One of my most prized posessions (photos) (WATCHED VIDEO)

My Grandparents did much global travel...both during their marriage and in their retirement years.  My Grandmother collected cups/saucers from the places they've been. She always had them on display in her home. As a child, I spent much time admiring "Grandma's cup collection". When my Grandmother and Grandfather left their home and moved to an assisted living community, they had to get rid of a houseful of memories that they had spent more than 50 years collecting.

I felt a little bitter because both of my cousins (who lived much closer to my Grandparents...they always have...big difference between Michigan to Ohio vs Florida to Ohio) went through the house and pretty much took whatever they wanted. Neither my sister or I really had any opportunity to have any kind of say. But then I learned that my Grandmother specifically told them that I would get this collection in addition to her Noritake china.

I'm telling you, having these few items meant more to me than having a house full of furniture because my Grandmother knew how much they meant to me as a child and knew how much I'd treasure them.

We do have my Grandmother on video, as we were packing them away for me to transport home, telling me when/where each were purchased, why she liked it, and anything else she could remember.  One day I will find that video (DH may know immediately where it is...videos are his department...photos are mine)  and transfer all of the information to paper to keep with the cups. 

So here's the cup/saucer collection.  My treasure. 

And here are the saucers/cups without the matching piece.  I don't know if she purchased them like this or if any had been broken over the years.  I know that in the 20+ years that I've had them I have broken ZERO.