AIBU to use the posh glasses

Posh comes out for Sunday lunch and special occasions, so used at least weekly. I was gifted someone's best set, and they were proud it has only been used at Christmas previously.
Mu mums uses best crockery in Sunday, but best glasses only special occasions.

Use them, along with anything else you're keep for"best".
Life is short, enjoy each day to the full.

I can't take my own advice, but use them!

(Also if the company is still going, or if you don't mind a rummage in an antique shop or several, you can usually source replacements.)

We bought a fancy canteen of cutlery about 30 years ago and never used it, just cheap crap from Asda but we downsized 3 months ago and threw most of the cheap stuff out and now use it every day. I often wonder what exactly we were saving it for.

I broke a wine glass last week and was so glad it wasn't my best ones

However I did use some Royal doulton China but I still handwash it

Absolutely use them. I have a lovely set of 4 cut glass champagne flutes my brother bought us as a wedding gift. I know they were £50 as I’d wanted them for ages and couldn’t justify the cost, this was back in 2013. I use those glasses every time I drink fizz, even if it is only Aldi Prosecco. Life’s too short not to use your nicest things.

I’m drinking presecco right now out of my champagne flute I received as a wedding gift I always enjoy using pretty things for regular life and all my crystal in particular as it outlasted my marriage 😉

There is no point in them just sitting in a cupboard - use them.

I take the middle ground with my 'good' wine glasses, I use them regularly (weekly) and I think I have only lost 1 in over 20 years. Typically, I use them when we are having wine with a meal. We have cheap tumblers which we use for every day, which do get dumped in the dishwasher. We also have cheap wine glasses which I tend to use if I am drinking wine away from the table.

Life is short and can end in a split second. Use the glasses and treat every single day as 'best'.

Life is too short to save things for best. If you love them, use them. If you don't live them, put on eBay and ones you do love.

use them. There was a great piece in the New York Times about this recently. It opened with this:

Joan Didion once said that she used her “good” silver every day, because “every day is all there is.”

Love it and 100% agree.

Similar thread here, admittedly about using new things but it has the same sentiment - saving things for best!

I'll repeat what I said there - always choose the sparkles ✨️

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5246420-im-scared-of-using-newnice-things?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

We're retired and in our 60s now and recently sorted the cupboards out. So many lovely 'things for best' I'd forgotten about. We are using them now. Wedgewood dinner service, silver cutlery, crystal glasses etc.

100% use them.
Enjoy your lovely glasses!

I did this, they gradually all got smashed but they'd been in a cupboard for 15 years and the people who gave them were long dead. The glasses had a good life in the end and yes wine tastes nicer in the posh glasses 😉.

We have wine glasses we were given for wedding presents and 1st anniversary presents that I keep ‘for best’, ridiculous really, we should use them instead of buying cheap everyday glasses. We’ve had the wedding and anniversary glasses for nigh on 37 bloody years, if we dropped dead next week, our dc will charity shop them, so we should use them,

Yes use them! I used to be terrible for keeping things for best (even duvet covers!) until DP started referring to me saving things for 'when the Queen comes to stay' and I realised how ridiculous I was being.

When my MIL died, I was given all her best and favourite crockery. I didn't store it away. I decided that it would be on display, on my kitchen dresser, for us to see and use every day. We still call them "Granny's plates and bowls". I think of her often when plating up, especially with a Sunday roast.

10 years on, not one single piece has broken despite having dc and ddog rampaging around the house.

So use the glasses. Every drink you take out of them will taste even better.

Use them x

I don't understand why you wouldn't. You don't need MN's permission!

Yes use them and enjoy. When I cleared out my mums house not only were there some of her things that had been kept for best but some of my nan’s stuff too. Linen tablecloths from the 1930’s still in their packaging! What a waste.
My wedding china is also our everyday china - good sturdy Denby. The crystal glasses were Christmas only when the kids were small but they are also now in the cupboard to use and enjoy!

Use them, that is what they are FOR. They will be fulfilling their glassy purpose.

We use ours. Not every day, but every few weeks or when having a nice bottle of wine. Not because I worry about breaking them but because I utterly refuse to hand-wash anything and they have to go in the dishwasher.

And when our daily asda/IKEA pint glasses get cloudy and grotty I replace them.

I have horrors of my mum not washing the soap off glasses properly when I was growing up and never ever trust a hand washed glass or mug.

Definately use them, they have memories with them which (hopefully) bring a smile to your face every time you pick one up to use.