The meaning of keeping things from the past

These vintage salt and pepper shakers can serve well-seasoned memories from yesteryear.

Whenever you think of your grandparents, you think of the things they had but are now long gone. Things that you wish you still had but for some reason don’t. Only grandparents have those kinds of things. We’ll all be grandparents soon enough.

Like those treasure chests at the end of beds or in closets. They looked like something too fancy for your household, and you wondered how they…