The purchasing power of the dollar has changed quite a bit since the 1960s.  In harder times, some purchase are too frivolous to contemplate.  What Bea tells us is that the cost of some losses is incalculable.  What is the cost of a cut glass punch bowl and would you pay the price?

In this episode, Bea fills in the missing details from the letters from the attic.  You might be surprised at how much more meaningful things that are not said can be over those words that are spoken, and how those details can inform mysterious and meaningless family actions.

Could you suspect that such a unlikely purchase was insurance against a future catastrophe?