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Anonymous wrote:Where are all these antique stores with “gobs” of china? I’m in MoCo but willing to drive 90 mins in any direction.

Unfortunately I’m only interested in adding to my collection with a certain pattern, so online searching is far more convenient.

The antiques stores in Kensington have some. But it’s such a needle in haystack finding your pattern. My mom has Blue Danube and they had a bunch of that last time I was there.
I think people are just too precious about it all. Just use it. Put it in dishwasher. If it breaks, so what. Still better than trashing it all and buying new stuff from care and barrel.
I seriously don’t get why younger generations claim to care about the environment but are unwilling to reuse/rehab antique stuff and would rather just get everything new from wayfair or ikea. Do they think that stuff has no environmental impact? Same with antique furniture.

Crap on Martha Stewart all you want but her asthetix was in many ways very green as she encouraged people to repurpose old stuff and showed how you could make it look great instead of just tossing everything in landfill.

Because the old china probably has a toxic glaze and when you put it in the dishwasher that lead gets all over everything else. The new stuff from IKEA is probably lead free.

Lead is not a big deal in this case. Not enough to matter even if you ate all the china. People breathed in more lead from vehicle exhaust in an average day in the 1980s than you'd get from eating all the glaze on a whole set of super leady china.

Anonymous wrote:I use Fiestaware for everyday and have an inherited Noritake set for holidays. You can find this stuff at garage sales for reasonable prices. People can ask for whatever they want on Facebook but they won't get it. Offer lower and if they've been waiting they'll take it.

The radioactive stuff?

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Anonymous wrote:I love old China and we have 2 sets from my dh’s grandmother and one set from my mother. We use it regularly. Why not. I also use my moms silver every day.

People /busy households rarely use China bc it's a pain to wash (not dishwasher safe) nor is it microwaveable. Two major components of "easy and fast" with kids' stuff, sports, tired from long work day, etc.

What a hassle and just not worth it.

I use China everyday because it’s both dishwasher and microwave safe. It’s worth it!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are all these antique stores with “gobs” of china? I’m in MoCo but willing to drive 90 mins in any direction.

Unfortunately I’m only interested in adding to my collection with a certain pattern, so online searching is far more convenient.

Humane Together Thrift & Gift in Rockville. They have an entire row of full china sets.

If I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t register for wedding china — just go to a place like this and get a set.

We are a really klutzy family and we had a phenomenal amount of breakage with just regular glassware and such when our kids were in elementary school. Broken glasses and cups and plates etc. At some point I just decided that the melamine picnicware that we used in the summer was going to be used year round along with the glasses and this went on until the kids were in college. As empty nesters we now occasionally enjoy real china but honestly I am pretty earthy crunchy and would rather have handmade pottery mugs and such more than fussy antique dishes. I have one niece who likes this stuff so she got all the inherited china etc. We will also put a pretty fish under a plant but that’s about. Had we used the china when the kids were little I guarantee it would all be broken by now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love old China and we have 2 sets from my dh’s grandmother and one set from my mother. We use it regularly. Why not. I also use my moms silver every day.

People /busy households rarely use China bc it's a pain to wash (not dishwasher safe) nor is it microwaveable. Two major components of "easy and fast" with kids' stuff, sports, tired from long work day, etc.

What a hassle and just not worth it.

Not true at all! It is completely worth it.