My Crystal Bell...Glory Boxes...

A long time ago a woman was married off to a man and came with a dowry...It was property that the womn owned and it was used to entice a man into a marriage sometimes...This has since been called a  glory box...

Glory boxes are a place where you and your daughter can place things in when you shop for things like linen, glasses, toasters irons and little trinkets that can remind them of you and their childhood home and help them to set up their new one when they leave yours...

With my mum she did alot of the shopping for my Glory Box on her own like irons and things like that but we also spent days where I had had a ball shopping with her as a teenager and we had bought just a small ornament or something special that reminded me of that time...

It was actually that, that bought on the thoughts for this article...You see this morning I was going through some of my ornaments that I have packed away as I have not found the display cabinet I want to match my other furniture...The box they were in had been wet and I needed to change the box to keep them safe...I came across a little crystal bell that my mother had bought me when I was about 14 years of age...I remember the day so well...

We went out to the markets in the morning at Ipswich in Qld and we walked them and bought alot of little things like plants and some craft things for me...We stopped half way through the markets and sat down and had a banana split...A lady was behind mum laughing loudly and she tripped back into my mum and mums sundae went all over her...

It was the giggles and the time we spent together that day that made me remember it so well...You see when I was 14 my mum was working full time and having a Sunday together was wonderful...On the way out we came across this little stand that had ornaments in crystal and I picked up this little bell...It was gorgeous and one i really liked...My mum looked at me and then the stall holder and bought it and said for you Glory box sweetheart...We then went home...

When I moved out and was given this glory box...As i unpacked it all the useful things were used and worn out long ago but all the keepsakes with the memories attached are still here...I also got alot of doilies and things for my Glory Box that were made by my Nanna...I still have them too...

You see my Glory box was one full of hope and memories and a little chest of treasures...I have too started this for my two older girls and we do the shopping things where something is purchased that will have little memories for my girls when they move out...The Glory box  is a tradition I feel that has been lost a fair bit in our society and is something that should not be gone...It is not only something that can be useful when your child moves out but also something that can be full of happy memories for them...

Sitting here thinking there really is no reason I could not start one for my boys either I suppose...Maybe I should start a new tradition here in our family...

These are just my thoughts I wanted to share...

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Cheers
Angie