Lane - Hope Chest Collection 1950

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[bradygirl_12]

Like most women of her generation, my mom had one of these. The cedar always smells so nice!

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

My mom did too, and then she gave it to me when I got married. :) It smells so good.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

My mom's cedar hope chest was made by her uncle. It's very plain, but the history behind it makes it a priceless heirloom to me.

Of course, that doesn't mean I don't also want the No. 2454 Queen Anne lowboy!

[etinterrapax.livejournal.com]

Lane does a cedar jewelry box giveaway at some schools, to graduating seniors, to promote hope chest sales. My mother had one, and I got one too. Desperately wanted the hope chest, but that didn't happen.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i have the mini lane chest, but got a mahagony hope chest inlaid with bone (my dad got it in the phillipines) for my 16th birthday.

and i got my grandmother's cedar chest when she passed away and a cedar wardrobe (armoire) that's still at mama's house for the time being.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

My grandmother, for reasons known only to her, put mothballs in her cedar chest. My mother has it now, and no amount of airing or vinegar or anything will take that stink away. It's too bad.

[misstia]

have they tried sanding it lightly and applying cedar oil to it?

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I was given a chest that had to be chucked out. It stank up the enclosed porch (where it was stored). I think once it permeates the wood sufficiently, there's probably not much to be done.

[vodkabeforenoon.livejournal.com]

What did they put in the hope chest?

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

Stuff you were saving up for your future household, mostly. Nice linens and quilts, that sort of thing. Excellent place for storing real wool blankets. I have a chest of drawers to store the good linens - the everyday ones take up a whole small closet.

[etinterrapax.livejournal.com]

Also baby clothes for your future children--knitted, presumably, from wool. You'd want something cedar-lined so they didn't get mothy.

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

Is that a hat? Or are electronic circles transmitting from her head?

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

I SO wish I had one of these...
http://www.lanefurniture.com/Furniture/Living-Room-Furniture/Cedar-Chests/i234942-Ari-Cedar-Chest.aspx

They're a bit more now, but so? Very useful piece of furniture.

[veronica-jay.livejournal.com]

We had two of these at my house growing up - one which was my mom's and the others was my grandma's. My dog liked to eat both.

[estelwen.livejournal.com]

So pretty! Also forgetting that hope chests were actually important - they, and their contents, were part of a woman's dowry. I mean, the bride came to the marital home with a box of blankets, sheets, towels, table cloths, and baby clothes (and a pretty box).

Relatedly: hi! I'm new. :D

[njbearcub1.livejournal.com]

"(and a pretty box)"

Do not talk about the bride's intimate area like that!

;-)

[estelwen.livejournal.com]

Ha! I bet the groom liked to! ;-)

Looking at the ad again, I find myself wondering about the stick thing the bride is holding in her right hand (by her face). WTF is that?

[njbearcub1.livejournal.com]

At first I thought, "Cell phone?" but I think it's the key to the hope chest, dangling enticingly for the groom, waiting to be opened on the honeymoon.

(more innuendo!)

[misstia]

hi estelwen! welcome!!!

[laplor.livejournal.com]

She is wearing my wedding dress. Amazing since I got married in 1987. Didn't have a hope chest though.

[crabofdoom.livejournal.com]

Was Miss Mercer's talent impersonating Andy Kaufman?

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Hah! I can see her opening her chest, finding it empty and saying "You can kiss my yaktahbay."

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

She looks... very ordinary for a beauty queen.

[cuddledumplin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she's the plainest Miss America I've ever seen.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Why is she carrying a tree?

Actually, a ribald jokes comes to mind, but I'll pass...

[charlotterhys.livejournal.com]

I want a hope chest. I don't necessarily need to get married. Or leave the family home! But I want one. >.>;

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

My mother has a cedar chest! We used to store all of our family photos, baby things, and old school papers/report cards in it. It's currently in storage, but I hope to inherit it some day! It's a beautiful piece.