know, you’ve gotta hand-wash the forks after every meal–breakfast, lunch, and dinner–because there’s only one per person in your household.

So, definitely buy one set and another set as a backup.

And then… maybe another set after that? To be a backup to the second set?

In response to dpease’s suggestion, @goldnectar joked:

I think you’d gag if you saw my utensils drawer. I think there is a set in there somewhere under all the randoms that accumulated over decades.

Now, we’ve talked about this phenomenon before. Unlike electronics, some products keep “working” almost indefinitely, leading you to believe you shouldn’t replace them, even when they’re a mess.

Our chief example of this in the past has been the backpack. It gets scuffed, some threads get loose, it gets a few stains that simply won’t come out, it looks disgusting, it smells sorta bad, and the zipper catches a little in that one spot… BUT! It can still hold stuff, so why get a new one?

Utensils are an even better illustration, though, because they can outlast a backpack by centuries.

And I’m speaking from experience, by the way. I’ve got a couple ancient coffee spoons and dessert forks that are absolutely mangled by trips down into the garbage disposal. The surface scratched, the tines way out of line.

And yet, I say to myself, “Why get rid of those? They can stir coffee or stab some cake.”

So I keep them.

But I don’t have to. And neither does goldnectar. And neither do you.

Because we sell sets like these for prices like this. So we can all just throw away the contents of our utensil drawer and start over.

And then start over again. With the backup set. Like dpease suggested.

In conclusion: buy some flatware.