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I use my mother's bedroom furniture and foot stool, and then there's her ironing board, clothes horse and gravy boat that I use just about every day. I use her enamelled pie dish and stock pot at least once a week. Then there's some spare blankets, some soup tureens, vegetable dishes, odds and ends of cutlery. On special occasions I bring out the 'good' serving dishes and china. These are the left overs from my parent's wedding presents from 1956 - 52 years ago! There's ornaments and vases and other bits and pieces that she collected over the years too. I use my dad's tools from when he was an apprentice cabinet maker and that was before the war - things like hand saws, screwdrivers, planes, chisels, his hammer, pliers etc. In the shed there is a whole row of jars of rusty nails and scews and nuts and bolts etc - stored in 1950s bryl cream jars. I also use their garden tools that were bought in 1962 or 1963. There's even a manual lawn mower that I prefer to the flymo. I inherited their house and shed when my dad died 2 years ago.

I think I might have some towels, casserole dishes and odd bits of bedding left from my own wedding 20 odd years ago - but not much else. Mum and dad took must have better care of their stuff - or it was meant to last.