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Monograms these days are a classic way to personalize your home and accessories. Your initials, or your initials entwined with your partner's. Simple! No one has someone else's initials on their stuff. How weird would that be?

Actually, once upon a time, that was normal. No, more than normal, it was a sign of class. See, you would only have silver, crystal and linens to monogram if your family had money. You would have a monogram because you had a Name that socially-aware people would recognize. And of course the silver, etc., was quality stuff, so it would last a lifetime -- and beyond -- to be it would be passed down to the next generation, even bequeathed. Generation after generation. This proved your family not only had wealth, it also had history.

If your family had lots of wealth and lots of history, virtually everything you owned would be monogrammed with the initials of your illustrious ancestors. So now you know: Having monograms that are not your very own initials is not weird. It is a sign of social class, distinction, and history. Just so long as those initials really are great-great gramma's, not some you picked up at a garage sale down the street.