I really don't mind the appearance of either set, but I'm not a fan of the way that the new ones break in the dish washer. Ceramic shards are sharp and the mechanical repairs are expensive. Not to mention replacing the full set of these fragile bowls every 6 months.

Sincerely,

someone who purchased bowls 30 years ago and discovered that modern craftsmanship is subpar.

I'm just imagining this guy shrugging every time his wife talks to him 😆

I am like this and I am not sure if I am broken or what. Shit staying the way it is is 100% fine for me - as long as it's practical, idc. But my partner needs to shake things up every once in a while or she feels bad. x_x

Sometimes the thing she wants requires effort though.

"Are you going to help me?"

Despite not once thinking about a perfectly fine room color being over a year old.

No longer married.

My favorite bowl is a flat green one with a chip and a crack. I bought a replacement for it in case it ever breaks in half. I have a second matching, but smaller bowl that also has a crack. They are the only two matching bowls, and she left them behind for me because I asked her to. Everything else is pieces I've had for various numbers of years, some going back over 40 years from when I first moved out on my own.

I absolutely love that nothing matches, and most of it is 20+ years old.

I get this. I have bowls that I don't like, but also I haven't seen any that I do seriously like enough to buy. In the grand scheme of things, it's a cheap way to make the spouse happy. Especially if they moved in and your already had the bowls. It lets them put their touch on their home.

A lot of things I have are functional, but never truly what I wanted. Maybe the size is just a bit off for how much I eat, or the way the bowl is shaped makes it slosh too much.

I think I have 3 or 4 sets of bowls now. Though I don't think I've paid for any. Some were left by the previous owner, others were a gift bought super cheap/used and were from the Disneyland hotel (I worked at Disney and we got access to buy what the company used in their restaurant for like $0.50/bowl), and another set my fiance brought when she moved in.

Otherwise I like to shop estate sales, garage sales, and thrift stores. I almost bought a set of retro 1950s bowls from a neighbors garage sale last month. Decided I didn't need another set though.

How to be a part of your partner's life:

darling, i never once considered whether or not i like these bowls because they serve the purpose i need them to. What do you not like about them?

I see what you mean, i suppose they are fairly bland and don't match our other dinnerware. It doesn't bother me even slightly, but I would love to investigate other options with you if you're planning to do so.

Yes, dearest, these new bowls are quite nice. I like how everything matches

OR EVEN

Honestly, peaches, i don't like how thin the new bowls feel, I'm afraid to use them because they feel delicate. I liked how robust the old ones were—i never had to worry. Does this concern you? We can always find other options.

Yay, normalized over-consumerism disguised as marital quirks!

The last bit especially, but like "the new bowls are better because you are happier with them"

I have very few strong opinions on anything, and it took a while for my wife to understand the difference between me giving a preference independent of hers vs including hers

The best example I can think of is olives. She loves olives, and I have absolutely no strong feelings about olives. So independent of her I would eat any olives that came with my dish, but when we're eating together I'll pick out the olives and give them to her because I get more joy secondhand when she has them than I would first-hand if I did

This guy is one of the best to ever play magic the gathering

How to alienate your spouse in 2 steps by not caring? Strange internet humor...

And now you're poorer the cost of the new bowls to replace the perfectly good older ones because your wife isn't happy when she's not actively consooming. Repeat in six months to a year to feed the bottomless pit of human desire.

This is wholesome thanks for sharing

I miss Basic Four.

ok boomer