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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I'm not interested in china-didn't register for my 1995 wedding-but I'm trying to figure out what a person would do with 24 candlesticks?

I mean, Grandma probably had electric lights-why so many candlesticks? [/quote]

+1 Everyone thought we were so strange for not registering for fancy China. I knew I would not be willing to wash that all by hand and I am not formal in how I entertain. Now it's the trend! We were ahead of our time.

I suspect all the candlesticks were gifts she didn't feel comfortable donating. My mother hoards all sorts of fancy things, some multiples because she thinks it's wrong to donate this stuff to anyone, but family (who don't want it).[/quote]

OP here. I don't know why mo mother collected so many bc she didn't light that many at say the dinner table. They were all stored neatly in her china cabinet.  One or two pairs were gifts but the rest she acquired herself.  I once counted them up and told her she had 24 pairs and she didn't believe me til I showed her.  It's not like she was a hoarder with other aspects of her life. She was quite organized and simple with other stuff.   I guess some of us like clothes, shoes and candlesticks.  I always thought it excessive.[/quote]

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