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I've spent much of my afternoon cleaning silver. Two cutlery sets, silver coasters, silver place mats, a sugar bowl and a beautiful silver-inlaid glass vase.
The forks are so clean, my hands so dirty.
Considering I'm wearing a WHITE SHIRT, I don't look too disreputable
Ugh my mother used to make me do it. Cleaning the silver was one of my many childhood jobs. To this day I avoid anything silver. You did well to sit there and do it all.
I had to do that job when I volunteered at Salvos. It was awful.
For donated items, I think I'd use the tinfoil & baking soda method. Then a quick rub with a microfibre cloth. Takes a lot of the elbow grease out of it.
It’s weird, but I actually quite like it?
It’s a bit magical seeing the gleam come through the black
Much smaller scale, but is an undertaking when I do the brass