A set of last-a-lifetime cast iron cookwareĤ. Quality glassware, that's less likely to crackģ. The roots of the glory box might be in some old-fashioned patriarchal nonsense about a dowry, but what if we turned it into a sensible way to plan for your own home? The price you pay over a few years, not for marriage, but for a sustainable future, and a home filled with quality, beautiful – and more durable – things. It has got to be better to buy locally sourced, quality items over time for your first home, things you'll take care of, rather than chucking a couple of hundy at a big box store and getting disposable junk. Her collection of homewares is slightly more practical than my Nana’s – there’s not a doily in sight – but it’s just as thoughtful, good quality, and frugal. So it’s quite smart actually,” she says in the clip. so when you move out, you already have all the things, and you don’t have to go buy them. Youtuber and social media consultant Ellen McKenzie, then 22, shares her “glory box” items ahead of moving out of her parents home for the first time. Nana would make me things for mine all the time, embroidering table cloths and doilies, and knitting colourful baby clothes. My Nana and her mother and sisters made all the small items for theirs, or put them on lay-by at the Japanese-run department store in Suva, which sold beautiful silks. There was a hand-made element to my glory box. Usually the preserve of the wealthy, the practice became more widely popular during the 30s, possibly as a response to the Great Depression and rationing during WWII, when it would have been harder to find or afford good quality home items, and many would have had to be hand made. Whether it’s called a trousseau (France), glory box (Australia and New Zealand), hope chest (US), cassone (Italy) or a “bottom draw” (UK), the tradition of giving daughters a chest to store items for their marriage has been around since ye olden times – about the 15th century – when the items would have formed part of a girl’s dowry, or marriage price. A Renaissance hope chest or cassone, from Florence, Italy, 15th century.
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