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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Yup.

Since we have a living room now (decided to stay 2 when the last roommate moved out) we have the luxury of space and my roommates parents wanted to get rid of theirs.

It has Doors with windows at the top where we actually put our China. The button cupboards are for various Household stuff (cleaning utensils, tools etc.)

We only have a few plates. Not enough that they need their own storage area.

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.

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?

Lol fuck no

Sorta. A relatively inexpensive Ikea cabinet for our nice dishes. That’s about it. Not one of those hulking wall-sized oak monstrosities full of “collectibles” that were popular many decades ago.

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.

I have a display cabinet! It has Lego in it. I don’t have fancy China.

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.

No. I never understood the point of having dishes that get used a few times a year. I suppose that, for people like my grandparents, they got more use hosting bridge nights and the like but even my parents didn’t host that much. As someone in his mid-40s, I definitely haven’t done much of it.