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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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.
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.
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?
Mostly swedish
No, it seems to be a “I misunderstand being an adult” thing. I witnessed all our friends who made the middle-class dream of “take neverending debt and buy a house” their reality at some point having a china-cabinet.
And I undeestand it now. For our wedding the colleagues of my wife got us those fancy wine glasses, engraved with our names. Like those crystal shiny thingies, which break when you look at them for too long. So where do you put those? Apparently that is the time, when you need to give up precious space in your home for a china-cabinet 😅. Because you better never use those glasses, but how would people know, that you’re married otherwise? And I guess you get more of that shit, when you age, or something.
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 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.
Who even has people over at all these days?
Who can afford a cat and dust? Privilege reads it’s ugly head.
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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and you can shut about it up Aunt Gertrude
This wording comes across in a very interesting way
China is a pretty big country not sure how it would fit in a cabinet.
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.
The US is a superpower and we still have a Cabinet. Make it work.
hahaha, this idiot hasn’t figured out country-folding. What a twat.
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.