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.

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.)

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.

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

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.

I have my ordinary plates and glasses in such a cabinet. It has the perfect size for just that. What a coincidence huh?

But seriously though, that is the reason. I ran out of space in the larger cabinets, and to minimize the use of floor space, I got one of those. They’re like half the depth of other kitchen cabinets.

I don’t have any fine china or silverware on display though.

Lol fuck no

No. Closest thing we have is a Germany Cabinet, as we bought a large set from a German manufacturer last year. It’s more high end than our everyday stuff, and mostly use it when we have people over and birthdays and stuff.

When I hear “China Cabinet” I think of somewhere easily visible and with glass doors so that they’re also on display when not in use. Ours ate hidden in the back along with other stuff we don’t use all that often.

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?

We were kind of expected to get china for our wedding, but we got our own we liked instead of some old one from our family. We do keep it in a cabinet. We try to use it more often when we make dinner and want to feel fancy or when we have people over for holidays or dinners. We also drink out of our wedding champagne glasses fairly often because they are our only ones and we like them. Also the bottom of the China cabinet also holds other kitchen and serving stuff.

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.

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

Mostly swedish

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.