Hope Chest Article #4
Filling Your Hope Chest Part 2
Today we will be discussing another idea for filling your hope chest with lovely, practical, useful, simple things that make hope chests so wonderful!
*Please know that my lists are not exhaustive nor mandatory. Something I think is essential for my hope chest may not be practical or useful for you and vice versa. My goal is to wet you appetite and get your creative juices flowing. Most importantly ask the Lord to help you make wise selections that will glorify Him in your home. It would grieve me to think that I have encouraged someone in frivolous materialism.
Now onto the idea for this week:
Kitchen Implements: Nothing makes your work and/or projects more enjoyable than the right attitude and proper tools to get the job done. For me this includes good wooden spoons, stainless steel measuring cups and measuring spoons. (my mom surprised me with heart shaped measuring spoons ~ very neat!) I really like the serving spoons, ladle and spatula my mom uses so she has been buying these for me one by one as the budget allows!
*It is an important note: Do NOT store plastics in a cedar hope chest!!! Besides the plastic absorbing the strong scent which will never leave there is a chemical reaction that takes place leaving the plastic feeling sticky and greasy. That also will not go away. My Mom’s cousin learned that the hard way! Wooden spoons will absorb the cedar scent in wooden spoons will over time go away when being in used and no longer stored in the chest. The cedar scent in wooden spoons will not effect food prep. In any way.
I could go on, and on listing many more items like a rolling pin, glass liquid measuring cups in several sizes, a set of sharp cutting knives….. etc. I hesitate to do so however, knowing that these items basically keep the same shape and style from year to year and will always be available. It is those items that you are using now that belong to your mom, grandmother or aunt that feel right as you use them. Take wooden spoons for instance they come in many shapes and some just do not feel right to me. So I keep my eyes open for the shapes and styles that I am used to using so I will feel at home and not awkward in my future kitchen!
Well, I hope this has been another useful, encouraging post to you and I hope you will join me next week for another idea for filling your hope chest! 
Grace and Peace,
Miss. Antoinette K.
Filed under: Christian Living, Kitchen, Practical, Random, friendship, miscellaneous on January 5th, 2010
Wonderful post, Antoinette!! I’m really enjoying your hope chest articles. Thanks for the tip about plastic! I wouldn’t have thought about that.
~ Love and Blessings,
Lindsay
Great article Annie!
Ah, yes, we had some plastic (old stuff really though) that was stored in my hopechest…it was being used by my grandmother for storage for awhile, and the plastic tupperware stuff was sooo gross feeling. Bleck! 
Don’t do it! 
I keep things that can’t be stored in my hopechest in storage boxes. 
They are kept nice there. 
Those were all great tips Annie, thank you! 
Blessings and Hugs!
~Rachel~
Thank you for you comment ladies!
Miss Rachel~ My mom did the same thing when I was younger, and it turned our the same way and it was newer plastic containers!
Yes, we learned the hard way too! 
lol
Miss Lindsay~ I am so glad you are enjoying the articles! I really enjoyed doing them and am hopefully going to be doing one about boys and hope chests soon!
blessings dear ladies,
Miss Antoinette
Thanks for the ideas! I don’t have a cedar hope chest,so I have nothing to worry about!
Great tip for the future though!
Love,
Miriam
Thank you so much for mentioning the plastic. I have never heard of that happening before! I have a few Pampered Chef utensils and Pyrex dishes with plastic lids that may need to hop out!
Blessings,
-Breezy