This is silly, but for the entire length of our 5 year marriage Daniel and I have had an ongoing disagreement about our salt and pepper shakers. We’ve gone through many shakers during the course of this dispute, and I want to document them here, just for the fun of it.
Our Salt & Pepper Shaker Timeline
Salt & Pepper Set 1 (acquired circa July 2006)
These were a wedding gift. Daniel claims that the tops of these shakers frequently fall off and dump the entire shaker contents onto his food. I have never had that happen, so I suspect a user error.
Salt & Pepper Set 2 (acquired circa June 2009)
The holes in the tops of these vintage owl shakers are too small to let more than one or two grains of salt out at a time. We mutually agreed that although these shakers are cute, they aren’t usable.
Salt & Pepper Set 3 (acquired circa June 2011)
These pine cone shakers are my favorite. Daniel says they are too small. I say he insults my cooking by adding so much salt to his food!
Salt & Pepper Set 4 (acquired circa October 2011)
For Daniel’s birthday I (somewhat sarcastically) bought him the largest salt and pepper shakers I could find. He said they were too ugly, which is a bit hypocritical since he’s always telling me to value function over form.
Salt & Pepper Set 5 (acquired circa November 2011)
I think we’ve finally reached a compromise with these vintage glass shakers. They are just the right size, fully functional, and I like the way they look. Now we can live happily ever after!
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The vintage ones work the best, I think, and they feel good in the hand. Just the right weight, and you can tell when you’re running low. I remember my parents having a set of these when I was kid. I always got reprimanded for using them as toy spaceships.
Your set 5 seems very much like the shakers my husband and I started out with, except a little rounder and stubbier, but we’ve loved them. :)
Glad you found your meeting ground!
GP
Thank you for sharing this! I just realized that we don’t even HAVE salt and pepper shakers; we just carry the the pepper grinder and the salt pig back and forth from the table like heathens. I see a similar battle beginning in our house…!
I like the vintage ones. Good choice!
What an adorable post. I feel that my partner insults my cooking as well as adding too much salt…perhaps we need to get some new shakers.
haha such a cute post. glad to hear you guys were able to work through this debacle :p
I have the same vintage shakers, although we don’t use the pepper,preferring a pepper mill instead. They are comfortable and attractive to boot. And, we went through several sets before we got ours too!
We never use our pepper shaker either! Fresh ground pepper tastes so much better. I feel like the salt shaker would be lonely without the pepper shaker though, so I always put them both on the table. :)
ok, this just made me laugh out loud at work! so funny to hear the little disagreements other couples have around the house, thanks for sharing, love it!
This post is adorable…Oh the silly things we bicker about! (PS Love those owls, I would put them on a bookshelf!)
So great! I love the first ones! & the owl ones too!
I like the little pinecone ones the best, they’re so unique!
Oooh, nice photography! Very subtle how you had the upcoming shakers in the background. Nice use of the f stop!
Thanks Jenny!