Comments on: Escaping the city without leaving town. http://www.thelaughingmedusa.com/2012/07/02/escaping-the-city-without-leaving-town/ an alternative lifestyle blog by sarah lambert. Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:46:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Sarah http://www.thelaughingmedusa.com/2012/07/02/escaping-the-city-without-leaving-town/#comment-1759 Sarah Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:03:50 +0000 http://www.thelaughingmedusa.com/?p=1452#comment-1759 I didn’t know about that tradition; thanks, Marcia! I think they’re so pretty and like collecting them. Mostly I use them to store knickknacks and art supplies around my apartment, but once in a while I’ll clean one out for a cup of tea. :)

]]> By: Marcia Barhydt http://www.thelaughingmedusa.com/2012/07/02/escaping-the-city-without-leaving-town/#comment-1757 Marcia Barhydt Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:40:20 +0000 http://www.thelaughingmedusa.com/?p=1452#comment-1757 OMG Sarah – those tea cups!

When I was maybe your age, it was custom for single women to collect those tea cups – each one different, each one elegant, so she’d have a beautiful bunch of tea cups for when she had ‘tea’, as in ‘come for tea’ with her female friends.

I thought the whole idea was kinda lame and I believe the tradition vanished around the time of my generation. Maybe that happened because we all thought there could be birthday and Christmas presents way better than those cups.

But you know what? I still have them and sometimes I actually use them! Thanks for the memory.
Marcia

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