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When Do You Replace Your Dishes?

I just bought a new set of dishes. I have a few plates each of different patterns and they are at least 30 yrs old. I'm moving to my retirement home and buying judst about everything new - dishes, cookware, silverware, furniture, etc. It's so much fun. Who needs china for special occasions? At my age every day is special!
 
I got my crrent set at the grocery store, one place setting at a time, when the kids were little. Since we're now empty nesters I JUST decided it was time for new ones. We're going on vacation next week, and my first stops at the Tanger Outlet Mall will be the kitchen and/or dish stores. I'm sure someone will enjoy buying my old ones at Goodwill. I know what you mean about "frittering". I struggle with that all the time, especially when others are struggling so in these economic times. Little to charity, little to 401(k), little to me.....
 
When I bought my Corel "Friendship" pattern (settings for 12) about 8 years ago, I didn't realize that I couldn't get any completer pieces. Now I can't even find any replacement pieces. I broke a dinner plate and cannot find another one.

Our wedding china is long gone out of stock, and now, after 38 years, I only have enough full settings for 4. I have decided to replace it with plain white corel, so I can use any colour linens and napkins.

Dori
 
T_R_Oglodyte said:
We replace plates and bowls after every use. Washing them is futile; the paper simply dissolves and clogs the drains on the dishwasher.

Being made of plastic, the cups, forks, knives, and spoons last a little bit longer. But we have to be sure they are far enough from the heating element in the dishwasher or else they melt. :D
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ROFLMAO !! :hysterical:
 
jlwquilter said:
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Here is a serious question - I really never understood this. I have fine china as well. I get it displayed in the china cabinet and it looks fantastic. Now company is coming to dinner. What do I do?? If I use the china the cabinet will look bare, if not empty. But the whole purpose of the fine china is to use it for company! What am I missing here?
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I have enough that the ones standing up in the glass top part of the china cabinet stay there, and the ones I occasionally use are the ones stacked in the bottom wood-door part. Interestingly mom's and mother-in-law's patterns are similar, though one is Wedgwood and one Spode, and I could mix them up if I wanted to. I've never had that many people over, though.
 
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I have the blue pattern correlle wear for probably 20 years. I still like it. We are staying at a timeshare now, and it has white correlle wear. I'm considering changing my blue to the white one - if I can find a good sale.
 
My Bride and I still use the Stoneware from that fateful day in 1984...I think the pattern is called Sunset Wheat or something like that...Brown edges fading to a light brown/cream in the middle.

The kids have managed to break only one plate in all those years...the cups didn't do so well. Nearly all of our coffee cups have been accumulated over the years and seem almost like a Travel Log of where we have been and what we have done.

Funny, we received a set of 8 glasses and we managed to break one a year until we had just one left. Even the kids understood "that" glass was special. The joke was once that glass breaks, we get divorced. Well, as luck would have it, we carried that glass well into our 15th year. My youngest daughter (all of 8 at the time) broke it...my two older kids said..."Good Job, now Mom and Dad have to get divorced"... You never heard such anguished cries from a child after that. Took us the better part of the evening to calm her down...her brother and sister had to finish the dishes alone. We all still laugh about it...well, she still kind of holds that against her sister but hey, it's a sister thing.

We also have a set of Noritake that we picked up in Okinawa that comes out several times a year for the special occasions and feasts. That stuff has to be hand washed... We also purchased a set of Christmas china in Oki that gets the same treatment around the holidays.
 
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I love dishes. I get bored with them and change frequently.
I still use the set I was given as a shower present, 40 years ago. All in terrific shape.
I have had, and passed on, several sets from grocery store chains.
Two years ago, my friend downsized and gave me service for 12 with many serving peices and i use those daily too.
Then i have service for 12 that were my mother in law's good set and service for 12 with multiple serving dishes that are very good china from my husband's grandmother, probably over 100 years old, all the pieces, no chips, because when she remarried, the first wife had the exact same set. I have stacks of fancy serving dishes, all over 100 years old, but I hardly ever cook so they sit unused.
Hard as this is to believe, i downsized a few years ago and gave away three sets of dishes, including service for 12 to the young man who bought our house.
Now in my Florida house I only have two sets and a Christmas set, but I am tired of all of them so i will look around for a new set soon.
 
