Humane Together Thrift will resell it and yes it will sell. For the benefit of Moco Humane Society..

After my every day dishes broke or chipped one by one over 20 years I busted out her wedding China and now use that every day. It wasn’t very fancy, a plain white Wedgewood. A few plates have broken in the past couple years but oh well. I like that we’re getting use out of it and I didn’t have to buy more dishes.
I do have some sterling silver from the 60s from my mom’s wedding. It’s towele (I think) and it’s so awful. I don’t even think anyone wants that anymore. It’s an 18 piece set. This even be melted down.

Anonymous wrote:Nobody wants them. We have three sets in our basement from various parents and relatives. So far I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to convince my wife to start using them as our everyday dishes. They break? Who cares?

Not necessarily true. I have five sets from grandparents, including Tiffany Audubon, Royal Crown Derby, and more. I’ve told my kids to each pick out their favorite set and they’ll get it when they get their own places. Even my son was into it. We pull one of the sets out every Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

What the kids really don’t want is the grandparents’ brown antique furniture.

I put our extra set of fine china on Buy Nothing.

We have vintage sets of mid-century heath ceramics from my family and love using them. Have added to it with modern heath pieces of our own and they look fantastic together!

Replacements Ltd will buy used china sets in good condition; price they will pay varies with the quality, supply, and demand for that particular pattern. Their buying price is much lower than their selling price, partly because they have to have warehouse space to store items which are available for sale. We have bought replacements for china items which broke during use from there.

Donate to one of the local organizations that collects household items for refugees.

https://www.npr.org/local/305/2021/08/23/1030276100/here-s-how-to-help-afghan-refugees-in-the-d-c-area

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Noritake is very valuable so I would just donate.

Why wouldn’t you use them as every day dishes and enjoy them?

lead and other heavy metals

I love it (and use it). I wish I could just take all PPs unused china!

I have Blue Willow that came over from the old country. Hard to part with that.

I have some others that I think will just have to go to goodwill. I don’t have room to store them where I can access them regularly.

Anonymous wrote:Keep them in boxes in the basement and bring them with you whenever you move. That is what we do.

Lol!! Same here.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody wants them. We have three sets in our basement from various parents and relatives. So far I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to convince my wife to start using them as our everyday dishes. They break? Who cares?

Seriously? Just use them. You don’t need permission to use dishes.

ETA: use any passed down from your family of origin, not hers.

Anonymous wrote:Nobody wants them. We have three sets in our basement from various parents and relatives. So far I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to convince my wife to start using them as our everyday dishes. They break? Who cares?

Seriously? Just use them. You don’t need permission to use dishes.

I’m team Use It if you like the pattern. Before kids we used all the time and I got a lot of joy from it.

If it’s a family set; my mom had the idea of keeping just two place settings and once a year have a dinner with your spouse in honor of the family member who passed down to you

We use it - we started during the pandemic, because why not? And we've just kept it up. Sometimes use them two or three times a week. Nothing like chicken nuggets and french fries from the air fryer on a hectic Tuesday served on china! We just hand wash them - my spouse is the primary dishwasher and he just listens to podcasts while doing dishes anyway.