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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dealing with this now. I’m 55 and married for over 25 years. DH and I think were the last generation to actually register for china.

We just did a kitchen renovation that involved emptying and donating our china cabinet (a 1965 huge piece of furniture from my grandmother). DH and I decided that we are ready for a change and displaying china looked old-fashioned and was literally collecting dust.

We hauled the cabinet to a local thrift store where it was tagged for $100 and sold within two days.

I Amazoned zippered china storage protectors and stored our wedding china atop a new kitchen cabinet.

I did use out china at Thanksgiving and Christmas and…unceremoniously ran all thru my dishwasher! Perfectly fine!

My MIL has inherited 2 complete sets of china and wants to give to us. We don’t want these. Neither does our 22DD.

Here’s what I’d do, OP: pack up all and deceiver to a smaller thrift charity shop.[b] Get a tax receipt and claim value of ? $300 
and be done with it all.
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Replacements route isn’t worth the shipping cost and legwork.
Neither is consigning. Same deal: it either won’t sell or after a great deal of effort on your part you’re going to get a measly check and whatever doesn’t seek will be either have to be returned to you or you’ll agree to have it donated by the consignment shop.

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This is really undervaluing the set (probably).  With an hour's worth of work printing out prices online, you can increase that tenfold.  [/quote]

PP quoted and I’m certainly not a tax expert. The thrift store will likely NOT sell a huge china collection quickly unless and until it’s marked way down pr eventually sold individually for a few dollars a piece. My random $300 would be a generous, honest estimate of valuation but no thrift store will actually sell an entire collection and/or list and/sell it for $300. Of course, there are rare exceptions.

I’m a thrift store hobbyist and have been for decades. In fact, I’ll be making my second run of a carload of donations in as many days. This thread has inspired me to donate unused/forgotten items that have become clutter. Yes, things I’ve purchased at thrift stores for sentimental reasons (childhood toy, old books) and souvenir items from my grandparents of places I’ve never visited)[/quote]

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