How often do you polish your silver?

[MonkeyFunk]

And no, that's not a euphemism.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. My silver is Czech

[datasuspect]

2. you're ruining the lounge guy

there isn't any navel gazing today because of you . . .

[MonkeyFunk]

3. eh...

it's all greek to me. Occasionally french.

[leftofthedial]

4. the knobs?

or the rest of it?

[MonkeyFunk]

5. ooh!

I'm trying to behave!

[KitchenWitch]

6. Screw silver

I have platinum.

[liontamer]

7. i don't

although I really should, i have silver cutlery that's starting to tarnish.

[hedgehog]

8. Use it every day and it won't tarnish - just don't throw it into the dishwasher!

[Miss_Strawberry]

9. The tarnish

actually protects the silver...so you shouldn't polish until you need it....so I've heard...

[wildhorses]

10. puh-leeeeeze, dahLink!!

my maid polishes the silver before every sit-down dinner i host...

i have service for 24

and, NO you may NOT touch me:P

[Bear down under]

11. Every five years or so

A jeweller friend told me years ago that it's the acids in the food that cause the tarnish, and the way to stop that is to put your cutlery (and silver dishes if any)into a bucket of water (no soap)the minute it comes from the table. Then wash up as normal when you're ready, dry, give it a quick wipe with an anti-tarnish cloth and store it in a closed cupboard. It works.

[crim son]

12. Only once every couple of years.

Otherwise I keep it locked up with anti-tarnish strips.

[momophile]

13. oh shit. are we supposed to do that?

better go do that...

[Shine]

14. Never, well, not exactly.....

we pulled a bunch of it out of the garage last year to use for my darling daughter's 10th bd tea party. It was quite the fancy affair....

[SPKrazy]

15. It Isn't A Euphemism?

then I don't

if it is a euphemism

I am not saying

:shrug:

[mentalsolstice]

16. Polish? What's that?

Does it have something to do with that country near Germany?

[Scarlett17]

17. I have silver? n/t

[ploppy]

18. Put baking soda

in a cake pan (must be metal or line a glass one with tin foil) pour boiling water in the pan. You then put the silverware in the pan for a couple of minutes, take it out, rinse it and you have sparkling clean silver. Then do what Hedgehog says!

[Glorfindel]

19. 3 or 4 times daily. Compulsively. Obsessively.

Sometimes I wake up the butler and the head footman and have them haul out the silver and polish it, because I just can't abide the thought of it lying there in the dark, tarnishing, tarnishing away. Seeing my houseguests eat with it brings me to the point of screaming, and don't even get me started on the chafing dishes and the candelabra. I'm almost as protective of the family crystal, but at least it doesn't tarnish. :yoiks:

[MonkeyFunk]

20. You're my kinda

guy/gal.