At nearly 50 years old, I've never had a full, matched set of flatware. We've acquired it from various thrift stores, restaurant closings, and yard sales over the years. As a result, we had a couple dozen forks, but we'd dig through to find the 3 or 4 of them that we actually liked. We probably had 30 combined spoons in varying sizes (of which we did buy 4 new a couple of years ago because the edges of many were kind of sharp to the edges of the mouth) that were in the same boat. We'd replaced t2025.10.19
