What is a Hope Chest?
My hope chest contains memories from over the years. I have awards, pictures, old dried corsages from prom and homecoming, travel journals, and even some old clothes that I want to show my kids someday that I’ve worn. I guess it’s my own time capsule. It’s fun to go through it and see all the great memories I’ve had.
We have heard about hope chests, but do we really know what they were and how they were used? PREPARING YOUR HOPE CHEST will not only answer many questions regarding how hope chests were influential in Christian womanhood, but they will also help your own daughter prepare for her future as she uses this wonderful marriage preparation tool! PREPARING YOUR HOPE CHEST is written for young girls, starting at the early age of nine (9), to help prepare their very own hope chest! Topics covered are: – What is a Hope Chest? – Finding & Preparing Your Own Hope Chest – What Skills You Will Need in the Future – Your Career Preparation (for being a HOMEMAKER) – Handiwork – Instructions for Crotchet & Knitting – Embroidery for Decorating – Sewing – Stocking Your Sewing Basket – The Sewing Machine – Decorating Skills – Keep it Simple – Kitchen Preparation – Cooking – Studying Nutrition – Recipe Pattern and Recipes – House Cleaning – Frugality – You Do Not Make More Money Working – Frugal Shopping Ti
” I was surprised to find that it was something very different than what I had thought! It goes on to give suggestions on finding a hope chest and then planning the skills that will fill it. Yes, skills will fill it (You will have to read the book to find out how)! Other chapters include: Handiwork, Embroidery, Sewing, Decorating, Kitchen Preparation, Cooking, House Cleaning, and Frugality. Located at the end of the book are additional resources to help each young woman make their own hope chest unique. Although I am a mother of two and five-year-olds, I found this book to be refreshing. My own attitudes about being a wife and mother are still being shaped by God’s gracious Holy Spirit. It takes time to undo all that the world has so wrongly taught.
Well, it is a piece of furniture that is used as storage and can therefore be used for anything you wish to use it for in and around the home. However, the true definition of a hope chest as given by wordreference.com is: hope chest, wedding chest chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage As such, traditionally, a hope chest is therefore used for “a young woman’s accumulation of clothes and domestic furnishings (as silver and linen) kept in anticipation of her marriage.” A hope chest (originally called a wedding chest) or glory box is a box containing items typically stored by unmarried young women in anticipation of future marriages or married lives. The term “hope chest” may be used primarily by Midwestern American women. The term “glory box” is used by women in the United Kingdom and Australia. Common contents of a “hope chest” or “glory box” include clothing (such as a special dress), table linens, towels, bed linens, quilts and occas
