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Post by queenbee on Apr 7, 2008 10:51:02 GMT -4
Dollar Store plastic ware and Ingles paper.
When I get tired of it just go get some more. HAHAHA
Actually I have some Correll (sp?) platters that we use and I also collect older dishware from garge sales and flea markets. The nostalgia is what draws me to them. The big flowers with the little gold trim, the chipped blue willows, they remind me of the old days at grandma's house.
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Post by coosa on Apr 7, 2008 11:33:39 GMT -4
I have my mother's set of good china for 12. It is older than I am. I will never use it and I am thinking about selling it! I have her real silverware too. I think things like that mattered a lot more way back then.
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Post by taylor on Apr 7, 2008 16:05:02 GMT -4
I left most of my old stuff with my ex - just wasn't worth the hassle. I don't do "fancy" unless I have a real good reason, so favorite everyday stuff is the Hull (some McCoy) brownware that I bought at a flea market right after we got together. Believe me, I DID NOT pay what some collectors do! Sonny really likes it because it keeps your food warm. I like it because it's microwave safe and most is oven safe and it seems to be pretty durable. Like Bee, I find a lot of stuff at thrift stores and yard sales. I have a weakness for serving bowls! I have all kinds, all ages, patterns and colors. For cookware, probably 95% of what I use is cast iron. Ask Babe - I've got loads of it! (And she didn't even see the boxes I had still packed in the bus!) Tulip - When I was 16 and received my first paycheck, I bought 2 boxed sets of 4 (giving me a setting for 8) of a "Fiesta" wannabee dishes from Woolworth's. 4 colors - blue, yellow, green & red. For my 14th birthday. Daddy made me a hope chest. Mama started me off with 3 sets of pillowcases she had embroidered and my brother gave me a glass juice set (pitcher and glasses). They told me it would be up to me to finish it. The dishes were the first thing I had actually bought for it. I still have them with the exception of one blue cup and one yellow saucer. I keep hoping to find a replacement for them at the thrift stores around. I also still have the pillowcases, and there's not enough money in the world to buy my trunk! Sadly, the juice set didn't last as long.... The only china I have ever owned Sonny bought me for our anniversary in 2006 when we were in Blairsville. It is a setting for 8, complete with sugar and creamer, large round serving platter and serving bowl. I fell in love with the pattern as I like colorful things and it reminds me of wildflowers. It's Wilshire House Wind Song.
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Post by coosa on Apr 7, 2008 18:01:06 GMT -4
That is pretty, Taylor. Tulip, I have no relatives, so no one to pass the china onto. I don't want to ever move it again!
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Post by summerose on Apr 7, 2008 19:33:45 GMT -4
Taylor, that is a beautiful pattern!
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Post by taylor on Apr 8, 2008 6:53:09 GMT -4
Thanks ya'll. I thought it was so pretty with all the different colors. Like I said, it reminds me of wildflowers!
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Post by bb on Apr 8, 2008 7:03:20 GMT -4
That is pretty, Taylor. Tulip, I have no relatives, so no one to pass the china onto. I don't want to ever move it again! Coosa, I thought you had at least one granddaughter?
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Post by 2cedarschick on Apr 8, 2008 13:00:56 GMT -4
Up in Bville, I have a set of dinnerware for 8 that I bought here at the local kmart on sale for 25.00. It is yellow and green with sunflowers on them and came with dinner plates, dessert plates, bowls, cups and saucers. In Fla, I had a huge set of Homer Laughlin blue and white that Mr Cedars and I collected when we first set up house. When we moved, I sold them and now I have a set of clear glass plates that we use everyday, and we also have our wedding dinnerware, that is square shaped, that we use more than we used to, cause it just sits there!
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Post by bb on Apr 9, 2008 6:56:12 GMT -4
I bought a set of everyday stoneware when I moved up here, too... but I also brought my china that I use only for special. It's a white on white pattern with silver trim on the edges.
The everyday stuff I got at Wally-world and it is great. It's the first new set I have had in more than 25 years, so I was way over-due to get something different.
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Post by maddy on Apr 9, 2008 8:45:28 GMT -4
I have all white, heavy stuff. It's only 5 years old, but things are starting to crack & break. I think the next batch I get will be small plates, no big ones. You tend to put more food on the big ones!
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Post by ruby on Apr 9, 2008 21:36:42 GMT -4
Mix 'n Match here. I love the old Melamine dishes, and have a few of them along with some stoneware and corelle.
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Post by bb on Apr 9, 2008 21:49:15 GMT -4
Tulip, they have held up real well... I did break a bowl a little over a year ago, but was able to replace it. I had bought a boxed set, service for 8, but got a couple extra plates. I like they have open stock on the basics so you can replace or add to it. I don't know how long they keep the same style/color in stock, but almost 2.5 years later, I still see it there.
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