I bought my first cutlery set when I was still living at home with my parents. I still have that set and use it, and I'm very happy with it. It is not fancy in any way, but it works, and the knives are still sharp. When my ex and I moved in together, we bought a new and prettier cutlery set. We purchased two cutlery sets so that we had extra when we had visitors. I've never been satisfied with those sets since I don't think knives are very good at cutting anything. After ten years, they are useless.

Finding a new cutlery set is not easy because I'm very picky. Many modern cutlery sets have squared spoons, or the design has a higher priority than functionality, which doesn't suit me. I also don't understand why they are not allowed to be colored.

At some point, I was looking for Christmas decorations and by coincidence, I saw a cutlery set from Villeroy & Boch which was named Play. It is available in different colors and, to me, it looks great. I would prefer to see the set in real life but that is not possible since the stores are all closed here at the moment.

I had already decided that if I got anything extra in salary from my firm in January, I would buy a set for six persons. Luckily, I received a one-time fee because I had made an extra effort last year on the job, so I ordered the red set.

I received the cutlery set a couple of weeks ago and I started using it immediately, and I'm very happy with it. It is light and very well balanced. The set is also very pretty and the red color will do nicely at Christmas time. Now, all I have to do is decide which other colors to buy.