Filling Your Hope Chest Part 2
Today we will be discussing another idea for filling your hope chest with lovely, practical, useful, simple things that make hope chests so wonderful! Please know that my lists are not exhaustive nor mandatory. Something I think is essential for my hope chest may not be practical or useful for you and vice versa. My goal is to whet your appetite and get your creative juices flowing. Most importantly ask the Lord to help you make wise selections that will glorify Him in your home. It would grieve me to think that I have encouraged someone in frivolous materialism.
Now onto the idea for this week: Kitchen Implements
Nothing makes your work and/or projects more enjoyable than the right attitude and proper tools to get the job done. For me this includes good wooden spoons, stainless steel measuring cups and measuring spoons. My mom surprised me with heart shaped measuring spoons ~ very neat! I really like the serving spoons, ladle and spatula my mom uses so she has been buying these for me one by one as the budget allows!
An Important Note: Do NOT store plastics in a cedar hope chest! Besides the plastic absorbing the strong scent which will never leave there is a chemical reaction that takes place leaving the plastic feeling sticky and greasy, that also will not go away. My Mom’s cousin learned that the hard way! Wooden spoons will absorb the cedar scent and will over time go away when being in use and no longer stored in the chest. The cedar scent in wooden spoons will not effect food preparation in any way.
I could go on and on listing many more items like a rolling pin, glass liquid measuring cups in several sizes, a set of sharp cutting knives….. etc. I hesitate to do so however, knowing that these items basically keep the same shape and style from year to year and will always be available. It is those items that you are using now that belong to your mom, grandmother or aunt that feel right as you use them. Take wooden spoons for instance they come in many shapes and some just do not feel right to me. So I keep my eyes open for the shapes and styles that I am used to using so I will feel at home and not awkward in my future kitchen!
Well, I hope this has been another useful, encouraging post to you and I hope you will join me next week for another idea for filling your hope chest!
Grace and Peace
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I love these posts, they are so useful, keep them coming!
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Great Post Antoinette! :) I have a set of heart shaped measuring spoons too! I got mine at Goodwill for cheap! It was great! I love them! They are nicely tucked away in a box, not in my hope chest. ;)
Thank you for those warnings about the plastic, I’ll have to check and make sure I don’t have any in my hope chest. I think I kept most of it out though, thankfully.
One of the things I have come to love are some silicone spatulas that we found at the dollar store near us (real cheap). ;) I know they aren’t quality so I am still looking for some better quality ones, but these ones that our family uses have held up for at least a year or more and are so easy to work with in the kitchen! :) The have nice wooden handles too.
Blessings!
~Miss Rachel~
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I did not know that about the plastics! That’s good information.
GB~
Sharla~
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Great post!!
Kinsey
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I have a wooden spoon in my hope chest that was my great-grandmothers. It is soo cute. Thanks for the tip on plastic, I actually have some plastic cups in there that I don’t really like anyways. Love these posts!
By the way, my hope chest was my other great-grandmothers and it is filled with quilts that she and her sisters made. It also has a mirror that was hers, first thing going up in my bathroom when I get married!
Clarissa
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Thanks be to God for lovely ladies like all of you.
It is a mother joy to read of your thoughtful preparation.
You website is a delight to the eye, uplifting and informative.
Lisa
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