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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just went to the IKEA website to price out tableware for my Thanksgiving for 25. Basic white plates were $4-5 each, leaving aside dessert plates, coffee cups, etc. So we're talking $100-125 just for dinner plates, so probably around $300 to get all the dishes I need. Then I need to deal with flatware, at IKEA I'm looking at $6 for a 6-pack of each type of utensil. I need 25 dinner forks, 25 dinner knives, 25 dessert forks, and let's call it just 15 coffee spoons, since not everyone drinks coffee. That will cost me $108 for enough flatware. I'm good on wine glasses for the number of wine drinkers we have, but I'll need more basic drinking glasses for people who want other beverages. Again, IKEA will sell me 6 for $4, I should probably get four packs of those for another $16. So $424 plus tax, which will bring it up to nearly $450. On top of the hundreds of dollars I'll be paying for a large turkey and ham, ingredients for other sides, wine, other beverages, etc. That is a crazy amount of money to ask someone to spend hosting Thanksgiving, especially when I can get enough plasticware for about $40.[/quote]

This might be true if you are never going to host another event again in your life.  But if you buy this stuff now (and I'm pretty sure you could, in fact, find it more cheaply elsewhere or even just different options at Ikea) then it's going to be used again and again over your lifetime.

When I was 25, I rented wineglasses and plates like 4 times to host showers before I got smart and bought 50 cheap wineglasses and 50 plates at Ikea.  I'm in my 40s now and I can't tell you how many times I've used them.  I also loan them to friends - ask around, I bet a friend can loan you stuff, too.[/quote]

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