T_R_Oglodyte said:
We replace plates and bowls after every use. Washing them is futile; the paper simply dissolves and clogs the drains on the dishwasher.

Being made of plastic, the cups, forks, knives, and spoons last a little bit longer. But we have to be sure they are far enough from the heating element in the dishwasher or else they melt. :D
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My in-laws attended a family reunion put on by an elderly aunt who DID wash the paper plates. She enlisted others to help and hung them on the clothes line to dry where they curled up like potato chips. Nobody said a word. My in-laws did not attend the next days festivities.
 
sun starved Gayle said:
My in-laws attended a family reunion put on by an elderly aunt who DID wash the paper plates. She enlisted others to help and hung them on the clothes line to dry where they curled up like potato chips. Nobody said a word. My in-laws did not attend the next days festivities.
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I've done that with some good quality plastic ones that were barely used....like the ones with rolls on them....but the paper ones? And hanging them out to dry?

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Use the good stuff!

We now have seven sets of dishes! From day one (32 years ago) we used the good china along with the everyday dishes. Still have (and love) the china but changed out the stoneware over the years. Plus Christmas china and now my mother's china.

Use all of them all the time.

Love pretty dishes. Makes me enjoy our meals even more.
 
vacationhopeful said:
PS. I got my current daily dishes off eBay also. Gave away my corelleware to brother. It made me happy to update (it was the old gold corelle, almost 30 yo). And I added 8 place settings to my Lenox pattern of my formal dishes off eBay also (and I could give that away too).
Nothing was broken during shipping in either case.
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Gold Corelle. Never dies. Its just keeps giving and giving. I still have mine from 35+ years. Its now my outside barbeque dinnerware. I keep hoping someone will drop some of the pieces on the cement. The bowls broke long time ago and the cups I threw out but the plates are still here forever. I think my kids will probably bury them with me.
 
Isnt that funny that part of the wedding duties was to pick out your china....

Ive had my china for 35 years. Its never seen a dishwasher. Got it out for special occasions. About 2 years ago had to clean out my china hutch because we were remodeling the kitchen, dining area. Most all my china downstairs in boxes. My hutch is still empty and I havent used the china or silver. Now Im thinking of downsizing, quess what is not going to go with me to my new house?

Its funny how our lives have changed over the years. I used to just have to have a formal dining room and a formal frontroom so guest could come in and sit. I knocked down some walls and nothing is formal about my home. I used to think "When my kids grow up and can set out all my formal glassware, etc" Not going to happen because I just changed my children for grandchildren.

Fancy fancy or grandchildren playing. No question which one I will pick. Besides grandkid proofing your house makes for less stress.
 
I replace mine when I get bored with them, about every 2 years or so. Except Christmas, year before last, when I finally found a new set I could live with. Well not 2 weeks later Fiestaware went on 50% off sale and with an additional 20% off coupon, I decided to help the economy and replaced the ones I just bought with the Fiestaware which I love! DH won't let me give the 2 week old set to Goodwill, so they're stuck in some cabinet or other along with about 5 or so perfectly good sets of everyday dishes that don't get used :D .

Ingrid
 
I've had my plain white Corelleware dishes for years and years. Broke a few along the way but replacements are always readily available. Up until the last time I tried, they always replaced broken ones for free, but now there is a limit. Don't recall, but I think it's 18 months from purchase.

Sheila
 
Over the years, I have had several sets of dishes. Sometimes 4-5 sets that I rotated every year. I have given most away and now have 2 sets but basically use just one. My favorite dishes are ones that I fell in love with long before we got married 42 years ago. I thought they were too expensive to ask people to give us, so chose another pattern. My mother liked my original choice because they looked so nice in her china cabinet, so she bought a full set, once piece at a time. About 10 years ago, she gave them to me. I just love them and bought more on eBay so that I have 16 place settings. We use these every day now.

I also have Lenox Christmas dishes.
 
