Fine China- Which set do you have and how often do you use it?

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Anonymous wrote:I have FloraDora Green by Royal Doulton and Blue Prose by Nippon. I probably use them each about 2 or 3 times a year. I also have a Christmas pattern for December, which is Jubilee by Andrea by Szadek, a Williamsburg collection. However, it is not real china. Beautiful though! I have 3 other sets that are also not china that I use on a regular basis. I like tablescapes and might set my dining room table to stay that way for a month at a time. We mainly eat in the kitchen, but on Sundays or holidays we typically eat in the dining room.

Oops! Looks like I responded to this thread last year and forgot.

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Villaroy and Boch my mother gave me. I used it every day. Solid china and it can go pretty much everywhere: dishwasher and microwave! I will use it until it is all broken. That said, I actually haven't broken anything!

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I have my grandmother's Spode Cowslip from the 1940's. I used to not really care about it, but now I think it's pretty. And I miss her, so it's a nice memory.

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My daily set is Royal Copenhagen Curved Blue Flowers. Discontinued now.

Special occasionis my collection of Hermes Mosaique au 24.

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Kate Spade June Lane Platinum and Spode Woodlands for Thanksgiving.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm under 60 so I was born in an era where people don't use fine china

Of course you just so superior with your ugly compostable brown paper plates.

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i have the same set that has been in my DHs family since the late 19th century. i have no idea the brand. We use it on holidays and whenever i make a particularly nice dinner. We also have a set of real silver from his family and bust that out only on holidays and very very special events. Mainly because the silver needs polishing before use. That’s annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me you're 50+ without telling me you're 50+.

i’m 37, but OK?

Tell me you’re immature without telling
me you're immature.

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I don’t have china yet but my parents have two sets (also three sets of silver) that they inherited from their parents so I expect if I wanted one I’d get upon asking. My oldest sister already took a set of silver to make her holiday tables look nice. My kids are really little so I still IKEA-by-way-of-thrift-store plates and such but growing up we used the nice china for any fancy holiday meal — Christmas, Easter, weddings, sometimes formal dinner parties if my mother was really into it.

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Anonymous wrote:What do people have against Corelle? I use mine everyday. Except for when we use our fine china - Herrend Windsor Garden.

Growing up, we just had one Corelle plate that was our “microwave plate,” so I associate the name with smelly Saran Wrap and meh takeout leftovers

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For the second or third Christmas season, I’m leaving boxes of Spode Christmas china in my storage room. I just don’t like it’s worth the effort to get out holiday china for one brief season. The set was given to me mostly by ILs - piece by piece over years.

I also have wedding china that is stored, unused in a kitchen cabinet. It’s very pretty, plain Royal Doulton Alice.

Thinking of donating Spode Christmas after this season. Takes up 2 large shelves in my tiny storage room.

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Anonymous wrote:What do people have against Corelle? I use mine everyday. Except for when we use our fine china - Herrend Windsor Garden.

Growing up, we just had one Corelle plate that was our “microwave plate,” so I associate the name with smelly Saran Wrap and meh takeout leftovers

lol, same, we had a Corelle “microwave bowl.” Thanks for the memory!

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Anonymous wrote:We have Lenox Autumn for our formal china (https://www.lenox.com/collections/autumn).

I love it. We use it maybe 15-20 times a year on average over 15 years and counting. We use it for Thanksgiving, some other holidays or when we have infrequent guests but don’t limit it to just then; we have used it once in a while with pizza just because. We have separate Christmas china.

My mom has this. I think it’s one of the ugliest china patterns of all time.

Oh that’s too bad! I love it, it has such a distinctive Art Nouveau / Belle Epoque glamour to it .

I love it too!

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My mom’s china is white on white embossed floral with a gold rim. We have matching gold plated flatware. I love the white on white! She uses colored chargers for holidays.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it so hard to sell a china set (not worth it's value) vs buying a new place setting (pay full price)?

I have two sets of Meissen china. Sat in a cupboard for the last 50 years. One set is my mom's the other my grandmother's.

I think my family set is Meissen too! I love it. We wash ours in the dishwasher and it does fine!