Or plan to get one some day? It was a big thing with my parents, but I’ve never seen them in anyone else’s homes.
It is just one of those “Boomer” things nowadays?
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Having fancy china/dish sets for display isn’t really a thing the youth is worried about. It used be a social thing, having guests over to eat off (or just see the display) your fancy dinner plate is probably the social equivalent to having the box of 64GB of ram on a shelf above your computer. In other words “yes, we have money and you can shut about it up Aunt Gertrude”
A closed cabinet with glass doors to display what ever you collect is a nice thing to have. The doors help keep dust and cats out.
Who even has people over at all these days?
My friend group has been making an effort to have a get-together at someone’s house once a month and we have been taking turns hosting. It’s been nice.
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Who can afford a cat and dust? Privilege rears it’s ugly head.
and you can shut about it up Aunt Gertrude
This wording comes across in a very interesting way
This wording comes in a very interesting way across
Up yours, Gertrude! Er, I mean, up yer Gertrude! :)
I have a nice display cabinet for all my pretty rocks. Got them really cheap at an epic hippie crystal joint. The store was full of stones. They’re not “jewellery grade”, but they still look great and people ask about them. Fuck yeah I love rocks.
I’m probably committing some spiritual crime by putting the citrine next to my amethyst and emerald. I didn’t memorise the instruction manual though.
If you have any quartz you can put it by your citrine and amethyst and they will all go nicely together by all being forms of quartz! You could also put some calcite by the amethyst, because amethyst likes to grow next to calcite (something Minecraft got right)
The best thing you can do when someone dies and people try to pawn china off onto you is immediately throw it in the cupboard with your regular plates. At least it has a chance of serving a purpose, then.
I’m housesitting this week and I was so thrown when I opened the cupboards and found nothing but nice china. I guess this is probably his plan but my anxiety has me eating out of his plastic take out containers instead lmao.
My parents (Gen x) have one that they got from my boomer grandma passing. They have a billion different sets of china they’re trying to sell or auction, but no one wants it. They’ve told me it’ll be mine when they pass and ugh. I appreciate that it’s nice and all, but truly I’ll probably just donate it to a rage room or something. A soup kitchen so they can all feel sophisticated. Dunno. I don’t want it.
Nope. I think it’s mostly a dead idea.
My mom is still hoarding (for me) a set of fine china dishes I inherited from my grandmother. They’re really nice.
But what am I going to do with them? Add specific furniture to my too-small home to store them so I can pull them out for certain dinner parties? We barely host for dinner anymore, and when we do, we keep it casual.
I think china cabinets go along with a whole bunch of social niceties that were important in the 20th century and have since withered.
I have several. I don’t want them. Please come take them. I’ll give them to you for free to save me the hassle and money of getting rid of them. I didn’t want them to begin with and I don’t want them now. I did not buy them. They do me no good. They make my life worse.
Boomer thing. My MIL keeps trying to give us hers but we don’t have the space or the need for plateware that will never be used.
I built one for my parents last summer.
I do have one myself, inherited from my grandmother, full of the dishes that are too precious to break out for Pope God The First because he’s not holy enough for early 20th century China my father “remembers from when he was a kid.” It’s not as large as the one I built for my folks though.
I do…kind of hate them as a trophy case of consumerism?
I had a really nice one, and couldn’t sell it at any price. I couldn’t even give it away, even to used furniture stores. They can’t sell the ones they’ve already got.
I thought about turning it into a humidified guitar display cabinet, but I don’t have the time or place to do that right now, so I just left it in the storage unit when I closed it out.
You mean cabinets manufactured in China? Yeah, a whole kitchen full.
I have a display cabinet! It has Lego in it. I don’t have fancy China.
My peers aren’t buying china, but a couple are using china cabinets or hutches to display the things they do collect. There’s pretty much an open request that if anyone spots good quality used furniture, to put it in a group chat.
Yeah, I used to have a China cabinet in my first and second apartment. It housed a whole bunch of rc car and drone stuff. Never had a single plate in it.
I left it in the apartment because it was 1/2 glass 1/2 pure cherry wood aka a total pain in the ass to move.
China is a pretty big country not sure how it would fit in a cabinet.
hahaha, this idiot hasn’t figured out country-folding. What a twat.
The US is a superpower and we still have a Cabinet. Make it work.
I think they meant to ask if anyone else is owning the CCP under their thumb. If my assumption is true, OP sure is the prime minister.
Yea. A couple. I love them.
I don’t keep china in them. One has a bunch of baking gear and lots of photos. The other is in the basement and is used as a pantry. Nice hard wood cabinets that will last forever in a house with woefully little storage.
My mom still has all of her mom’s old china from when she passed. It fills up an enormous, ugly, heavy cabinet that eats up a pretty significant chunk of the living room and doesn’t go with any of the other decor. I have never, in my nearly 40 years of existence, seen her use a single piece of it. It was always “for special occasions”, but we always went out for special occasions, so they still never got used.
I think she only keeps them because they were important to her mom, who inherited some of it from her mom, and possibly even further up the chain. I don’t think they’re even worth anything; she could maybe get a couple hundred bucks if she were to sell the whole collection, maybe a bit more if she got creative with the listing. There were times growing up where we were dirt broke and couldn’t even afford soap to wash a dish and ate dinner off of paper towels, and she still wouldn’t let anyone use the china. But it was important to those before her, so I think my mom just wants to preserve it in their memory.
Lol fuck no