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pittle said:
Over the years, I have had several sets of dishes. Sometimes 4-5 sets that I rotated every year. I have given most away and now have 2 sets but basically use just one. My favorite dishes are ones that I fell in love with long before we got married 42 years ago. I thought they were too expensive to ask people to give us, so chose another pattern. My mother liked my original choice because they looked so nice in her china cabinet, so she bought a full set, once piece at a time. About 10 years ago, she gave them to me. I just love them and bought more on eBay so that I have 16 place settings. We use these every day now.

I also have Lennox Christmas dishes.
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I have the Lenox Christmas Holly dishes. I hate to say, I hardly ever use.
 
Oh I am so glad I am not alone. :wave: I like to change things up periodically!!! Approx every ten years I have replaced mine.

I started out with Pfaltzgraff stoneware that chipped like crazy. I had gotten so many pieces at my wedding shower that it was a pity to get rid of it but I sold it at a garage sale and moved on to my first set of Corelle, which was lightweight and we never broke one piece. Then I tired of the pattern and got the white set with the fluted edge. We are still using it but who knows when I will find another I like better--it's so inexpensive I can't feel guilty!

Norma
 
we just retiled the kitchen floor my refrigerator and stove were in the living room, everything we needed was on the dining room table for 4 days, I used the good china and silverware those 4 days and put them in a bucket. what a laugh, use those dishes so seldom to keep them nice, and throw them in a bucket.:eek:
 
I really like dinnerware. I replace mine every now and then when I get tired of it or if it chips or looks bad. But, I have a set of fine china, a set of Christmas china, a white stoneware set and a set of fiesta ware. About 20 years ago I started buying 2 place settings here and there for me and my husband. Since it is just the two of us, it’s fun to set table with different dinnerware. And, it doesn’t cost that much when you‘re only buy two sets instead of service for 4, 8, 12, etc. I have a lot of 2 sets. :)
 
jlwquilter said:
Here is a serious question - I really never understood this. I have fine china as well. I get it displayed in the china cabinet and it looks fantastic. Now company is coming to dinner. What do I do?? If I use the china the cabinet will look bare, if not empty. But the whole purpose of the fine china is to use it for company! What am I missing here?
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I regularly use my formal china - both for company and because I LOVE it. If the formal china is out on the table, your company knows the reason the china cabinet is bare. If you are having friends over for a nice dinner and the "good" dishes are still in the china cabinet - what message does that send?

When I married my first husband, he let me choose our silverware. He chose the china. He chose a plain ivory china with a platinum band (Solitaire by Lenox). I liked it. But I loved Blue Tree china by Lenox. Once we were divorce, I sold the Solitaire to my brother who was going to purchase an almost identical pattern by Gorham. It made us both happy. I took the money and used it to purchase the Blue Tree china that I always wanted. When Ian and got married, we bought more of it to complete settings for 16l

Blue Tree is one of the those ridiculously ornate patterns. I find that I love it more and more. I have never grown tired of it. Now I find myself wishing for a set of Autumn china, also. I would use the Autumn for Fall and Winter and the Blue Tree for Spring and Summer. I would still use the same silverware and crystal, both of which I am happy with.

elaine
 
Why not mix plain white dishes with brightly colored ones? It avoids monotony, and still adds interest to the table settings.



jlwquilter said:
Wow! I wasn't expecting so many posts :)

I just can't seem to make up my mind between going all white and the (so very many!) pretty colored patterns. I like the whites as mixing and matching is fun and keeps the whites interesting. But then I see a color I just love.... sigh....

I think I am going to toss the chipped dishes. Again. That is, I decided to toss them a few months ago and then chickened out. I am not good at throwing things out. Ok, I am not good at throwing MY stuff out... DH and DD stuff? No problem :eek: .

Here is a serious question - I really never understood this. I have fine china as well. I get it displayed in the china cabinet and it looks fantastic. Now company is coming to dinner. What do I do?? If I use the china the cabinet will look bare, if not empty. But the whole purpose of the fine china is to use it for company! What am I missing here?
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I have the Lenox Holiday pattern. No dishwasher. Never use my Lenox which I picked as my wedding china - just looks old now.
 
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