Maybe your parents or grandparents did it, maybe you do - stuff you 'save for best' and as a consequence never use. Sometimes its clothing, sometimes the best crockery and cutlery. I'm guessing the habit usually has an economic component...but not only. I was thinking about recordings I have saved for best. Not so much the unopened Mosaics because they are a big commitment so some I never got round to. But I have some others, four I think. There are two double LPs of Cecil Taylor on tour in Europe, Bologna and Vienna I think. Since I attended the Rome concert I saved the records for later and that special moment never comes. The other two are Japanese CD releases, one with Bailey and Hano,the other with Haino and Brotzmann. They were so hard to find at the time, and so pristine-looking when I got them, that I 'saved them for best' and to this day haven't removed the cellophane. Ahem.
What have you saved for best, music or otherwise?