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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because I'm not a lady dowager.

That whole china wedding thing was picked up by the middle class in the mid-20th century. Hyancith Bucket. We must invite the major.

Seriously, you need to organize your whole house around it. The big dining room with the big dining room table and the big china cabinet to store all of that fine china.... you can put your children through college for the cost of storing and using fine china. And then you need the right friends who will smile knowingly when you serve them cornish game hen on it.

Honestly, there's no place to put it without having to lose my voice screaming at the kids over staying away from the china cabinet and turn my living room into a Greek wedding. [/quote]

You don’t want china? Fine. Don’t make a big deal about it. Fine china has been around for generations, well before the 1950s. It was common in middle class 19th century households. Our oldest china dates to the 1870s, when it was my great great grandmothers wedding china. She was the daughter of a farmer who was marrying a small town store owner. Not fancy people. I like having it very much. But don’t be judgmental about my taste nor make ridiculous assumptions. A set of fine bone china at an antique shop can be had for less than a thousand. A basic set of sterling silver flatware can be had for a thousand off eBay or auctions. Of course they can be even more expensive but you see the point: you are not putting kids through college for the cost of china or silver. My mother somehow managed to raise three rambunctious kids without breaking her china although we did break some crystal over the years but neither our lives nor our house revolves around the china. The way you’ve put it you’re just a different kind of Hyacinth Bucket. [/quote]

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