How often do you use your china?

<h3>How often do you use your china?</h3>

How often do you use your china? Do you use all of the pieces, or some more than others? I am considering not even getting teacups and saucers, and maybe bowls. I just don't see myself using them that often.


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<p><i>Answer by M S</i><br/>Very rarely, not even once a year once I had kids.
If you are going to do a lot of entertaining, get
dinner plates, salad plates, cups and saucers.
Skip the individual bowls unless you do a lot of
soup courses. And forget the tiny bowls; no
body seems to use those at all! Bread and
butter plates are nice to have, but the salad
plates you can use to serve salad or dessert.

I'd add a meat platter and 2 vegetable dishes.
Any other serving dishes can be glass/crystal
or silver, and you can add them over time.
If you serve coffee, add a cream pitcher and
sugar bowl. Again, those could be crystal
or silver as well.

I love my china, and I love using it. I think it
makes a beautiful table. Once a month I set
my dining room table using some of the pieces
that I have not used in a while. But my kids have
gotten old enough that they don't mess with it, I have
a separate dining room that is not in the way of everyday life, and I have inherited 2 sets of china, some crystal and silver
as well as my own. I hate having it all in the cupboard all the time, even if we aren't actually eating in the dining room, I like to look at it.</p>

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