"I can't cook with blunt knives and present food well on chipped plates. I want us to live like adults When I moved in with my older sister, Mara, earlier this year, I knew it wouldn't be my place. She is an artist and her aesthetic is lived-in chaos. There's a lot of clutter, but it's the crockery and cutlery that annoys me. The plates don't match, the mugs are from 10 different holidays, and the cutlery is a mix of gold, silver and plastic."
"I live here too, and the kitchen is more my domain as I cook more, but I find it hard with all the blunt knives Mara refuses to throw away, and I can't present things well on chipped plates. I want clean, new kitchenware. There's a joy in serving dinner on plates that aren't chipped and mismatched. It feels more like an occasion."
The narrator moved in with older sister Mara, who owns an artistically chaotic flat with cluttered, mismatched crockery and cutlery. The narrator cooks more and finds blunt knives and chipped plates make cooking and presenting food difficult. Matching, intact tableware and sharp utensils would make meals feel more grownup, cohesive, and special, and would help the narrator and her boyfriend feel their lives are together. Mara resists replacing items and calls the preference posh. Attempts to persuade Mara, such as leaving links to cutlery sets, have failed, leaving the narrator frustrated and less at home.
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